Wk 17

Newcastle vs Man City Red card
Ludy going 4-3-3 and Fan going 3-5-2 provides us with a chess like game today, both sides looking for control and whilst Franck the Tank and Kovavic are always game, this is one of those Pogba passenger games, where he just doesn’t turn up when he’s not gonna steamroll the opposition. By contrast Casemiro being anchor and Gail Platt alongside the Italian ladyboy Verratti in the engine room means Newcastle dominate possession and dictate the tempo.

Pogba in typical Pogba quit on this team and took a stupid redcard which left Fandango incandescent with rage, so much so Fan was asked to leave the pitchside too.
Man City with 10 men were galvanized so much so they took the lead through a screamer by Schick… but as the game wore on, the extra man took its toll on City and Newcastle picked up two late goals – I know it’s unbelievable that a club like Man City would concede twice in the final 2 minutes but its just a game not real life.

Newcastle 2-1 City

Lewa (Sane) Lewa (Diaz)

Schick (Nkunku)

Redcard – Pogba


MOTM – Lewa, brace of goals a bona fide matchwinner



Chelsea vs Leicester
I quite liked Rof’s take on a samba 4-2-2-2, I mean it is bold but it served Brazil well for as long as anyone can remember, I’m not sure if Brazil starting being shiete cos they moved away from the phalanx or because they started using middle aged Englishmen, or of course picking 55 year old housewife Alison to play in goals. If Rof is the Alex Higgins of SG then his counterpart Fandango the goat is surely the John Higgins with his safety first 4-2-3-1 approach to things, I would call his midfield dull and boring, perhaps throw in a workmanlike but there’s no need as Rof said all that in his tactics
Diaby looks a good prospect on the wing though as Fan still hasn’t seemed to get to grips with the loss of everyones favourite show-pony Neymar, a yearning that’s only intensified by seeing him in the walkers cheese and onion blue of Leicester.
Tactically both managers are decent enough but Rof’s the thinking man’s thinker, he gets a lot into his allocation of words and it’d be a great effort to try and out-manoeuvre him.

whilst there are no glaring weaknesses in either team (not enough to lose slots over) I just think Leicester are a stronger package ATM, home advantage going to Chelsea of course brings them back into this game.

Chelsea 1-2 Leicester
Haaland (Mbappe)
Benzema (penalty) Osimhen (Neymar)


MOTM – Neymar, dominating his man, back at his old stomping ground, did make the ground chuckle when he went to the home dugout after his 80th minute substitution




Leeds vs Spurs

The late kick off after the earlier postponement due to Lubo catching an STD off his favourite ferret, started at a high tempo, with the Spurs boys wanting to get the job done and get the feck out of east Lancashire as quickly as possible. They struggled though to get a foothold in the game though as whilst getting his clap treatment Lubo had an epiphany moment, scribbled out his team-sheet and tried something new with a narrow midfield and low block, coupled with two, yes two false nines, this moment of clarity seemed to be doing the trick in the first half, but TAB got his boys in at half time and read them riot attack, to quote TABS idol Slippy G “c’mon boyz we can’t let this slip” a mich better second half and figuring out how best to stretch the play saw Jesus snaffle home the winner and keep the title race alive.

(Dirty) Leeds 0-1 Spurs
Jesus (Messi)

MOTM – Jesus, the man can run on water ffs, but unlike Stephen Hawking he can’t run on batteries