The New Year’s fixtures have been completed.
Here are the latest standings.

On this page:
Premier League // Championship // League One // League Two
Gameweek 21 // The Belyea // The Big One

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Team of the Week:
Gloopy Yarbles (3^rd time this season)
64 Points

Score of the Season:
Hung Like a Bony – 87 FPts (GW7)

Game of the Season:
Smash & Grab 70 – 61 Gloopy Yarbles (GW6)

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Premier League

😲 Eye-Catching Stuff:
• Gloopy Yarbles destroy the league leaders with the score of the week.
• Farkelife defeat R57, pull level on points.

🫣 The One to Watch:
Gloopy Yarbles -v- Route 57 FC – 2nd -v- 5th
GW 3: 48 – 46 // GW 12: 53 – 48
Gloopy have won the last three meetings by five matchpoints or less. First place beckons for the home team, but expect a top-three shake-up if Route 57 launch a comeback next week.

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Championship

😲 Eye-Catching Stuff:
• Cullen the herd slip up against jinx team Hung LaB.
• Substitutes Ferguson and Collins bring on a point each to turn a draw into a Spray win.

🫣 The One to Watch:
Hung Like a Bony -v- Vanishing Spray FC – 5th -v- 1st
GW 3: 56 – 23 // GW 12: 41 – 29
After winning both of their previous encounters, can Hung LaB take three points from the league leaders for the second week in a row?

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League One

😲 Eye-Catching Stuff:
• De Bruyne Trousers lose to the only team that outscored them this week.
• Uncle Monty takes advantage of the two De Bruyners losses, leapfrogs up to second.

🫣 The One to Watch:
De Bruyne Trousers -v- CG XI – 3rd -v- 7th
GW 3: 38 – 35 // GW 12: 44 – 40
Agony for CG XI last time as Tsimikas was unable to get off the bench with 15 points going to waste. They’ve given us two very close meetings already in the first half of the season, and this promises another great matchup when we return.

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League Two

😲 Eye-Catching Stuff:
• Goleta wins the Hotspur derby.
• Top two win to cling on to their places.
• Olise and Eze score big for both Woy and Shams army.

🫣 The One to Watch:
Harambe Hotspur -v- The Phenoms – 4th -v- 1st
GW 3: 37 – 69 // GW 12: 42 – 41
A big clash at the top next week with Harambe three points below their opponents, The Phenoms hoping to put some distance between them and two teams between them also watching for the outcome of this game. Last time out Harambe had two subs come on for a combined 1 matchpoint; The Phenoms lost with 8 matchpoints unavailable on the bench. Ouch.

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🌎 World Rankings 🌍

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Next Up:

Gameweek 21

BFFA Premier League	BFFA Championship
Barons -v- El Dude Bros 10th -v- 3rd GW 3: 61 – 41 // GW 12: 35 – 45 Farkelife -v- Housewives Favourite 6th -v- 1st GW 3: 27 – 38 // GW 12: 45 – 30 Gloopy Yarbles -v- Route 57 FC 2nd -v- 5th GW 3: 48 – 46 // GW 12: 53 – 48 Smash & Grab -v- Boss 4th -v- 9th GW 3: 44 – 33 // GW 12: 39 – 27 Sporting Wicker Park -v- Mighty fine feeling 7th -v- 8th GW 3: 32 – 54 // GW 12: 56 – 42	A.F.C. Chester -v- Webuiltthis City 10th -v- 3rd GW 3: 16 – 26 // GW 12: 51 – 67 Allison Wonderland -v- GoFysFC 9th -v- 8th GW 3: 56 – 35 // GW 12: 36 – 42 Cullen the herd -v- Atletico Topo Chico 2nd -v- 7th GW 3: 71 – 54 // GW 12: 43 – 28 Fergi Time -v- All Star Gunners 6th -v- 4th GW 3: 54 – 37 // GW 12: 42 – 31 Hung Like a Bony -v- Vanishing Spray FC 5th -v- 1st GW 3: 56 – 23 // GW 12: 41 – 29
BFFA League One	BFFA League Two
BattleVAR Galactico -v- Peltier 5th -v- 1st GW 3: 55 – 48 // GW 12: 29 – 56 Chicken and Bane San -v- East Loop United 6th -v- 8th GW 3: 57 – 51 // GW 12: 48 – 46 De Bruyne Trousers -v- CG XI 3rd -v- 7th GW 3: 38 – 35 // GW 12: 44 – 40 Uncle Monty -v- StillluvQPR 2nd -v- 9th GW 3: 53 – 37 // GW 12: 35 – 20 Whiskey De Bruyne -v- FC Santa Barbara 4th -v- 10th GW 3: 29 – 16 // GW 12: 36 – 25	Don’t Tripp on Silva -v- Alleviate the Tedium 8th -v- 5th GW 3: 29 – 19 // GW 12: 20 – 55 Harambe Hotspur -v- The Phenoms 4th -v- 1st GW 3: 37 – 69 // GW 12: 42 – 41 Jaysokker -v- Shams army 2nd -v- 9th GW 3: 50 – 36 // GW 12: 56 – 38 Ole’s at the wheel -v- Goleta Hotspur 6th -v- 3rd GW 3: 36 – 38 // GW 12: 27 – 24 SkyPlayerInFPL BFFA -v- Boudi’s Crew 7th -v- 10th GW 3: 56 – 51 // GW 12: 61 – 24

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The Belyea Cup

Welcome back to The Belyea Memorial Cup, ‘Rewarding Excellence in Its Many Forms’, where everyone is a winner (except one).
The game is simple – if you get the best score of the remaining teams, you escape.
Each week at least one team gets out, sometimes more, because they are excellent!

▲ You get up to 38 gameweeks to remove yourself from consideration. ▲
▼🏆▼ The last team to be eliminated… gets the Belyea Cup. ▼🏆▼
If there’s more than one team left after the final gameweek then they all, you know, jointly receive this unique award!

Once again, we brush aside a few previous winners to find our highest-scoring remainers. This week’s escapees are…Farkelife with a superb 54 matchpoints.

In Week Twenty-One: 18 teams –
Barons, Housewives Favourite, Route 57 FC, Sporting Wicker Park, AFC Chester, Allison Wonderland, Fergi Time, Vanishing Spray FC, BattleVAR Galactico, CG XI, FC Santa Barbara, Uncle Monty, Whiskey de Bruyne, Boudi’s Crew, Harambe Hotspur, Jaysokker, Ole’s at the wheel, The Phenoms.

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The Big One

On top of hosting a league for the BFFA faithful, we are also involving some unsuspecting stars of the game in our classic league. This week, we said we were going to go from one Patrick to another, via a brief pre-season overlap at Middlesbrough FC. Ladies and gents… Mr. Paddy McNair.

Unfortunately we find ourselves this week introducing another celebrity currently recovering from injury. McNair left the field just 35 minutes into last month’s game against Yorkshire rivals Leeds United away at Elland Road. He’s missed the last eight games over the busy Christmas period nursing a back sprain, but has been using his time wisely by managing his FPL team – Bclare.

He is currently mid-table in a league of 34 past and present Boro’ players. Next week, we will include one of McNair’s former managers, a player that was lucky enough to have had two spells at his favourite club before taking on various coaching roles for Boro. He was, like McNair, once Middlesbrough FC Player of the Year, so was a popular signing when he was offered the job as Head Coach in 2019. He won the Championship Manager of the Month award in December 2019, but was let go the following summer after a poor run of form. Following that he had a brief spell managing AFC Bournemouth, again winning a Championship Manager of the Month award, but soon returned to The Riverside as First Team coach. Find out next week who he is and how Llamas 11 are getting on this season!

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Happy new year!
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