Yeah, OK, there is more football on tonight I understand that but we thought we’d bosh an article out and give you your Sick Chirpse Fantasy Football fix twice in one week. Don’t say we don’t do anything for you.

RDM’s sacking gave Tony Fernandes the opportunity to send Mark Hughes packing before the weekend’s fixtures had begun, confirming Harry Redknapp as the new manager, just not in time for the trip to Manchester. Saturday’s football brought no real points for anyone as RVP didn’t bag any goals and no one in the history of football has ever even considered drafting in Johnny Evans for their fantasy football team – but Sunday did a lot to separate the men from the boys. Mention goes to Shane Tremlin’s Trems Trash as they score a handy 44 points to take them to 3rd and within 3 points of Tom Sand’s Prison Break FC on 516. Drew Walsh’s Real SocieLAD and H.E’s Dynamo Kebab come in with a cheeky 45 points to take them into the top 10 and 20 respectively. However, the top boy of the week is M Stewart and his FC Boosh who tallied up 47 points this week.

Here’s how the Premiership played out on the weekend:

Sat 24 Nov 2012 – Premier League

• Sunderland 2 – 4 West Brom FT
• Everton 1 – 1 Norwich FT
• Man Utd 3 – 1 QPR FT
• Stoke 1 – 0 Fulham FT
• Wigan 3 – 2 Reading FT
• Aston Villa 0 – 0 Arsenal FT

Sun 25 Nov 2012 – Premier League

• Swansea 0 – 0 Liverpool FT
• Southampton 2 – 0 Newcastle FT
• Chelsea 0 – 0 Man City FT
• Tottenham 3 – 1 West Ham FT

BIG HITTERS:

Jordi Gomez really made a weekend of it. A sterling performance, a perfect hat-trick and he also saved the blushes of his teammate Ali Al-Habsi for the most part. Gomez is lucky enough to join the ranks of the phenomenal footballing talents of Marcus Bent and Henri Camara as one of the only three Wigan Athletic players to ever score a hat-trick in the Premier League. All great finishes and enough to lift the Lactics five points clear of the relegation zone as he hit a total of 17 points this week as opposed to the 7 he has managed in the entirety of the season leading up to this. Here’s a cheeky little clip of the little man completing the feat of a perfect hat-trick:

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Gaston Ramirez also did his best to replicate the form he showed in the Olympics last Summer that forced Southampton into breaking their previous transfer record to bring him in – Adkins’ Saints beat Newcastle 2-0 on Pardew’s return to his previous club. Ramirez took the bull by the horns and was the centre of the majority of the Saint’s creative display as he shone in the Southampton number 10 role. A goal and an assist go some way towards justifying the huge fee paid by Southampton and undoubtedly justifying his tiny fantasy league price tag of 3.6 million with his 9 points for this week.

With Adebayor warming the bench and getting used to the splinters after his appauling big shitter of a performance last week – Jermain Defoe had to take up the goal-scoring duties alone. Defoe scored either side of the break to sink his former club, West Ham, taking his total against his old club to 6 goals in 7 starts for Spurs. Defoe’s two goals and hefty fantasy football points total of 11 for the week and 70 for the season so far wasn’t enough to silence the Hammers fans who chanted “VIVA LAZIO” in an attempt to anger the Spurs faithful as they ran out 3-1 winners at White Hart Lane. I’m sure that little bit of horrible chanting was the least of Mark Clatterburg’s worries as he did his best as 4th official in his first game back after being branded a racist by John Obi Mikel.

BIG SHITTERS:

Sunderland let 4 goals slip through at home, Arsenal didn’t manage to score away at Villa Park, however, all of this pales into insignificance through one simple view of what is arguably the worst goalkeeping blunder since Tim Flowers VS Liverpool.  Wigan had faught hard all day at home to a tiresome Reading team and were leading 2 goals to 1 when the 80 minute rolled around and so did the Lactic’s stopper after he fumbled what was arguably the simplest catch ever.

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The Omanian had his blushes spared in the end escaping the draw thanks to the help of Jordi Gomez’s hat-trick and only ending up with -2 fantasy football points but he’s certainly done himself no favours in the lead up to their home match against Man City on Wednesday. Bottom line is get Aguero and Tevez in your team ASAP.

The games coming up look like this:

Tue 27 Nov 2012 – Premier League

• Sunderland v QPR 19:45
• Aston Villa v Reading 20:00

Wed 28 Nov 2012 – Premier League

• Chelsea v Fulham 19:45
• Everton v Arsenal 19:45
• Southampton v Norwich 19:45
• Stoke v Newcastle 19:45
• Swansea v West Brom 19:45
• Tottenham v Liverpool 19:45
• Man Utd v West Ham 20:00
• Wigan v Man City 20:00

Predictions are as follows:

Redknapp instills a bit of confidence in the Rangers boys but fails to win during his first game with the club as old pal Martin O’Neil holds them to a score draw. Villa and Reading battle away to a draw in the Midlands as Darren Bent doesn’t get a start again but comes off the bench to bag one. Rafa Benitez (Rafa Out!) steers his Chelsea team to victory in the West London derby as Everton turn over an otherwise disappointing Arsenal team 2-1. Southampton continue their winning ways thanks to a brace from none other than Rickie Lambert. Stoke grind out a draw at home to Newcastle who still can’t find their goalscoring boots. Baggies battle hard at the Brittania Stadium but Michu silences the travelling fans in a 2-2 thriller. Spurs see Liverpool off despite a Luis Suarez wonder strike. Utd tear West Ham a new one after going 1-0 to a Carroll goal before half time. Fergie unleashes the hair dryer and they come out 3-1 winners. Again. Finally Al-Habsi has another torrid game after his big shitter on the weekend and Aguero and Tevez ruin Wigan 0-3.

Here’s how the league stands going into the midweek fixtures:

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