Gameweek 17

A tempestuous weekend of football, with added on time winners for Ipswich, Nottingham Forest and Man Utd…….. two managerial sackings, farewell Gary O’Neil and Russell Martin……….another new manager bounce well and truly deflated as Ruud VN watched his team concede four to Newcastle……….Kyle Walker’s inevitable slide towards the Saudi Arabian exit reached new farcical proportions……….Pep admitted “I am not good enough”……….we know how you feel mate, every Saturday and Sunday evening we look at our points score and feel much the same……..and we even had two completely unnecessary sendings off after the final whistle…….Cucurella, who has taken over from Anthony Gordon as the snappiest player in the league, had little impact in the Evie Dove League as he still managed to muster 5 points ……… but 13 of you felt the pain of the Ait Nouri minus two points as he was literally carried off the pitch!……….And the gameweek still rumbles on even now as we await the inevitable Matheus Cunha suspension for one of the bizarrest reasons ever seen in Premier League football……..stealing a security guards glasses………might as well have gone the whole hog and given him a wedgie as well!

We’ve also seen the launch of the MYSTERY CHIP too……we can use it from Gameweek 24 and it basically means once you activate it you can add one of the 20 Premier League Managers to your team for a stint of three consecutive gameweeks and accumulate points if their teams do well……..you will have to spend somewhere between £0.5m and £1.5m from your existing £100m budget, and if you want to you can use transfers to change the manager in each of the three gameweeks. More on that as we get to Gameweek 24 in early February.

Whilst we are talking chips, let’s cover that quickly……..in the Evie Dove League we had three wildcards from Zack Max XI, Corn on the Kobbie, and Eintracht Ealing……..please remember the time to use your first wildcard of the season is almost up……….. the last opportunity to play it will be Sunday 29th December at 13:30……. then everything resets and we all get a second one to activate at some point in the second half of the season……..so use it or lose it ………..unless of course you are aiming to bring down Cook Burns Johnson in the Clattenburg Trophy………in which case leave that chip alone and stay as you are!

A Free Hit from legends did not trouble Lucas team who remain the front runner for that cash prize……….other than that, only one more chip…….a bullish play from The Meggomix who along with over 100 teams in the Evie Dove League went with Mo Salah as captain…….. but also trebled up for a 15 pointer, helping them to accelerate at the top of the Evie Dove December league, opening up a gap to Ghost Monkeys and French Flair in second and third place. Two gameweeks to go over the Christmas break!

At the top of the league, the top three remain EnzOh No You Didn’t, Endo the Line, and Netflix and Chilwell, albeit the latter had a side hustle this week as they went all out for the ‘most points left on the bench title’………with minutes to go in the final match of the gameweek between Bournemouth and West Ham they were sitting on a massive 35 POINTS, courtesy of Lewis Hall (15 points), Mbeumo (9 points) and Fabianski (11 points)……….however a late Enes Unal free kick knocked 7 points off of the West Ham keeper leaving a total of 28 points in reserve……a valiant effort however Dontnowwhatimdoing remains in the lead on 32 points….good try Netflix!!

So onto Gameweek 17, your deadline is Saturday 21st December at 11:00, hopefully you can find a spare five minutes in the crazy pre-Christmas schedule to sort out your team and gun for a lovely green arrow! 

Have a good gamweek everyone, and all the best from all of us at the Evie Dove Foundation