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Miles Reucroft is undertaking a different way of playing the ever popular Fantasy Football this season. To understand his methodology, read part one here. The Week 1 review is here. I pitched up at Heston services at 11pm on Tuesday night. It’s where my contact had insisted we meet. Out of the public eye and with a bit of privacy to discuss business. I was warming my hands on a half drunk cup of tea, considering my options for the...

Reflecting on a not so insignificant golf course which became the victim of a face lift.

After all the panic and Twitter turmoil in the build-up to Sunday’s game at Newcastle, it ended up being an easy win for Spurs. Goals from Dele Alli and Ben Davies, in for the injured Danny “I know my worth” Rose, secured all three points for our boys against a team that was reduced to ten-men after Jonjo Shelvey was sent off for being a moron. We were somewhat sluggish in the first half, unable to find that cutting edge that we’re...

Miles Reucroft is undertaking a different way of playing the ever popular Fantasy Football this season. To understand his methodology, read part one here. The first weekend of the season is always a difficult one. How will the new boys bed in? Do they get on with the local lads? Will this be our season? FC Fakin’ Run Aboutabit had a solid start. Our 54 point haul leaves us handily mid-table, ranked 2,325,945th. Solid, if unspectacular. As feared, Kieran Trippier...

Welcome to the 2017/18 Fantasy Football Blog! It’s a time of great excitement in offices and WhatsApp groups as teams are assembled with great care and attention, usually to be discarded by mid-September. I enjoy fantasy football, but I don’t enjoy the nonsense that comes with it. Triple captains. Bench boosts. Wildcards. All a load of bollocks. What if you tried to play the game more along the lines of real life? My intention this season is to pick a...

We’re so close! The start of the 2017/18 Premier League season is a mere two days away, when Arsenal play Leicester on Friday. For Spurs, it’s a trip to St James’s Park on Sunday. How hyped am I? Not very. This summer is shaping up to be something of a disaster. As is typical of Daniel Levy, we seem to be waiting until the dying days of the transfer window to make any moves in the market, in an effort...

By Chris Woods Wealdstone were dominant but made hard work of finding the net in a highly entertaining 2-1 victory over Concord Rangers in the league opener at Grosvenor Vale on Saturday. The Stones could and should have added three or four more to Elliot Benyon’s 25th minute opener and were pegged back immediately into the second half courtesy of Jordan Cox’s header. But Dan Fitchett ensured that the home side deservedly claimed all three points on 57 minutes after...

A non-league football team claimed to have clubbed together to sign the world's most expensive player Neymar Jr - by raising season ticket prices to almost £3m. North Ferriby United sparked a hilarious reaction on social media as they photoshopped Brazilian striker Neymar, 25, on to their very own green and white-striped kit. The Villagers, who were relegated from the National League last season, then craftily added that their season tickets had increased to an eye-watering £2,845,212. The price of...

Barcelona have given Neymar permission to leave after Paris St-Germain tabled a lucrative 222m euro (£198m) deal for the forward. The Brazilian told his team-mates at training on Wednesday that he wanted to leave the Spanish club and was then given permission by Barca manager Ernesto Valverde not to train and to "sort out his future". A release clause in his contract set at 222m euros has freed up his options to talk to other teams, which PSG are understood to be...