Fantasy Premier League

Theo Walcott's hamstring strain, sustained in last week's defeat by Chelsea, is worse than first thought and the England winger looks certain to miss Saturday's home game against Stoke City. Arsenal are also without Kieran Gibbs, who will miss most of the remainder of the season after surgery on a broken foot, and the suspended Alex Song, but...More

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Your weekly guide to the good and not-so-good of Fantasy football.GOALKEEPERChoose 'em: Looks like an easy choice who to go for between the sticks this week. Manuel Almunia has dropped to just 5.56 after Arsenal's poor run of form but he is odds-on to get a clean sheet at home to...More

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The Fantasist takes its weekly look at the injury situation in the Premier League. Injury status is of course subject to change, with any manner of dog or golf club-related injuries liable to occur between now and the weekend.ClubGameweek 13 Status PlayerInjuryArsenalOUTNicklas BendtnerGroin  Abou DiabyCalf  Johan DjourouKnee  Kieran GibbsFoot  Gael ClichyBack Robin van PersieAnkle QUESTIONABLE Bacary...More

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The whole world may have ground to a halt on Sunday evening to watch 'El Clasico' between Barcelona and Real Madrid, but believe it or not there were other matches happening in Spain at the weekend. Getafe's Roberto Soldado (20.34) leapt up a massive 7.37 in price following his brace...More

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During the season our regular feature will detail whose value is rising and falling. UP Didier Drogba (FW, Chelsea, 21.65) +5.80He's back. Bet you're glad you kept him when he was injured, aren't you?Wayne Rooney (FW, Man Utd, 21.15) +5.05 Oddly quiet at Portsmouth. Even more oddly, he scored a...More

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Time for Monday's regular trawl through The Fantasist's weekend 'Choose 'em or Lose 'em?' selections. All in all, it was a weird weekend in the Premier League, but a decent bunch of predictions. A couple of big calls (Wayne Rooney and Junior Stanislas) came off nicely, but Manchester City's never-ending capacity to disappoint came back...More

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Your weekly guide to the good and not-so-good of Fantasy football.GOALKEEPERS Choose 'em: The Fantasist is going to stick its neck out and predict Wigan aren't going to concede nine again. Last week's debacle saw Chris Kirkland's (1.63) value plummet - he now has a decent match-up at home to Sunderland. Still in bottom-feeding mode,...More

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The Fantasist takes its weekly look at the injury situation in the Premier League. Injury status is of course subject to change, with any manner of dog or Play Station-related injuries liable to occur between now and the weekend.ClubGameweek 13 Status PlayerInjuryArsenalOUTNicklas BendtnerGroin  Abou DiabyCalf  Johan DjourouKnee  Kieran GibbsFoot  Gael ClichyBack Robin van PersieAnkle QUESTIONABLE William GallasAnkleAston...More

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Lorient's Marama Vahirua (22.41) followed up his brace in the 5-0 drubbing of Boulogne with another virtuoso performance against Saint-Etienne. The Tahiti-born forward banged in a superb free-kick and set up for defender Franco Sosa (10.54), and the pair scored 34 and 19 points respectively.Bordeaux were knocked off the top...More

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