Beren

Derp off back to the masses then, little sheep.

Erm, so who had Pulis?

Probably just about too old to get bullied about it, but no one will ever respect him.

I always wanted to have a second FF team / league where you pick the shittest players possible who play 60+ minutes every week. Whoever comes last, wins. [/ifyouknowwhatimean.png]

GW1: Man Utd 3-2 Swansea Leicester 0-1 Everton QPR 2-0 Hull Stoke 4-0 Aston Villa West Brom 0-0 Sunderland West Ham 0-0 Spurs Arsenal 2-0 Crystal Palace Liverpool 3-0 Southampton Newcastle 0-2 Man City Burnley 0-2 Chelsea

That'll show Pardew/Ashley! Just get the HBA 'Che' picture printed on a t-shirt for a fiver.

Papiss will bully them into submission for 90 torturous minutes.

The dispassion

Their team rotates fairly often too.

http://imgur.com/UI34Get.jpg Hat trick.

Very, very similar to my team.

Seriously I don't see how this is not discussed more. How did Steven Taylor fail to ever improve as a footballer ? It just blows my mind. Local lad has a free pass for life. Pardew and the regime correctly assume that some fans eat that shut up.

I have less and less time for this even though it's only half an hour a week (and I didn't really have time last season either hence the huge gaps between updates). I just don't want to commit to something then jack it in halfway through as it's not fair on the participants. I decided midway through last season I'd finish it and then retire it/pass it on to someone with more time

Oh cool.

Shaw playing in preseason yet?

Quite enjoying Kaka's shtick tbh. Funny. Where did you finish last year Kaka?

What's the Man Utd first XI?

I've plumped for Arnautovic in my team.

If he struggles to meet the alleged target, they'll adjust the target for him. The players and manager's sound bites will be subtly permeated with talks of "Good season if we can get top half" and then "improvement on last season represents good progress". Fans will eat it up without knowing it. If he still doesn't meet the target, they'll have serious and not at all pretend end-of-season showdown talks to discuss Pardew's future. Is he the right man to lead the club? He'll survive. Just. 2015/16 is really last chance saloon for him, now. Fans will eat it up without knowing or remembering they shat it onto their own plate only 12 months prior.

Yaya starts against Newcastle. Can't omit him IMO.

As if that weakling Cisse has kept number 9.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28307088 Lerl. So it turns out parking the bus for 6 games a year isn't actually fighting with the best teams in Europe.. more like avoiding it.

Surprisingly quiet on the antepost front...

Premiership Winners: Arsenal (I suspect this is based more on hope than thought) Runners Up: Man City 3rd-6th: Stoke, Burnley, Aston Villa, Newcastle (I've just realised how thoroughly shite I am at these and thought I'd throw this in.... oh okay: Chelsea, Liverpool, Everton, Man Utd) Relegation: Burnley, West Ham, Leicester Overachievers: QPR Underperformers: Spurs Top Goal Scorer: Walcott Break Out Year: Arnautovic Season to Forget: RvP, Drogba PFA Player of the Year: Walcott PFA Young Player of the Year: Wilshere (is he too old?) Manager of the Year: Wenger First manager to quite/be sacked/'mutual consent': Fat Sam Newcastle United Where will we finish?: 12th Top Goalscorer?: Riviere How will we do in the cup competitions?: 4th round in both, out to non-Premiership sides in both How will we do in the derby games?: 1 point, both horrific spectacles. FA Cup: Man City League Cup: Liverpool Europe La Liga winner: Real Serie A winner: Juve Bundesliga winner: Hmm, I wonder.... Champions League winner: Bayern Europa League winner: Benfica World Player of the Year: Lewandowski, undeservedly Other Who will start the most games at left back for us? Haidara Will Bojan be a success at Stoke? Yes How many times will we see 'arry hanging out of his window on transfer deadline day? 0 How many goals will Fernando Torres score this season? 9 in all comps

I hope you're right on both fronts, though I have less confidence in the fan base's collective wisdom to exercise any such power they might have.