2016/2017 Office Fantasy Football League

The marvellous Neil McConaghy is IN.  Neil, wearing a hopeful T. In spite of Wales' poor performance in the recent European Championships*, Neil decides to unashamedly hold his head up high and step forward with a welsh-flag-waving entry entitled Neil's Diamonds. "What?"  I hear you ask.  No Robson-Kanu†?  (The bastard love child of Bryan and Nwankwo?)  No. That particular Welsh striker is not in the Premiership Players List.  Why?  Well, He's Welsh, isn't he? Neil has pedigree... OFFL Champions in 2008 and OFFL Cup Winners in 2012.  Watch 'im.  'e means business. * Wales had an excellent Euro 2016 tournament performance † Scorer of possibly the best goal of the tournament Team Name: Neil's Diamonds 110 T Courtois GK CHE £4.1 234 A Cresswell FB WH £4.0 184 D Simpson FB LEI £4.0 289 R Shawcross CB STO £3.7 279 E Bailly CB MU £4.4 324 A Ramsey MF ARS £4.8 403 R Firmino MF LIV £5.0 457 M Arnautovic MF STO £4.7 484 C Eriksen MF TOT £4.9 523 A Sanchez S

The Return of Guess Hughton He's taunting you Yet he fails to hold any OFFL honours While Nick Reed galivants around the globe playing with remote control cars* his beloved Brighton & Hove Actually continue to fail to make the real-life Premiership cut.  However, breaking with tradition, this season they haven't sacked their manager allowing Mr Reed to avoid further creativity with his OFFL team name.  In turn, this allows Mr Reed to continue to play with remote control cars*. * these cars are not remote controlled.  They're not even close-controlled.  Baffling isn't it? Team Name:  Guess Hughton PIN Surname Pos Club Value 110 T Courtois GK CHE £4.1 218 N Taylor FB SWA £3.7 210 G Johnson FB STO £3.7 264 W Morgan CB LEI £4.1 238 L Koscielny CB ARS £4.6 477 G Sigurdsson MF SWA £4.6 478 D Alli MF TOT £5.0 333 J Ibe MF BOU £3.8 366 A Townsend MF CP £4.2 558 S Aguero ST MC £8.5 565 Z Ibrahimovic ST MU £8.0 Total 54.3

Chris Walsh becomes the first manager to submit a team into the 2016/2017 OFFL Season pot. Mr Walsh celebrates getting a team in before the season-starts Traditionally, the first team to be submitted in any OFFL season has a knack of coming up short on Long Term Positive Performance Potential. However, this year's first fantasy entrant guarantees abject failure by beautifully blending tradition with the fact that it has been submitted by manager Chris Walsh. FUN FACT: Chris's teams tend to be overshadowed by current RealSense colleagues' teams.  And by ex-colleagues' teams.  And by teams managed by people Chris has never worked with.  Even by teams managed by working folk whom Chris has never worked with. Also  by teams managed by the generally unemployable. Team Name:      Obi Wan Kenobi Nil Pos PIN Surname Pos Club Value GK 108 P Robinson GK BUR £3.0 FB 170 P Souare FB CP £3.5 FB 171 J Ward FB CP £3.5 CB 239 P Mertesacker CB ARS £4.4 CB 241 M Keane CB BUR £3.3 MF 413

The English Premier League is due to begin on 13 August. Thought we'd mention it. You can select your team using this little bit of help [xls download]... Select Your Team Spreadsheet If in doubt about anything you can always check out the rules .