Week 27 - Saturday

Another fantastic day of Premiership action brought loads of goals, a great win for Spurs & a lot of points as 7 of the players in my weekly picks post ended up in the top 11 points scorers for the week so far.

The day started at Villa Park as Wolves held Aston Villa to a 2-2 draw, with 2 goals for Carew, an own goal from Milner & 1 for Jody Craddock. Ashley Young grabbed great points but there was big disappointment for those who splashed the cash on Friedel.

I'd had Agbonlahor in my team until 10 minutes before the deadline, but saw the early team news on the Villa website saying he'd failed to even make the bench, so switched to Carew. I managed to alert people in the chatroom & I know some had time to make the same change...well done if you did!

Spurs beat Stoke 2-1 at the Britannia, which is a a result I really didn't expect as it's a horrible place to go. Gudjohnson & Kranjcar struck either side of an Etherington penalty, Stoke attempted to kick Spurs off the park & lost Whitehead after 2 late tackles on Modric, but it was a vital win.

Everton overcame Bolton 2-0 thanks to a brilliant Arteta freekick (brilliant points too) & a late Pienaar strike, with great clean sheet points for the whole Everton defence. Wigan snatched a last minute win vs Burnley, Rodallega with the goal & a superb 16 points from Kirkland, returning almost 8 times his cost.

Portsmouth threaten to give footballers a good name after their late fightback to beat Hull 3-2. How the players motivate themselves given their situation I really don't know, but it's great to see & O'Hara was at the heart of everything good. Sunderland beat Birmingham 3-1, although it could've been 4-3 to Birmingham if it wasn't for another outstanding performance from Craig Gordon. More goals for Bent, Jerome & Campbell.

The final game of the day saw Arsenal beat West Ham 2-0 despite playing over half the game with 10 men. A nightmare for Vermaelen owners, as he saw red after conceding a penalty, -9 points & a 1 game suspension. Denilson & Fabregas with the goals, Almunia with huge points thanks to his penalty save from Diamanti.

I end Saturday on 83 points, climbing up in to the Top 600 with 12 players (Terry (2), A.Jo (2), Malouda (2), Drogba (2), Warnock, Arteta, Milner & Carew) still to go, so it could be a very big week. It wasn't all good news however, as I dropped Drogba to stock up on Fulham & Wigan players on the barndoor for the double week...only to realise 10 minutes later that I'd made a mistake...

On Yahoo, Fulham are down to play their 2nd game of the week (vs Wigan) on Friday 2nd April, but after their victory over Juventus they will play Wolfsberg in the UEFA Cup on Thursday 1st April. The Friday league game will therefore be rescheduled, so it now looks like it will be a single week for all teams. Expect Yahoo to update their fixtures later in the week.

This realisation came too late for me, and there's no way I can afford to bring Drogba back in now, but based on reasonably easy games for Spurs & Man City next weekend, this is what I currently have saved on my team page for Week 28: Given, Bale, G.Johnson, Jordon, Arteta, A Johnson, Malouda, Kranjcar, Bendtner, Pavlyuchenko, Tevez

I'll need to keep an eye on Pav's hamstring injury which saw him subbed off after half an hour yesterday, I'm not certain to keep Glen Johnson although I do want 1 Liverpool player at home to Sunderland, I doubt I'll keep Jordon, but other than that I think the rest of my team could stay as it is barring injuries.

That'll do for today - really looking forward to Man United v Liverpool later on as I become a United fan for the day. I'll also be a Fulham fan as they face Man City, hoping for some favours to help Spurs in their race for 4th.

Let me know how you're getting on...how's your barndoor team looking?

Cheers,

AM