Rejoice!

This has to be the craziest transfer ever, but it has been confirmed that Juventus have signed Plank President Niklas Bendtner, initially on a year's loan, with an option to buy later. Although it could be said he might suit Italian football better than the Premiership, does the team that is home to the peerless Pirlo REALLY want this man? I'm still not entirely sure I'm not hallucinating the whole thing, mind...
Needless to say, I think it all is Pure Stoke

Good News!!!

It's ok! Even if Arsenal get 38 no score draws, they still won't be relegated as they will have a goal difference of 0 and there will be at least 3 other teams worse than them with negative goal differences. That's alright then...

Flashback of the Week

News that Alex Song was reportedly deeply unhappy that Arsenal wouldn't renogotiate his contract, it still having 3 years to run on it, and that he wasn't happy at being paid a measly 55 grand a week, gave me a profound sense of deja vu...
Remember this? "55 fucking grand? I almost crashed my car..."
I bet they don't talk like that at Keith.

Totally Round Up Week 2

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Although not quite on a par with Arsenal losing 8-2 to Manchester United in the opening weeks of last year's Premier League, it really does look like Ronan is going to have to spend some cash on some last-minute players before the transfer window closes. He had a dismal week this week, notching up a single point by being the only person to foresee A!F!C! would lose to Bradford, although not by the 5-1 they did get tonked. In fact the mighty A!F!C!'s season so far is mirroring that of the Little Seal; we can only hope that both begin to turn things around and soon.
Elsewhere, Darren didn't match his opening weekend, but with a valuable 3 points from the Little England fixture that is Malaga vs Mallorca and a point from the Swansea game, he kept up some momentum. But it was 2010-2011 Champion Penny who was the biggest surprise this week; 10 points, with 3 each from France and Spain and 2 from the Swansea demolition of West Ham (note to Sam Allardice; THAT'S how you play football).
As the only player to see that the Elfs of Elfsborg would never be up to Hacken FC, she wasn't averse to picking up single points either.
If this keeps up, and Ronan remembers his winning ways, we could be in for the tightest season yet in the EPTSL.

Week 2 Table:

Penny            21 pts
Darren           17 pts
Ronan            6 pts

Mystery of the Week

You have just taken over as manager of one of the best club teams in the world. One of your charges is undoubtedly the best player in the world and helped to ensure your team was 4-1 up against Real Sociodad by half-time at the weekend. Your star striker has just returned from having a broken leg and within minutes of coming on the pitch scores a wonder goal to bring the final score to 5-1.
And yet, to anyone with no knowledge of Spanish football, you spent the whole game looking as though you were the Sociodad manager.
Come on Francesc Vilanova; crack us a smile mate. It can't be that bad....

Whoop whoop

Enough said.

Totally Round Up Week 1 !!!!!

And so after what seemed like eternity, we have our first week in the EPTSL done and dusted and what a week it was. Incredibly, defending champ Ronan trails with a paltry 5 points at the moment as Darren and Penny put in very impressive opening week performances, both getting two 3 pointers and the European fixtures in particular seeing them leave Ronan in their wake. Of course it is very early days yet and Darren's early leads in last year's tournament failed to hold past September, but is Ronan feeling the pressure after sweeping the board last season? Only time will tell.

Week 1 Table

Darren               13 pts
Penny                 11 pts
Ronan                 5 pts
  

Oh My Stars...

Wowzers! What an opening day. Two games ending 5-0, Liverpool having a shocker against their old Assistant Manager Steve Clarke (how did we not remember that Darren?), and Michael Laudrup having a momentous start to his Premier League career. In fact the only thing that failed to surprise was Arsenal playing lots of nice tippy tappy football but failing to score. Note to Arsene Wenger: do not under any circumstances be tempted to buy France's top scorer. He will be pants and put sitters 12 yards wide, I promise you.

So, what about the EPTSL, I hear you ask? Well so far everyone has had a good solid opening weekend. All our competitors quite rightly saw Aston Villa continuing their mediocrity against newly promoted West Ham, and a home win for Crawley, but only Darren and defending champion Ronan had faith in the mighty A!F!C! to beat Chesterfield. Penny more than made up for this with the first 3 pointer of the season in the Grimsby game though, and Darren's intuition that Keith is no longer the force he was stood him in good stead to pick up 2 points in the Locos game. As it stands, Penny has 7, Darren is on 5 and Ronan has 4 but with the 4 European games to go, the weekend is still wide open.
Welcome back EPTSL, oh how we've missed you!!!!

IT'S NEARLY HERE!!!!!!!!

It's officially only one week to go until the opening Totally Skill Friday of the 2012-2013 season; the countdown begins! Try and contain yourselves people as this year promises to be our most competitive yet. Who can believe that we have already notched up two full seasons?

STOP PRESS...STOP PRESS...STOP PRESS...STOP PRESS...STOP PRESS...STOP PRESS...STOP
 And exciting news just in: fresh from their triumphant residency at Slane in July and their first appearance at the Orkney Madrigal festival, it has been announced that the Totally Skill League will this year be sponsored by none other than Egg Plant!This is surely a match made in corporate heaven.
(nb: from henceforth, all references to the Egg Plant Totally Skill League must contain the words Egg and Plant, or legal proceedings will be initiated).

Unsporting Behaviour Alert

Ok, so apparentely she asked katie to join her for pints after, but how unsporting was Sofya Ochigava during Katie Taylor's medal ceremony? Not only did she stand with her arms crossed throughout the whole thing, only uncrossing them to receive her silver medal and bouquet, but when the others turned to face the flags for the Irish anthem, she stayed facing the front with arms folded and supercilious smirk on her face. Not the Olympic spirit young lady...