anyone for a game of fantasy f*ckwit?

[Stevie H]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/aug/22/fantasyfwit-football

 

You've played Fantasy Football. Now try Fantasy F**wit, the game that more accurately reflects the fan's-eye enjoyment of Premiership football.

 

The idea came to founder Keith Rogers while watching Tottenham Hotspur play West Ham last August. "Within minutes of Carlton Cole scoring a goal to put West Ham ahead, he had played a pin-point back pass straight to Jermain Defoe to equalise," he says. "I thought, 'We really don't do enough to acknowledge that kind of mistake.' So I went home and wrote up a few rules."

 

Over the course of last season the rules were refined, the website renamed fantasyfwit.com – to avoid problems with spam filters – and the game is now up and running for anyone to play.

 

Each week you have to pick a team you reckon are most likely to screw up: you are awarded points according to the accuracy of your prediction. There are any number of ways to acquire points, but the basics are as follows. All players on a losing team score one point – that's doubled if you lose by three goals or more. The most disappointing player on the pitch, chosen by a panel of F**wit experts scores an extra three points. (On the first weekend of the season this accolade went to Wayne Rooney.) An own goal gets you three points – with a bonus for comedy value – as does giving away a penalty.

 

A red card is worth four points, a yellow two. F**wit yellows, such as taking your shirt off for goal celebrations, are worth two. Points are on offer for getting sacked or quitting, injuries in pre-match warm ups, punch-ups (on or off the pitch), comedy hairstyles or facial hair, (so Joey Barton this week), or kissing the badge.

 

Off-duty behaviour – fathering a love child, getting caught in a nightclub at 3am, being done for speeding, or cheating on a Wag – also gets rewarded handsomely. Celebrating mediocrity, stupidity and failure, it's the football game you've always wanted to play.

 

http://www.fantasyfwit.com/

[_00_deathscar]

Some of the s*** we've been linked with this summer should be star players in this game.

[Tosh]

Oh for the days of a Bramble/Boumsong central defence