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Champions League: Real Madrid v Manchester United..Caption Competition
It has possibly escaped your notice but in between GW26 and GW27 there is the small matter of a little match taking place at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. It’s a low profile game so it may have gone under your radar…
WRONG!!!
The Champions League is back and there is a HUGE match up with Manchester United travelling to Spain to take on Real Madrid.
All the talk is on Ronaldo taking on his old club, however from an Fantasy Football perspective many will be hoping that the likes of Wayne Rooney and Robin Van Persie come through this match unscathed! With such a high percentage ownership for RVP in particular you have to wonder with a 12 point lead in the League if Sir Alex may decide to rest his star man in some of the upcoming Premier League games should they continue to challenge in Cup competitions also.
To coincide with this match up StanJames.com are giving away a FREE £25 BET to the winner of our Caption Competition.
To enter all you have to to is Tweet your best Caption response for the picture below to @StanJames @FantasyYIRMA and @FPL_advice_Tips. You must be following all 3 accounts for your response to be counted!
I would say try and keep it clean but having seen some of the replies already I know that won’t happen!!
Winner will be selected by StanJames during the Real Madrid vs Manchester United game on Wednesday 13th of February.
Chelsea: The impossible job
There goes another one then, and this one has got the Champions League trophy to negotiate over in the divorce settlement.
Roberto di Matteo joins Claudio Ranieri, Jose Mourinho, Avram Grant, Big Phil Scolari, Carlo Ancelotti and Andre Villas-Boas on Roman Abramovich’s big managerial scrapheap, with the Russian having apparently grown tired of a boss who finally delivered him the trophy he prizes above all others six months ago.
But the Munich memories have faded, with the FA Cup final win over Liverpool apparently a mere footnote in Abramovich’s relentless thirst for success.
They were triumphs which should have bought Di Matteo the time to build and mould a squad in his image, but he always had that air of temporary boss about him; the assistant who stepped into the breach at the club’s hour of need and got lucky.
At most if not all other clubs that would have bought him space and leeway, but Chelsea ceased being like other clubs when Abramovich walked through the door in 2003, with the Russian’s thirst for success never apparently satisfied – much like his approach to riches off the field.
Di Matteo arguably paid the price for losing the same players that Villas-Boas was asked to help Chelsea move away from, with John Terry, Ashley Cole and Frank Lampard all missing from many of the last few matches for all manner of reasons. Chelsea looked spineless without them, and none more so than in Turin on Tuesday night when their Champions League fate was snatched out of their own hands.
Ultimately that’s perhaps what Di Matteo looked like to Abramovich – spineless. A former boss of MK Dons and West Bromwich Albion who doesn’t bring the CV and glamour to job that Pep Guardiola would.
The Russian will undoubtedly move for the ex-Barcelona boss now – although Rafael Benitez would make an interesting and sensible alternative – but whoever enters Stamford Bridge next will undoubtedly be aware of just what the consequences are if they don’t impress the main man.
Abramovich has created a ruthless atmosphere in his corner of West London; home to what has long been the impossible job.
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