I Bloody Love Fantasy Football

It's our final episode of the season, so it seems appropriate that today's the day that Robbie attains a Skynet level of self-awareness and tries to come to terms with the fact that maybe, just maybe, he's not always the smartest FPL person in the room. Paddy gets ever so sentimental about what a year's worth of podcasting has done for the lads, we give out our end of season awards, discuss Pep vs Fergie, the story of The Chippendales, and of course, congratulate all the league winners as well. We've had a ball with the podcast this year, and if you've taken the time to listen to us for a single minute, or for every single minute, we thank you singularly. Now go on, piss off and enjoy a fantasy free summer, and we'll see you for series 2 in August. It'll be here before you know it...

Our second last episode of the season is here!!

The season is drawing to a close, but perhaps the biggest GW of the season is upon us. The chance is upon us to make one last move of genius to catch our nemisises (nemisisi?) with a massive double gameweek. We try hard to pick a captain, go over the bones of last week, Robbie praises his own "brilliant transfer policy", and we aim to make waves all over the world as we don the tinfoil hats and use historical precedent to "prove" that there must be corruption in football. It will surprise none of you that a dodgy Arsenal penalty kick starts the rant. Enjoy!!

For the first time this year, we recorded in the middle of the GW, as the fat cats in the Premier League fail to take into account the logistics of recording Ireland's most popular FPL podcast when doing up their fixture list. So we sat down to chat as the Chelsea faced the Spurs, and provide you with some very out of date live updates as we go. We also question the big non-talking point from last week, discuss the shambles of VAR (again), Robbie praises Arsenal a lot (again), and we try to figure out which players are already on the beach. Enjoy!!

What a GW that was!! We reflect on the season's biggest scoring week so far and wonder if this was the making or breaking of our seasons. Robbie's big score sees him lose himself completely, as he praises Arsenal, goes after Jurgen in a big way and somehow criticizes a team that outscored him by 20 points. We congratulate Notts Forest on calling out corruption, give Harry Maguire and his delicate head his fair due, try to figure out how the hell Andy Faulkner does it, before Paddy decides to go full balls out with his wildcard, and then we round off the pod with one of football's great truths- John Terry is a plank. Enjoy!!

We're here to pick the bones of the weekend that might well have finished the title race, and to pick over the bones of one that might just reignite it. It was little red arrows aplenty for your sheepish hosts, as a disastrous GW infected the pod. But don't worry, our spirits remain unbroken as we attack the last few weeks of the season, and (whisper it) begin to think about next year already... Enjoy the pod!!

Episode 39 lands, and it sees Robbie back from the cliff edge of last week with a much more respectable score. This week we marvel at the unpredictability and entertainment that are Man United games, and ask, is Ten Hag a tactical genius after all? Robbie is beginning to wonder if he was wrong after all and Arsenal are just really really good, we spend way too long complaining about how City are too boring for their own good, one of us comes out swinging in James Maddison's defence, and the greatest game of all time, Super Mario Kart, gets a little copy and paste mention. Enjoy!!

We recorded at 8am on a hungover Sarturday morning, just because we love you all so much. We reflect on a bad FPL week for Robbie, And a bad week as an MUFC fan for Paddy, and look ahead to some cracking games. Enjioy!!

It's a short turnaround as the next GW is almost upon us- but we got there. Join us as we get down to the brass tacks of some pretty mental games. From the craziness of Newcastle and West Ham, the pure comedy of Brentford and Man United, the boredom of the big Man City Arsenal game, and everything else in between, we go through it all. We look forward to the big midweek games, discuss how the triple captain just isn't worth the effort, wonder about the media glorification o Declan rice, and contemplate recording a drunken pod. Yes, really. Enjoy the pod!!

We're back with our usual brand of irreverent FPL chat, covering the worst GW in the history of FPL, and previewing the massive games this weekend. Along the way we chat a little FA Cup (sorry but we couldn't help it), fixture change madness, why Arsenal have no option but to win against City on Sunday, who might be the best captain option out of the many many candidates, and somehow finish by discussing the etiquette of "Drop and Go" tactics for a five year old's birthday party. Yes, really. Enjoy the pod...

We're back and the sound is good! What a relief... On this week's episode we look back on a pretty mixed gameweek. We ponder the fine margins of playing FPL, beautifully illustrated by a Dominic Solanke slip. We come across a bit Waldorf and Statler as we bemoan the state of the Champions League, Robbie somehow complements Arsenal repeatedly (even as he declares them "too emotional", we realise that long term planning in the FPL is a mug's game and ask if data and statistics are ruining football. Paddy somehow shoehorns in a reference to United winning things with kids, we look at how strange the list of top performing players on each position is, and then we finish in the traditional way by giving rugby both barrels. Enjoy!!

We're back! And so are our sound problems 😫😫😫 Zoom screwed us a little, but if you can't listen to crackling Paddy, skip forward to 25 mins or thereabouts-it improves immensely. Enjoy!!

New episode!

This week the lads laid down different chips during the double GW. Pep Roulette did Robbie a dirty, while Paddy is finally starting to make his move up the table... We chat title charges, players to watch, captaincy options and of course, there's our now obligatory Arsenal digs as well!

We're back ahead of a big gameweek, with the prospect of lots of lovely points from triple captains and bench boosts...

We're back, and this time the sound is decent!! On this week's pod, it's like we've swapped roles, as Robbie praises Paul Scholes and Paddy professes his love for Darwin Nunez, while we reckon that this is a week for lots of homework- as both the double and blank GWs begin to be revealed, if you're planning a charge, now's the time to put in the study. Things get a little heated as we discuss Arsenal's celebrations at the weekend (leading to talk about the Invincibles, Ryan Giggs' chest hair and Liverpool 2 West Brom 2), Robbie gets his facts wrong, we bemoann our transfers and benches, and we finish off with a little Taylor Swift going Democrat at the Superbowl talk. Enjoy!!

It's late, and we spent so much time trying to fix the audio that it's too late to write a witty bio. Enjoy!!

Our first Saturday night recording sees us finish off the longest ever GW, which seemed to drag on for ever. We start by kind of paying our respects to Mr Klopp, even though Paddy somehow manages to turn it into A Sir Alex Ferguson appreciation instead, while Robbie wrestles it back and provides a very useful tip for anyone looking for tickets for the Europa League Final in Dublin-possibly Jurgen's last game in charge... The bonus point tinfoil hat is out again, but it seems more and more of us are starting to wear it, Robbie brings up another useless stat-"Indirect Assists", and we wonder if Anthony Martial actually earned over 80 million quid in his time at Old Trafford. We finish by looking ahead to a lovely winter midweek GW, try and get some sense of what to do for the blank teams in GW 26, and end with a chance encounter with the real Robbie Keane on a trip to hell- or as most people call it, Ikea.

Spirits are low in the I Bloody Love Fantasy Football studios, as the split GW drags on and takes away a big chunk of our FPL enjoyment. But fear not! We got over ourselves and got down to business, with a review of the first fixtures of the elongated GW, and a preview of the other five. We also took pause and gave out our midseason awards, including player of the year, game of the season, unsung hero, biggest disappointment, biggest annoyance and more- surprisingly James Maddison didn't win any awards... Robbie forgets that he had United's Antony as his player to watch, while Paddy tries to forget that he had Mo Salah as a player to avoid, we chat true crime podcasts, and we've an incredible call on who will be the best differential for the rest of the season , a cheap, 0.1% owned, top four midfierlder that we think is about to take off. Yes, really.

It's our shortest episode so far as we survey the wreckage of our teams, and try to put together our plans for GW21. We reckon every player in our leagues will take a four point hit this week, as injury, absence and bad luck lay waste to the best laid plans of mice and men. Not gonna lie lads, it was such a struggle that even Timo Werner got mentioned as an option. We discuss the dearth of captaincy options, how £6million midfielders might be the way forward, how this week could somehow be more of an opportunity than a curse, and if you like drinking games, have a shot every time we use the word "carnage" this week...