The Premier League Draft.

Only got 3 categories left if my maths is correct, and the hardest one I have left was "#15 - Has scored in a Manchester, Merseyside or North London Derby." so I've got this covered ASAP

He might be a sicknote, but I'll take the risk.

Jamie Redknapp


[MENTION=4147]shaolinpunk[/MENTION] is up.

My next pick will give my squad the ability to toughen up in midfield and stifle the opposition if needs be; he became Alex Ferguson's go-to midfielder for any big game.

When he was suspended for the Champions League final against Barcelona in 2009, Jose Mourinho said "His work in midfield, especially in the midfield 'wars', in crucial matches is very important. Man United will miss his pace and aggression in defensive actions: he 'eats' opponents in defensive transition."

It is, of course, former Man United vice-captain and current captain of West Brom and Scotland, Darren Fletcher



[MENTION=5542]Horsham Gull[/MENTION] is up

DarrenFreemansPerm said:

Pierre van Hooijdonk

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Cullip4 said:

Oh well played sir, name never even came up in my thinking! Frightening goal to game ratio!

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HIs Premier League record is 29 games for Forest, 7 goals but could be a good pick for a couple of the more tricky categories

Worthingite said:

Can't believe this fella hasn't gone yet.... No messing about, it's time to say hello to Emile William Ivanhoe Heskey

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stripeyshark said:

Pretty sure he's gone.

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He was still available until Worthingite got there first, another i was surprised was so far down the draft picking order

Adams, Tony
Agbonlahor, Gabriel
Agger, Daniel
Aguero, Sergio 'Kun'
Alonso, Xavi
Anderson, Viv
Anderton, Darren
Anelka, Nicholas
Arteta, Mikel
Austin, Charlie
Azpilicueta, Cesar
Babayaro, Celestine
Baines, Leighton
Bale, Gareth
Ballack, Michael
Barmby, Nick
Barnes, John
Barry, Gareth
Barthez, Fabian
Batty, David
Beardsley, Peter
Beckham, David
Bellamy. Craig
Bent, Darren
Berbatov, Dimitar
Berg, Henning
Berger, Patrik
Bergkamp, Dennis
Bilic, Slaven
Bjornebye, Stig Inge
Blanc, Laurent
Boateng, George
Boateng, Kevin Prince
Bould, Steve
Bridge, Wayne
Brown, Wes
Bruce, Steve
Butt, Nicky
Cabaye, Yohan
Cahill, Gary
Cahill, Tim
Campbell, Sol
Campo, Ivan
Cantona, Eric
Carr, Stephen
Carragher, Jamie
Carrick, Michael
Carvalho, Ricardo
Cazorla, Santi
Cech, Petr
Clichy, Gael
Cole, Andrew
Cole, Ashley
Cole, Joe
Collymore, Stan
Coloccini, Fabricio
Corkula, Vedran
Costa, Diego
Courtois, Thibaut
Coutinho, Philippe
Crouch, Peter
Cudicini, Carlo
De Gea, David
De Jong, Nigel
Defoe, Jermain
Dempsey, Clint
Desailly, Marcel
Deschamps, Didier
Di Canio, Paulo
Di Matteo, Roberto
Distin, Sylvain
Dixon, Lee
Djorkaeff, Youri
Drogba, Didier
Dublin, Dion
Dudek, Jerzy
Duff, Damian
Dunne, Richard
Dyer, Kieron
Edu
Ehiogu, Ugo
Emmanuel Adebayor
Enrique, Jose
Essien, Michael
Evra, Patrice
Fabregas, Cesc
Ferdinand, Les
Ferdinand, Rio
Ferguson, Duncan
Fernandinho
Ferreira, Paulo
Finnan, Steve
Fletcher, Darren
Flowers, Tim
Fowler. Robbie
Friedel, Brad
Gallas, William
Garcia, Luis
Gascoigne, Paul
Geremi
Gerrard, Steven
Giggs, Ryan
Ginola, David
Given, Shay
Gravesen, Thomas
Grimaldi, Giles
Grobbelaar, Bruce
Gudjohnsen, Eider
Gullit, Ruud
Hamman, Dietmar
Hart, Joe
Harte, Ian
Hasselbaink, Jimmy..
Hazard, Eden
Heinze, Gabriel
Henchoz, Stephane
Hendry, Colin
Henry, Thierry
Hernandez, Javier
Heskey, Emile
Hitzlsperger, Thomas
Holland, Matt
Howard, Tim
Hughes, Aaron
Hughes, Mark
Hyppia, Sami
Ince, Paul
Irwin, Denis
Ivanovic, Branislav
Jaaskalainen, Jussi
Jagielka, Phil
James, David
Johnsen, Ronny
Johnson, Glen
Jones, Vinnie
Juninho
Kanchelskis, Andrei
Kane, Harry
Kanu, Nwankwo
Keane, Robbie
Keane, Roy
Kelly, Gary
Keown, Martin
Kerimoglu, Tugay
Kewell, Harry
King, Ledley
Kinkladze, Georgi
Klinsmann, Jurgen
Kolarov, Aleksandar
Kompany, Vincent
Kuyt, Dirk
Lallana, Adam
Lampard, Frank
Larsson, Henrik
Lauren
Laursen, Martin
Le Saux, Graham
Le Tissier, Matthew
Leboeuf, Frank
Lee, Rob
Lehmann, Jens
Lescott, Joleon
Ljungberg, Freddie
Luiz, David
Makelele, Claude
Malouda, Florent
Martyn, Nigel
Mascherano, Javier
Mata, Juan
McAllister, Gary
McAteer, Jason
McClair, Brian
McGrath, Paul
Mcmanaman, Steve
Mellberg, Olof
Merson, Paul
Mertesacker, Per
Milner, James
Milosevic, Savo
Modric, Luca
Murphy, Danny
Nani
Nasri, Samir
Neville, Gary
Neville, Phil
Nilsson, Roland
Nolan, Kevin
Okocha, Jay Jay
Oscar
O'Shea, John
Overmars, Mark
Owen, Michael
Ozil, Mesut
Pallister, Gary
Park, Ji-Sung
Parker, Scott
Parlour, Ray
Pearce, Stuart
Petit, Emanuel
Petrescu, Dan
Petrov, Stilyan
Phillips, Kevin
Pires, Robert
Powell, Chris
Poyet, Gus
Radebe, Lucas
Ramsey, Aaron
Ravaneli, Fabricio
Redknapp, Jamie
Reina, Pepe
Reyes, Jose Antinio
Richards, Micah
Riise, John Arne
Robben, Arjen
Robinio
Robson, Bryan
Ronaldo, Christiano
Rooney, Wayne
Rosicky, Tomas
Rush, Ian
Sagna, Bacary
Saha, Louis
Sanchez, Alexis
Schmichael, Peter
Scholes, Paul
Schurrle, Andre
Schwarzer, Mark
Seaman, David
Sharpe, Lee
Shearer, Alan
Sherringham, Edward
Sherwood, Tim
Silva, David
Silva, Gilberto
Silvestre, Mikael
Skrtel, Martin
Solano, Nobby
Solskjaer, Ole Gunnar
Song, Alex
Sorensen, Thomas
Southall, Neville
Southgate, Gareth
Speed, Gary
Stam, Jaap
Staunton, Steve
Stirling, Raheem
Sturridge, Daniel
Suarez, Luis
Sutton, Chris
Taylor, Ian
Terry, John
Tevez, Carlos
Torres, Fernando
Toure, Kolo
Toure, Yaya
Upson, Matthew
Valencia, Antonio
Van Bronkhorst, Giovanni
Van Der Sar, Edwin
Van Der Vaart, Rafael
Van Hooijdonk, Pierre
Van Nistelrooy
Van Persie, Robin
Vialli, Gianluca
Vidic, Nemanja
Viduka, Mark
Vieira, Patrick
Waddle, Chris
Walcott, Theo
Walker, Des
Wanchope, Paulo
Westerveld, Sander
Wiltord, Sylvain
Winterburn, Nigel
Wise, Dennis
Woodgate, Jonathan
Wright, Ian
Wright, Mark
Wright-Phillips, Shaun
Yeboah, Tony
Yorke, Dwight
Young, Ashley
Zabaleta, Pablo
Zamora, Bobby
Ziege, Christian
Zola, Gianfranco

Sorry for the delay. I blame tapatalk for being shit. Anyway...

TINO ASPRILLA

MattBackHome said:

Sorry for the delay. I blame tapatalk for being shit. Anyway...

TINO ASPRILLA

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I really wanted to pick him but couldn't find a category for him.

Shatner's Bassoon said:

I really wanted to pick him but couldn't find a category for him.

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He won the league in Colombia back in 91 (I believe!)

mattbackhome said:

he won the league in colombia back in 91 (i believe!)

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boom!

MattBackHome said:

He won the league in Colombia back in 91 (I believe!)

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Good stuff. What an entertainer he was. Even made turning up at Newcastle airport into an event!

Rohana said:

I was about to pick Heskey. Bugger.

He was a very good player at Leicester and Liverpool.

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Went downhill somewhat at Villa and Birmingham, and one of those players that you can never quite understand how he got as far as he did, but he's part of team Worthingite, and a welcome addition at that. Gives me options and alternatives

[MENTION=1135]Cullip4[/MENTION] is up from 23:25

shaolinpunk said:

http://www.theguardian.com/football...la-launch-line-condoms-colombia-guava-flavour

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I don't know how I'd feel buying condoms that were only one letter away from saying tiny on them.

Worthingite said:

Went downhill somewhat at Villa and Birmingham, and one of those players that you can never quite understand how he got as far as he did, but he's part of team Worthingite, and a welcome addition at that. Gives me options and alternatives

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Don't think there are many better hold-up men in this draft. He chipped in with goals on a decent enough basis at his first two clubs (well 1 in 4) but the amount of assists he would be have been responsible is probably higher than the amount of goals he scored himself. A very useful addition.

Need to add some pace to the squad, surprisingly there are a number of great wingers still available, this fella gets the nod as he can fill in up top or wide allowing me to change formations to suit opposition.

The Latvian Michael Owen.......it's Marian Pahars!


[MENTION=1023]Shuggie[/MENTION] your up!

My next pick is a lethal striker who has a Premier League record of 1 goal in just under every 140 minutes, puttin ghim in the top 10 lethal strikers in Premier League history.

During the 2011–12 Premier League season, he scored four goals in one game for Manchester City, completing a "perfect hat-trick" against Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane. On the final day of that season, he scored an equaliser against Queens Park Rangers in the 92nd minute, before Sergio Agüero won it for City with seconds to go, ensuring the team won a league title for the first time in 44 years. - He later stated that the goal was one of the most important of his career.

With 50 goals in 125 games, my next pick is:
EDIN DZEKO

[MENTION=5392]Reinelt12[/MENTION] you're up

Can't always be sure with these foreign chappies and their peculiar names but don't think he's been picked yet:

• Current player
• Over 50 Brazilian caps
• Deffo cost a bob or two

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Shuggie said:

Can't always be sure with these foreign chappies and their peculiar names but don't think he's been picked yet:

• Current player
• Over 50 Brazilian caps
• Deffo cost a bob or two

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Oh FFS this last midfelder spot is turning out to be a biatch !!!! I had Rob Lee pencilled in - he went, then Redknapp - he went, spent 3 hours this morning researching and picked......Ramires!! Back to the drawing board

I'm here. Give me a few minutes and my much awaited picks will begin!

Guy Fawkes said:

HIs Premier League record is 29 games for Forest, 7 goals but could be a good pick for a couple of the more tricky categories

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To be honest I picked him more for the name and reputation, some people seem to be choosing players based on this rather than actuall PL record.