Gameweek 12 DEFENCE: Toby Alderweireld (£5.0m) – Away v Aston Villa The Belgian defender Toby Alderweireld hasn’t received much praise for Southampton’s staggering run of form at the back – mainly because his name is difficult to spell. He’s been excellent though, and at a cheaper price than Nathaniel Clyne, Ryan Bertrand and Jose […]
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19 Reasons That You Hate The International Break
1. You Spend Two Weeks Worrying That Your Team’s Best Players Will Get Injured
2. And Then They Do Get Injured
3. One-Sided Matches
4. There’s No Super Sunday
5. Adrian Chiles
6. Roy Hodgson
7. You End Up Missing These Two
8. Your Club Is On A Great Run, And You Don’t Want The Momentum To Stop
9. The England Band
10. Nowhere Near The Same Passion As Club Football
11. This Always Happens
12. Andy Townsend
13. Needless Drama Over Non-Stories
14. Weird Fans
15. Boring Matches
16. The Fact That Someone Actually Brought Their Butler To Wembley The Other Day
17. No-One Really Knows Where San Marino Is
18. Adrian Chiles, Again
19. And Of Course, No Fantasy Football!
FantasyYIRMA.com started out as most random fantasy football leagues do…
over alcohol.
People often ask ” What does the name mean? “
Long story short – One bloke says to the other “I need a name for the mini-league”
“the what??” came the reply.
“the fantasy league, we have to give it a name”
“I haven’t got a (Insert word of your own choosing ) clue. Sure name it after Yir Ma!”
This statement was thus taken literally and FantasyYIRMA was born!!
Since 2008 more than 10,000 people have now entered a Fantasy YIRMA mini-league.
The main league is free to play and the £100 prize fund is typically paid by the loser in the bet between the FantasyYIRMA admin team.
To take £100 off your mate in a bet is fun- to make him sponsor the league for an entire season …is funnier.
I think it’s fair to say, that if you had told me FantasyYIRMA.com would still be running almost two years after it started I would have chuckled immensely… but it has… we have… and as both the twitter (@FantasyYIRMA ) account and website have continued to grow, it genuinely is a pleasure to be involved in the ridiculously brilliant world of Fantasy Football.
The interaction online from #FPL fans across the world has been fantastic! Our goal now is the same as it was from day one – to try and provide interesting and quality insight and to help create as much interaction around the game as possible. Simply watching the evolution of the game over the past few years as the level of interest continues to grow has been fascinating.
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West Ham’s Stewart Downing And The 5 #FPL Players You Must Pick This Week
Gameweek 11
DEFENCE: Aaron Cresswell – £5.4m (Home v Aston Villa)
West Ham remain the apple of everyone’s eye and Aston Villa simply can’t do anything but lose matches at the moment, and so whilst the football gods have probably got this one down for an away win, logic dictates that the Hammers should claim the points.
Left-back Aaron Cresswell has quietly been one of the best signings of the season since joining from Ipswich in the summer. He’s played in every minute of the Hammers’ league campaign and has two assists in his last three games. Despite all of this, however, he’s still owned by just 0.6% of teams.
MIDFIELD: Stewart Downing – £5.8m (Home v Aston Villa)
We are forever blowing bubbles this week, and it’s impossible to ignore the form of West Ham’s Stewart Downing for much longer.
Once a failure in both fantasy and reality when he flopped at Liverpool, Downing is thriving in a central role in Sam Allardyce’s West Ham side and will be extremely motivated when he takes on one of his former clubs at Upton Park. England expects, Stewie.
FORWARD: Robin van Persie – £12.4m (Home v Crystal Palace)
It’s still business at the front and party at the back for Manchester United, but surely they’ll be able to cobble together a defence which will give them a chance to beat Crystal Palace at home?
Given Radamel Falcao’s injury struggles (so that’s why he was available…) and Wayne Rooney’s rustiness, the key to victory against Neil Warnock’s men is likely to be Robin van Persie, who had a couple of chances in the Manchester derby as his side suffered a spirited defeat.
THE OUTSIDER: Steven Fletcher – £5.3m (Home v Everton)
Ah yes, here he is. You’ve been keeping an eye on him and now could be the time to take a punt on Steven Fletcher.
The Scot has scored four in four, Sunderland will have become marginally less shambolic off the back of their win at Palace and they host an Everton side who’ll be heading to Wearside off the back of a Europa League tie. Gamble? Arr.. go on.
THE CAPTAIN: Graziano Pelle – £8.4m (Home v Leicester)
It would be a brave call but if you’re in need of some points to catch up on others in your mini-leagues then a punt on Graziano Pelle to do the business against a quickly fading Leicester might just be the way to go.
Southampton, of course, remain brilliant, but their statuesque Italian hasn’t scored in his last two league games, meaning that he might just be about to go Fox-hunting.
He’d look pretty good in tweed, wouldn’t he?
Arsenal and Liverpool: Confirmed Lineups
Nov 4
Lineups from 1845 Arsenal: Szczesny, Chambers, Mertesacker, Monreal, Gibbs, Arteta, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ramsey, Alexis, Cazorla, Welbeck Subs: Martinez, Bellerin, Flamini, Rosicky, Podolski, Walcott, Sanogo Anderlecht: Proto, Vanden Borre, Mbemba, Deschacht, Acheampong, Kljestan, Tielemans, Najar, Praet, Conté, Cyriac Subs: Roef, Colin, Heylen, Dendoncker, Kawaya, Kabasele, Mitrović. Real Madrid: Casillas; Arbeloa, Varane, Ramos, Marcelo; Modric, Kroos; Rodriquez, Isco, […]
27 Signs That You’re Addicted To Fantasy Football
Nov 4
As we reach our landmark 100th Gameweek preview we’ve been left wondering just what it is that keeps us going. Why are we so devoted to Fantasy Football? After a beer or two, and then one or two more, we decided that the answer is simple. It’s an addiction! We then came up with 27 […]
Manchester City vs Manchester United: Confirmed Lineups and Preview
Nov 2
Please vote FantasyYIRMA as best FPL blog at the Football Blog Awards – Thanks again for the ongoing support 1. On the website – Click Here 2. On Facebook – Click Here 3. On Twitter – Click Here Manchester City: Hart, Zabaleta, Kolarov, Demichelis, Kompany, Fernando, Yaya Toure, Navas, Milner, Jovetic, Aguero. SUBS: Caballero, […]
Arsenal vs Burnley: Confirmed Lineups and Preview
Nov 1
ARSENAL: Szczesny, Chambers, Mertesacker, Monreal, Gibbs, Flamini, Arteta, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Alexis, Cazorla, Welbeck SUBS: Martinez, Bellerin, Rosicky, Ramsey, Walcott, Podolski, Sanogo BURNLEY: Heaton; Ward, Shackell (c), Duff, Trippier; Boyd, Jones, Marney, Arfield; Ings, Sordell SUBS: Gilks, Wallace, Mee, Kightly, Jutkiewicz, Chalobah, Keane Please vote FantasyYIRMA as best FPL blog at the Football Blog Awards – Thanks […]
Chelsea vs QPR: Confirmed Lineups – COSTA STARTS
Nov 1
CHELSEA: Courtois; Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry (c), Filipe Luis; Matic, Fabregas; Willian, Oscar, Hazard; Diego Costa SUBS: Cech, Zouma, Ake, Ramires, Salah, Schurrle, Drogba. BREAKING #CHEvQPR TEAM NEWS pic.twitter.com/JsmIFLFujI — QPR FC (@QPR) November 1, 2014 QPR: SUBS: Please vote FantasyYIRMA as best FPL blog at the Football Blog Awards – Thanks again for the ongoing […]
Newcastle vs Liverpool: Confirmed Lineups
Nov 1
NEWCASTLE: Krul, Janmaat, S.Taylor, Coloccini (c), Dummett; Sissoko, Abeid, Colback; Obertan, Cisse, Ameobi. SUBS: Elliot, Haidara, R.Taylor, Aarons, Cabella, Gouffran, Perez. LIVERPOOL: Mignolet, Johnson, Moreno, Lovren, Skrtel, Gerrard, Allen, Henderson, Coutinho, Sterling, Balotelli. SUBS: Jones, Toure, Manquillo, Lallana, Can, Lambert, Borini. Newcastle United Vs Liverpool – 12:45pm Saturday on BT Sport Now this is probably […]
Liverpool and Manchester United to both drop points?
Nov 1
Another interesting week in the Premier League. I fancied Chelsea to win at United last week and they would have done so if they hadn’t retreated so much in the final quarter of the game. Southampton won our bet for Cash for Kids last week so that’s a few more pounds leaving McLeans for a […]
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