Houdini

Olga Carmona who scored the winning goal was told after the match that her father passed away two days earlier. Condolences go out to her, can't even begin to imagine the range of emotions that she must have felt today.

That was quite the debut from the most expensive player in English football history.

Revenge for Spain! After stamping on someone's back Lauren James needn't have bothered returning.

13 minutes added on time :lol:

Gut feeling says England will win. This is the chance for Spain to get the ultimate revenge for getting knocked out of last year's Euros though.

Friday 18th August Nottingham Forest 2-0 Sheffield United (20:00) Saturday 19th August Fulham 1-0 Brentford Liverpool 3-0 AFC Bournemouth Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-2 Brighton & Hove Albion Tottenham Hotspur 1-2 Manchester United (17:30) Manchester City 2-0 Newcastle United (20:00) Sunday 20th August Aston Villa 1-1 Everton (14:00) West Ham United 1-2 Chelsea (16:30) Monday 21st August Crystal Palace 0-1 Arsenal (20:00)

Let's be real, you would hope that happens regardless.

Standings at the end of Gameweek 1: Main league 1. Dobbo - Mounting a Challenge 79 pts 2. Mack - Mackington United 76 pts 3. Sarah - MarshoUnited 75 pts 4. awardinary - Mount Evraest 59 pts 5. Houdini - Party Tricks FC 44 pts 6. Herbs - Herbilore 43 pts 7. PeteFromLeeds - Not Caspian Terns 35 pts Head to head league 1. Dobbo - Mounting a Challenge 3 pts (1 win, 0 draws, 0 losses) 2. Mack - Mackington United 3 pts (1 win, 0 draws, 0 losses) 3. Sarah - MarshoUnited 3 pts (1 win, 0 draws, 0 losses) 4. AVERAGE 3 pts (1 win, 0 draws, 0 losses) 5. awardinary - Mount Evraest 0 pts (0 wins, 0 draws, 1 loss) 6. Houdini - Party Tricks FC (0 wins, 0 draws, 1 loss) 7. Herbs - Herbilore 0 pts (0 wins, 0 draws, 1 loss) 8. PeteFromLeeds - Not Caspian Terns 0 pts (0 wins, 0 draws, 1 loss) Gameweek 1 results: Not Caspian Terns 35-75 MarshoUnited, Party Tricks FC 44-64 AVERAGE, Herbilore 43-79 Mounting a Challenge, Mount Evraest 59-76 Mackington United Gameweek 2 fixtures: MarshoUnited Vs Mount Evraest, Mackington United Vs Herbilore, Mounting a Challenge Vs Party Tricks FC, AVERAGE Vs Not Caspian Terns

Just need Haaland to get a season ending injury next!

^ Two pieces of bad news right there

That was a poor performance from us against Wolves. We were lucky to win to be honest, they dominated the match and it's wasteful finishing in front of goal that stopped them from getting anything. If they continue to play like that for the rest of the season they'll be nowhere the relegation zone by the end. As for us we must do better in future but getting the 3 points was the minimum we could have asked for so that is a positive.

This Week's Results: 1st King Rollo, Houdini 25 pts 3rd Suedehead2 18 pts 4th Dobbo 17 pts 5th LewisGT 16 pts 6th awardinary, Rooney, Sarah, Steve201 15 pts 10th Mack 13 pts 11th Flatcap 10 pts Standings: 1st King Rollo, Houdini 25 pts 3rd Suedehead2 18 pts 4th Dobbo 17 pts 5th LewisGT 16 pts 6th awardinary, Rooney, Sarah, Steve201 15 pts 10th Mack 13 pts 11th Flatcap 10 pts Well done to King Rollo and myself on winning this week. Thank you to everyone who took part this week.

Fixtures (All kick of times are 15:00 BST unless stated otherwise) Friday 18th August Nottingham Forest Vs Sheffield United (20:00) Saturday 19th August Fulham Vs Brentford Liverpool Vs AFC Bournemouth Wolverhampton Wanderers Vs Brighton & Hove Albion Tottenham Hotspur Vs Manchester United (17:30) Manchester City Vs Newcastle United (20:00) Sunday 20th August Aston Villa Vs Everton (14:00) West Ham United Vs Chelsea (16:30) Monday 21st August Crystal Palace Vs Arsenal (20:00)

The last 4 matches between Chelsea & Liverpool in the Premier League have all ended as a draw. We'll see if that streak continues today!

Which team is that?

Saturday 12th August Arsenal 3-0 Nottingham Forest (12:30) AFC Bournemouth 1-1 West Ham United Brighton & Hove Albion 1-0 Luton Town Everton 1-1 Fulham Sheffield United 0-1 Crystal Palace Newcastle United 2-1 Aston Villa (17:30) Sunday 13th August Brentford 1-0 Tottenham Hotspur (14:00) Chelsea 1-1 Liverpool (16:30) Monday 14th August Manchester United 2-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers (20:00)

Friday 11th August Burnley 0-2 Manchester City (20:00)

I probably might not do well in Gameweek 1. I was planning on sorting out my team properly today but work has f***ed things up for me so I can only rely on Auto-pick now :no:

Gameweek 1 deadline is tomorrow 6:30 PM UK time. That would be the deadline to enter the head-to-head league, but the main league will be open for anyone to join throughout the season as that is based on overall fantasy points totals rather than individual head-to-head scores.

1. Manchester City 2. Manchester United 3. Arsenal 4. Liverpool 5. Newcastle United 6. Chelsea 7. Aston Villa 8. Brighton & Hove Albion 9. Tottenham Hotspur 10. Fulham 11. West Ham United 12. Burnley 13. Crystal Palace 14. Brentford 15. Bournemouth 16. Everton 17. Wolverhampton Wanderers 18. Nottingham Forest 19. Luton Town 20. Sheffield United Points total for the champions: 90 Top scorer: Erling Haaland Player of the year: Bukayo Saka First manager to get sacked: Sean Dyche It's hard to imagine anyone but Manchester City winning the league this season but I would personally rather see anyone but them winning it which would be an unprecedented 4th in a row in English top division football. I don't think there will be much change to last season's top 4 but can see Newcastle dropping out of it this time, think the days of Liverpool being the closest challengers for the title are gone now. Chelsea should be much improved compared to last season but not expecting them to do anything crazy in the league. Tottenham will underwhelm once again especially without Harry Kane in their team. I think Burnley will have a good season with Vincent Kompany as the manager and will easily be the highest of the newly promoted teams. The relegation places were really hard to predict this time, there's about 5 or 6 teams that could easily get relegated and are all interchangeable but I've gone with Nottingham Forest, Luton & Sheffield United. It's gonna be another season of struggle for Everton and I think Sean Dyche is likely to be the first manager to get sacked.

Julen Lopetegui has left Wolves and former Bournemouth manager Gary O'Neil will take over. All this before a ball is kicked and we're playing them on Monday!

It's Japan's tournament to lose I think. They've been smoking everyone left right and centre.

First trophy of the season goes to Arsenal after winning the Community Shield on penalties. How many more trophies will they get this season?

You can sign me up also. Going for two in a row!

Alfa Romeo: Zhou [Q]vs Bottas [R] Alpha Tauri: Ricciardo [Q, R] vs Tsunoda Alpine: Gasly [Q, R] vs Ocon Aston Martin: Alonso [Q, R] vs Stroll Ferrari: Leclerc [Q, R] vs Sainz Jr Haas: Magnussen vs Hulkenberg [Q, R] McLaren: Norris [Q, R] vs Piastri Mercedes: Hamilton [Q, R] vs Russell Red Bull: Verstappen [Q, R] vs Perez Williams: Sargeant vs Albon [Q, R] Pole Position: Max Verstappen Winner: Max Verstappen Fastest Lap: Max Verstappen