StevieDay1983

After placing my Grand National bets, I had a little 50p bet left in my weekly betting budget. So I decided to stick it on a 6-fold BTTS accumulator. Nothing ground-breaking but thought I'd share it anyway.

Hi all! Apologies, I got caught out with the combination of the midweek fixtures, an earlier Saturday transfer deadline, and having been distracted by writing Grand National content on the main site. Anyway, here is the table I managed to grab before the game page updated. @Trimble89 is still out in front. The chasing pack aren't giving up though! I hope you all managed to make the necessary changes before the 11 am UK time today transfer deadline. I'll get a proper update back on track after this weekend.

It's been a while since the last update due to the international break. I thought I'd wait until the next round of matches before posting because it's a cheeky midweek set of fixtures so it'll remind everyone to do their transfers. @Trimble89's Yamal Sells Avon remains out in front. Their lead is now 39 points after the catastrophic round for the previous 2nd-placed Lakshuman Sharma's Fantasy Team who could only muster 7 points. Manager of the Week was shared this week with both @Charlie jones's Live Latte Lath Love and Tare Funkeye's Ijawbio hitting the highest score of 82 points in what was generally seen as a tough round for everyone. It's probably no surprise to see that one team played their free hit and the other team played their wildcard. Much-needed due to the amount of players that didn't have games with the Carabao Cup Final being played that round. Well played! You can tell it's not their first barbecue! At the other end of the scale, we also had the worst score of the week shared between two teams. In an amazing twist of fate, one of those teams isn't Andy Elliot's Andellio! For those of you interested, they actually scored a modest 37 points... which equates to roughly 5% of their season total in a single round. Anyway, the two teams who need to be put in the village stocks and pummeled with fruit and veg are @Nosey-P's Nosey-P and Paul Somers' Smurf Chimney. Not even going to ask where Paul can that name from! Both teams could only muster 6 points in a hard week of scoring for them. No doubt they can hit back firing this week with a full compliment of players available. The transfer deadline for this round is 6:15 pm UK time on Tuesday 1st April. Best of luck everyone!

Never doubt Cardiff again, @tschurchy! Except for our next game when we'll undoubtedly suffer a demoralising 1-0 loss at home to Sheffield Wednesday and plunge back into the bottom three!

1.20 East India Dock 2.00 Kargese 2.40 Allegorie De Vassy 3.20 The Big Westerner 4.00 Galopin Des Champs 4.40 Angels Dawn 5.20 Kopeck De Mee

1.20 - Divaluna 2.00 - Answer to Kayf 2.40 - Catch Him Derry 3.20 - Fact To File 4.00 - Lucky Place 4.40 - Jagwar 5.20 - Mint Boy

The Punters Lounge Fantasy Football League is still being ruled by @Trimble89's Yamal Sells Avon who picked up a modest 58 points but had points in the bank to fend off an assault from the chasing pack of Lakshuman Sharma's Fantasy Team, Bolanie Marvel's Kai Me A River, and @dwikyeddo's Cyber Tech FC. The lead is now down to just 14 points. Manager of the Week award for this round went to @James A's Not Southgate's XI who got a massive 85 points. Clearly, the decision to play a 4-4-f*cking-2 was key in that! Three Crystal Palace players in Dean Henderson, Maxence Lacroix, and Daniel Munoz brought 22 points to the table. The 30 points from captain Mohamed Salah also helped greatly. At the opposite end of the spectrum, the lowest score of the week was shared by two managers. @Gray306's Wolve Sa We and usual suspect Andy Elliot's Andellio could both only manage 19 points this week. Graham, you need to have a word with your boys if you're lowering yourself to Andy's standards! The deadline for this week's transfers is 1:30 pm UK time on Saturday 15th March. Best of luck everyone!

1.20 The New Lion 2.00 Ballyburn 2.40 Jipcot 3.20 Stumptown 4.00 Jonbon 4.40 Jazzy Matty 5.20 Kalypso'chance

1.20 Romeo Coolio 2.00 Majborough 2.40 Katate Dori 3.20 Lossiemouth 4.00 Constitution Hill 4.40 Stencil 5.20 Transmission

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new leader at the top of the Punters Lounge Fantasy Football League. @Trimble89's Yamal Sells Avon has stormed to the summit with a points total of 85 in what was generally a tough week for a lot of players. The lead that Marc's side have established at the top is now 19 points and with just 11 game weeks left to go that could prove to be an insurmountable gap if he continues in this form. Manager of the Week for this round went to @Charlie jones and their Live Latte Lath Love who picked up a whopping 93 points. The classic Oliver Glasner 20-point return helped their total but there were also decent returns from the likes of captain Mohamed Salah, Justin Kluivert, and Pedro Neto. At the opposite end of the spectrum, it was business as usual with bottom placed struggle Andy Elliot and their Andellio team taking the lowest score for the week with a return of just 24 points. The duo of Scott McTominay and Romelu Lukaku are still somehow getting gametime all the way from Serie A in Italy. 10 points from Thomas Soucek on his own prevented an even lower score. Maybe next week, Andy! The transfer deadline for matches this weekend is 11 am UK time on Saturday 8th March. Best of luck to you all!

The top spot in the Punters Lounge Fantasy Football League is still being held by Lakshuman Sharma's Fantasy Team. However, their lead at the summit has been reduced to just 5 points after a massive round score of 98 points from @Trimble89's Yamal Sells Avon who now lie in 2nd place. Several usual suspects including @dwikyeddo's Cyber Tech FC, Bolanie Marvel's Kai Me a River, @bobsyerunkle's Big A Little A, and @Team Sagga's Team Sagga are lurking in the rear. Manager of the Week for this round was hotly contested again. A few teams, including @skyblues88's Show Me the Mane (101 points) and @James A's Not Southgate's XI (104 points), breached the 100-point mark once again. Yet it was Bolanie Marvel's Kai Me a River who squeezed the highest score with a whopping 105 points. Oliver Glasner bringing in 20 points as the assistant manager was a master stroke. It's also worth noting that Bolanie's side also had 13 points stuck on the bench, including 12 points from Joao Pedro! Worst score of the week went to the unimpressive 17-point haul from Michael Timmins and their It's a Timmins Thing. The 5-4-1 formation was an interesting choice and perhaps even more so given they brought in a total of just 4 points between them! No single player earning over 3 points across the team also didn't help! The transfer deadline for the next round of matches is a fast turnaround of 6 pm UK time on Tuesday 25th February. Best of luck with these midweek matches!

The Punters Lounge Fantasy Football League leader managed to fend off the challenge of the pretenders to the top spot this week as Lakshuman Sharma's Fantasy Team held on to first place with a points total of 98 points this week. It was the joint-lowest score in the top 12 but it was enough to keep the rivals at bay. Manager of the Week was hotly contested with several teams breaching the 100-point mark this week. The recipient of this award this round was Dan Hayward's Old Havertz Dai Hard who earned an impressive 119-point tally. Firstly, what a top team name. Nice to see something unique outside of the usual generic ones. Secondly, it's a crying shame Havertz isn't available to lead the team named in tribute to him. Thirdly, it was a cracking effort from the three Liverpool players who wracked up 66 points off their own back. The decision to wildcard was justified. For those of you worried that things might have been getting weird lately with Andy Elliot's side Andellio not taking the worst score of the week, fear not! The big man is back with a 19-point return this week! It feels like everything is right again! The transfer deadline for this week is 6:30 pm UK time on Friday 21st February! Best of luck!

Great work, @Trotter! Nothing like a squeaky bum time win!

Those odds are very tempting. Leeds are looking for four home league wins on the bounce, haven't even conceded in the previous 3 home league matches, and are unbeaten in the league at home since 14th September. However, Sunderland are undefeated in their last 8 league games and have drawn their last three matches in the league on the road. A draw is entirely plausible. As a Cardiff fan, I'm still suffering from PTSD from our 7-0 defeat at the hands of Leeds at Elland Road at the start of this month so I'm not sure I'm in a mental state to bet against the Yorkshire side at the minute! Joel Piroe to score anytime at 19/10 with Unibet is tempting given he's scored in his last 3 league appearances.

It was a monster week of points scoring in the Punters Lounge Fantasy Football League but after all the drama was said and done we had a new leader at the top of the table. Lakshuman Sharma's Fantasy Team earned a whopping 140 points for this round to storm back to the top spot. Their lead at the summit is 15 points which is the largest lead we've seen for a while but it's still not a huge amount. Several pretenders to first place are lurking in the shadows. In a very competitive week (thanks Mohamed Salah!), we saw some massive scores. Sharma's Fantasy Team did incredibly well to hit the 140-point mark but it still wasn't enough to earn the highest score of the week. That accolade went to @BARNSLEYCHOP's Scratattack team who scored 153 points. Superb effort given the highest score in the world for this round was 203 points. The decision to triple captain Salah, like a number of us, worked wonders. The fact that Scratattack managed to do it carrying three players in Lewis Hall, Morgan Rogers, and Alexander Isak who only got 4 points between them is even more admirable. At the other end of the scale, it was a disappointing week for 124th-placed The Tricksters. Managed by Greg Whitehouse, it's far from the lowest score we've seen but considering the points scored this week it's a poor performance from the team. The Liverpool duo of Virgil Van Dijk and Cody Gakpo stopped it from being an even more humiliating showing with the pair bringing in 13 points on their own! The deadline for transfers for the next round is 6:30 pm UK time on Friday 14th February. Best of luck!

The drama just keeps on intensifying in the Punters Lounge Fantasy Football League. @dwikyeddo's Cyber Tech FC retain their spot at the top of the table but their lead has now been reduced to just 1 point ahead of 2nd place @Shaunbear's Material Hurl. Just 2 points further behind in 3rd position is Lakshuman Sharma's Fantasy Team. A tip of the hat to the Manager of the Week this round that came in the form of @akarsioti's Τσούχτρα. The team picked up an impressive 89 points in what was generally a mediocre scoring week across the league. Mohamed Salah as captain brought in 16 points while the strike duo of Cody Gakpo and Alexander Isak accumulated 16 points and 13 points respectively. There were also solid returns from the likes of Antoine Semenyo, Gabriel, Josko Gvardiol, and David Raya. In a bit of shock news, bottom-placed Andy Elliot's side Andellio didn't get the worst score of the week. In fact, they didn't even get the next lowest score of the week. They got the next next lowest score of the week! The worst score of the round went to 119th-placed Sean North and their North Green United who could only muster 21 points. It didn't help that three players in the starting XI didn't return any points and after that it was only Bryan Mbeumo and Andrew Robertson who tallied more than 2 points. A tough day at the office for the team! The transfer deadline for this next round is 11am UK time on Saturday 1st February. Good luck!

It's musical chairs at the top of the Punters Lounge Fantasy Football League right now. It's @dwikyeddo's Cyber Tech FC who are the new leaders at the summit but with the lead over 2nd placed @bobsyerunkle's Big A Little A only at 12 points it feels like top spot is still very much a free-for-all. A round of applause goes to @Pempi's Polish Kickers who picked up the Manager of the Week with a relatively low score of 77 points. It was a tough week though with a lot of captaincy selections not delivering the goods. Michal's side relied on 24 points from his captain Chris Wood. A brave choice given he had Mohamed Salah and Cole Palmer in his squad. Well played! It was back to business as usual at the bottom. Andy Elliot's Andellio continues to break unwanted records with yet another low score of 14 points. It was 6 points from Joachim Andersen that prevented it from being an even worse score. That said, his midfield only scored 6 points fewer than the Manager of the Week's midfield. Thin lines in fantasy football! The deadline for the next round of transfers is 1:30pm UK time on Saturday 25th January. Best of luck with your decisions!

We're only one week into 2025 and the mass assault on the top spot in the Punters Lounge Fantasy Football League has started! @dwikyeddo's Cyber Tech FC are the new leaders and hold a 12-point lead over 2nd placed @bobsyerunkle's Big A Little A. The top two have pulled slightly away from the chasing pack that includes @Trimble89's Yamal Sells Avon in 3rd, @patriciamarc's Lucas FC in 4th, and @Team Sagga's Team Sagga in 5th. What a way to start the new year! The Manager of the Week accolade went to Pablo DeGreate's Pablo who managed to accumulate 105 points for the week. It was an impressive total and largely thanks their decision to captain Bryan Mbeumo who delivered 38 points off his own back. Double figure returns from Milos Kerkez and Cole Palmer also boosted the total. It was a rare surprise this week in the lowest score. Andy Elliot's Andellio did their best to take the lowest score for the week again with just 16 points. However, it was actually Vic London's Best In Show who could only muster 11 points to take the worst score of the week. On paper, the team didn't look too bad with the likes of William Saliba, Andrew Robertson, and Luis Diaz amongst the starting XI but the team also included the unavailable Arsenal duo of Bukayo Saka and Kai Havertz. The transfer deadline for this week is a little later than usual at 6pm UK time on Tuesday 14th January. This is due to this weekend's fixtures being committed to the FA Cup 3rd Round. So it's a little bit longer to consider your options. Best of luck to you all!

Welcome to 2025 everyone! Apologies for a couple of rounds without updates. I was away for the Christmas break but I am back now and the updates will be back on track! @patriciamarc is back on top after huge pressure coming from the experienced @Team Sagga over the festive period. Excitement levels are on another scale with Lucas FC now only holding a 5-point lead over three teams who are tied for 2nd place in the form of Team Sagga, @Trimble89's Yamal Sells Avon, and @dwikyeddo's Cyber Tech FC. It was a big scoring week this round with a number of teams surpassing the glorious 100-point mark. @tilzonja's Kostolomac Team, @Chris Gumbley's High Flying Bantams, and Aleksandar Karafiloski's Vidobista team all breached the century landmark but didn't quite do enough to hit the highest team score of the week. That accolade went to Peter Ologbenia's Bizza FC who earned 105 points for the round. An impressive tally looking even more so given three players failed to get more than 2 points in the starting XI and no tokens were used either! At the other end of the table, normality resumed, and the nightmare campaign for Andy Elliot's Andellio continued. Just 12 points for the bottom-placed club this week. It could have been even more embarrassing had Fabian Schar not scrounged 5 points off his own back. The team in 126th position are now 272 points behind their nearest rivals and the wooden spoon is looking firmly set for just one destination right now as we reach the halfway stage of the campaign. The transfer deadline for week 20 matches is 11am UK time on Saturday 4th January. All the best to everyone! Will we have a new leader at the top of the table come next week?

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everyone! I hope Santa brings you what you want. If you are looking for the perfect gift this festive season then backing whoever Cardiff are playing to win is a guaranteed present!

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!