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WE'RE IN THE MONEY
Brought to you by Clare Devaney and Mark Darnbrook
It was a pretty uneventful week in the Dream Team with low scoring the order
of the day, due to no Worthless Cup or Champions League action. With gaps
appearing in the league, there wasn't a great deal of moving and shaking
this week. This weeks Davina McCall is Ron Voce's Bill S Preston North End,
who thanks to the exploits of Ian Taylor and Mark Viduka posted an equal top
score of 51 to move up from 7th to 4th. Dave Nicholson's Birmingham Shitty
also scored 51 points this week. This week's Paula Yates was Liz O'Reilly's
Shamrock Utd, who scored a lowly 2 points waving goodbye to the top 4 and
down to 8th place.
The same Holy Trinity are at the top of the league, with Barmby Wanks, erm,
I mean St Reatham FC on 557 points, Duck United on 545 and Luke Perry's
Allstars on 525 points. The same holy mess are at the bottom of the league,
propped up by Ronald Bevis Voce's Soft Centres.
| Just as he was about to score his hattrick, Ian Taylor looked up and saw his Mum in the crowd |
Despite being way ahead in the poll for the most annoyingly cocky manager,
Richard Mulcahy's Sunday Stroolers are proving to be all mouth and no
trousers as they continue to loiter outside the money in 4th place.
Gazton Villa are in 12th place on 421 points, but a good week will catapult
him into contention. We have to mention Gary or he will moan otherwise.
Last year's thoroughbreds, The Porcelain Horse are turning out to be this
year's dog meat in a lowly 17th position. One of the authors of this report
(no prizes for guessing which one) has already been advised by Callum to
'slow down at the top' as he sees his crown disappear over the horizon.
Perhaps Callum was suffering from a lack of oxygen when he was high up (or
was it just high?) in the Andes.
One manager who can't wait for the transfer window to open (he was being
advised that unfortunately he can change only 3 and not all 11 of his
players) is Craig Hickson, whose Athletico Salford who are dwindling in the
nether regions of the table. We can't understand it ourselves, not when you
see the array of talent up front with Shaun Goater, Marian Pahars and Eidur
Gudjohnsen leading the charge. We are trying to get our heads around the
thought processes that led to the selection of that unlikely trio. This
surely proves once and for all that Manure fans are too busy eating prawn
sandwiches to pay attention to what's going on on the pitch.
Anyway, back to the title of the report. Mark’s St Reatham FC are currently
sitting pretty at the top of the tree thanks to his astute spending of £35m
(cunningly choosing 6 penalty takers). After a quiet start, he is now in his
rightful position, thanks to some recent high scores. However, Duck Utd and
Luke Perry's All-stars are pushing him all the way and it should be an
exciting battle as this trio are opening up a gap at the top. Duck Utd are
currently sitting on an extra 20 points thanks to Edward Sheringham, but the
title this season could be won or lost in the transfer market in January.
Clare is also in the cash this week thanks to the midtable obscurity prize.
This one is certainly too close to call at this stage as the also-rans
jostle for position in the middle of the league, but Clare would like to
point out to the other contenders that her Uncle Jimmy collects kneecaps.
Ron Voce is sitting on a hefty £20 at the moment, thanks to his 4th place
and also the never-was prize of last position.
Drinks are on him at the Dreamteam Xmas pissup. Details to follow.
For now, here’s the table:
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