Fantasy Football League: An Introduction

The brain trust of fantasy football…from left to right: The Frenchman, The Scouser, The Wife, The Italian, The Serial Killer, The Spaniard, Irishman, Canadian, Mexican, The Greek, The Irishman (not pictured: The Doctor, and yours truly)

I get quite serious during my annual foray into the realms of my fantasy football league and have decided that as I am lacking in motivation (of late) on the old blogosphere front then I am taking it upon myself to inflict on the world weekly updates on the progress of my fantasy league. That way I can still talk about football and am presented with a great opportunity to give friends and acquaintances a good old fashioned slagging.

Ladies and Gentlemen let me introduce you to the competitors:

The Frenchman

• Team Name: Tortelli FC
  
• Last Seasons League Position: Champions
  
• Favourite Team: Arsenal
  
• Useless info: Like his countryman and hero Arsene Wenger our current champion has a keen analytical brain and a penchant for young ‘fancy dan’ football players. Not too sure about his inclusion of Stephen Hunt this year though
  

   

  The Scouser
  

• Team Name: The Bear and Billet
  
• Last Seasons League Position: Second from Bottom (Note: last season’s last place team has spat out his dummy and will not be participating in the 2010/2011 campaign)
  
• Favourite Team: Liverpool
  
• Useless info: Communications expert with much to do if he is to improve on last year’s disastrous campaign. FYI – The Scouser is a sausage maker in his spare time
  

   

  The Wife
  

• Team Name: The Bucking Bulls FC
  
• Last Seasons League Position: N/A
  
• Favourite Team: The Toronto Maple Leafs Manchester United
  
• Useless Info: Works too hard, knows nothing about football, loves her dog far too much – favourite player is Ji Sung Park
  

   

  The Serial Killer (he isn’t really a serial killer)
  

• Team Name: FC Domino Tea Bag Society
  
• Last Seasons League Position: Sixth
  
• Favourite Team: Spurs
  
• Useless Info: Lover of whiskey and women – needs to do better this season. A good start would be submitting his team so it can start accumulating points!
  

   

  The Mexican
  

• Team Name: FC Barcelona AKA Taco Bell FC
  
• Last Seasons League Position: Fifth
  
• Favourite Team: Barcelona
  
• Useless Info: League winner for two campaigns on the trot (until last season) – loves tempura and chicken fingers from the Canada Post cafeteria, also knows nothing about football (whilst claiming to be a football genius) – although we all like The Mexican, for some reason he always cops for the most flak
  

   

  The Greek
  

• Team Name: FC Meech
  
• Last Seasons League Position: Second
  
• Favourite Team: Manchester United
  
• Useless Info: Lover of the Onion Booty, Movies (including pornography), music, and whiskey – The Greek was quite comfortable in second place last year
  

   

  The Italian
  

• Team Name: FC Cooch
  
• Last Seasons League Position: Sixth
  
• Favourite Team: Liverpool
  
• Useless Info: IBM employee and Ottawa dweller – The Cooch man does not say much but will be hoping for a higher return this season
  

   

  The Irishman
  

• Team Name: March Rd Reds
  
• Last Seasons League Position: Third
  
• Favourite Team: Liverpool
  
• Useless Info: The wee fella did well to finish in third place in the last campaign. He is a Liverpool fan though and therefore the enemy of all decent civilised people
  

   

  The Bull
  

• Team Name: Substandard Liege
  
• Last Seasons League Position: Fourth
  
• Favourite Team: Manchester United
  
• Useless Info: Unemployable couch potato who really needs to get a grip…
  

   

  The Doctor
  

• Team Name: Bunbury Bombers
  
• Last Seasons League Position: Seventh
  
• Favourite Team: Fulham
  
• Useless Info: Being intelligent does not a good football manager make

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