Week 39: LATE RUN EXCITEMENT

The Office Fantasy Football League Championship Winners 2012:

Inter Milandrover, Smasher

The Office Fantasy Football League Cup Winners 2012:

BM Mingmongs, Neil McConaghy

The Office Fantasy Football League Championship Runners Up 2012:

Norma Snockers FC, Sarah Bingham

The Office Fantasy Football League Cup Runners Up 2012:

Shamone Muddy Funksters, Dave Clayton

Like a tardy blob of paint just under the coving, Norma Snockers FC had a late run and doubled Inter Milandrover's week's score.  However, Inter Milandrover only just managed to hang on to win win win the OFFL Championship by a mere 3 points.

It's been an interesting season

That's the gnat's whisker they're always banging on about isn't it?

Indeed it is.

After a lame Championship victory back in 2000, Inter Milandrover's Manager has been unable to add anything of note to his pointlessly capacious trophy cabinet until finally, after eleven years of retrying, he managed to lunge past Norma Snockers FC to pinch the title away from what would have been the first female winner since Clare Colwell back in year 1, nearly 20 years ago. So we, here at Studmarks, heartily congratulate both Smasher and Sarah Bingham for 'the fight to the end'.

It truly was a marathon and not a sprint.


OFFL Cup Final

Shamone Muddy Funksters  6  v  8  BM Mingmongs

2008's League Champions' Manager, Neil McConaghy, has also been coming under pressure lately for not steering his charges to any further silverware [cardboardware] for the club.  Well, that pressure has largely been lifted by lifting aloft his lovely looking new OFFL Cup Winners' Prize [courtesy of Craig McHugh of Real Macdrid] the 1975 All Stars Football Book. Indeed, his BM Mingmongs only narrowly beat Dave Clayton's Muddy Funksters by 2 clear points to earn his team the OFFL Cup.  Mr Clayton, however, will console himself with the coaster-I-mean-CD of Football Anthems.

Thank you to Craig McHugh, last year's OFFL Cup winner, for donating this year's prize.

Manager of the Week for the final week is Mike Smears.  His Irishpool netted 11 points lifting themselves into joint twenty-third in the table. Congratulations, Sir.

Sort of.

Other issues of note should include the Manager of the Week Certificates table.  Here we see that Alun Edwards, OFFL winner in 2009, romp ahead of the rest for what it's worth*, 6 certificates over the season.  How, indeed, come did you not win anything?

* nothing. It's worth nothing

MANAGERS OF THE WEEK
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6 - Alun Edwards
5 - n/a
4 - n/a
3 - Adriana Chittelborough, Sarah Bingham
2 - Jirka Opatrny, Jon King, Minty Colquhoun, Neil McConaghy, Nick Reed, Russell Bielby, Shivam Mehta, Smasher, 
1 - Dave Clayton, Edgar Rayner, Filip Vejdovský, Lionel Larking, Mark Weavers, Mike Smears, Neil Jukes, Rachel Jones, Rick Beecroft, Rob Ivison, Sarah-Jane John
0 - Malcolm Pratt, Martyn Field, Chris Walsh, Lester Clark, Guy Harewood, Steve Tierney, Alex Blundell, Craig McHugh, Francis Fox, Alan Betteridge, Ashley Keeler, Dan Manns, Gavin Ward


Weeks at the Top
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26 - Norma Snockers FC, Sarah Bingham
 6 - Inter Milandrover, Smasher
 4 - Shivam's Sneakers, Shivam Mehta
 2 - Sheep City, Martyn Field

Wooden Spoon: Gavin Ward of Wardy's Wanderers.  Relegated.

T r a n s f e r s   a n d   s t u f f
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Norma Snockers FC
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   From: Sarah Bingham
     To: Chairman@LittleSmasher.com
Subject: 


One last ditch attempt at glory!!!


I WANT TO WIN!!  DADDY, I WANT A SQUIRREL!!!!!


OUT 442  MF   G Bale     TOT  
IN  450  MF   S Pienaar  TOT 


Thank you Sir! x


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Chairman responds:
Erm... you're too late, I'm afraid. Deadline missed.  And as I check... yes, you would have ended up on exactly the same points as Inter Milandrover.  But if it's of any comfort you still would have lost on PpP.  By £0.2m. Shame.  No, really.



T h e   T a b l e
                                            Value Points
   Team                  Manager            (GBPm)Wk Tot
 --------------------------------------------------------
 1 Inter Milandrover      Smasher             54.1  4 488
 2 Norma Snockers FC      Sarah Bingham       54.9  8 485
 3 Stay Poyet Stay!       Nick Reed           53.4  3 445
 4 Radnorshire Tigers     Alun Edwards        53.7  7 440
 5 Shamone Muddy FunkstersDave Clayton        54.4  6 438
 6 Livercoolio            Russell Bielby      53.6  5 417
 6 BM Mingmongs           Neil McConaghy      53.8  8 417
 8 All Hail The Chairman  Rob Ivison          55.0  8 402
 9 ADFC                   Adriana Chittelboro 53.7  6 393
10 Chi'Knees Czechers     Jirka Opatrny       55.0  3 392

Week 38: The Penultimate Week

Good grief it's tight. With a mere 7 points in it, Inter Milandrover have just one more week to secure-clasp the title from Norma Snockers FC.  Cunningly, I'll say that again: cunningly, manager Smasher seems to have used up his last transfers to bring in as many of the Knockers' team as possible.  But will this dastardly trick work?  Only the final week will tell us.  Only 7 points in it.


After the miserable performance of his favourite team in the FA Cup final on Saturday [no, it really wasn't a goal] Russ Bielby comforts himself with a thumb in his mouth [his] and a crinkly cuddle-up to his second Manager of the Week certificate of the season. His Livercoolio scored a large, large, large 30 points. 


Meanwhile, Russ's friend and Real-Sense representative, the reprehensible Chwis Ralsh's Lashing of Cheese jumps into the top half of the table by climbing five places into fifteenth.  Nice one.


And so, what have we here...?


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The OFFL Cup FINAL


Shamone Muddy Funksters   v   BM Mingmongs
Dave Clayton                  Neil McConaghy


These two teams are 5th and 7th respectively and only have three players in common.  G Bale TOT, R Van Persie ARS and S Aguero MC.


So, these are the players battling it out, position for position. 


Shamone Muddy Funksters   Lge Pos:  5   BM Mingmongs      Lge Pos:  7
Dave Clayton                   Points   Neil McConaghy         Points
---------------------------Val   New    ---------------------Val  New
PIN Pos  Name          Team (M) Total   PIN Pos Name    Team (M) Total
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110 GK P Cech           CHE 4.8   6  v  119 GK J Reina   LIV 4.2  14
187 FB D Simpson        NEW 3.3   0  v  185 FB J Enriqu  NEW 3.4  11
148 FB B Sagna          ARS 4.3   0  v  182 FB P Evra    MU  5.2  50
288 CB G Caldwell       WIG 3.2   0  v  230 CB G Cahill  BOL 3.5  11
247 CB V Kompany         MC 4.5  53  v  237 CB P Jagiel  EVE 3.9  25
586 MF J Mata           CHE 4.8  11  v  374 MF D Silva   MC  4.9  24
452 MF R Van der Vaart  TOT 5.8  45  v  298 MF S Nasri   ARS 5.2  35
350 MF C Dempsey        FUL 4.4  60  v  453 MF C Brunt   WBA 4.2  20


One of you will be taking home the 1975 All Stars Football Book. One of you, the Anthems.  


The rest, you leave with nothing.


*ginger wink*



T h e   T a b l e
                                            Value Points
   Team                  Manager            (GBPm)Wk Tot
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 1 Inter Milandrover      Smasher             54.1 23 484
 2 Norma Snockers FC      Sarah Bingham       54.9 22 477
 3 Stay Poyet Stay!       Nick Reed           53.4 24 442
 4 Radnorshire Tigers     Alun Edwards        53.7  1 433
 5 Shamone Muddy FunkstersDave Clayton        53.8 29 432
 6 Livercoolio            Russell Bielby      53.6 30 412
 7 BM Mingmongs           Neil McConaghy      53.8 23 409
 8 All Hail The Chairman  Rob Ivison          55.0 13 394
 9 Chi'Knees Czechers     Jirka Opatrny       55.0 21 389
10 ADFC                   Adriana Chittelboro 53.7  6 387