2007/2008 The Office Fantasy Football League

Week 39: And the Winners are....

2008-05-12T10:30:00.000-07:00

THE OFFICE FANTASY FOOTBALL LEAGUE

CHAMPIONS

2008

Big Mac's Mingmongs

Neil McConaghy

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THE OFFL CUP FINAL

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TriumphAnt 17 v 13 Livercoolio

[Ant Reeves] [Russ Bielby]

Well there we have it. It's all over. We can't be bothered with an end of season montage of all the best bits of the season. We're too exhausted. It's been a long one.

One that has finished with all Managers offering their congratulations to Neil McConaghy whose Big Mac's Mingmongs nearly passed the 500 point mark in their league victory. They win the Championship by a clear 17 points from Livercoolio who also just miss out on Cup glory to TriumphAnt.

TriumphAnt are indeed triumphant [pictured right]. And have therefore won the Shoot Annual. Congratulations Mr Reeves. Four points in it. That'll be those last minute transfers then.

And commiserations to Russ Bielby. Poor, poor Russ Bielby. So close. But twice a loser.

At the bottom, Rudolf Huckers managed to finally escape the wooden spoon by the bark of their teeth, scoring a Manager of the Week certificate winning 25 points, and lifting themselves off the bottom of the table for the first time all season.

So let's have a look at how our managers fared in the Manager of the Week certificate winning league... an entry into the Inter Toto Cup beckons.

MotW Table
We have a clear winner, the Pride of Wales, ...

1 Martyn Field (5)

2 Neil McConaghy (3)

2 Steve Tierney (3)

4 Alfred Bradley (2)

4 Francis Fox (2)

4 Mark and Maddy Weavers (2)

4 Matt Waldron (2)

4 Minty Colquhoun (2)

4 Rob Ivison (2)

4 Russ Bielby (2)

4 Sarah-Jane John (2)

12 Alan Betteridge (1)

12 Ant Reeves (1)

12 Edgar Rayner (1)

12 Gavin Ward (1)

12 Guy Harewood (1)

12 Hilary Straw (1)

12 Kate Wilson (1)

12 Mark Faulkner (1)

12 Mike Smears (1)

12 Oscar Bradley (1)

12 Paddy Mirams (1)

12 Smasher (1)

Other Useless StatsPick of the Season, based on Pts/£, is an Everton player this year. And a defender to boot. Step forward Mr J Lescott.

254 CB J Lescott EVE £4.0 62

397 MF C Ronaldo MU £7.3 107

308 MF A Young AV £4.1 56

299 MF C Fabregas ARS £4.5 55

457 ST E Adebayor ARS £6.6 80

312 MF G Barry AV £4.0 46

474 ST R Santa Cruz BLA £6.3 70

146 FB G Clichy ARS £4.5 49

267 CB W Brown MU £4.7 51

498 ST F Torres LIV £7.4 80

So congratulations if you picked any of these little blighters. Really though, it's about the points. As many as possible. So here are the top OFFL scorers in the Premiership League.

Top Scorers

397 MF C Ronaldo MU £7.3 107

457 ST E Adebayor ARS £6.6 80

498 ST F Torres LIV £7.4 80

474 ST R Santa Cruz BLA £6.3 70

535 ST D Berbatov TOT £7.7 65

254 CB J Lescott EVE £4.0 62

510 ST W Rooney MU £8.7 62

537 ST R Keane TOT £6.8 57

308 MF A Young AV £4.1 56

299 MF C Fabregas ARS £4.5 55

Strikers

457 ST E Adebayor ARS £6.6 80

498 ST F Torres LIV £7.4 80

474 ST R Santa Cruz BLA £6.3 70

535 ST D Berbatov TOT £7.7 65

510 ST W Rooney MU £8.7 62

537 ST R Keane TOT £6.8 57

485 ST C Tevez WH £7.2 54

509 ST Yakubu MID £6.9 53

463 ST G Agbonlahor AV £6.1 51

528 ST Benjani POR £5.7 48

Midfielders

397 MF C Ronaldo MU £7.3 107

308 MF A Young AV £4.1 56

299 MF C Fabregas ARS £4.5 55

369 MF S Gerrard LIV £5.2 54

342 MF F Lampard CHE £6.7 50

312 MF G Barry AV £4.0 46

384 MF Elano MC £3.8 40

380 MF M Petrov MC £3.5 37

388 MF S Downing MID £3.9 36

324 MF D Bentley BLA £4.3 36

362 MF S Davies FUL £3.6 31

Centre Backs

254 CB J Lescott EVE £4.0 62

270 CB R Ferdinand MU £5.0 54

269 CB N Vidic MU £5.1 53

267 CB W Brown MU £4.7 51

556 CB Alex CHE £5.1 44

259 CB J Carragher LIV £5.1 43

253 CB P Jagielka EVE £4.0 39

228 CB W Gallas ARS £4.6 38

243 CB J Terry CHE £5.7 37

244 CB R Carvalho CHE £5.4 35

Full Backs

146 FB G Clichy ARS £4.5 49

561 FB J Belletti CHE £5.0 49

193 FB P Evra MU £4.9 48

164 FB G Johnson CHE £4.8 42

163 FB A Cole CHE £5.1 39

148 FB B Sagna ARS £4.3 38

209 FB H Hreidarsson POR £3.7 32

179 FB A Arbeloa LIV £4.7 31

196 FB Geremi NEW £3.8 29

180 FB S Finnan LIV £5.2 29

Goalkeepers

122 GK J Reina LIV £4.6 48

118 GK T Howard EVE £3.8 38

129 GK E van der Sar MU £4.5 38

114 GK P Cech CHE £5.0 38

136 GK D James POR £3.7 32

102 GK M Almunia ARS £4.1 29

128 GK T Kuszczak MU £4.2 15

113 GK C Cudicini CHE £4.4 15

137 GK C Kirkland WIG £3.3 13

121 GK S Carson LIV £4.4 13

Week 38: The Penultimate Week

2008-05-05T10:30:00.000-07:00

As his correspondence will confirm, Francis Fox is losing his marbles. He firstly forgets to enter a team. Then he forgets to enter a team before the first round of the OFFL Cup. THEN he starts bemoaning the fact he didn't pick a particular player. And then, of course, he realises that, in fact, he did pick that particular player after all.

It's not the first time his sentience has gone somewhat awry. And neither, we’re sure, will it be the last. There are plenty of seasons left in the old boy after all. But it is this season that has seen Fox's Rudolph Huckers in last place ever since their arrival. And with one more week to go, the Huckers lie a mere 5 points adrift. The big question is 'will they avoid the wooden spoon?'. The small accompanying question is 'can the Studmarks team squeeze anymore mock excitement out of this particular stone of newsworthlessness?'.

If the levels of excitement over the last few weeks are anything to go by, we're certain the answer to both those questions is 'no'.

Meanwhile, up at the top of the league, Livercoolio are trying desperately to lunge for the line. They've knocked another 10 points off Big Mac's lead leaving another 10 points to make up. If the scores are level after the final week then we add up the values of all players past and present to determine the Points Per Pound difference over the whole season. In this case, Livercoolio would nick it [£106.2m < £118m].

Manager of the Week this week is Sarah-Jane John whose Johnny's Heroes reaped a stunningly adequate score of 27 points, securing [surely] mid-table mediocrity for the season.

And right now, this week, the final week, we're playing...

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OFFL Cup

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Final
Week 39

TriumphAnt[Ant Reeves] £54.5m v £54.6m Livercoolio[Russ Bielby]

It is, actually, quite exciting after all.

Week 37:

2008-04-28T10:30:00.000-07:00

Spying high we can see that Livercoolio continues to hone in on the Double. Narrowing the gap at the top to just 20 points, with only 2 rounds of league fixtures to go, it still doesn't look that likely. Which is why we're all staring at the OFFL Cup for blessed relief.

OFFL Cup
Final
Week 39

TriumphAnt v Livercoolio
[Ant Reeves] [Russ Bielby]

Manager of the Week is Alan Batteridge for his 8 point juice-squeeze from this week's Premiership fruit. Vonder Bramen benefits.

Highest climber, however, with an ascent of four places is Radnorshire Tigers who now looks out across the fantasy horizon from the lofty heights of twenty-third.

Week 36: OFFL Cup Semi-Final Results

2008-04-21T10:30:00.000-07:00

Managers of the Week are Ant Reeves and, yet again, Martyn Field. Both managers' teams score 19 points.

More significantly however...

OFFL Cup
Semi-Finals, Fixtures
Results, Week 36

Waldron's Wanderers 1 v 15 Livercoolio

TriumphAnt 19 v 16 Wonka FC

This sets up an incredibly exciting final between Livercoolio and TriumphAnt. Both managed, respectively, by larger-than-life characters, Russ 'Russell Crowe in Gladiator' Bielby and Ant 'Nothing like Keanu' Reeves.

The final is to be played in Week 39.

Week 35

2008-04-14T10:30:00.000-07:00

It's the squeaky part of the season according to Steve 'Great Face for Radio' Bruce.

And for us that means that time is running out for our Manager of the Week, Russ Bielby whose charges, Livercoolio, notched up a massive 29 points plonking them into a very strong second place in the league. This leaves a mere 24 points between themselves and Neil 'Surely He's Got It Sewn Up' McConaghy's Big Macs Mingmongs.

So, we have a new 'Can He Do The Double' man in our midst. Russ Bielby. The season could yet be his.

OFFL Cup
Semi-Finals, fixtures, to be played

Waldron's Wanderers Matt Waldron	v	Livercoolio Russ Bielby
TriumphAnt Ant Reeves	v	Wonka FC Neil Keefe

Yours,

The OFFL 'Exhausted By The Excitement' Headquarters

Week 34: OFFL Semi-Finals

2008-04-06T20:45:00.000-07:00

With over a month of fixtures left in the Premiership calendar we can see that a rather wide gap needs to be bridged. Yes, Rudolf Huckers are 27pts behind Book My Face FC and have been bottom of the league ever since joining us very late in the day. In fact, Francis Fox entered his team so late in the day that he didn't even make the OFFL Cup First Round. Which means his only objective for the season has been to not finish bottom. Which is where he's currently on target to finish. Shame. Shame.

Manager of the Week this week is Gavin Ward with his Marauding Metatarsals. His team of mediocre miscreants knocked together a respectable score of 22 points. Meanwhile, Oscar Bradley celebrated his Christening with weekly tally of minus 2. Shame. Shame.

Happy Birthday to Ant Reeves by the way, let's see who he's been drawn against in his OFFL Cup Semi-final...

OFFL Cup
Semi-Finals, fixtures, to be played

Waldron's Wanderers Matt Waldron	v	Livercoolio Russ Bielby
TriumphAnt Ant Reeves	v	Wonka FC Neil Keefe

Week 33: OFFL Cup Quarter-Finals Results

2008-03-31T10:30:00.000-07:00

Manager of the Week is Minty 'Always Moaning About Bent Being Bench Bound Every Bloody Blinkin' Week' Colquhoun. I know, it’s a name you couldn't make up. 24 points earns Upmintster United's Manager the certificate [not supplied] at last.

However, it's the Cup we're all talking about. Wondering if the seemingly inevitable has, in fact, been realised...

Sigh.

OFFL Cup

Quarter Finals, Results

Marauding Metatarsals '07	14	v	22	TriumphAnt
Abeerden	11	v	20	Livercoolio
Big Mac's Mingmongs	9	v	15	Wonka FC
Waldron's Wanderers	20	v	9	Olymping Macdrid

Amazing. The League's first and second placings get dumped out of the cup by their nearest rivals. Meanwhile, two Real-Sense boys make it through to the next round - a fine show from arguably the best Warehouse in Derby brand of football in the world.

Congratulations to Ant Reeves, Russ Bielby, Neil Keefe and Matt Waldron who make it through to the Semi-Finals of the Cup. They can just about smell the lacquered hard back of that Shoot Annual.

Week 32: Quarter-Final Build Up

2008-03-24T10:32:00.000-07:00

Manager of the Week is Martyn Field whose Sheep City scored a massive 27 points.

And this week coming, don't forget, sees the quarter-finals of the OFFL Cup being played out.

Lined up to be...

Marauding Metatarsals '07 v TriumphAnt

|Gavin Ward| |Ant Reeves|

Abeerden v Livercoolio

|Steve Tierney| |Russell Bielby|

Big Mac's Mingmongs v Wonka FC

|Neil McConaghy| |Neil Keefe|

Waldron's Wanderers v Olymping Macdrid

|Matt Waldron| |Craig McHugh|

In other words that's

16th v 12th
2nd v 4th
1st v 3rd
5th v 24th

How exciting is this?

Week 31: Needles

2008-03-17T10:30:00.000-07:00

The Chairman is face down dribbling onto the lino' again. The pins and needles have been replaced with just needles. Dr Yuetmui Chung's needles to be precise. With the recent passing of the 400 point mark by Neil McConaghy's Big Mac's Mingmongs, Our Holistic High Chairman has sort an even higher plane of well-being by trying out Dr Chung's Acupuncture credentials. Obviously this is a celebratory move aimed at commemorating McConaghy's achievement at such an early stage of the season.

Indeed the Champions Elect, as they look over their shoulder to see how well the competition is doing behind them, spy not even a chasing pack - which, as it happens, is sixty odd points behind a hill in the distance. The Mingmongs could even stop for a breather if they wanted, rest for a moment, handvisor their forehead to level their sight onto the horizon to just about make out the lone lanky figure of Steve Tierney, fist raised in the air, aimed and shaking at the runaway leader.

McConaghy could even afford to shrug his broad Welsh shoulders before continuing on trotting his seemingly unchallenged way to the Title.

There's no point carrying on really.

Acupuncture anyone?

Manager of the Week is Edinburgh's Rob Ivison whose Wife#3 netted 29 points and whose Son#1 burst into tears the very moment he caught sight of the Chairman at his front door in Morningside last week. 29 points, eh? That Frank Lampard doing most of the leg work as usual I suppose. Well done Frank. I mean Rob. Are we allowed to talk about the Astronomy business yet without spitting blood? Why not turn your hand to Astrology? Same business really isn’t it?

Cough.

Ooh, everyone... don’t forget, the OFFL Cup... Neil can't have this one in the bag too can he?

OFFL Cup

Quarter-Finals, Fixtures

To be played in Week 33

Marauding Metatarsals '07 Gavin Ward	v	TriumphAnt Ant Reeves
Abeerden Steve Tierney	v	Livercoolio Russ Bielby
Big Mac's Mingmongs Neil McConaghy	v	Wonka FC Neil Keefe
Waldron's Wanderers Matt Waldron	v	Olymping Macdrid Craig McHugh

At least we can rest assured that there will be a Neil in the next round.

Week 30: OFFL Quarter-Finals Fixtures

2008-03-14T04:37:00.000-07:00

Manager of the Week is Hilary Straw. 34 points. Launches her team, Straw Bucharest, into the top ten.

And while Pompey have practically won the FA Cup already, we look at how far Neil McConaghy's Big Macs have to go before he claims the Double.

OFFL Cup

Marauding Metatarsals '07	v	TriumphAnt
Abeerden	v	Livercoolio
Big Mac's Mingmongs	v	Wonka FC
Waldron's Wanderers	v	Olymping Macdrid

Week 29: OFFL Cup Results

2008-03-03T09:30:00.000-08:00

Not that life at the top of the OFFL table is getting stressful but there is definitely a distinct odour of desperation being distributed up there.

Inter Milandrover have rendered themselves spent far too prematurely again and Steve Tierney's Abeerden have just slapped the OFFL fetlocks with their last wad of transfers too. With the clock tick tocking its way through the weeks, there's not much room for error and a Mr McConaghy is already beginning to ask himself if he can do The Double. A feat only ever achieved once before. And that was by, yes, Steve Tierney, currently Mr McConaghy's closest rival [both pictured right].

Managers of the Week include the aged and decrepit Kate Wilson and the sensationally beautiful and sexy Mike Smears, irrespectively. Both managers steer their team to a healthy 19 points.

AND NOW..... [sponsored by Real-Sense]

The OFFL Cup

Waldron's Wanderers	15	v	2	Bangkok Burn FC
Johnny's Heroes	3	v	16	Marauding Metatarsals '07
Big Mac's Mingmongs	16	v	-1	Lionel FC
Windmill United	6	v	7	Livercoolio
West Vam	8	v	9	Olymping Macdrid
Wonka FC	9	v	3	Radnorshire Tigers
Decimated Left Peg	10	v	12	Abeerden
RS T-Boy	6	v	9	TriumphAnt

And what a match we had on our hands with Bielby's Livercoolio only just pipping colleague Walsh's Windmill United by a point to go through to the Quarter-Finals of the OFFL Cup. Sweeter news still for Mr Bielby is that another colleague, and nemesis, Rick Beecroft has crashed out of the cup after losing by just 3 points to an enormous ground-dwelling insect with an oil leak.

[Do you see what I did there? Do you?]

Congratulations then, go to Matt Waldron, Gavin Ward, Neil McConaghy, Russ Bielby, Craig McHugh, Neil Keefe, Steve Tierney, Ant Reeves.

Week 28

2008-02-25T09:30:00.000-08:00

Week 29 is upon us. And no-one in the cup has had the sense to do some Irish re-jigging in their effort to gain the Shoot Annual, this year's glamorous prize for lifting the trophy. Plenty of top teams still in there fighting it out with particular interest in Livercoolio's visit to Windmill Utd.

Meanwhile, we're two months into the year with a slipped disc and a new rear still preventing Our Wonderful Chairman from vertically and confidently stepping outside into the Great British climate that currently seems to be chasing Spring. This means He is unable to personally present Livercoolio's Russell Bielby with his second Manager of the Week Certificate of the season, for a score of 25 points.

We at Studmarks aren't really sure if anyone cares either way if we're honest.

But that's a pretty big if.

And as we consider that, this is what's happening...

OFFL Cup

Round Three, Fixtures
To be played in Week 29

Waldron's Wanderers	v	Bangkok Burn FC
Johnny's Heroes	v	Marauding Metatarsals '07
Big Mac's Mingmongs	v	Lionel FC
Windmill United	v	Livercoolio
West Vam	v	Olymping Macdrid
Wonka FC	v	Radnorshire Tigers
Decimated Left Peg	v	Abeerden
RS T-Boy	v	TriumphAnt

Happy Birthday to Steve Tierney

Week 26: OFFL Draw for Round Three

2008-02-11T09:30:00.000-08:00

There's been some good news and some bad news for Mark Faulkner (pictured left) this week. The good news is that his team's 16 point haul gives him his first Manager of the Week Certificate. The bad news is that it finally brings critical attention to his curiously spelled team name.

In the meantime, Alex Blundell's extremely late Moanchester Disunited have leapfrogged Beginning-Of-The-Season-Entrant Ashley Keeler's Book My Face. How long before the Rudolph Huckers of Francis Fox pass by the BMFers?

Highest Climbers are Faulkner's Al-Quaida and Alun Edwards' Radnorshire Tigers for each elevating a fine five places

OFFL Cup
Round Three, Week 29

Waldron's Wanderers	v	Bangkok Burn FC
Johnny's Heroes	v	Marauding Metatarsals '07
Big Mac's Mingmongs	v	Lionel FC
Windmill United	v	Livercoolio
West Vam	v	Olymping Macdrid
Wonka FC	v	Radnorshire Tigers
Decimated Left Peg	v	Abeerden
RS T-Boy	v	TriumphAnt

Derby's Real-Sense.com domination of the OFFL Cup suffers a blow as RS boys Walsh and Bielby go head-to-head while Waldron and Beecroft are drawn against high flying Guy Harewood's Bangkok Burn and Ant Reeves's TriumphAnt respectfully.

Week 25: Cup Knockout Results

2008-02-04T09:30:00.000-08:00

For some, the cup has lost much of its romance. For others, well, they haven't been knocked out yet. They're still in with a chance of winning the Shoot Annual.

And while Dennis Wise joins Kevin Keegan in the Newfarcical United set-up [pictured right] we can see that, just as comically, Gavin Ward has become Manager of the Week.

Yes, 38 points gained by Gavin's Marauding Metatarsals means that his team are also highest climbers by clawing up the table seven places. David Brentford FC, however, drunkenly slam against a wall and fall down six before falling into a deep snore-filled sleep.

It's going to hurt in the morning.

OFFL Cup

Round Two, Results


Bangkok Burn FC	37	v	9	Jordan United
Decimated Left Peg	27	v	23	Inter Milandrover
Alfletico Madrid	23	v	38	Marauding Metatarsals '07
Tat Mucker	4	v	21	Radnorshire Tigers
FC Pratto	15	v	34	Wonka FC
Big Mac's Mingmongs	25	v	15	Wife #3
Dube Stars FC	5	v	24	Windmill United
Top of the Norm	13	v	31	Livercoolio
Lionel FC	37	v	11	Muffins Revenge
West Vam	20	v	14	Straw Bucharest
RS T-Boy	25	v	12	Better Late Than Never!
Abeerden	31	v	12	Moanchester Disunited
Irishpool	18	v	23	TriumphAnt
David Brentford FC	4	v	25	Johnny's Heroes
Waldron's Wanderers	27	v	18	Sheep City
Al-Quaida	11	v	28	Olymping Macdrid

The big hitters seemed to have survived, apart from Inter Milandrover whose nail-biting defeat to Neil Jukes's Decimated Left Peg has left the fantasy world agog. Likewise Tom Vamos's West Vam's progression to the next round.

Congratulations therefore to: Guy Harewood, Neil Jukes, Gavin Ward, Alun Edwards, Neil Keefe, Neil McConaghy, Chris Walsh, Russell Bielby, Lionel Larking, Tom Vamos, Rick Beecroft, Steve Tierney, Ant Reeves, Sarah-Jane John, Matt Waldron and Craig McHugh

Week 24: OFFL Cup Knockout Commences

2008-01-28T09:30:00.000-08:00

Manager of the Week, somehow again, is Martyn Field with his Sheep City notching up a massive 4 points, leaving highest climbers Top of the Norm to shin up four places.

Oh yeah, you're playing. You're playing!...

Bangkok Burn FC	v	Jordan United
Decimated Left Peg	v	Inter Milandrover
Alfletico Madrid	v	Marauding Metatarsals '07
Tat Mucker	v	Radnorshire Tigers
FC Pratto	v	Wonka FC
Big Mac's Mingmongs	v	Wife #3
Dube Stars FC	v	Windmill United
Top of the Norm	v	Livercoolio
Lionel FC	v	Muffins Revenge
West Vam	v	Straw Bucharest
RS T-Boy	v	Better Late Than Never!
Abeerden	v	Moanchester Disunited
Irishpool	v	TriumphAnt
David Brentford FC	v	Johnny's Heroes
Waldron's Wanderers	v	Sheep City
Al-Quaida	v	Olymping Macdrid

Week 23: Transfertastic

2008-01-21T09:30:00.000-08:00

The gap gets smaller between the top two teams while the chasing pack start to drop off the pace.

Manager of the Week this week is Francis Fox - his team of Rudolf Huckers knock in an impressive 22 points to see themselves remain bottom [for the time being]. Highest Climber however is Mark Norman's Top of the Norm who shoot up four places leaving them still quite a while away from being able to replace the word 'Norm' with 'Table' in their name.

And finally, the African Cup of Nations coupled with the January Transfer Window has seen many of you managers attempt some personnel reshuffling. And so, right now, let me introduce some of your comedy turns...

Ladies and Gentlemen, please give a huge welcome to the stage for... [cut!]

Week 22: OFFL Cup Knockout Fixtures Announced - Nobody Really Cares.

2008-01-14T09:30:00.000-08:00

Manager of the Week is Steve Tierney with his Abeerden catching a large 26 point haul for the week.

Meanwhile we welcome a new manager, Francis Fox. His Rudolf Huckers re-enter the league with no hope of winning anything, yet plenty of promise in catching Ashley Keeler's Book My Face FC.

And while people discuss whether or not it's too soon for an inexperienced Shearer to join Keegan in managing Newcastle United, I realise that nobody actually pays any attention to this drivel do they?

I'll get me coat.

Paddy Mirams, falling, falling, falling. Minus 3, down eight.

OFFL Cup
Round Two, Knockout Competition
Fixtures, to be played in Week 25 [28th Jan - 3rd Feb]

Bangkok Burn FC	v	Jordan United
Decimated Left Peg	v	Inter Milandrover
Alfletico Madrid	v	Marauding Metatarsals '07
Tat Mucker	v	Radnorshire Tigers
FC Pratto	v	Wonka FC
Big Mac's Mingmongs	v	Wife #3
Dube Stars FC	v	Windmill United
Top of the Norm	v	Livercoolio
Lionel FC	v	Muffins Revenge
West Vam	v	Straw Bucharest
RS T-Boy	v	Better Late Than Never!
Abeerden	v	Moanchester Disunited
Irishpool	v	TriumphAnt
David Brentford FC	v	Johnny's Heroes
Waldron's Wanderers	v	Sheep City
Al-Quaida	v	Olymping Macdrid

If Then Else
In the event of a draw then the team with the better Points Per Pound ratio goes through. If this fails to produce a winner then we count the number of goals scored by the players. If that fails to divide the opponents then it's the team with the highest league position that goes through.

Week 21: OFFL Cup Knockout Stage Complete

2008-01-07T09:30:00.000-08:00

As the credits roll on yet another annual broadcast of Muppets in Space, Our Chairman sinks happily back into his love seat, legs asplay over each arm, pop corn falling from his slobbering mouth. And while he daydreams of Miss Piggy in that outfit she wore in the scene where she falls down the stairs in the Muppet house [about a third of the way through] he starts to slip into a fantasy filled doze.

He is only woken by a brave little umpa lumpa telling him to attend to the end of the group stages of the OFFL Cup. And while Gonzo, unlike E.T., decides against leaving his Muppet friends on Earth for a life with his own kind, some of you will be forced to face up to being left behind with the other failed muppet managers as the great big flashing happy Space Ship of OFFL Cup Success lifts off without you.

Anyone want to phone home?

[*Andy Straw attempts to hide his throbbing glowing finger behind his back with an embarrassed grin*]

Manager of the Week is Neil McConaghy of Big Mac's Mongmongs with a score of 25.

Week 20: Have a Fabio New Year

2007-12-31T08:22:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year to all of you managers from all of us here at OFFL HQ.

That'll do.

Martyn Field is the Manager of the Week with a massive, massive, weekly haul of 47 points. This shoves his team, Sheep City, up an incredible thirteen places. 47 points! Foof.

Surely that's enough to put the Sheep through to the knockout stages of the cup? What about the rest of you?

Week 19: Happy Christmas [for some]

2007-12-24T09:30:00.000-08:00

As the Chairman flicks another winter-burned bogey into the footwell of his chauffeur-driven Ford Mondeo he contemplates the past year. Unable to remember further than this morning's Breakfast TV phone-in on Pointless Christmas Presents and feeling like he's been playing extra time in a Quidditch tournament actually Sitting On an inserted Nimbus 2000 he gives up and returns to his drug-fuelled hallucination-filled pain relief that comes free with all post-haemorrhoidectomy debrief packs.

Ah yes, Christmas. And Christmas in the OFFL at that. It kind of blasts past you in a spasm of 'Match of the Days' and 'Out Of Office' replies. Only to coagulate in early January with the news that you've been unceremoniously booted out of the OFFL Cup by someone at the bottom of the table. It's enough to cause a sphincter-flinch of yuletide over-panic.

Well, whatever happens to you and your kin during this period of fun-filled festoonery may you all have a simply lovely time.

May 2008 be full of smooth saddles, comfortable cotton underwear and softly-tapered brown baguettes.

Enough of bottoms until the New Year wethinks. Or until the six-week check up review at least.

Managers of the Week this week are coincidental husband and wife Sarah-Jane John and Russ Bielby. In that order. Both hauled in 21 points for their respective clubs.

Week 18

2007-12-17T09:30:00.000-08:00

Right, Week 19's results start to count toward the OFFL Cup. Which means they'll start showing in the next edition of Studmarks.

Manager of the Week is Sheep City's very own Martyn Field. 19 points. Giving his team a boost of eight places in the league.

Must go: Week 19's results are already coming in.

Week 17

2007-12-10T09:30:00.000-08:00

Moanchester Disunited has finally joined the OFFL under a cloud of miserablism and whingevity. We welcome you Mr Blundell. Albeit cautiously. [I used to know someone called Albert Cautiously - Chairman]. Going for the cup only this year will help Mr Blundell limit the number of things he will doubtlessly have to grumble about. Though one does suspect that with just the cup to play for and with his team's imminent exit from it, it might just all come out in one big black blob of blubbersome bile. So we'll wait and see on that one.

O!Score's manager, Oscar Bradley, is [by quite some way] the Chairman's favourite Bradley in the league so far. Commentators put this presidential preference down to being purely based on the grounds that Oscar's the only Bradley that can't yet talk. Oscar celebrates this fact by clinching the Manager of the Week certificate after scoring a massive 26 points.

Highest climber this week is Rafa Russ's Livercoolio who leap up a massive seven places in the league to stand at Eighteenth.

And nobody look at Mark Faulkner's Al-Quaida who just fell over, in a drunken lurch, seven places downwards. Twenty-eighth.

Oooh, that's going to hurt in the morning.

Week 16: The OFFL Cup Is Upon Us

2007-12-03T09:30:00.000-08:00

With an astonishing midfield of Fabregas, Lampard, Gerrard and Elano; a very healthy ManU/Ars/Por/Eve defence setup; AND Tevez and Benjani up front, it's no surprise that Neil McConaghy's Mingmongs are seemingly running away with it right now. Stretching their lead over the chasing pack by at least 17 points, the rest of the league can almost make out a victory wiggle from those slim Welsh hips on the horizon ahead.

A timely reminder therefore, that it is marathon and not a sprint.

And let's face it... have you ever seen a Welshman with a wiggle ever win a marathon?

Well, have you?

No.

Manager of the Week this week is Matt Waldron. Waldron's Wanders notch up a large 23 points landing him the certificate ahead of fellow highest climbers [up five places all] Hilary Straw's Straw Bucharest, Rob Ivison's Wife #3 and Russell Bielby's Livercoolio.

And look, surely some sort of reward should be tossed out to Tom Vamos for scoring enough points to lift him off the bottom of the table. His West Vam climb TWO places!

It just doesn't get any more exciting [for him].

Oh yes it does...

The OFFL Cup

Current Champs: Neil Davis's Nellies Overpaid Convicts

Welcome to the Qualifying Round

Briefly:

1. Five groups of 8 teams, selected on the basis of this week's League positions.

2. Using the scores from Weeks 19, 20 and 21 the final positions of the teams in these groups decide whether or not they go through to the knockout stage of this most wonderful of competitions.

3. The bottom team of each group will exit the competition.

4. The three worst scoring 'second-from-bottom-placed' teams also exit the competition leaving a knockout tournament of 32 teams.

And don't forget, there's a Shoot Annual at stake [not 2008's though, cough].

You can view the groups by clicking here

Week 15

2007-11-26T11:30:00.000-08:00

While the Chairman counts his winnings from placing a 7-1 15-quid bet on the inevitable England debâcle self-destructing last weekend, our most wondrous leader considers the impossible odds that local bookies might have placed on Alfletico Madrid storming up the league a staggering eleven places this week.

Indeed, Alfred Bradley is Manager of the Week this week by steering his team to a massive score of 27 points. Remarkable stuff for one so young.

Meanwhile, new father Steve 'McClaren' Tierney climbs up to third in an attempt to set an example to his son. Thank goodness there are plenty of years ahead for the paternal disappointment to set in.

And here comes the cup...

NEXT WEEK...

Your team will be entered into a qualifying group from which you will want to escape in order to get into the knockout stage of the OFFL Cup. Get ready...

And as build ups go, that wasn't one of them.

Week 13 & 14

2007-11-19T11:30:00.000-08:00

Steve Tierney is Manager of the Week with a score of 23 points.

Week 12

2007-11-05T09:30:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday to Top of the Norm manager Mark Norman. Now in his 41st year, he seems to, at last, have a team in the top half of the league table. Mr Norman nets an impressive week tally of 14 but still doesn't come close to a remarkable Manager of the Week certificate winning 20 point haul from Guy Harewood's Bangkok Burn FC. Congratulations Guy.

Here's an interesting fact, did you know that Bangkok doesn't actually exist. The capital of Thailand is in fact Krung Thep. It hasn't been called Bangkok by the locals for nearly 230 years. Not even Wikipedia seems to know that one. And while we're ambling around the public park of uselessly useless information, did you know that there is an online Star Wars Encyclopaedia called Wookieepedia.

It just gets better and better doesn't it?

No.

Now, while the Chairman goes a-wandering round the Philippines for local [footballing] talent he leaves the league resting, shakily, on the precipice of the OFFL Cup competition.

It's really quite exciting.

Week 11: HAIL THE NEW LEADER

2007-10-29T10:30:00.000-07:00

Neil McConaghy finally hops to the top of the pile as Smasher fails to continue to press the pace. Ant Reeves, current champions, is sneaking up on the top two tusslers by jostling himself into third and within striking distance of his throne. Tom Vamos on the other hand also displays his season-upon-season consistency.

Managers of the Week are Mark and Maddy Weavers and Rob Ivison of David Brentford FC and Wife #3 respectively. 22 points apiece. Not bad, not bad.

Everybody stare at Mike Smears of Irishpool. 1 point. Down six places. It's like kicking an old man when he's down, isn’t it?

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And a Happy Birthday to Craig McHugh McScrimgeour. May his attempt to attend a Loopy performance on Wednesday the 7th November end pleasantly. I.e. by him changing his mind at the last minute cos he's noticed there's something more interesting on TV.

Week 10: Come On England!... Oh.

2007-10-22T10:30:00.000-07:00

A European Championship Tournament with an England team present is like asking for a poll-positioned Lewis Hamilton racing car with a sticky neutral gear.

Which has just been unknowingly topped-up with diesel.

With the brakes unseeingly jammed on.

All very exciting to begin with, with commentators bleating that it's not over till the cheerful-personalited lady sings but ultimately it'll all end in tears. Like the Rugby. Perhaps.

So, let us rejoice in the fact that it's all unlikely to happen.

Now we, at Studmarks, come to think of it, remember the last time the Chairman enjoyed a healthy summer without any heart murmurs was 1994. The World Cup In Which England Didn't Qualify. Ah yes, the good old days.

Hey, at least the Chairman isn't Welsh.

[Gasps of indignant shock from a quarter of the League]

And while the nostalgia kicks in, we see that this week's highest climbers are Mark and Maddy's David Brentford FC and 'Hunt and Peck' keyboard-Specialist Paddy Mirams's Muffins Revenge. Both teams clamber upwards six places.

Managers of the Week... oh that makes sense; managers Mark, Maddy and Paddy. Another folk group awaiting formation.

Everyone stare at birthday boy Craig McHugh... minus 2. Shame.

Week 8: MARATHON'S 100 POINT MARK PASSED BY SPRINTERS

2007-10-09T10:30:00.000-07:00

Last season's Week 8 saw Chris Nuttal's Chris Stool Poo Lice leading the title race on a score of just 93. And where did that team end up, I ask you?

['Nowhere' is the ostensible answer]

Meanwhile the eventual champs, Ant Reeves's Anticlimax, lay in Fourteenth with a mere 57 points.

This season, we see that three teams have already puffed themselves out by passing the 100 point mark carrying the very heavy back pack of Vain Belief [that they can win this competition]. It's a heavy load to carry. Particularly when you're trotting a little closer to the pace of a sprint than a marathon.

For it is indeed, a marathon.

Not a sprint.

Manager of the Week is Neil McConaghy of Big Mac's Mingmongs who scored a rather large 24 points. This pushes him ever closer to the top of the pile leaving his team to rest at second place. What a birthday treat for him to savour this coming Monday.

Highest climber this week is David Brentford FC, Mark and Maddy's team leap up seven spots to land at Nineteenth, slightly out of breath and with a lingering dizzying sensation.

Everyone stare at Gavin. Down seven.

Week 7: Dastardly Duo Drop

2007-10-01T10:30:00.000-07:00

It doesn't take much to rock the boat in Derby. Apart from a navigable stretch of water and, of course, a boat. But in bringing this tortured metaphor to a premature close I quickly add that it is usually a passing train that rocks the, erm..., warehouse?

No. 1 Hit In The Making

Indeed, the Real-Sense boys have turned into the Non-Sense boys and are at each other's spotty throats. A war of words broke out between RS T-boy's Rick and Livercoolio's Russ. A shame, seeing as the pair would have made a great pop-duet band-name together. However, whilst Rick 'n' Russ's ruck has ruined that risible rumination it has, however, spiced up the league table somewhat.

Eleven Goals

Whilst we hope the débâcle of the first paragraph has been forgotten, we here at Studmarks, salute the OFFL Powers That Be for bringing in an even-handed referee's decision to penalise both Managers for ungentlemanly conduct. A large point fine for each sees them suffering penance at the bottom of the table. In our opinion, they got off lightly - we saw the emails that were flying about! Shocking stuff. Enough to embarrass the Chairman's silver-haired mother into dropping a stitch.

Manager of the Week this week is spat-free Matt Waldron who guided his Waldron's Wanderers to 21 points.

Highest climbers lever themselves up ten places. And they are Matt Waldron, Gavin Ward, Malcolm Pratt.

And everybody look at Rob Ivison. His Wife #3 slips down nine.

A NEW LEADER, PANIC BUYING AND BIT OF TEXTUAL HARASSMENT

2007-09-24T10:30:00.000-07:00

It's not as if Our Great and Wise Chairman enjoys schadenfreude. Amusing himself at the thought of some people's misfortunes. Smugly sniggering at the silly slip-ups somebody else displays. Thigh-slappingly guffawing during a mid-air heel-click of whoopsome joy on his way to yet another lunch appointment. Taking much gleesome comfort from the calamitous catastrophes that others bring upon themselves.

GRAVY AND SPICES

But when they're served up on a plate with all the trimmings, gravy and spices he really does find it hard to resist. And that is, of course, why we love him so.

[And pause]

[Enter the sound of distant wind; a cold zephyr spinning some dried dead flora haplessly down the lonely old dust road]

[somebody at the back yawns]

And we all know that the moment a striker starts hacking up hatricks is the moment half the OFFL want a piece of him. Just before he breaks a nail and has to be sidelined for a year. But it's not the inevitability of the transfer scramble for Arsenal personnel that makes the Chairman smile. No.

A LITTLE STRAINED

It's the fact that an awful lot of competitive banter seems to fly around along with the transfers. Not least in Derby. Where the RealSense boys are finding things a little strained in that warehouse by the railway of theirs.

In fact it's got so bad that allegations of intimidation and bullying are rife. So bad, even, that one manager has 'ratted' on another.

Evidence has been provided to the OFFL of eBullying - a useful sort of intimidation that means you can hurt someone from a distance, over the internet, without really trying. [A deplorable activity, naturally].

BAR OF SOAP

So, in view of the available emails presented to OFFL HQ it has been deemed necessary to impose a Point Fine on one of our managers. The first Point Fine in two years. 30 points. Deducted. From Russ Bielby's Livercoolio.

Shocking.

The First Point Fine in Two Years, has it really been that long? Sigh.

Could that be why the Chairman is smiling?

Manager of the Week this week is Alfred Bradley for scoring 18pts for his Alfletico Madrid.

Highest climber this week is Mike Smears and his Irishpool who climb nine places with the biggest dropper being the Marauding Metatarsels. Down nine places.

Everybody stare at Gavin Ward.

Week 5

2007-09-17T10:00:00.000-07:00

There are two types of OFFL Manager. We have the highly knowledgeable 'MotD-rewinder' who have their finger super-glued to the pulse of the Premiership. And we've got the no-hope, no-care, doing it 'cos I was tol' to, drawing-pin-in-a-list-of-players kind of person.

Let me elaborate: after a successful brace of international victories (thanks to the heroics of a certain striker who was absent from most of last season's world cup tournament campaign) the OFFL, perhaps shockingly, see absolutely no transfer requests coming in whatsoever for Emile Heskey.

Is it because the average OFFL manager knows nothing of recent footballing phenomena? Or, is it because the average OFFL manager is so clued up that they knew Mr Heskey was going to be out for 6 weeks with a stubbed toe? Hmm?

Managers of the Week
Steve Tierney and Smasher
[who fall into the former category]
of
Abeerden and Inter Milandrover respectively
22 points

Not manager of the week... Paddy Mirams [who also falls - from a great, great height into the former category too]. Nil points.

Take the shame.

Week 3: A Week in Provence

2007-09-03T10:00:00.000-07:00

CROCODILE CUDDLING

Provence. So called because it was the First Province of Rome don't you know. Something like that anyway. In fact, the town emblem of Nimes is a crocodile cuddling a palm tree. Why? It was the badge of the third Roman Legion of Egypt, the veteran troops of which retired there.

SHORTER THAN AVERAGE

It's hard to really take in all the history of the surroundings when you're busy creating a complex cascade of croissant crumbs down one's ever-swelling belly. Pausing only to challenge shorter than average folk on their Umpa Lumpa qualities.

POLICE CONFUSED

The local Gendarmes weren't very understanding when the Chairman's explanation was partially described in loud and exasperated Franglais. But reports suggest that they actually thought the Chairman was trying to find out more about Pepin the Short. Father of Charlemagne. 714 - 768?

Anyone?

No?

Preposterous nonsense, surely.

Anyway, this is where you all stand in the gladiatorial arena that is known as the OFFL.

By the way, did you know that Arena comes from the Greek word for sand. Yes, really.

Well, that's what the Nimes Amphitheatre audio guide said.

Managers of the Week

Neil McConaghy and Edgar Rayner for scoring 17 points each for their Big Mac's Mingmongs and Shellbeej respectively.

Week 1

2007-08-20T10:00:00.000-07:00

While the administrative machine of the OFFL gets its annual service before spluttering into action and hitting the main highways and byways of the fantasy road system, The Chairman has decided to go on a recruitment drive for more Umpa Lumpas. This time, in France.

For some unfathomable reason, ever since the new TV contracts pumped in even more money into the game it's been extremely tricky to get the level of home grown Umpa Lumpaism required for the job. Overseas Lumpas are so much cheaper. And this year, after scrutinising many an Umpa Lumpa video sent by his scout Tyte Gripp, Our Chairman is ready to interview.

And so, while we peruse and admire our early League leaders, we shall await the return of the great Chairman later this month. In the meantime, the second tranche of teams have arrived and will be scoring away with the rest of you as soon as they can.

And just to keep the apathy at bay a little bit longer there are unconfirmed rumours that a special prize is being donated to the OFFL Cup Prize fund. And we think it might be a Shoot annual.

That's it. A SHOOT annual.

Carry on.

TRICKLE OF TEAMS TURNS INTO TORRENTIAL TIDAL WAVE

2007-08-14T13:00:00.000-07:00

Seasoned OFFLers on their holidays without internet access are ringing their hands in frustration at the thought of an OFFL season without them at the very start. Well, they would be if they'd had internet access to see that the league had started. But then that wouldn't work would it? Because they would then have been able to etc etc etc. At least they'll be grateful to have missed that rather contrived headline until later. I mean, what is a 'torrential tidal wave' really? Shoddy sub editing that's what that is.

In the meantime, it's purpose was to skew our attention towards the rush of OFFL managers taking advantage of the Score Now deal presented to the League by Our Most Gracious Chairman.

Now, if you find that you haven't made the deadline this week then fear not. Our current Champions won the league last season after entering three weeks late. I know, it still hurts most of you. So you're still in with a chance. A big chance. Get entering. NOW.

Download the friendly SelectYourTeam spreadsheet. Pick your team and send it in.

Simple.

Just like the League's current Champions.

Welcome to the OFFL Season 2007/08

2007-08-11T09:46:00.000-07:00

Are you ready to pick your dream team? [Left: Chairman's Dream Team]

Are you ready to get it booted back in your face when it goes horribly wrong? [Right: Chairman boots it back in someone's face]

Then you're probably ready for The Office Fantasy Football League Season of 2007/2008.

Well, are you?

Maybe you haven't studied Match of the Day in as much detail as you would have liked. Maybe you want to just see how things turn out for the next couple of weeks before committing to a team that is then restricted to 12 transfers for the rest of the season. Maybe, maybe, maybe.

But actually, you now have everything you need.

You have the players list, you have the rules.

You have £55million.

Now all you need is a funny team name and eleven players sent to me on the Very Helpful 'Select Your Team' spreadsheet.

As soon as your team is in, it starts scoring. Simple. Don't you think?

Well, don't you?

Get on with it then.

Oh by the way. Yes. That's correct. The Chairman Is Always Right.

It's time...

2007-08-11T08:01:00.000-07:00

There’s a rather muddy ditch by the side of a country lane that winds itself through the beautiful Yorkshire Dales.

It’s about a metre deep. A depth that is perfect for any discerning fugitive in which to lie down and steal forty much needed winks whilst keeping the lowest of profiles.

Well, it’s a perfect depth for most outlaws on the run, for sure. However, it seems that The Chairman’s ventripotent rotundity is once again some cause for concern.

Whilst waddling around searching for somewhere to lay his sweaty balding head, a deed made all the more tricky after misplacing his much loved braces, the Chairman was forced into diving for cover when a horse and rider rounded a corner up ahead.

The abandoned pair of slacks resting in a heap on the road momentarily prompted a curious cock of the rider’s eyebrow as she clip-clopped past but, thankfully, it wasn’t enough to influence a dismounted investigation.

You see, she would have easily spotted the heaving hump of the top of a hefty human belly filling the ditch next to her. And by the time she would have approached, there would have been a deep, rasping, spluttering snoring…

And so...

2007-08-11T08:00:00.000-07:00

It’s been a long cold, wet, pointless Summer.

Luckily that raid on OFFL HQ back in May had been badly timed by the authorities. Only moments before, the Chairman and his loyal Umpa Lumpas said their farewells and went their separate ways, dispersing around the country. Quickly, smoothly, without panic.

Leaving no traces of their previous presence.

Apart from a pair of over-stretched braces hanging on the back of the loo door and an empty crisp-packet on a coffee table by the photocopier.

But that was it…

And the Champions Are...

2007-05-18T03:36:00.000-07:00

There are few people more petite than 'Big' Ant Reeves. Indeed, when you first meet him you get this ineffable urge to slip your hands under his armpits and lift him up onto the nearest chair in order to aid the ensuing high-pitched interlocution. Well, this week we, at OFFL HQ, can hear his almost imperceptibly high voice cheering like a girly small thing, celebrating his second OFFL Championship.

Mr Reeves: congratulations. You played the long game perfectly. Even to the point of entering your team after everyone else had. Already rumours are eddying their way to the Studmarks Offices about teams mounting court appeals against the League for allowing such behaviour.

Not that that will take any of the shine off what has been a marvellous season. And, like last year, the Championship went right to the wire. Five points finally separated Champions Anticlimax from Olymping Macdrid with only 12 points separating the top four.

No suspicions whatsoever were aroused when someone worked out that Anticlimax was an Anagram of 'AC Milan Tix'.

Left licking wounds [their own] are the season's pretenders: Irishpool, Charlton Alfetic, New York Red Balls and Chris Stool Poo Lice all had weeks at the top but couldn't turn their sprints into the ultimate marathon.

Another exciting year.

Manager of the Week
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Ashley Keeler
Football
17pts

It's the Last Week and the imaginatively named 'Football' net their manager, who inexplicably isn’t called 'Manager' but is in fact called Ashley Keeler, 17 points ensuring that no wooden spoonage comes Birmingham's way this season.

That honour goes to Dynamo Ledbolok. Adrian Bradley's awful team of pathetic no-hopers. His wife and son both finish the season higher than he. Much higher in fact. Much, much higher. Reports of moody breakfast-times are unfounded.

Also to be ashamed are the rest of you under the 200 point mark. Andy Straw's Nuttingham Florist only just reaching the total in the final week doesn’t completely avoid this humiliation and neither should it. Shoddy management all round methinks.

And now!! [Distant Fanfare].

The OFFL Cup
Final
Result
w/c 7th May

Fund-a-Mentalist FC 3 v 11 Nellies Overpaid Convicts

And the 1990 World Cup Italia England Football Team Squad Esso Coin Collection goes to Neil Davis for thwacking Sarah Bingham in the gob for 11 points against her face-scratching 3.

The favourites not only lose the final to Nellies Overpaid Convicts but also see the Cup Winners leap ahead in the final league placings.

Console yourself, Sarah, with the knowledge that you'll be receiving the 1990 World Cup Italia Scottish Football Team Squad Esso Coin Collection.

That's probably not helping is it?

Week 35: The Penultimate Week

2007-05-11T09:35:00.000-07:00

What with the penultimate week seeing no continuation of the catching up of places Three and Four, it seems the head to head run off between Olymping Macdrid and Anticlimax goes into the final week unchallenged, with Anticlimax enjoying a two point lead and a better Points per Pound difference.

And breathe.

Next Week, Craig MacHugh McScrimgeour needs to steer his team to a score that is better than Anticlimax's by 3 points in order to stop Anthony Reeves from claiming his second Championship title.

Meanwhile, the destination of the cup will also be decided this week. Sarah Bingham, our most successful female manager this century, tries to pinch the nipples of Neil Davis before kicking him in the apex and running off screaming 'grape' and hoping to get away with it. The Esso Coin Collection destination awaits its new home.

Manager of the Week this week is Anthony Reeves of Anticlimax with 14 points. One more certificate winning week this season and he'll be crowned with that big ol' Championship Trophy. We wish.

Also of note this week, Dynamo Ledbolok reclaim the bottom spot from arch rivals Defoe King Ballacks. It seems the wooden spoon is being as hotly contested as the main prize.

Come on Scooch.

2007-04-30T10:25:00.000-07:00

Hello and welcome to the all new OFFL website. Look, it's easier this way. Makes it look like at least some progress has been made. Anyway.