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Half way through the quarter finals with another two games played today. FRANCE 3 POLAND 1Colin Eunson gets points from Olivier Giroud’s 3rd goal of the tournament. 28 managers get 16 points from Kylian Mbappe brace and assist.23 managers gets points from Robert Lewandowski’s goal. Robin Horsler and David Owen lose points from Matty Cash’sContinue reading “Fantasy WC – Sunday 4th December”

The start of the knockout phase and the quarter finals, with two fixtures played. NETHERLANDS 3 USA 1Paul Maiden and Philip Haigh get points from Memphis Depay’s goal. Dave Nicholls, Chris Mowles, Melvin Pool, Ewan White, Martin Grierson, James Grierson and David Owen get 15 points from Denzel Dumfries’s goal and 2 assists. ARGENTINA 2Continue reading “Fantasy WC – Saturday 3rd December”

That’s the group phase done. Onto the knockouts now! Still time to catch up, even if there’s only 16 games left. A brace or hat-trick (there hasn’t been one yet!) can earn a good bundle of points. Potential now for penalty shoot-outs for additional goals (and potential penalty save bonuses)! League table update is here,Continue reading “Fantasy WC – End of Group Phase”

Groups E & F completed today and its farewell to your Belgian, German, Costa Rican and Canadian players. Just groups G & H to complete on Friday and then that’s the end of the group stage. The PLAYERS LEFT column in the table shows how many players each manager has left in the tournament. WillContinue reading “Fantasy WC – Thursday 1st December”

That’s groups C and D completed now and it’s goodbye to your Mexican and Saudi Arabian players. No commentaries for today’s games again – not sure what’s going on?! Updated table below. POS MANAGER TEAM TEAM NO. PLAYERS LEFT TIEBREAK GD POINTS 1 Kevin Robinson Boro Lad 19 16 191 36 178 2 Melvin PoolContinue reading “Fantasy WC – Wednesday 30th November”

Groups A and B completed today. You can now say goodbye to players from Ecuador, Qatar, Iran and Wales. An updated table is below. I did some commentaries earlier but it seems I didn’t save them properly. D’oh!! POS MANAGER TEAM TEAM NO. PLAYERS LEFT TIEBREAK GD POINTS 1 Kevin Robinson Boro Lad 19 17Continue reading “Fantasy WC – Tuesday 29th November”

Round 2 is now complete, with all your players now involved with two games. One more round of games before you start losing some players. Just to reiterate a point raised last week over penalty misses. I used an old entry form in my rush to get this competition launched – which didn’t include penaltyContinue reading “Fantasy WC – Round 2”

Another 4 games played today. A proper update tomorrow after everyone has completed 2 games each. JAPAN 0 COSTA RICA 1Allan Jones loses points from Miki Yamane’s booking.8 managers get a clean sheet from Keylor Navas, as do Philip Haigh, David Owen and Tracey Corrie from Bryan Oviedo. BELGIUM 0 MOROCCO 2Ben Corrie gets pointsContinue reading “Fantasy WC – Sunday 27th November”

A belated update from yesterday’s games. TUNISIA 0 AUSTRALIA 1Jason Harrison lose points from Aïssa Laïdouni’s booking.No-one has the Aussie goalscorer, Mitchell Duke. Allan Jones, Ste Corbett and Albert Au get a clean sheet from Mathew Ryan, as does Tracey Corrie from Kye Rowles, Emma Bisset and Paul Sparkes from Fran Karačić, Ben Donafee fromContinue reading “Fantasy WC – Saturday 26th November”

Round 2 of games kicked off today, with another 4 games played. Just to clarify a query someone raised this morning over penalty misses. I used an old entry form in my rush to get this competition launched – which didn’t include penalty misses in the points scoring. Despite that, I am counting these –Continue reading “Fantasy WC – Friday 25th November”