What a nuisance.
It’s not as if we serious Fantasy Football Addicts don’t
have enough to consider. When choosing between players, we might want to take
into account their overriding stats (the hundreds that there are to choose
from), the player’s history, their temperament, their team’s long term and
short term fixtures and form. We can watch a lot of football and gauge a more intrinsic
understanding of how well individuals are actually playing.
We have to consider how prone players are to injury, fixture
pile-ups and rotation risk.
On top of this, our players may be subject to unexpected red
card, FA cup replay weekends, double gameweeks, freak goalkeeper performances,
missed penalties, bad weather, own goals and one-off terrible performances.
It’s an absolute nightmare trying to make ‘the right
decision’.
Now we can add ‘annual leave’ to the endless thanks so
Brendan Rodgers and Raheem Sterling. Apparently the manager had always planned to give the lad a break this winter.
Footballers are not supposed to go on
holiday during the season! They are similar to teachers in this respect. We
rely on them! We need them to help retain our fantasy football sanity.
This week I will now be sullenly following the BBC rolling
feed and hoping for clean sheets; the most stressful aspect of the fantasy
football team to rely on. My first substitute, Alan Hutton, will now keep my
nerves high for the entire 90 minutes if he has any hope of fetching me fantasy
returns. I hate waiting for clean sheets. Maybe I would be better off if all of
my defenders just conceded early on; it would take the pressure off.
But god, I hope they don't!
As I walked around London reading the match preview today, even adverts I walked past seemed to be mocking my Sterling decision.
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