Hulka T wrote:

Im doing so bad its ridiculous, was so excited. Its like losing my virginity all over again.

Yeah we get it, you've had sex. #humblebrag

I was looking forward to an update.

As a change for internationals week, I'm handing over to Roy Hodgson, England manager for the weekly round-up.



"Hello Gary, and hello to all our viewers at home. Delighted to be here as always. We're here to win, and I'll be doing everything I can to ensure that we do. It won't be easy though, San Marino are no mugs and only a fool would bet against them getting behind our defense a couple of times. We need to be sharp, and we need to be with it. We're taking nothing for granted, a draw would still be a good result in the context of the group. Obviously a win would be preferable, but I don't deal in 'would be preferable', I deal in results. I'd prefer to win every game, but of course we know it would be foolhardy to assume that victory will just be handed out on a plate. Anyway, moving on..."



"A league table. We've all seen them, we've all studied them. You don't get as far as I've got in professional football without knowing what a league table is. Sometimes you look at them with joy, as I did back in the late 70's in Scandinavia and sometimes with horror, as I did at Liverpool during the brief period I was allowed to be in charge, before some rather rebellious sections of the support rather unfairly ousted me from my position just as I felt I was beginning to turn it round. Anyway...."

""You can learn a lot from a league table, mainly where you stand in it. They say the table never lies ... I'm not sure I agree with that personally but regardless it is a fact that they do say it. If we follow the wisdom of that rather naive saying, in my opinion of course, we can see that adkm is out in front for the first time this season. 61 points? You can't argue with that, well you could, but I shan't."

"He's done very well, you know people often say that Scottish football isn't what it was, that the Scots don't produce the managers they used to but this lad's making a mockery of that assumption. They said the same to me when I took Norway's ladies to the quarter-finals, that it was somehow less impressive than Sir Alex Ferguson's record. I respect Sir Alex naturally, but he never had to work in Norway, and he never managed a ladies team. For a Scotsman to come down here, to our Fantasy Football league and do so well, I'm delighted. I feel vindicated, you don't have to be a johnny foreigner-type with fancy coaching techniques and a host of 'mindgames' to succeed. Or a mind."

"You hear a lot about these foreign managers, how you can only hire a foreigner for a top job these days, well this boy adkm has proved them wrong about that. Excellent. Technically you could say he is a foreigner, being Scottish - but I've got more in common with a Scotsman than I do an Iraqi, or a Nigerian phone-scammer. Hence why I was taken in by that Nigerian on the phone last week. Say what you like about the Scots, I've never had a Glaswegian do that to me. Where was I? Oh yes..."

"In 2nd place, well I do believe it's Hylian Elf isn't it? I haven't the skills of reading a league table like I used to but I'm almost certain it is. Well done to him. Gamermike in third place? You better watch out there Mike, if it's anything like what happened to me in my career your chairman might not accept that you're doing your best and that things will pick up, and he'll bloody fire you. Bastards these chairmen."

"Moving down the table ... 16th place, Danchester United? Ho-ho-ho, he'll not be long for the job at this rate. Not these days, they used to give you time as a manager but in today's go-go football culture they don't. I won the Uzbekistani Cup in 1977 and was that good enough for Liverpool's board over thirty years later? I ask you, ridiculous the way the game is these days. No patience in the modern game."

"I mean if I were to lose to San Marino on Saturday, would that make me a loser? And if we won, would I be great again? And if I drew? The answer is no, to all questions. No."

"That's all I have to say on the matter - no. But we go on Gary, we go on to San Marino."

"The public will be expecting an easy win but I wouldn't want to get their hopes up, so again I'll say no. No we won't. Obama campaigned on the, to my mind, hopelessly naive slogan of 'yes we can' - but it's not the Roy Hodgson way. If you asked me 'Roy, can we?' I'd have to say maybe y'know, theoretically we could, but what if we don't? It'd be foolish to assume we're going to do it to them, but they're not going to try and do it to us. So no, we can't. That would be my answer, but of course we could."

"I've lost my train of thought...."



Thanks Roy. Cleared a few things up for us.

Very tight league, there's nothing in it.

Anyone wildcarding after the window has shut?

Loving this.

Unfortunately the great firewall makes it prohibitively hard for me to log in and change my team...so I'm dropping points. Might have to get that sorted this week.

I have very slid, last week for rid of Blasé who hasn't appeared yet to make the money to bring Aguero back, bad move given he had a stormer, will pick up decent firm as the Cherries start to climb the table and turn performances into points

Ooft. On Saturday night I was in 2nd place.

So disappointed with myself at changing my captain. Would've been top of i hadn't. 

Also, De Gea is back. Fucker kept out my keeper Romero. Gonna need to do a transfer.

Clearly didn't score more enough and the ones below you scored more than you enough.

I suspect I'm Tooning it.

I should probably take out Shaw.

Ho ho ho!

I almost added him to my team last week!

Dammit, I bought Dier on Wednesday forgot to drop him in for James Morrison. Morrison had better either play a blinder or not be selected. Do you still get auto subs if one of firstveleven not selected

Woohoo