So it’s been an absolute age since we updated you on how the Sick Chirpse Fantasy Football League is going – in fact we haven’t done an update since Week 17 which was the last time my team did any good to be honest – not that this is the reason. Anyway over the Christmas period there have been a couple of turn ups for the books as well as a couple of teams being brought back down to Earth.

Villa have gone from the dizzy heights of people actually saying that they could stay up to losing 8-0 to Chelsea, 4-0 to Spurs and 3-0 to Wigan. QPR have managed to lose 3-0 at home to Liverpool then beat Chelsea 1-0 a week later but the big story of the Winter break is that Man Utd have gone through it almost unscathed as they sit pretty 7 points clear of Manchester City.

A couple of teams have recorded an absolute landslide of points in the period of week 18 to week 22 and there has been an almighty shift in power at the top of the league. The week leaders looked like this – Week 18 seen Luke Wyborn bag himself 62 points, Week 19 went the way of Peter Jones’ Joner with 83 points, Drew Walsh’s Real SocieLAD bagged 98 in week 20, Dan Filer’s ClubTropicanaDrinksFC rolled out with 105 in week 21 but were joined by Jack Hopwood’s FC Kaiser on 105, and last week Peter Jones’ Joner clocked in another high scoring 68 to take him within touching distance of the top three in 4th place.

Double props going the way of Jones as well as he got himself the Manager Of The Month for December managing to beat little old me in second place, wanker.

Back to basics – here’s the results from the weekend:

Sat 12 Jan 2013 – Premier League

• QPR 0 – 0 Tottenham FT
• Aston Villa 0 – 1 Southampton FT
• Everton 0 – 0 Swansea FT
• Fulham 1 – 1 Wigan FT
• Norwich 0 – 0 Newcastle FT
• Reading 3 – 2 West Brom FT
• Stoke 0 – 4 Chelsea FT
• Sunderland 3 – 0 West Ham FT 

Sun 13 Jan 2013 – Premier League

• Man Utd 2 – 1 Liverpool FT
• Arsenal 0 – 2 Man City FT

XMAS BIT HITTERS:

It’s been a pretty productive couple of weeks for Super Frank as he has taken himself from the depths of no contract hell at Stamford Bridge to guaranteeing more than a few fans wanting to snap him up for their club when June comes along. With 5 goals in his last 5 games for Chelsea as well as now being Chelsea official second highest scorer ever with 193 goals you can pretty be sure that he is in for a great season so it might be time to get him in. Theo has found himself knocking together a swift 47 points in the last 6 week period not  to mention hitting 23 of those in Week 20 against Newcastle. As predicted here on Sick Chirpse, Wenger has finally seen the light as he did with Thierry and RVP and has stuck little Theo up top. At a cheeky 4.3 million why is he not all ready in your team? Finally, the man, the myth, the legend, Robin Van Persie. The highest valued player in the league at 7 million in cold hard cash he has scored 62 points in the last 6 week period and is a cut above anyone else – basically if you don’t have him you won’t find yourself in the top 10 come the end of the season. Simple. The bloke just scores goals for fun.

XMAS BIG SHITTERS

Not for the first time and surely not for the last time we are going to have to single out Aston Villa Football Club as the big shitter of Xmas. Not since Week 5 have we bothered mention Aston Villa as it’s just boring as they are absolute shit but let’s have another pop at them. Since Week 17 they have only managed to win one game out of 7 and that was at home in the FA Cup to a Championship team, they also managed to let in 22 goals in those 7 games including an 8-0 spanking by Chelsea. Possibly the most embarrassing thing that has also had no effect on the fantasy football league was when they were beaten 3-1 by League Two Bradford. As we said  though – it isn’t funny talking about Villa is it so let’s have a quick chat about old John Walters who managed to prove that life isn’t always easy as a Premiership footballer as he took an unbeaten at home Stoke side and helped Chelsea wipe the floor with them. Two own goals, kicked the ball in his own face and missed a penalty that is still travelling somewhere over South America.

Here’s a video of John Walters’ ass dropping up massively – what a prat:

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Here’s what is coming up in the fantasy league world and don’t forget that the FA Cup counts towards your points folks:

Wed 16 Jan 2013 – FA Cup

• Arsenal v Swansea 19:30
• Man Utd v West Ham 20:05

Wed 16 Jan 2013 – Premier League

• Chelsea v Southampton 19:45

Sat 19 Jan 2013 – Premier League

• Liverpool v Norwich 15:00
• Man City v Fulham 15:00
• Newcastle v Reading 15:00
• Swansea v Stoke 15:00
• West Ham v QPR 15:00
• Wigan v Sunderland 15:00
• West Brom v Aston Villa 17:30

Sun 20 Jan 2013 – Premier League

• Chelsea v Arsenal 13:30
• Tottenham v Man Utd 16:00

Mon 21 Jan 2013 – Premier League

• Southampton v Everton 20:00

Here is what the league looks like after the weekend’s fixtures then with Trem’s Trash making their way to the top for the first time…good luck chirpsers.

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