A couple of seasons ago my wife decided to play fantasy football. She called her team Lindsay's L Team and all her players began with the letter L. (She was particually proud of Lomano Lua Lua.

How many of your gameweek three team have names begining with the same letter (any letter, not just L)? The winner will be the FISO with the most names begining with a single letter - ties will be broken my the number of sets e.g 1 five beats 3 fours beats two fours etc.

I have 3 fours.

C
Chris Kirkland
Gary Cahill
Cesc Fabregas
Michael Chopra

D
David Bentley
Stuart Downing
Didia Drogba

S
J Lloyd Samuel
Paul Scharner
Stuart Downing
Alexi Smertin

This is definitely pointless! Can't believe I even went and researched the first names of some of my lesser-known players, but it was worth it as I have a set of 5!

A
Antti Niemi
Ashley Cole
Andrew Taylor
Alexei Smertin
Mikel Arteta

Probably the only thing I'm winning at the moment!

Just three A's and three P's for me, Bob.

A

Andrew Johnson
Nicholas Anelka
Antti Niemi

P

Patrice Evra
Morten Gamst Pedersen
Stephen Pearson

I've not got many but one thing i've noticed is the inordinary amount of names with double letters in the liverpool squad

Carragher
Agger
Riise
Finnan
Hyppia
Paletta
Gerrard
Pennant
Sissoko
Kewell
Torres

Stick Paletta in goal and you go a very nice 3 at the back-finnan&riise as wingbacks-gerrard off torres-momo holding midfield formation

2*4

P
Patrice Evra
Robin van Persie
Petr Cech
MG Pedersen

J
David James
J Lloyd Samuel
Andy Johnson
Joseph Yobo

I'll claim a 5 if Sunderland's Wallace's first name starts with P or J

It seems that Rafa's been carrying on Houllier's earlier work

I have two 4's and two 2's

A
A Niemi
A Sibierski
M Arteta
D Ashton

H
M Hahnemann
S Howard

R
R Carvalho
R Giggs
R Van Persie
R Dunne

L
L Miller
F Lampard

You missed out the 2*D, 2*S and 2*M if you need any more straws

Funnily enough, they call him PJ on the training ground - apparently he collects pyjamas!

Maybe he was just born in Byker Grove

Oh yes! I have two 4's and five 2's

A
A Niemi
A Sibierski
M Arteta
D Ashton

H
M Hahnemann
S Howard

R
R Carvalho
R Giggs
R Van Persie
R Dunne

L
L Miller
F Lampard

D
R Dunne
D Ashton

S
A Sibierski
S Howard

M
L Miller
M Arteta

Why? His name is not Duncan, is it?

1 x 5
1 x 4
3 x 3
3 x 2

G 5
Geremi
Gerrard
Gary McSheffrey
Gary Speed
Gary Teale

S 4
Shorey
Scharner
Speed
Steven Gerrard

M 3
McSheffrey
Mikel Arteta
Mikel Forssell

N 3
N. Geremi
Niemi
Nicky Shorey

T 3
Tim Howard
Tal Ben Haim
Gary Teale

D 2
Didier
Drogba

H 2
Tim Howard
Tal Ben Haim

P 2
Paul Scharner
van Persie

At present I have for a decent 5-4-3-3 formation.

M
Micah Richards
Paul McShane
Mikel Arteta
Steed Malbranque
Mikael Forssell

S
Kasper Schmeichel
Paul Scharner
Steed Malbranque
Alexey Smertin

C
Carlos Tevez
Cesc Fabregas
Craig Gordon

F
Cesc Fabregas
Frank Lampard
Mikael Forssell


However, I'm doing a Wildcard this week and when it is finished, I'll be going with a much more solid 6-5-4 team.


M
Marcus Hahnemann
Micah Richards
Paul McShane
Mikel Arteta
Steed Malbranque
Mikael Forssell

C
Carlos Tevez
Cesc Fabregas
Craig Gordon
Jamie Carragher
Gael Clichy

F
Cesc Fabregas
Frank Lampard
Mikael Forssell
Steve Finnan

Admittedly the Micah Richards could move to a Geremi which would make it a 5-5-4, but that is unlikely at this stage.

I gots a *takes deep breath* 4-3-3-3-2-2-2-2-2-2 formation!

P
Paul McShane
Patrice Evra
Paul Scharner
Robin Van Persie

C
Craig Gordon
Ricardo Carvalho
Carlos Tevez

M
Paul McShane
Mikael Forssell
Mikel Arteta

T
Gary Teale
Carlos Tevez
Tim Howard

J
Jason Koumas
Joleon Lescott

A
Alexi Smertin
Mikel Arteta

F
Mikael Forssell
Frank Lampard

S
Alexi Smertin
Paul Scharner

G
Gary Teale
Craig Gordon

R
Ricardo Carvalho
Robin Van Persie

And with those letters i can spell!................... not much really

MR PJ'S TAG F.C.

The Geordie has invented a new sport! Tag football, it's like tag rugby, only different....

I have 3 5's leading a formation of 5-5-5-3-2-2

C
Craig Gordon
Cesc Fabregas
Carlos Tevez
Ashley Cole
Ricardo Carvalho

G
Craig Gordon
Gary McSheffrey
Gary Teale
Steven Gerard
Andreas Granqvist

A
Anreas Granqvist
Anti Niemi
Ashley Cole
Dean Ashton
Mikel Arteta

M
Gary McSheffrey
Mickel Arteta
Mikael Forssell

F
Cesc Fabregas
Mickael Forssell

T
Carlos Tevez
Gary Teale

Not to mention one of the new owners with a double-barreled double.

The results are in for this pointless comp. porgey is way out in the lead with an impresive 3x5. Also beating me taking joint second place are flyingkillercob, CarlosTheFinger, lazyboy and shawpower each with 1x5. Jonathan and murf each mustered 2x4. AGrave88 only has 1x4 but gets a bonus pointless point with the pointlessness that is MR PJ'S TAG FC and M-Boy still picks up a pointless point for 2x3 at the bottom of the pile.

Straight over to see how that affects the overall leaderboard and its very close in the early stages.

POINTLESS LEADERBOARD
Pos Name Pointless Points
1st Wyld, Jonathan, porgey 10
4th dalythgoe 9
5th murf, flyingkillercob, CarlosTheFinger, lazyboy, shawpower 8
10th Downboys, CanaryYellow 6
12th AGrave88 3
13th M-Boy 1

Scott Carson can play in goal

Play Dirkkuyt up front too

I'm rubbish, best is 4 - but I can claim to use 18 of the 26 letters (19 if I can use the P for Persie) can anyone beat that


T

Tim Howard

H

Tim Howard

A

Antii Niemi
Anton Ferdinand

N

Antii Niemi
Nicky Shorey

O

Olaf Mellberg
Matt Oakley
Obafemi Martins

M

Olaf Mellberg
Matt Oakley
Michael Carrick
Obafemi Martins

S

Nicky Shorey
Steven Gerrard
Sean Davis

J

Joseph Yobo

Y

Joseph Yobo

F

Anton Ferdinand
Frank Lampard

L

Leighton Baines
Frank Lampard

B

Leighton Baines

G

Steven Gerrard

C

Michael Carrick

D

Sean Davis
Kevin Doyle

R

Robin Van Persie

V

Robin Van Persie

K

Kevin Doyle

Oh dear... another side comp I am leading.... I can't handle the pressure... I am going to captain Crouch this weekend! Nice work WHATEVER.

Imagine where I would be if I entered this comp

ok then:

A
Andrew Johnson
Antti Niemi
C
Chimbonda
Carlos Edwards
D
Downing
E
Earnshaw
Edwards
F
Fransesc Fabregas (does that count as a double?)
Frank Lampard
G
Geremi
H
Howard
J
Johnson
L
Lampard
M
McShane
Micah Richards
N
Nijitap Geremi
Niemi
P
Paul Scharner
Pascal Chimbonda
Paul McShane
Parker
R
Robin van Persie
Robert Earnshaw
Richards
S
Scharner
Stuart Downing
Scott Parker
T
Tim Howard
V
van Persie

Singles: 7
Doubles: 6
Trebles: 2
Quadruples: 1

Instead of the most one it should be somthing like:
4- 10 pts
3- 5pts
2- 1pt

Wow, maybe after all this time I have found my pointless talent!

I will strive to pointlessly perfect the dark arts of pointlessness in the coming pointless weeks...

Thanks WHATEVER

i think i just threw away some pointless concept teams last month from last season but there was there was the 'rude' team consisting of players like sodje little brown butt and cox. the 'colours' team with green brown black etc. the 'occupations' team with miller thatcher dyer etc. and so on.

i have 11 x "s" (all my players are sh*te)

Dyer's on the bench.