Wullie

WBCP, NEEJ has got 90 a few posts up, can you pick again?

You're so good at them, I'm bloody rubbish.

35 left - still got Messi, Werner, Lukaku, Suarez, Cavani, Costa, Mbappe, Higuain, Coutinho and Hee Chan Hwang knocking around.

Much more chance of a game now Lanzini's out I'm guessing.

OP should be up-to-date with 45 left.

Check your PMs.

Fucking Griezmann again ffs.

Scored more than Griezmann in La Liga this season (21), you might need Suarez to get hungry again to get him enough game time though.

Close.... http://i.imgur.com/MxD2j5m.png I don't know what I expected. Very tempted to grant him his wish. Best part of that is that it was for the European Championships.

Aye I thought it worked well last time, will do it later in the week.

Someone pick two numbers for me please.

Need 2 numbers from you mate, between 1 and 100. Keep an eye on the first post for updates.

Ok, Greg's got the list so we'll kick this off now that most of the friendlies are out of the way, couple of changes to the list above: Lanzini (Arg) and Cornelius (Den) are OUT, replacing them are Guedes (Por) and Poulsen (Den). Prizes are £120, £60, £20. There are 100 players on the list, arranged in completely random order. Each has been assigned a number between 1 and 100. Maximum of 2 players per user. To play, pay your £2/£4 into the N-O Paypal account: [email protected] - choose to pay as a personal payment so that there are no fees. MAKE SURE TO INCLUDE A NOTE WITH YOUR USERNAME AND THAT THE MONEY IS FOR THE SWEEP SO WE KNOW YOU'VE PAID! Once you've paid, pick your 1 or 2 numbers between 1 and 100, and post them in the thread - first paid, first served. I'll update the OP with who everyone has selected.

Since sbnufc is playing this year, I need somebody who isn't to keep a copy of the player list. Any volunteers? You don't have to do anything, just verify I'm not handing out players ad hoc.

USA beating France.

Phil Stamp's playing??

I'll probably not start taking money and dishing out names until Saturday/Sunday to let a few more friendlies go by in case of late injuries but this is the list. Nee whinging.

I'll put the list up later. The way I did it last time was to assign a random number between 1 and 100 to them all, send my list to someone who's not taking part as an independent observer, then anyone playing chooses their 1 or 2 numbers and I add their player(s) to a list in the OP.

Not any sweep I've ever taken part in like, you get your team/horse/player and if they win, you win. I've been doing this at work for a few years because I always hated the WC team sweep, which has about 6 realistic winners out of 32. Anyone can win top scorer with a big performance in a dead rubber (as Salenko did in 94). In your 25/50 player scenario, James Rodriguez would have been lucky to make the 50 at the last World Cup, and nowhere near the 25. He was about 100/1.

Goes something like: Give Wullie 2 quid Wullie gives you the name of some random Saudi you've never heard of You passionately watch every Saudi Arabia match in the desperate hope of a goal No goals Some absolute freak and total weirdo wins all the money

£120 goes to Fugazi, £60 to mrmojorisin75, £20 to krybel. 6 goals: Harry Kane - England - Fugazi 4 goals: Romelu Lukaku - Belgium - krybel Antoine Griezmann - France - mrmojorisin75 Kylian Mbappe - France - Mag_in_NZ Cristiano Ronaldo - Portugal - gdm 3 goals: Eden Hazard - Belgium - Kaizero Ivan Perisic - Croatia - Wullie Mario Mandzukic - Croatia - Troll Artem Dzyuba - Russia - Ikon Diego Costa - Spain - Jimburst Edinson Cavani - Uruguay - WarrenBartonCentrePartin 2 goals: Sergio Aguero - Argentina - Kid Icarus Neymar - Brazil - Kasper Philippe Coutinho - Brazil - Minhosa Mo Salah - Egypt - bigfella Heung Min Son - South Korea - morla84 Wahbi Khazri - Tunisia - Ritchie Luis Suarez - Uruguay - krybel 1 goal: Angel Di Maria - Argentina - NEEJ Lionel Messi - Argentina - Troll Dries Mertens - Belgium - Numbers Kevin de Bruyne - Belgium - sbnufc Michy Batshuayi - Belgium - Ameritoon Paulinho - Brazil - Si Roberto Firmino - Brazil - frankpingel Radamel Falcao - Colombia - ElDiablo Andrej Kramaric - Croatia - wormy Christian Eriksen - Denmark - Si Yussuf Poulsen - Denmark - Ikon Dele Alli - England - Numbers Jesse Lingard - England - POOT Paul Pogba - France - M1tche Marco Reus - Germany - Optimistic Nut Alfred Finnbogason - Iceland - Magpie Gylfi Sigurdsson - Iceland - Mag_in_NZ Keisuke Honda - Japan - a random player... Shinji Kagawa - Japan - WarrenBartonCentrePartin Carlos Vela - Mexico - POOT Hirving Lozano - Mexico - Yorkie Javier Hernandez - Mexico - loki679 Khalib Boutaib - Morocco - Beren Victor Moses - Nigeria - chopey Paolo Guerrero - Peru - ponsaelius Sadio Mane - Senegal - Interpolic Aleksander Mitrovic - Serbia - Felipão Iago Aspas - Spain - Incognito Isco - Spain - Sima Xherdan Shaqiri - Switzerland - Altamullan Edinson Cavani - Uruguay - WarrenBartonCentrePartin Prizes are £120, £60, £20. There are 100 players on the list, arranged in completely random order. Each has been assigned a number between 1 and 100. In the unlikely event that a player not on the list wins, the prize money for that place will be split equally between the amount of people who have a player from the same country as the winner - e.g. if Samuel Umtiti comes in the top three, then the money is split between the people who have Griezmann/Giroud/Lemar etc etc. This might mean that if Australia Striker B wins, the person with the only Australian on the list, Australia Striker A, will win the lot. Maximum of 2 players per user. To play, pay your £2/£4 into the N-O Paypal account: [email protected] - choose to pay as a personal payment so that there are no fees. MAKE SURE TO INCLUDE A NOTE WITH YOUR USERNAME AND THAT THE MONEY IS FOR THE SWEEP SO WE KNOW YOU'VE PAID! Once you've paid, pick your 1 or 2 numbers between 1 and 100, and post them in the thread - first paid, first served. I'll update the OP with who everyone has selected. 1. Aleksander Mitrovic - Serbia - Felipão 2. Paolo Dybala - Argentina - triggs 3. Mohammad El-Sahlawi - Saudi Arabia - Optimistic Nut 4. Carlos Bacca - Colombia - Bimpy474 5. Jesse Lingard - England - POOT 6. Christian Eriksen - Denmark - Si 7. Mario Gomez - Germany - Hanshithispantz 8. Marco Asensio - Spain - Anderson 9. Cristiano Ronaldo - Portugal - gdm 10. Ousmane Dembele - France - Wullie 11. Marcus Rashford - England - mrmojorisin75 12. Andrej Kramaric - Croatia - wormy 13. Sadio Mane - Senegal - Interpolic 14. Yussuf Poulsen - Denmark - Ikon 15. Florian Thauvin - France - Beren 16. Neymar - Brazil - Kasper 17. Khalib Boutaib - Morocco - Beren 18. Maxi Gomez - Uruguay - morla84 19. Iago Aspas - Spain - Incognito 20. Julian Draxler - Germany - Felipão 21. Keisuke Honda - Japan - a random player... 22. Paulinho - Brazil - Si 23. Nikola Kalinic - Croatia - gdm 24. Jamie Vardy - England - sbnufc 25. Gabriel Jesus - Brazil - Kid Icarus 26. Goncalo Guedes - Portugal - Kasper 27. Antoine Griezmann - France - mrmojorisin75 28. Marco Reus - Germany - Optimistic Nut 29. Odion Ighalo - Nigeria - Magpie 30. Robert Lewandowski - Poland - Deuce 31. Marcus Berg - Sweden - Yorkie 32. Kevin de Bruyne - Belgium - sbnufc 33. Dele Alli - England - Numbers 34. Shinji Okazaki - Japan - Interpolic 35. Mame Biram Diouf - Senegal - a random player... 36. Diego Costa - Spain - Jimburst 37. Thomas Muller - Germany - Kaizero 38. Paul Pogba - France - M1tche 39. Michy Batshuayi - Belgium - Ameritoon 40. Shinji Kagawa - Japan - WarrenBartonCentrePartin 41. Gabriel Torres - Panama - George Bailey 42. Fedor Smolov - Russia - Super Duper Branko Strupar 43. Radamel Falcao - Colombia - ElDiablo 44. Nicolai Jorgensen - Denmark - Incognito 45. Eden Hazard - Belgium - Kaizero 46. Alfred Finnbogason - Iceland - Magpie 47. Tomi Juric - Australia - Bimpy474 48. Nabil Fekir - France - Minhosa 49. Kelechi Iheanacho - Nigeria - BrickTop 50. Ivan Perisic - Croatia - Wullie 51. Hirving Lozano - Mexico - Yorkie 52. Luis Suarez - Uruguay - krybel 53. Romelu Lukaku - Belgium - krybel 54. Keita Balde - Senegal - 54 55. Dusan Tadic - Serbia - bigfella 56. Hee Chan Hwang - South Korea - Fenham Mag 57. Sardar Azmoun - Iran - frankpingel 58. Roberto Firmino - Brazil - frankpingel 59. Haris Seferovic - Switzerland - Fenham Mag 60. Moussa Sow - Senegal - chopey 61. Sergio Aguero - Argentina - Kid Icarus 62. Raheem Sterling - England - loki679 63. James Rodriguez - Colombia - Nobody 64. Wahbi Khazri - Tunisia - Ritchie 65. Edison Flores - Peru - Sima 66. Mo Salah - Egypt - bigfella 67. Sergej Malinkovic-Savic - Serbia - Altamullan 68. Gonzalo Higuain - Argentina - Leek 69. David Silva - Spain - Leek 70. Carlos Vela - Mexico - POOT 71. Javier Hernandez - Mexico - loki679 72. Thomas Lemar - France - wormy 73. Kylian Mbappe - France - Mag_in_NZ 74. Bernardo Silva - Portugal - Fugazi 75. Moreno Rodrigo - Spain - steve_69 76. Willian - Brazil - Deuce 77. Paolo Guerrero - Peru - ponsaelius 78. Andre Silva - Portugal - Raconteur 79. Gylfi Sigurdsson - Iceland - Mag_in_NZ 80. Victor Moses - Nigeria - chopey 81. Isco - Spain - Sima 82. Hakim Ziyech - Morocco - SEMTEX 83. Jefferson Farfan - Peru - ElDiablo 84. Heung Min Son - South Korea - morla84 85. Olivier Giroud - France - Super Duper Branko Strupar 86. Lionel Messi - Argentina - Troll 87. Aleksei Miranchuk - Russia - M1tche 88. Christian Stuani - Uruguay - Anderson 89. Timo Werner - Germany - George Bailey 90. Angel Di Maria - Argentina - NEEJ 91. Philippe Coutinho - Brazil - Minhosa 92. Alex Iwobi - Nigeria - Nobody 93. Xherdan Shaqiri - Switzerland - Altamullan 94. Dries Mertens - Belgium - Numbers 95. Edinson Cavani - Uruguay - WarrenBartonCentrePartin 96. Mario Mandzukic - Croatia - Troll 97. Marco Urena - Costa Rica - SEMTEX 98. Harry Kane - England - Fugazi 99. Artem Dzyuba - Russia - Ikon 100. Arkadiusz Milik - Poland - 54

Could be equally as bad, that's about it. Sweepstakes are a pet hate of mine. Pay £1 and hope you one of about 4 teams, if not the whole thing is pointless.

Can't fucking wait. Can't be doing with international football at all mid-season, "oh England have got an important qualifier on ITV tonight have they, might watch the highlights if I remember" World Cup starts and I'm given something important to do at half 3 at work: "sorry like, Morocco vs Iran's on in half an hour, get someone else to do it, I'm away"

It was this interview but at the end after Sterling talks about seeing games out, Clarke says "Game management?" Sterling: Game management, yeah. Clarke: END PRODUCT?!? Sterling (clearly slightly confused and going along with it): Er end product yeah. Clarke: As Ronaldinho would say? Sterling: ...yeah.