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Premier League // Championship // League One // League Two
Gameweek 9 // The Belyea // The Big One

Team of the Week:
Cullen the herd
69 Points

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

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

Premier League

Championship

League One

League Two

🌍 World Rankings 🌍

This week’s headlines:

World Rankings – Top 5 this week:
#1) Mighty fine feeling – 1893.88
#2) Smash & Grab – 1885.11
#3) Cullen the herd – 1814.13
#4) Route 57 FC – 1809.29
#5) (▲1) Housewives Favourite – 1782.20

Biggest Win:
CG XI: +46.49 points
After beating Sporting Wicker Park ^#5

Most Places Climbed:
CGXI: +9 places to 41^st

Next week’s League highlights:

Biggest pairing:
Mighty fine feeling^#1 vs. Gloopy Yarbles ^#7
(Combined 3669.75 points)

Closest matchup:
Hung Like a Bony ^#14 vs. Fergi Time ^#17
(16.97 points difference)

David vs Goliath Game of the Week:
Don’t Tripp on Silva^#70 vs. Jaysokker ^#34
(310.50 points difference)

Best Streak:
Chicken and Bane San (WWWWWW)
GW9: vs. Uncle Monty (WWWLWL)

Next Up:

Gameweek 9

BFFA Premier League	BFFA Championship
Barons -v- Farkelife 8th v 9th Boss -v- Housewives Favourite 10th v 3rd EL Dude Bros -v- Route 57 FC 7th v 2nd Gloopy Yarbles -v- Mighty fine feeling 4th v 6th Smash & Grab -v- Sporting Wicker Park 1st v 5th	A.F.C. Chester -v- Vanishing Spray 10th v 1st All Star Gunners -v- GoFys FC 9th v 8th Atletico Topo Chico -v- Webuiltthis City 7th v 2nd Cullen the herd -v- Allison Wonderland 4th v 6th Fergi Time -v- Hung Like a Bony 3rd v 5th
BFFA League One	BFFA League Two
BattleVAR Galactico -v- CG XI 4th v 9th Chicken and Bane San -v- Uncle Monty 1st v 3rd East Loop United -v- Peltier 5th v 6th FC Santa Barbara -v- StillluvQPR 10th v 8th Whiskey De Bruyne -v- De Bruyne Trousers 7th v 2nd	Alleviate the Tedium -v- Boudi’s Crew 6th v 10th Don’t Tripp on Silva -v- Jaysokker 7th v 3rd Harambe Hotspur -v- Ole’s at the Wheel 5th v 4th SkyPlayerInFPL BFFA -v- Goleta Hotspur 9th v 2nd The Phenoms -v- Shams army 1st v 8th

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!

For the first time this season the week’s topscoring team have already left, so this week’s exit goes to Alleviate the Tedium with the best score in League Two. 55 and fine.

In Week Nine: 31 teams – Barons, Boss, El Dude Bros, Farkelife, Gloopy Yarbles, Housewives Favourite, Mighty fine feeling, Route 57 FC, Sporting Wicker Park, AFC Chester, Allison Wonderland, Atletico Topo Chico, Fergi Time, GoFYS FC, Vanishing Spray FC, Webuiltthis City, BattleVAR Galactico, CG XI, Chicken and Bane San, East Loop United, FC Santa Barbara, Peltier, Uncle Monty, Whiskey de Bruyne, Boudi’s Crew, Goleta Hotspur, Harambe Hotspur, Jaysokker, Ole’s at the wheel, SkyPlayerInFPL BFFA, The Phenoms.

The Big One

It’s the BFFA Big One. The tried and tested (albeit inferior) traditional form of English Fantasy Football that requires each manager to build a team with a budget of £150,000,000. These teams must have no more than three players from any PL club, excessive transfers are penalised by point deductions, and everyone gets a Haaland (if they want one). Every team also gets to pick a Captain and there are bonus chips to play across the season – a Bench Boost, a Free Hit (unlimited transfers) and Triple Captain points. This is a classic-style fantasy league, open to all BFFA managers past and present.

For the first time this season, golden wonders Smoky Bacon Athletic skipped to the top the league after a monster 75 fantasy wotsits, thanks to big scores from the real McCoys Raheem Sterling and Mo Salah. Fellow Oxfordshire scamps – the cool original Rover Cowley FC – also passed the beef & mustard with a 74, aided by Sam Johnstone between the Crystal Palace chipsticks. The unfrazzled Gloopy Yarbles are keeping the league nice ‘n’ spicy with a 65 and moved up into second place, while sensations Jaysokker and Ampadu-du-du showed that they still have enough NikNaks between them to remain within grabbing distance at the international break.

On top of hosting a league for the BFFA faithful, we are also involving some unsuspecting stars of the game. This week’s guest is ex-Chelsea and Aston Villa goalscorer Tammy Abraham. Now at AS Roma, he is enjoying the city lights of Italy’s capital city, sometimes from within the Olimpico di Roma itself. However, due to an injury in June he’s been attending solely as a spectator this season. He is due to return sometime next month, but in the meanwhile he is honing his managerial skills on FPL. Tamaraebi already used his Triple Captain chip in Gameweek Six, meaning that Haaland’s goal against Forest was worth 18FPts for Ta9smoke. They’ve not been playing too well so far this season, still 5^th of 5 in the AS Roma League and 21^st tonight here, but the season is still young and there are plenty more twists to come (hopefully not to Abraham’s knees…)

When we return we will shifting from Roma to Rome and Away, and we will segway there via a story about a cool Thursday evening at Wembley in November 2019. It was the 57th minute in a European Championship Qualifier, England were 5-0 up and Gareth Southgate decided to rest Harry Kane and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain. The Ox had scored the opener in the eleventh minute and Harry had netted a first-half hat-trick. They were replaced by Tammy Abraham alongside our next celebrity guest, making his senior England debut.
Prior to that international call-up, they had played together three times, all for the England Under 21’s (plus twice more where they were exchanged in substitutions). At the senior level they have played against each other five times, each scoring once against the other, most recently when Abraham scored the winner in the Europa Conference Semi-Final (the tournament which they later won against Feyenoord in Tirana).
Our next guest has played 171 games in the Premier League, scoring 45 times and creating 39 assists, including one this weekend. He has won the FA Cup and the Community Shield, plus he was voted Player of the Year at his two previous clubs. He has two Premier League monthly awards too – the September 2020 Goal of the Month for a 25-yard strike away at Man City and, more recently, the August 2023 Player of the Month.