Week 15 came and went as many others have this year with Tom Sand’s Prison Break FC strolling away with more points than you’ve had hot dinners. However, a couple of turn up for the books this week has resulted in only three teams in the top 30 getting over 50 points. Another good week from David Williams’ Muffin Stuffers with 56 points takes them up to a respectable 9th and only 25 points off the top 5 and 51 points from Luke Skidmore’s Bunchofslags sees him go up to 4th for the first time this year – however – the big point haul of the week came courtesy of Sick Chirpse’s own AMJ and his Dunblane Massacres as 67 points takes them to 7th – 7 points off Gavin Rapaport‘s Poo and just 61 points off the top.

You may not have taken any of the predictions into account for last week or you might’ve stuffed Adam Johnson and Sessengon in to the fray to double up your points – one thing’s for sure though – you didn’t think Norwich would win away but they did. Arsenal got back to winning ways as we said, Villa and Stoke drew 0-0 as we said – however Rafa managed to turn the tide for the Chelsea faithful with a 3-1 victory that seen Torres grow a dick. Michu bagged a couple but we were wrong about Norwich folding. Wigan and QPR did what they do best and the have QPR won yet twitter page keeps on trucking as expected. Utd took the spoils at the Etihad despite us predicting the draw. Everton win – we’re right. Fulham win 2-1 we are bang on the money. But we get the Liv/Hammers and Sunderland/Reading game wrong.

Here’s the results:

Sat 8 Dec 2012 – Premier League

• Arsenal 2 – 0 West Brom FT
• Aston Villa 0 – 0 Stoke FT
• Southampton 1 – 0 Reading FT
• Sunderland 1 – 3 Chelsea FT
• Swansea 3 – 4 Norwich FT
• Wigan 2 – 2 QPR FT 

Sun 9 Dec 2012 – Premier League

• Man City 2 – 3 Man Utd FT
• Everton 2 – 1 Tottenham FT
• West Ham 2 – 3 Liverpool FT

Mon 10 Dec 2012 – Premier League

• Fulham 2 – 1 Newcastle FT

Tue 11 Dec 2012 – Premier League

• Sunderland 3 – 0 Reading FT

BIG HITTERS

James McCarthy did this week what he has only managed once this season so far – he scored more than 2 fantasy league points in one week. The young Irishman managed an assist against Swansea in Week 10 but has otherwise done nothing but just turn up and play…until week 16. The Young Lactic’s midfielder put his side ahead on 19 minutes before trumping Harry Redknapp‘s and QPR’s first win of the season by equalising with his second goal in the 74th minute taking himself to a cool 12 points for the week and keeping The Hoops rock bottom. Snodgrass had another exciting week in his first season in the Premiership as he managed to squeeze 13 points into his fantasy football score and help steer Norwich to an impossible to predict win away at the Brittania Stadium. He scored the goal which was eventually deemed the winner as well as grabbing two assists to become the first player in the Premiership this season to assist two or more goals and score in the same game. Well done Snodders. Can you hear the drums Fernando? It has been a long time since they have been rumbling in the Premiership – in fact not since he made a brief appearance in Week 2 Fantasy football roundup and we recommended that you got shot of him as his goal scoring form might be up. It had in fact been a wonderfully embarrassing 12 hours and 30 minutes of Premier League football without a goal before his first of the weekend hit the net. He then knocked in his first penalty in English football followed by an acrobatic attempt at a hat-trick that ended up hitting the woodwork and setting up Juan Mata for Chelsea’s third. Torres’ cheeky 15 points makes him the high scorer of the week and makes Rafa Benitez look like he might be worth the money if he can claim back some of Torres’ 50 million in goals this year.

BIG SHITTER

He may have stopped some kid merking Rio, he may be the best keeper in England, he may join the the 100+ England Caps team in the future but he may have just cost Manchester City the Premier League crown. It’s very early on in the season I understand that but just as the 6-1 thrashing proved costly come the end of the season so may the 2-3 loss this weekend and Joe Hart has got to take a good portion of the blame. First and foremost, it’s worth pointing out that he was actually beaten 4 times by every shot on target but had one of them luckily struck off due to the assistant referee’s incompetence. Secondly Man Utd only managed to hit the target on a few occasions but each time they scored – that is not the showing of a Goalkeeper coming in as the most expensive goalkeeper in the fantasy league. His big fat 0 points in the fantasy league stats this week does not even go someway to describing how badly this man played. He looked flat-footed and uninterested for pretty much 90 minutes (94 maybe, don’t forget Fergie time). Here’s the YouTube clip of the weekend’s game including the old slug’s attempts at saving Rooney two cheeky goals and RVP’s Nasri inspired free kick:

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Here is the weekend’s fixtures in all their glory:

Sat 15 Dec 2012 – Premier League

• Newcastle v Man City 12:45
• Liverpool v Aston Villa 15:00
• Man Utd v Sunderland 15:00
• Norwich v Wigan 15:00
• QPR v Fulham 15:00
• Stoke v Everton 15:00

Sun 16 Dec 2012 – Premier League

• Tottenham v Swansea 13:30
• West Brom v West Ham 16:00

Mon 17 Dec 2012 – Premier League

• Reading v Arsenal 20:00

Big things to note down are that Chelsea are not here as they off winning the Fifa Club World Cup in Japan and as a result Southampton also don’t have a game. So if you’ve got Eden Hazard in as any sane person would get him out for two weeks and the same for Rickie Lambert if you are a Saints junkie.

Predictions:

Newcastle manage another goal against big shitter Joe Hart but Man City restore order with a Tevez masterclass. Liverpool struggle to beat Villa but scrape through just about. Man Utd quieten any resurgence of Martin O’Neill’s Black Cats with Rooney pulling the strings again. Norwich battle out a hard earned draw with Wigan. QPR draw again, this time with Fulham as their away form struggles to even eclipse QPR’s poor home form. Stoke do their best to pull Everton’s footballing ways out from underneath them but the Toffees sneak victory. Spurs beat Swansea at home despite Michu scoring, again, 2-1. West Brom return to winning ways at home to West Ham despite Kevin Nolan having a stormer. Reading and Arsenal don’t repeat the 7-5 game and the Arsenal players don’t accidently throw their shirts into the crowd at half time this time but Arsenal do win as they try and put the embarrassing loss to Bradford out of their minds.

Here’s the league as it stands boys:

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