Victory in Melbourne 

I’m a big fan of fantasy football although usually not that good, unless you count my performance in selecting a bunch of twats at Euro 2008. Any of recent times I have been trying to pick my fantasy teams for the start of both the A-League and the English Premier League seasons and have noticed a disparity in the points allocated to players in the A-League. Its extremely difficult to pick a decent squad with your allocated 100 points. See below for my comparison between the two teams I have picked.

A-League Fantasy Team (One Minute Wonders)

Covic (8.0), de Vere* (4.5), McKain (7.5), Djulbic (6.5), Thwaite (8.0), Lopez (6.0), McKay (11.0), Miller (8.0), Pantelis (10.0), Smeltz (13.0), Hoffman (7.5), and Cristiano (10.0)

EPL Fantasy Team (One Minute Wonders)

Friedel (5.5), Schwarzer* (4.0), Laursen (6.0) Lescott (7.0), Clichy (6.5), Meite* (4.5), McShane* (4.0), Davies (6.0), Essien (8.0), Ireland (5.5), Fabregas (10.0), Hamann* (4.5), Torres (12.0), Santa Cruz (9.0) and Carew (7.5)

As you can firstly see I’m not really imaginative with the naming of my teams but as I have said above the points allocated by Fox Sports to players makes it really difficult to put together a quality balanced squad. Maybe they could take a leaf out of the Premier League’s system, which in my opinion is one of the best fantasy leagues going around.

Anyway if you want to challenge my One Minute Wonders for the A-League don’t forget to enter your team in the84thminute A-League fantasy football league. For all the details check out the84thminute site.

The time has finally come and the84thminute has finally arrived. Check it out and let me know what you think. And if you feel like contributing, feel free to do so - see one of my previous post for details.

Special thanks to those who have contributed with words and also to my lovely girlfriend, Caroline, whose hard work has seen the site look like I had imagined it.