So, I went to Elland Road on Wednseday with my Dad to watch Leeds vs Southend. I'm not a Leeds fan (Everton ftw) but my Dad is a lifelong fan and used to go to every game before he got lumbered with a familly. For those not familiar with the English football league there are 4 professional leagues each consisting of ~20 teams. The teams are promoted/relegated based on their performance in the league and once they get in to the top division, the Premier League, they can qualify for european competitions and the like. Leeds United are currently in the 3rd tier of English football, League 1 as it is known (top is premier, 2nd is championship, league 1, league 2 etc). They were in the top league for many years and have had great success, but due to some financial mis-management and some poor transfer decisions they have gone from one of the top 6 teams in the country to mediocre League 1 obscurity. They also lost a playoff to get in to the Championship last season to my hometown team Doncaster Rovers so needless to say the fans are pretty pissed and they are getting 1/2 the attendance they used to when they were in the top league (averaging just over 20,000 this year I think).

Anyway Leeds won the game 2-0 despite not playing too great and now sit just outside a playoff place. They have just got a new manager who I think has the capabilites to get them back in the championship so even though I'm not a fan it would be nice to see them go back up and start doing well again (particularly when there are such minion clubs like Nottingham Forest in that league )

Fantasy Football is getting exciting again at this time of the year as well. I'm in a $200 2p2 league and currently sitting in 3rd/28. There is quite a bit of dead money but the top end of the league is very competitive and high scoring. It's all very close and I just hope I don't finish 4th and bubble. Also the person organising let some guy who finsihed 3rd overall last year and top 10 the year before (out of over 1m players) play and he is about 100 points adrift at the top. Catchable but ffs seems pretty rogged to me. Here is my team, if you are familiar with fantasy premier league and have any suggestions let me know:

1: Reina

2: Konchesky

3: Bosingwa

4: Vidic

5: Young L

6: Arteta

7: Lennon

8: Ronaldo
(C)

9: Denilson

10: Defoe

11: Robinho

12: Sorensen
Goalkeeper
13: Figueroa
Defender
14: McCann
Midfielder

So on to a brief poker update. I f'd myself in the A after cashing out a sizable chunk of my stars roll when the x rate looked good at ~1.45/1 about mid jan. Doomswitched straight after that and had to deposit or play 1/2 for a week or two. Ended up making a smallish deposit with the £ at a 23 year low vs the $, fml. I try and keep an eye on these things and read up as best I can so it is v frustrating to get pwned like this. Oh well, I had a good week after that and am up about 10k since so that alleviated some of the life tilt issues of the whole incident. I also played betfair a few days while I waited in vain for the £ to pick up. PLO games seem pretty incredible on there and 5/10 is significantly softer than stars 5/10. The regs are fairly decent for the most part but there is just so much more dead money. Unfortunately there isn't enough traffic/the software is too tilting for me to make it my regular site but I'l def be checking out the action on there from time to time.

And finally I have a 5/10 vid out today, if you have any thoughts plz to be pming me/leaving comments in the forum.

Gl all,

Rob.

Edit, almost forgot, fallen a little behind pace due to stars hiatus:

VPPS for the year:

65,444.