For some it was a very good week, for others it was a week they'd rather forget. For anyone from Germany, it was a weekend of crap jokes about the war…it could be worse, they could support those perennial underachievers from North of the Border…Denmark…

Anyway, in the world of fantasy football, time was called on the careers of Jaap Stam of Manchester United and Silvinho of Arsenal, leaving many managers wondering just why they had bothered calculating their strongest sides. But as the saying goes, once those eleven men cross that white line, there's nothing anyone can do. On top of that we've had the injuries to Dunn of Blackburn and Berger of Liverpool to add to the woes of managers up and down the table and just last Friday the Reds signed two new goalkeepers to leave those with Sander Westerveld kissing goodbye to five million big ones. Who said this wasn't fun?

"All I have to do is to keep my eye on the ball and everything will be alright"

Enjoying life at the top this week are the Salford Strokers, who have now amassed 116 points in just two weeks - 76 more points that bottom club Birmingham Shitty who once again appear to be living up to their billing. Craig now leads fellow LSE stalwarts Keane As Mustard and GaztonVilla by seven and ten points respectively but it's still early doors and over-confidence can by a managers downfall in the long run. Just ask Ash.

Speaking of Crumbs DM, they're now in 6th place and are enjoying their traditional start to the season amongst the early leaders while 1FC Laundromat and Rob Hick are in fifth. This week's top scorers, Róisíns XI, are in seventh, having scored 43 points.

It was a bad week for Mrs Fletcher with Woodbourne Rovers falling 13 places after only managing to score four points but Nick had a good week, steering 1897 - The Golden Year above the rest of the family and into that all-important, money winning 15th spot. The younger Fletch had another bad week and now finds herself in 28th spot, one place behind her beau…

That's it for this week except to say that last year's wooden spooners - the Soft Centres - are defying the odds in a Bolton kinda way this time around and are sitting pretty in 10th spot.

Rest in peace, Brian Moore…

POS	TEAM	PTS	SC
1	SALFORD STROKERS	116	40
2	KEANE AS MUSTARD	109	32
3	GAZTON VILLA	106	36
4	TORPEDO BERMONDSEY	100	32
5	1FC LAUNDROMAT	95	39
6	CRUMBS DM	93	33
7	RÓISÍNS XI	90	43
8	ATHLETICO SALFORD	85	21
9	FECK-ARSE-NIL	83	17
10	SOFT CENTRES	82	38
11	PATRICK DUFFY THISTLE	75	24
12	LION OF VIENNA SLEEPS TONIGHT	74	30
13	SUPERSONIC FC	73	29
14	BILL S PRESTON NORTH END	73	21
15	1897- THE GOLDEN YEAR	72	37
16	A TASTE OF THE RAJ	67	30
17	AOIFE'S XI	67	30
18	LUKE PERRY ALL-STARS	66	22
19	LONE RANGERS RETURN	34	29
20	CLINT BIZZELL JUNIORS	64	26
21	WOODBOURNE ROVERS	61	4
22	SPAKATAK TOXTETH	60	39
23	BILLY'S BOOTS	60	36
24	THE DARLING DUBS THAT PLAY	56	30
25	DUCK UTD	56	23
26	CRAZYHORSE FC	56	17
27	OH SHEFFIELD	50	19
28	WHATEVER	50	13
29	HICKY'S HEROES	49	28
30	BIRMINGHAM SHITTY	40	13