Week 33: Five Points In It

The tension mounts...

There comes a point in a season when everyone, here at OFFL HQ, can feel something odd happen.  It's often accompanied by a shiver down the back of the spine.  And indeed it is this week that a shift in the mood of the gods has been detected.

A Turning Point.

Usually, of course, when a Turning Point happens the very next week it all goes back to normal and we realise it was just the clocks going forward.

So this season's 'turning point' [which, this time next week, we'll know has come to nothing and has evaporated into a small cloud of ruddy-cheeked, embarrassed nostalgia] is the news that our Manager of the Week this week is Inter Milandrover's Smasher with a score of 18 points.

...for some managers at any rate.

Why the 'turning point'? I hear you ask... well, Smasher's team of Every-Years are Second in the League and have been eating away at the lead of Norma Snockers for a while.  It's been this week however that just as he gives notice to one of his players [Larsson SUN] then said player scores two goals for him as a farewell present. Not only that but the player coming in scores yet another week's goal as if to say 'look at what's coming into your team sunshine'.  And now Smasher's MotW!

Basically, things are going a bit too right for Inter Milandrover.  It has to stop.

Top two teams are now 5 points apart.

In other news, Highest Climber this week scales up SIX places in the league landing Alun Edwards in sixth place. Fame at last.

Don't look at Adriana Chittelborough. She'll get upset.


T h e   T a b l e
                                            Value Points
   Team                  Manager            (GBPm)Wk Tot
 --------------------------------------------------------
 1 Norma Snockers FC      Sarah Bingham       54.7  6 392
 2 Inter Milandrover      Smasher             53.2 18 387
 3 Stay Poyet Stay!       Nick Reed           53.4 17 359
 4 Shamone Muddy FunkstersDave Clayton        53.8  9 339
 5 ADFC                   Adriana Chittelboro 53.7 -3 338
 6 Radnorshire Tigers     Alun Edwards        53.7 13 335
 7 Upmintster United      Minty Colquhoun     54.1  9 323
 8 BM Mingmongs           Neil McConaghy      53.8  5 322
 9 Sheep City             Martyn Field        54.5 -1 317
10 All Hail The Chairman  Rob Ivison          55.0 15 313

11 Livercoolio            Russell Bielby      54.1  4 309
11 Big Mally              Malcolm Pratt       54.7 11 309
13 Decimated Left Peg     Neil Jukes          53.8  3 307
14 Chi'Knees Czechers     Jirka Opatrny       55.0  4 303
15 Shivam's Sneakers      Shivam Mehta        54.9  9 291
16 Johnny's Heroes        Sarah-Jane John     54.6  9 287
16 Double's United        Rachel Jones        54.8 10 287
16 Lashings of Cheese     Chris Walsh         54.9  0 287
19 Phillham               Filip Vejdovský     54.3 11 285
20 Moreton United         Edgar Rayner        54.2 -1 279
21 Poyekhali              Lester Clark        55.0 10 269
22 Moobchester United     Jon King            52.4  4 268
23 Woolyback Town AFC     Guy Harewood        54.9  5 261
24 Real McDrid            Craig McHugh        55.0  5 254
25 The WWMC               Steve Tierney       54.2  3 251
26 Freddie's Dreamers     Francis Fox         55.0 11 248
27 RS T-Boy               Rick Beecroft       55.0  0 245
28 Irishpool              Mike Smears         54.0  4 239
29 Real Mannsdid          Dan Manns           55.0  8 227
30 Pathetic Athletic      Mark Weavers        53.7  0 222
31 Moanchester            Alex Blundell       54.8  6 220
32 Vonder Bramen          Alan Betteridge     49.5  4 212
33 Pompey Puss            Lionel Larking      55.0  0 199
34 It's A Snickers        Ashley Keeler       54.9  0 196
35 Wardy's Wanderers      Gavin Ward          54.5  9 189




                          Week's Average Points         6
                          Total Average Points        281