Club America - Safe, But Only Just!

Although it came down to needing a win against the Division 3 champions in the final matchday, Club America stepped up their game and did enough to secure safety from relegation after some disappointing results mid season.

By the start of Matchday 4 I was out of the cups and could use the old cliché of "concentrating on the league", and my rebuild to a Hispanic squad was done, with just the need to bring in players to strengthen some positions. It was the start of a spell where I found goals hard to come by. I scraped a 2-2 draw then was well beaten 0-2 by Curlywurky in games many people would probably be expecting me to do better in. This was followed by a goalless draw against Emotionalworm that even SoggyCabbages would've found boring. A couple of late goals won the return fixture 2-0, and that was the last time I'd score more than one goal for a few weeks.
I didn't (and still dont) have many fast players in the starting XI, and was struggling to cope with the pace whores of the league, so Alex Munoz, who had until then been my goalscoring super-sub, was put in at CB to add the needed pace to track back. It did make me hard to score against, but my lack of goals meant I was getting too many draws, with just a point against Diode X and nothing against Hilly89 preceding a pair of 1-1 draws against ItsOnlyJEFF9108.

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Getting To Know.......#32

Hopefully you'll all be pleased to see the long overdue return to the Blogs of the "Getting To Know..." series, where we ambush an AG member and fire a load of questions at them with the aim of letting you know a bit of they're all about. This instalment saw me head off down to the big city, the home of The Queen, Stormzy and Del Boy. In the place otherwise known as the Big Smoke, or That There London, we caught up with an AG member who might have not been a member very long compared to some, but has thrown himself into the community and is a popular member of the hard working Admin team.

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Out of the frying pan, Inter the fire

New to the league set up this season, x Morriis give us his view on the season so far.

Last season saw the addition of myself to the league, starting strong and middling off towards the end. Nevertheless securing myself promotion. Then in came season 35’s predictions, not everyone took part (myself included due to not being familiar with everyone’s abilities on the site) but those who did seemed to all have the same general idea. x Morriis to be relegated. Big B 1970 Shelbourne Hilly89 aaronc333 and SweatyBananas4U (though he did say I’d stay up in the play off) all had the up and coming manager to go straight back down. Honestly I was offended, how rude, slander, based on what?!? Well 12 games played and with only 6 remaining in season 35 I’m beginning to think these guys might know what they’re talking about.

From 12 games Inter Milan are currently working with a record of 4W 3D 5L and an even goal difference having both scored and conceded 29 goals. They sit 7th in the league, clear of the relegation zone but only by a fine margin of 3 points. 3 managers left to play and a total of 18 points up for grabs means staying in division 1 is a possibility, but a tough one! Before we take a look at what’s left to come, what’s gone so wrong for Inter so far?

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AbsoluteGaming vs Wurzburger Kickers - Charity Game

Mark the date, Friday 20th August. This is the date that AbsoluteGaming will take on the mighty VFL Wurzburger Kickers in a FIFA Pro Clubs Charity event. This is the second event of its type with WK running out winners last time. AG have announced their squad for the event. In no particular order:

paullowes80 Amen Raz TheAshCohen09 aaronc333 ShaunC92 deareststorm Joe MarcusJonesy wellsa27 Bonzy87 MJG1878

The event comes second to the fact that we are raising money for the Charity "Mind". In recent years mental health issues are becoming for more prominent and everyone is being encouraged to talk and support people with mental health problems. Members of both teams will be donating to take part in the event however we urge everyone to donate what they can towards this great cause.

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/absolutegamingvswurzburgerkickers

More news will be released as we get closer to Friday. Keep an eye on our forum and social media channels for more information. Good luck to both teams.

A hint of optimism at the Emirates

There's a hint of optimism around the gooners, as it was announced that Stade de Reims manager Ash Cohen was to take charge of the club for the upcoming Fantasy Season, on a 1 year contract. The manager, who joins the club after securing safety in the top flight last season in the last 7 games, will be hoping that this season can be a big improvement on his previous club, and wants to push forwards this season.

"I'm very happy to be here, my boyhood club, and hopefully I can be in for a good season. Obviously last year I was in France, and didn't have the best of a season. At one point it looked like it would be another trip in the Championship, but the last 7 games I managed to turn it around and was very happy to stay in the top flight, which is where every player wants to be at some point."

"This season though I don't want to be thinking about relegation, I want to be thinking about the top 6. Positivity will be needed throughout this season, and I'm looking forward to it.

The manager was then asked a series of questions at his press conference.

MarcTheSharc , paullowes80 and x Plunkett all came up from the Championship, how do you expect them to fare?

"I think they are superb players. Paul and Marc both have the experience of the Prem and Marc has an excellent team, in fact we had some great games in pre-season, so he'll do very well in this division. Paul can also be good on his day, and I've not played enough of Plunkett to make a statement on him. It's all well getting promoted, you want to be staying more than 1 season. Riverman done an excellent job last season.

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Liverpool Come Out Better in Grudge Match

Week 11 Highlights

The much hyped game of the week seemed to fire up AG's favourite Scouser as Harryn9000 put his previous poor form behind him and utilised the power of Hulk, who scored a hat-trick in a 3-1 dismissal of Red Rhinoceros. Rhino and his Lille team were hoping for points to push them back up towards the play-offs but despite fighting back from 4-1 down could only get a point in an entertaining 4-4 draw. wellsa27 brushed aside another of the teams in the bottom half again this week in his seemingly unstoppable march to the title. Wizzfox was the latest to find the Bayern striker Gameiro just took good for this league, as Wellsa won 3-0 and 5-1, with the French striker getting all but one of his teams goals.

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