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Sound the alarm! We've got a proper battle on for the Punters Lounge Fantasy Football League Christmas number one! @patriciamarc's Lucas FC are still leading the way but it was a disappointing 47-point haul this week. Pressing right up the rear (ooh er!) is Lakshuman Sharma's Fantasy Team who managed to accumulate 75 points to move into 2nd place this week. Lucas FC are now just 39 points ahead at the top. That is a 19-point hit to their lead last week. You can feel the tension! Manager of the Week for this round was looking like Lakshuman Sharma but they were denied by a single point thanks to the 76 points earned by Mark Milton's Buzz Cats. A proper team effort saw seven players in the side hit at least 7 points to help the team move up to 76th position in the table. Finally, stop press! We have the rare event this season of bottom-placed Andy Elliot's Andellio not getting the lowest score of the week. In fact, they were not even close to suffering that. The shame of the lowest score this week went to the 103rd-placed Danny Harris and his Berlin AFC team who could only muster 16 points. The -2 points from Rayan Ait-Nouri was probably a decent summary of how the week went for Harris and his squad. Only Erling Haaland and Cole Palmer were able to hit over 2 points. Disappointing! The transfer deadline for this week's action is 11am UK time on Saturday 21st December. Best of luck to you all! Who will be the festive number one in our league?! 🎅

Fantasy football is a rollercoaster of emotions mate. One minute you're dining at the top table with the elite of @patriciamarc and @Team Sagga, the next you're involved in a debauched hedonistic cesspit with the likes of Andy Elliot's Andellio side! Enjoy the good times!

What's that? Is there a quiet sound of the cracks showing in the foundations of @patriciamarc's dominant lead at the top of the Punters Lounge Fantasy Football League? Lucas FC stuttered with just 50 points this week meaning that some big guns gained a fair bit of ground on the leader. @dwikyeddo also suffered with a 49-point total seeing them drop to 4th place. @Team Sagga's Team Sagga have leapt up to 2nd position after earning 73 points and @bobsyerunkle's Big A Little A are up to 3rd after getting 81 points. Lucas FC still boast a lead of 58 points but it's reducing and the young pretenders to the crown are growing in numbers! Manager of the Week goes to everyone's favourite second team in the form of @MinellaWorksop's Team FerretWeasel. A 93-point return this week saw them move up to 68th place overall. Captain Cole Palmer brought home 36 points with Jamie Vardy and Bryan Mbeumo returning double figures to contribute towards that total. It was a familiar tale at the foot of the table with our perennial struggler Andy Elliot's Andellio only managing to get to 16 points this week. It's history-making stuff and not in a good way! It's now got to the stage that anyone who gets fewer points in a round than Andellio should seriously question their life choices... particularly in fantasy football land! And yes, Romelu Lukaku and Scott McTominay are still in his starting XI! The transfer deadline for this next round of matches is at 1:30pm UK time on Saturday 14th December. Best of luck everyone!

The big question surrounding the Punters Lounge Fantasy Football League right now is simple. Can anybody stop @patriciamarc? Lucas FC have now moved 62 points clear at the top of the table and it's becoming tough to see anybody that can not only catch the league leaders but even match their pace right now. It was another 100-point breach for the Manager of the Week. Peter Ologbenla's Bizza FC accumulated a whopping 101 points this round. Captain Mohamed Salah doing a lot of the heavy lifting there but there were solid returns from most of the other players in the squad without anyone standing out too much except Everton defender Vitalii Mykolenko and Newcastle striker Alexander Isak both hitting double figures. A special tip of the hat to Michael Harwood's Dotcom Rovers who also got to 100 points but fell 1 point short of being the highest score this round. There were no surprises at the bottom. Our good friend Andy Elliot's Andellio picked up the lowest score again with just 25 points this week. It could have been much worse had Jordan Pickford not earned 6 points and Fabian Schar not got 7 points. Hard times continuing for the history-making bottom-placed outfit. The deadline for the next round of matches is coming up quickly at 11am UK time on Saturday 7th December. All the best for this week!

The reign of power for @patriciamarc continues at the top of the Punters Lounge Fantasy Football League. Lucas FC remain in top spot and further extend their lead over @dwikyeddo to 49 points. A few potential pretenders to the crown are lurking in the shadows with Lakshuman Sharma, @StevenKing, and @Team Sagga making up the top 5 but it's all looking positive for the current leader right now! Manager of the Week for this round was hotly contested with some fabulous scores. It's probably no surprise given a lot of the big players did well this week... unless your name's Erling Haaland that is! Congratulations to @Procalc who hit an astonishing 108 points this week. Making Mohamed Salah captain after wild carding set them on their way but solid scores across the team helped to propel them to the highest score this week. It's worth noting that @Fader, who managed to get 107 points, would've taken the highest score this week had he not made an extra transfer that cost his team 4 points. Although there is an argument to suggest that the transfer itself was worth more than the 4 point deduction so who knows?! A special shout out to the other 100-point mark scorers this week including Robin Carter's Journey Zoom, @tilzonja's Kostolomac Team, and Lakshuman Sharma's Fantasy Team. Normal service was resumed for the Name of Shame this week. Bottom-placed Andy Elliot's Andellio had appeared to be dragging themselves off the foot of the league over the past couple of weeks. Unfortunately, a lowest score of 18 points has seen them fall further adrift again. The gap to their nearest rivals is now 171 points. Andy, I'd like to recommend that you at least transfer Romelu Lukaku out of your team! It's a fast turnaround this week with a full schedule of midweek fixtures in the Premier League. The transfer deadline coming up next is 6pm UK time on Tuesday 3rd December. Best of luck everyone!

Apologies for the late update this week. It's been a busy week in Punters Lounge towers with work going on across the main site and in the background of the forum. @patriciamarc holds on to the top spot for another week. Their lead over 2nd placed @dwikyeddo has increased even further to 38 points now and there's a feeling that it could take something special to displace the front runner before the Christmas period. The Manager of the Week accolade this round went to @Steve75's Barrow Raiders. The Bluebirds may be going through a sticky patch in real-life which has confined them to mid-table in League Two but Steve Franklin's side are flying. Mohamed Salah as captain provided the building blocks for a fine score with 26 points by himself. This was then helped particularly by the duo of Pedro Porro and Matheus Cunha who earned 14 points and 16 points respectively. Considering how low the average scores were in the league this week, it was a surprise that the lowest score was still over 20 points. A lot of teams struggled to hit the mid-30s this round but it was Danny Harris and their Berlin AFC team that hit the lowest return with just 25 points. It could have been a sub-20 point score had the pair of Ollie Watkins and Alejandro Garnacho not tallied up 11 points between them. The transfer deadline for this week is 6:30pm UK time on Friday 29th November. Best of luck everyone!

A level of consistency has now hit the Punters Lounge Fantasy Football League. @patriciamarc remains on top of the table after bringing in a solid 70 points this week. The lead at the top has now extended to 32 points ahead of second-placed @dwikyeddo. The action now resumes after the international break and it'll be interesting to see if Lucas FC can maintain their momentum at the summit. Congratulations to @Dean77's Darwin Haalose for winning the Manager of the Week award. It was a sterling effort with 97 points tallied in what was generally seen as a tricky round for scoring. Dean's decision to captain Manchester United's Bruno Fernandes might have raised an eyebrow heading into the week's action but the 34-point return shut up the critics. At the other end of the spectrum, it was a tough week for a few teams who struggled to break the 20-point mark. The lowest score of the week was shared by two teams that only just got past that total with 21 points each. Pete Brand's Brand United were the one side that achieved infamy this week. It could've been a lot worse had the Tottenham duo of Son Heung-min and Pedro Porro not got 4 points apiece. Greg Whitehouse's The Tricksters were the other team finishing with that score. They were saved from a sub-20 score by the 6 points Liverpool centre-back Virgil Van Dijk delivered. The action is back this week after a two-week break for international matches. The deadline for transfers is 11am UK time on Saturday 23rd November. Best of luck to you all!

The Punters Lounge Fantasy Football League top spot remains in the hands of @patriciamarc this week! The previously narrow 3-point lead at the summit has now extended to a whopping 29 points. Patricia's side benefited from an 18-point haul from captain Mohamed Salah, 16 points from striker Dominic Solanke, and a trio of Nottingham Forest players in goalkeeper Matz Sels, defender Ola Aina, and striker Chris Wood who brought in 28 points to the 81-point team total. It's a thin line between madness and genius but Patricia has stayed on the right side of that line! Manager of the Week also went to Patricia Atilano this week with that total. The closest challenges came from @Trimble89's Yamal Sells Avon with 74 points, @Bedlam's Real Sosobad with 73 points and the 153rd-positioned @tilzonja's Kostolomac Team. It's going to take a big effort to see Patricia knocked off the top spot before the international break! At the other end of the table, history continued to be re-written in the Punters Lounge Fantasy Football League as bottom-placed Andy Elliot and their Andellio side took the lowest score of the week once again with a return of just 17 points. Had Jordan Pickford and Fabian Schar not had average scores this week it could've been even worse! The deadline for this week's matches is a slightly later than usual 1:30pm UK time on Saturday 9th November. Best of luck to you all. Except you, Andy Elliot! You need a blimmin' miracle!

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Well, @patriciamarc's Lucas FC team did a great job of fending off an assault on the top spot with a 68-point total this week. The decision to captain Mohamed Salah proved crucial with the Liverpool player's late equaliser against Arsenal helping the first-place position remain intact for Patricia. The lead at the top is now down to just 3 points though with To Ly's Kane In Dias bringing home an 89-point tally to move into 2nd spot after a midfield four including Salah, Cole Palmer, Bryan Mbeumo, and Alejandro Garnacho that contributed over 50% of that total. Manager of the Week was a little bit more competitive than it has been over recent weeks. A few teams were knocking on the door of the 100 points mark and it was one of those who fell just short with an incredible 99 points in the form of @Like A Roughie's Fobogojonacho. It was an even more impressive total when you consider their keeper Robert Sanchez and one defender Dan Burn only got 1 point each so the tally effectively came from 9 players. A bold strategy of captaining Mbeumo was the master stroke. Well played sir! It was back to business as usual with Andy Elliot's Andellio taking the worst score of the week on their own after sharing it last week. To be fair, it was one of the highest lowest scores of the week we've ever had with 30 points so it's a harsh one this week. Still, it could've been a lot worse had Danny Ings not bagged 16 points. Then again, it could've been better if Romelu Lukaku hadn't been included in the starting XI when he's not even registered to play in the Premier League! The deadline for transfers this week is 11am UK time on Saturday 2nd November. Best of luck to you all!

The Punters Lounge Fantasy Football League continued to show its rollercoaster nature this week with a new leader replacing @dwikyeddo at the summit. Raise your glasses for @patriciamarc's and their Lucas FC side who moved to the top thanks to a 60-point haul. Far from the most emphatic points total but it was another generally low-scoring week. Their lead at the top is just 6 points ahead of Lakshuman Sharma's Fantasy Team. Manager of the Week was another underwhelming accolade this week with low scores all over the shop. It was in fact Lakshuman Sharma's 73 points that was enough to lead the way this week. Nobody really came close and it was due to captain Mohamed Salah bringing in 26 points along with strong returns from Emiliano Martinez, Josko Gvardiol, Danny Welbeck, Chris Wood, and Ollie Watkins. Lowest score of the week was shared this time around. A lowly 20 points were earned by both @silver fox's Roys Rovers and bottom-placed Andy Elliot's Andellio. Roys Rovers will be putting the blame firmly at William Saliba's door for his red card and -3 return. Andellio will be looking at the red card for Joachim Andersen and the bizarre decision to still field the ineligible Scott McTominay and Romelu Lukaku! The deadline for transfers for this coming week is 6:30pm UK time on Friday 25th October. Best of luck all!

Apologies, @andypandy23, only just seeing this. To be honest, I think football in general these days is becoming tougher to predict with more investment and finer margins coming in across the game. I still think now we're reaching 10 league games played we can gauge a much better idea about how teams are looking. Of course, there are still predictable elements but it's already clear to see certain teams are ones to watch and certain teams are ones to avoid.

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