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30th July, 2008
Welcome to the first edition of the weeks GW7 Newspaper and what better way to start off with announcing the name as voted by GW7.Drum Roll Please... Choice #9 : 'The Weekly Fry' - 10 votes (22.2%)Voting was very close with 2 other main contenders getting 9 votes each for the name but majority votes count... so welcome readers to The Weekly Fry.The Weekly FryTo this weeks news! Firstly a big Congratulations to our Team and Mover of the Week. English manager Paul Jackson's dazzling Ewell Saints have won the 'Team of the Week' award after climbing 4 to the top of GW7.English manager Mary Thompson's seasoned Pink Squad have won 'Mover Of The Week' award after climbing four hundred and fifty-five places to 281st. Both claim a prize of £100,000.Also well done to this week's Senior Goal of the Week winner:Nomination 4 - Deco Shotton FC Vs Oddjob City with 8 votes.Well it’s been a week of FAs ending and here is the round up of results. Be sure to cast your votes for managers and players of the season so see your FA Organiser for any vote details.Season 5 Premiership winners: (Alphabetical order as to not argue who has best fed!)
AFF Premiership: Mos Eisley FCAEFF Premiership: Manchester United
CWA Premiership: Middleton Town FCDFA Super League: Finnantastic
MFA Premier League: Carter FCNFA Premiere League: Plushenko Ice Team
PFA Premiership: FC BecksSFA Premiership: Dream Raiders
FCWCA Premiership: Blackburn Town FCXFA Premier League: The Hairy NosepickersCongratulations!
FAFA in turmoil?Life wasn't made the easiest though for one of our FA Orgs, Matt "SFA & FAFA" Fletcher. After all his work with FAFA we had some issues brought up with activity. Matt has spent a good few hours working on FAFA and with the Mods reviewing it; it has all been good with the odd small thing here and there.There was an issue to do with how a FAFA Entry league was set up as the easiest way to get names of who wants to be in FAFA this season and basically allowed all the active users to enter over a short space of time rather than just inviting the top teams.Matt was quick to comment on the matter: “At the end of the day there are so many spaces and FAFA had a lot of inactive users last season as it wasn’t started. Due to JJ being away (as he was the person above me and ultimately in charge of FAFA), I spent all morning and some of the afternoon sorting it out. I made the entry league as the easiest way to get active users into the league and cup. It is unfortunate that not everyone is involved but there has to be a cut off point.”Rich was also quick to make a stance on the time and effort put in from Mods and Fed Orgs: “An official comp is not like any of the others as individuals need to be manually added to each league and each league needs to be manually created.Whilst doing this you cannot play any games nor do anything else.To allocate 128 players and create the individual leagues would take approximately 2 hours. On top of this Matt would also have had to sort out his fed to make sure everything was set for Monday. The Mods and FA Organisers only do this for the player’s enjoyment however sometimes when this so called feedback appears do I think, why do we bother?”The best manager in FML?The undoubted number one in GW7 Richard"XFA" Hainsworth of The Hairy Nosepickers had the honour of being discussed to be the best manager in the whole of FML.Matt "SFA & FAFA" Fletcher has made a topic on the FML BETA Tester’s Forum (click here) where managers can give their opinion whether they agree or disagree with this statement.I quote: "Reasons why, His key for good and great players to play in positions is crazily good. His tactics are annoyingly good and can change them depending on the opponent! He went over a 100 games unbeaten."Richard already had the privilege to be mentioned on the FML front page so this might just be a true statement.Nick "Gone [but not forgotten]" Brooke was a bit sad no one had made a topic about him however Matt made a good point stating he never made it to the number 1 spot in GW7.Transfer NewsIt’s been a mad week in GW7 with players available in the wage auctions. Barry Blues FC managed to sign one of the best so far in Lorenzo De Silvestri on a very cheap £5k wage and only £600k AF Paid. Undoubtedly the biggest buy this week was by Spennymoor Utd. with the £15.5mil signing of Lionel Messi.We saw a few big transfers made this week and another huge deal was seen between The Hairy Nosepickers getting Obafemi Martins for £5mil with Amauri going the other way to Kentucky FC.Both Rich and Joe were out to make money where Rich sold Franck Ribéry for £6mil to West Bromwich Brazil FC as well as selling Edison Cavani for £3.75mil. He also made a deal with Franks Army and sold Iker Casillas and Diego Souza for £3mil each with Juan Pablo Carrizo costing him £5mil. Finally Rafael van der Vaart was bought from Queluz FC for £5mil plus Bastian Schweinsteiger.Joe on the other hand was busy selling Gonzalo Higuaín who was set on Auto Accept of £6mil and bought by Spennymoor Utd. Joe also sold Alex for £5mil to Carter FC and Andrés D'Alessandro left for £4mil to join Fc Zoetermeer.Joes biggest buy this week was Freddy Adu for a cool £6.5mil Instant Buy from Donington Rovers North End. Joe also forked out £4mil to buy Oscar Ustari from Mokum Magpies.As you can see Queluz FC are mentioned a lot and as a top team with a lot of money Filipe was in the market for a new keep signing José Manuel Reina from rank rivals Finnantastic. Filipe also sold Lucho González to Cottingley FC.New Mod Tony 'Multi-Millionaire Moderator' McCall's outstanding Dingle Stars AFC signing flamboyant Brazilian forward Carlos Eduardo for £7,750,012 from Romanian manager Francisc Romano's dazzling Manchester United on a 2 season contract.Stephenage A.F.C. signed 4.5* Rep Striker Tiago Gomes for Instant buy of £5.5mil from Inver Football Club after selling Stefan Kießling for £4mil to Area 51 FC.Yadi Bong FC sign Afonso Alves for £5,750,000 from Fleetwood Town.And finally Greek manager George Zebis’ irresolute A.O.Karistou won the race to sign commanding English centre-back Rio Ferdinand with their bid of £3,000,001. However this may look cheap but with a wage of £75k we know why Ahmad Balfagih's glitzy Al-Hilal FC wanted to sell.Wage Auction NewsWayne Rooney was also up for auction and his £150k original wage was lowered, only buy a small margin though with Chesterfield Town FC bidding £110k.Rooney wasn't alone though as we saw Team Obodai sign legendary Brazilian attacking midfielder Ronaldinho for £125k on a 1 season contract. An AF of £1.98mil was paid.And for the experience Sumo Ninjas FC signed 34 year old Frank Lampard for a wage of £87,500! Also 35 year old Raúl joins Stokes City on £100k! Big signings for both teams.Also:Classic Cooks United sign Spanish midfield playmaker Andrés Iniesta for £110,888 on a 1 season contract with £1,615mil AF paid.Fleetwood Town sign Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic for £110k on a 2 season contract with £2.16mil AF paid.Truekopite FC sign Scottish wing back Alan Hutton for £100k on a 2 season contract with £373,750 AF paid.Kentucky FC sign world class Chilean attacking midfielder Matías Fernández for £96,556 on a 2 season contract with £1.6mil AF paid.Queluz FC sign Dutch midfield and forward Ryan Babel for £67,777 on a 2 season contract with £700k AF paid.Little Baddow FC sign 19 year old cultured Dutch attacking midfielder Jason Mason for £35k on a 2 season contract.Welcome to the Anthony Murray corner...our GW7 most hated user and one of the best wheeler and dealers in GW7.This week due to wage auctions AM (as we like to call him), hasn't made many transfers but he has sold one of the best players in GW7.Best Buy: Zlatan Ibrahimovic, for £2.16mil in wage auction, £110k Wage Offered.Worst Buy: Ashley Cole, for £3mil from Chesterfield Town FC.Biggest Profit: Lionel Messi, for £15.5mil to Spennymoor Utd making a £7.5mil Profit.Worst Profit: Philippe Senderos, for £5mil to Firefly United losing £500k.AM was quick to comment after logging in to see he'd won the Zlatan Ibrahimovic wage auction:“Hi guys memo to self, never bid for anyone when drunk! 110k for Zlatan, I don’t even remember doing it!”While writing this AM sold Ashley Cole £3.5mil to Legion of the Dark Knight and in return bought Ewerthon for £2.6mil and Juan Carlos de la Barrera for £1.9mil.What happens when you don’t play with a keeper?Well the simple answer is you’ll most likely lose, and it’s actually what Craig Murray suffered with such losses as 13-1 Home to Jacko United FC, 12-1 Home to Spennymoor Utd, 9-0 Home to Midland reds and 2 7-0 Away losses to West Bromwich Brazil FC and Chicken Balti Pie FC. He's since made sure to have a keeper in his first team tab and had some better results since. We wish him all the best in GW7.UFFA Champions LeagueWelcome back ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls on this historic evening. We've just witnessed one of the greatest battles in the history of football. Sunday the 21st of July, the day Francisco Romano's Manchester United won the UFFA Champions League after two close matches.
Let's go back in time a little bit, to be precise three days ago, when the first round of this of this two-off final was played.We're off. Let's see what both managers strategy for this first leg is. It might all depend on Hainsworth's team here. They are the ones playing at home. Will the supporters give them the drive to attack with their hearts, or will they defend their territory, just to not concede a goal at home. Manchester United is eager to take the initiative, but the Nosepickers defence, leaded by Gabriel Milito, are not likely to be put under pressure early on. Sixteen minutes underway when United gets an direct free-kick at about 30 yards from the Nosepicker goal. Free-kick specialist Nei comes forward to take, he has quite a bit of a reputation with these sorts of possibilities. He curls it at goal... Only a few inches wide.Not even two minutes later Kim Källstrom can take a free-kick at the other side off the pitch. The United living wall stands, Källstrom takes it short... There's Van der Vaart... GOAL! The Nosepickers take the lead here. I think the shot was deflected by Nei, poor guy. Renan didn’t stand a chance after that deflection. Hainsworth's boys don't look like giving this lead away. Their defence looks very decent tonight and it seems like they are going for tea with a 1-0 lead. Manchester defender Cesar Arzo has a hard time defending Kevin Monnet-Paquet's pace and Rafael van der Vaart has been the free man for the Nosepickers all night.The tempo has slowed down in the second half. Even though Manchester United will need a goal here, they don't look like dominating like they did in the first fifteen minutes of the match. Pato hasn't been seen all night and that might be a big concern for Romano.Looks like the danger has to come from set-pieces for Manchester tonight. They get yet another corner. Swung in by Kuzmanovic, but easily headed away. But Lucas is all free outside the area, he's surely gonna shoot from here. Takes too long, Micah Richards is closing him down... Lucas puts in an effort anyway. Oh he finds Pato, all free, this has to be a GOAL! It's all even now! Lucas with a brilliant pass towards Pato who was all free and had an easy chance.We're at the hour-mark here. It seems like both teams have decided to postpone this battle until Saturday, when the second leg is played in Manchester. Oh, this doesn't look good for Gabriel Milito, it seems like he has to go off. This might put The Hairy Nosepickers in big trouble, losing their leader at the back like this.Neither of the teams could make a difference after the equalizer. It all ends square here. It wasn't the best of matches, but the tension made it worth to watch. This battle of giants hasn't been decided tonight. It will be decided in three days, when Old Trafford is the battlefield.So that's what happened three days ago. Back then we didn't know who was going to win the Champions League. But now we do after the 2nd leg 1-0 win from Manchester United.Joe Keizer (JK) to Alexandre Pato (AP), UFFA Champions League match-winner


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