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The Dugout Discussion – Saturday

A trio of three o’clock showdowns continue Saturday’s proceedings before we drop in on Stamford Bridge for the evening encounter.

Palace host Southampton at Selhurst Park, with the likes of Adam Lallana and Rickie Lambert hoping to spoil the hosts’ clean sheet. Norwich entertain Stoke at Carrow Road – Robert Snodgrass will carry the Canaries’ attacking threat as John Ruddy and his defence attempt to register a fifth successive shut-out in front of their own fans. Finally, the bottom two go head-to-head in Wales, as Cardiff and Fulham attempt to clamber out of the drop zone.

Those matches lead us up nicely to the concluding match of the Gameweek, where league leaders Chelsea entertain Spurs at the Bridge. Leader of this week’s Captain Poll, Eden Hazard, carries the armband hopes of many as Jose Mourinho’s side look for a win that would stretch their lead at the summit to seven points.

As always, you can look to our Twitter feed for news of today’s teamsheets, while our Dugout Discussion chatroom is now open and will accompany you through today’s matches right through until the last kick at the Bridge.

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  1. Schürrle Class
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    10 years, 6 months ago

    Sherwood is a complete twat of a manager

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    1. Schürrle Class
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Great top page comment 🙂

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    2. 7shadesofsmoke
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      i really don't like him much either, but that is harsh. He's done a decent enough job

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      1. Schürrle Class
        • 10 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        What he has done with Eriksen has been a complete mess up though? In my opinion Eriksen is the best midfielder at Spurs, right?

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        1. 7shadesofsmoke
          • 11 Years
          10 years, 6 months ago

          yeah, he looked excellent in terms of his play in possession, but he doesn't work much off the ball and perhaps that's the reason.

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        2. Give The Todd Some Love
          • 12 Years
          10 years, 6 months ago

          He's injured. He only dropped him for a couple of games

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  2. Lawrø
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    10 years, 6 months ago

    Although I have Schurrle(c), Hazard, Adebayor and no defensive coverage for either team... As a Liverpool fan I would love a 0-0 😀

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    1. joinho
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      What was your shirt all about on football focus today!?

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    2. asdasdasdadasdasda
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      yup
      are you a fan of Lawro of BBC and liverpool?

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  3. Willis.
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    10 years, 6 months ago

    This ref really likes to blow

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  4. Willis.
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    10 years, 6 months ago

    I don't know why Hazard doesn't dive more often. He's a natural diver. He won like what, 10 pelanties last season? Don't recall him winning a single pelanty this season. It's a shame has lost that part of his game.

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    1. onionbarje
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      i hope you're being sarcastic

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    2. Boss Hogg
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      You are joking right?

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    3. The Sarjeant
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      No it's not...

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    4. Mílanista
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      • 13 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      This must be the first successful trolling you've done on here in months.

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    5. ★FC Borecelona★
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Your Daily Mail recent comments are amazing

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      1. Coaly
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        just looked, kudos

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    6. Malcolm Tucker for England …
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      I agree, but nice that younger players like Oscar and Januzaj aren't letting the old ways go

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    7. isacki: full casual
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      You are a legend.

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    8. 7shadesofsmoke
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      i always think of the film Antz when i see this grav.

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    9. Cilly Bonnolly
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      • 13 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Stop trolling.

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  5. The Sarjeant
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    I've got Azpilicueta in FPL and Terry and Ivanovic in UFPL, watch Cahill score!

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  6. Dr Dream
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    Missed kick off...where exactly is Walker supposed to be playing ?

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    1. Give The Todd Some Love
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Wing. But he's playing all over really

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    2. Poseidon. Not arrogant, jus…
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Right mid, Wakey.

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      1. Dr Dream
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        Interesting...I hope he does well.

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        1. Poseidon. Not arrogant, jus…
          • 11 Years
          10 years, 6 months ago

          I think it's a one-off. Probably wanted to double up on Hazard but Hazard seems to be drifting around in a sort of free role.

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    3. tm245
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Commentators called him a rover a few minutes ago.

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      1. Dr Dream
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        He's a what ?...moving to Blackburn ?...GET IN!!!

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    4. 4-4-who?
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      right wing

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  7. SuperOsçarBaby
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    this game need some brazillians player from both team

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    1. Mílanista
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Ramires and Sandro?

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    2. Malcolm Tucker for England …
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      That sentence needs some grammar

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    3. MattysFantasyFooty
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Ramires and Sandro are playing are you even watching the game?

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      1. SuperOsçarBaby
        • 12 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        oscar and paulinho are the real deal

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    4. Give The Todd Some Love
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      There are Brazilians playing for both sides! It's weird how all of your posts are wrong

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      1. isacki: full casual
        • 13 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        He's actually the world's best at wrong posts

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        1. Give The Todd Some Love
          • 12 Years
          10 years, 6 months ago

          He's incredibly consistent

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  8. Wilshere Knowledge
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    This is why Mou destroys football.

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    1. SuperOsçarBaby
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Mourinho invented football

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        1. MattysFantasyFooty
          • 11 Years
          10 years, 6 months ago

          Toparse link me his team please

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          1. FACUPARSE
            • 11 Years
            10 years, 6 months ago

            Don't have it somebody posted it last week and he disappeared.

            Ince (c)

            😆

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    2. onionbarje
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      but it gets him trophies, unlike a certain man who is a 'specialist at failure'

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      1. SuperOsçarBaby
        • 12 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        BBHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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      2. Poseidon. Not arrogant, jus…
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        A man who made a team go 49 games unbeaten and provided Champions League football in every season he's been at the club is no specialist in failure.

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        1. onionbarje
          • 13 Years
          10 years, 6 months ago

          Arsenal are a top club capable of winning trophies, they always seem to start of well but they always seem to drop of in the new year and end up winning NOTHING. Maybe he will win the FA Cup but even then it will take him another 9 years to win another trophy.

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          1. FACUPARSE
            • 11 Years
            10 years, 6 months ago

            Go away donkey

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            1. onionbarje
              • 13 Years
              10 years, 6 months ago

              save that insult for Giroud

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              1. GunsnRoses
                • 12 Years
                10 years, 6 months ago

                Giggs ?

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                1. onionbarje
                  • 13 Years
                  10 years, 6 months ago

                  no OnionBarje here

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              2. FACUPARSE
                • 11 Years
                10 years, 6 months ago

                Scored 18 goals more than all Chelsea forwards

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                1. onionbarje
                  • 13 Years
                  10 years, 6 months ago

                  And that is a great achievement, but at the moment it isn't helping you getting higher than Chelsea in the league table isn't it?

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            2. SuperOsçarBaby
              • 12 Years
              10 years, 6 months ago

              let me remind you

              http://www.sincearsenallastwonatrophy.co.uk/

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          2. Wilshere Knowledge
            • 11 Years
            10 years, 6 months ago

            He should have won something in those years for sure, but he still did a remarkably consistent job considering he had his best players taken from him every year.

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            1. onionbarje
              • 13 Years
              10 years, 6 months ago

              true but i do think he needs to aim higher than getting 3rd/4th place every season, more so after spending so much money on Ozil

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          3. Poseidon. Not arrogant, jus…
            • 11 Years
            10 years, 6 months ago

            Says who? Why will it take another 9 years? They've been there or thereabouts for a long time now and they're going to be in a much better place over the next 9 years than they have been the previous 9. Let's not forget the budget he's been working with over the past decade compared to the likes of City, United and Chelsea. I'm no Arsenal fan but I think you and Mourinho need to take in the bigger picture.

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            1. onionbarje
              • 13 Years
              10 years, 6 months ago

              i am not a CHELSEA FAN

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              1. Poseidon. Not arrogant, jus…
                • 11 Years
                10 years, 6 months ago

                Ok, just Mourinho then. 😀

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      3. Wilshere Knowledge
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        There are other managers who have own trophies recently that have done it without spending millions upon millions to play like Crystal Palace.

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    3. Willis.
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Because he's tactically apt?

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  9. tm245
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    Sandro with a screamer.

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    1. Schürrle Class
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Trolololol

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  10. Schürrle Class
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    How does this transfer to do after tomorrow FA Cup match sound?

    Eriksen -> AJ

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    1. GunsnRoses
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Eriksen -> Anita is also good

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      1. Schürrle Class
        • 10 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        Cheers. Do you think that my transfer getting in Livermore for Pozuelo this week was a good one? I got him for the DGW and he is really nailed on

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  11. Pablitto
    • 14 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    and natural of course 😉

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    1. Boss Hogg
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      What the hell are those?!

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    2. GunsnRoses
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      😮

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  12. Lizard Lips
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    Had Hazzy scored we could be watching a cracker now.

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    1. Give The Todd Some Love
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Nah. Chelsea would have shut up shop and we'd be in another snooze fest

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  13. 4-4-who?
    • 14 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    I'd take 0-0 here today.

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    1. FPL Notebook (John)
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Definitely

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  14. GST
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    How about this for a DGW team......

    Cech

    Kolorov Azpi. Coleman. (Chambers Ward)

    Mirallas. Gerrard. Hazard. Silva. (Lallana Colback)

    Lukaku Aguero Suarez

    1m in bank 0FT

    I don't think there's much could be improved without taking a hit.

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  15. FPL Notebook (John)
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    What sort of scores are we looking at today guys?

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    1. Boss Hogg
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Dreadful ones.

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    2. MarkyMarkovic
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      25-30 imo

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    3. Dr Dream
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Rubbish..but not as rubbish as my rival, so job done.

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  16. laGan1n1
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    Eto'o on 3 bps lel

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  17. FPL Daniel
    • 15 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    Still can't get over that Chambers breakdown 🙁 For a hit too

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  18. isacki: full casual
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    10 years, 6 months ago

    There's a lot of people who want Sherwood to do well because they think tactics are overrated and people who don't rate him are pretentious, but ultimately I think the truth comes out when you are asked: do you want him managing your club?

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    1. MattysFantasyFooty
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Pretentious- "Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed."

      You aren't using pretentious in the right way. I also don't think people are being pretentious towards someone they don't know, but I could also consider myself being pretentious for informing you in the correct way. I am sorry for being pretentious.

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      1. isacki: full casual
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        10 years, 6 months ago

        A bit hasty going with the first definition on Google tbh, particularly given it is commonly used in this way.

        Cambridge Dictionary, for example:
        pretentious
        › trying to appear or sound more important or clever than you are, especially in matters of art and literature:
        http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/pretentious

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    2. The Light Knight
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Can Norwich fans answer this?

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      1. isacki: full casual
        • 13 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        😆

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  19. Chucky
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    Pass it to Schurrle you twerp

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  20. Willis.
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    Matic is a big lad

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    1. Give The Todd Some Love
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      My grandad's dog was called Big Lad. True story

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      1. Cilly Bonnolly
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        • 13 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        I once knew someone who had a dog called Barry.

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  21. GST
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    Why did 11,000 people take out Mirallas ahead of a DGW with great fixtures ?

    What do they know that I don't ?

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    1. McEwan
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      No game this week, dropped last. Not the worst knee jerk tbh

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  22. Give The Todd Some Love
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    Ramires has clearly been raiding Torres' wardrobe with that batman mask

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    1. Kudo Warrior
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Zorro! 😀

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  23. PGR
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    Do you guys think Aguero will start next weekend after playing Barcelona midweek?

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  24. Parm
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    How many times are Chelsea going to fall for that Spurs high line?

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    1. Epic Fail
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      7

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  25. 4-4-who?
    • 14 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    What does a good score look like this week?

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    1. Epic Fail
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      7

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    2. Redhulkster
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      41 - the baps and Cahill hazards score after I saved a transfer 😀

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  26. Somalion
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    10 years, 6 months ago

    Wonder how Chelsea will cheat their way out of this.

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  27. Kudo Warrior
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    What comes after 6?

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    1. Give The Todd Some Love
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      In the city

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    2. onionbarje
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      7?

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  28. FACUPARSE
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    Plastic

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  29. Redhulkster
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    Did not take a hit..

    Had 9 on the field..turned to 8 when since did not start..

    Thankfully been kinda perfect thanx to caulker boruc jay rod snoddy and now even Cahill hazard doing well..

    Only blipp giving the captaincy to lallana and even my vc was lallama..so I guess I need to stop gambling from now on..someone should have told me "give the band to caulker' 😀

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  30. SuperOsçarBaby
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    Matic the new Makelele

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