Talbot's House

This year’s fantasy league was one of intense competition, with echoes of Manchester City’s last-gasp title winning 2011-12 season about it, as Ben Nesseler ultimately claimed the Fantasy League Crown, winning by a marginal 3-points.

Despite a strong early showing from James Siu’s imaginatively named “JamesS”, that had many bookies tipping the side as the title-favourites, “JamesS’” luck soon began to change and with a string of poor points tallies towards the end of the campaign, they finished a disappointing 9^th place overall; shades of David Moyes’ Manchester United about them. After the initial table-topping start from “JamesS”, the real competitors soon began to distinguish themselves from their lesser counterparts, with Ben Nesseler’s appropriately and rather annoyingly named “Lonely At The Top”, James Loewenthal’s “Loewe XI” and Aaron McNally’s “Hugo Rodallegabomb” hovering around the top spots. It wasn’t until around halfway through the season though that “Hugo Rodallegabomb” or “Dyslexia Untied” as they were then called, emerged as a true powerhouse of fantasy football, gaining a lead that reached well above 120pts from their nearest competitor and taking them virtually out of sight from the rest of the pack. Whether Aaron was lulled into a false sense of security, or whether he was simply embarrassed for the other teams having amassed this absurd lead we shall never know, but some neglecting of his responsibilities as manager

during the final weeks of the campaign and some inspirational tactical changes from “Lonely At The Top” closed the gap to just 18 points by the final game-week. Ultimately, it all came down in the end to a brilliant change of goalkeeper by Ben Nesseler, as by swapping Arsenal’s Wojciech Szczęsny for Tottenham’s Hugo Lloris, Ben gained the additional 6 points needed to snatch the crown away from top-spot stalwart, Aaron McNally. Congratulations to this year’s winner, Ben Nesseler after a fantastic fantasy league season. Honourable mentions of course go to Mik Glik’s “The Greatest Team” and Mr. Gracie’s “Team Thalweg” who finished in fourth and fifth place respectively.

Aaron McNally