Dear All,

Yes they're off!!!!

Well if truth be told, they've been off for a few weeks now (just like Bazza's gonks) but as I said before, the Daily Tel really needs to get its act together when it comes to the running of this year's FF league.

For some reason, they no longer send me score updates so I will have to cut and paste from the websites from now on - which is a bit of a pain.

Anyway, enough of my moaning, I'm now a happily married man and just back from honeymoon to focus on my FF duties. It's time to get down to business and reveal who's hot and who's not after the first six weeks.

In the Premier League, despite numerous distractions, I'm pleased to report that the chairman leads the way on 268 points, ahead of Flexysmidniterunners on 260 and Diaby Does Dallas on 257.

The UEFA Cup positions are occupied by Support Your Own LFC and The Blue Monkeys, who have shaken off a dodgy start to take their place alongside the elite at the Premier League dining table.

Still, it's very tight with no fewer than 15 managers having already passed the 200 point mark.

Meanwhile, passing wind at the bottom of the table are newly promoted The Busted Sofas, accompanied by True Blue Strikers and Yer Ma's Athletic.

Too early to start rejoicing or panicking at this stage but... GET IN THERE!!!!!

In the Conference League, a new face leads the race for promotion in the shape of Arnie Thom's Inshallah - ahead of the perenially awfully named SOMEMAN4ONEMAN and Bazkinginglory (God loves a trier!).

The two Jenkins brothers are in hot pursuit (rather them than the Kray twins), as are Hoofers Utd, Liquidator FC, Joeys Monsters and the Prince of Darkness.

Across all divisions, this week's highest scorer was Gunning for Glory with an impressive 73 points, ahead of the Blue Monkeys and Gazza's Piping Hots on 69 (my favourite number).

Receiving a slap in the love spuds with a wet towel this week are Gulladuff FF on 26 points, along with Bleedin Red on 33 and the Well Hungarians on 34.

So, it's great to be back... and back in contention for the biggest prize in football.

Lots of new options in terms of formation and plenty of goals from the big hitters (apart from Fat Frank Lampard).

Hope you haven't wasted too many transfers already!!! There's a long long way to go.

Until next week then............

.......... READ 'EM AND WEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Michael R.

Diving in the Box FF League Chairman

http://divinginthebox.blogspot.com/

DITB PREMIER LEAGUE

Pos		Manager	Team	Week 6 Pts.	Total Pts.	League Pos
1		Mr Michael Rafferty	The Grapes of Raff	57	268	2331
2		Mr Brendan Kelly	flexysmidniterunners	60	260	4400
3		Mr Paul Brogan	Diaby Does Dallas	43	257	5536
4		Mr Conor Walls	Support your own LFC	58	247	10966
5		Mr Brian Shields	The Blue Monkeys	69	241	15771
6		Mr Kurt Festraerts	Ibiza Town FC	48	236	20722
7		Mr Gary McDonald	Gazzas Piping Hots	69	236	20722
8		Mr Mark Stevenson	Probably the best	60	235	21825
9		Mr John McDermott	Sofa King Easy	45	232	25270
10		Mr Kevin McCauley	KFC Academical	48	224	36414
11		Mr Brendan Devlin	Brendys Bruisers	42	219	44738
12		Mr Mark Molloy	Harpic Amsterdam	38	215	51782
13		Dr Owen McNally	Maclacticos	45	213	55545
14		Mr Geoff Johnston	Minus Three FC	44	208	65129
15		Mr Declan Crudden	Bleedin Red	33	205	71113
16		Mr William Cherry	Cherry United	39	195	91501
17		Mr Andy Kirby	Kirbs Crawlers	56	188	105418
18		Mr Francis Jones	Yer Mas Athletic	54	188	105418
19		Mr Jules Eilledge	True Blue Strikers	36	187	107364
20		Mr Conor Donnelly	The Busted Sofas	52	180	120284

League Average	League Position
254.60	513

CONFERENCE LEAGUE

Pos	C	Manager	Team	Week 6 Pts.	Total Pts.	League Pos
1		Mr Arnold Thom	Inshallah	49	243	13984
2		Mr Brendan Henry	SOMEMAN4ONEMAN	62	238	18533
3		Mr Barry Corr	bazkinginglory	39	233	24067
4		Mr Simon Jenkins	Stickshifter United	54	230	27798
5		Mr Andrew Jenkins	The Rio Chargers	46	228	30482
6		Mr Gareth Bradley	Hoofers UTD	66	225	34872
7		Mr Philip Risley	LIQUIDATOR FC	50	221	41227
8		Mr Andrew McCabe	Joeys Monsters	62	218	46422
9		Mr Gavin Sheehy	Prince of Darkness	47	217	48274
10		Mr Barry Jones	Gunning For Glory	73	208	65129
11		Mr Conor Nugent	the well hungarians	34	197	87513
12		Mr Brendan Henry	GULLADUFF FF	26	190	101479
13		Mr Austin McGinley	Boys Of Summer	45	188	105418
14		Mr Colm Mckenna	mugsys barber	41	185	111148
15		Mr Alan McCabe	Dirty Dubs XI	60	184	112998
16		Mr Christopher Cherry	Red Cherry Devils	40	184	112998
17		Mrs Claire McCabe	Minibabybelle FC	43	180	120284
18		Mr Connell McGinley	Con Villa	44	177	125681
19		Mr S P O'Sullivan	LICENCE TO ROAM	58	166	142358

League Average	League Position
234.40	2743

League Table.

Team Name (Manager)	Week	Total
1	Diaby Does Dallas (Paul Brogan)	48	214
2	The Grapes of Raff (Michael Rafferty)	32	211
3	flexysmidniterunners (Brendan Kelly)	51	200
4	Support your own LFC (Conor Walls)	24	189
5	Ibiza Town FC (Kurt Festraerts)	31	188
6	Sofa King Easy (John McDermott)	33	187
7	Brendys Bruisers (Brendan Devlin)	39	177
8	Harpic Amsterdam (Mark Molloy)	26	177
9	KFC Academical (Kevin McCauley)	35	176
10	Probably the best (Mark Stevenson)	35	175
11	Bleedin Red (Declan Crudden)	40	172
12	The Blue Monkeys (Brian Shields)	22	172
13	Maclacticos (Owen McNally)	34	168
14	Gazzas Piping Hots (Gary McDonald)	26	167
15	Minus Three FC (Geoff Johnston)	39	164
16	Cherry United (William Cherry)	22	156
17	True Blue Strikers (Jules Eilledge)	20	151
18	Yer Mas Athletic (Francis Jones)	24	134
19	Kirbs Crawlers (Andy Kirby)	26	132
20	The Busted Sofas (Conor Donnelly)	23	128