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The First Name On Your Team Sheet...
And so the proper stuff returns, and with it Fantasy Football.
Cue wasted working hours of poring over assist stats, bemoaning 'that t**t' bagging a hat-trick the week after you've dropped him, and wondering what whiners like Steve Coppell have been complaining about - this management lark is a bloody doddle.
Still, you may think you've got it licked, but face it people - you're going to need some help. And that's where we come in.
For the opening weekend, the safe option is to go with tried and trusted points machines. Chelsea are playing Portsmouth at home, so Frank Lampard will get you some points. Arsenal have West Brom, therefore Emmanuel Adebayor will be a decent bet.
All logical, but where's the fun, eh?
The first name that should be on everyone's team sheet is Darren Bent. Laughed at last season, people forgot that, while he's probably not worth £16million, Bent is more than a decent striker.
31 goals in 68 top-flight games for Charlton tells you that, and what's more it looks like he's going to be the only established centre-forward at White Hart Lane when the season begins.
And with the myriad supporting talents of Luka Modric, David Bentley, Giovani Dos Santos and Aaron Lennon whizzing around like Wacky Races cars behind him, Bent may well plunder goals, goals, goals this season.
Spurs kick off at Middlesbrough on Saturday, and Bent will have a fighting chance of adding to a phenomenal pre-season scoring record oop narth.
When the established Premier League clubs looked down their fixture lists to see when they play the three promoted sides, they will surely have prayed not to draw one of them away on the opening weekend.
As Spurs found out on opening day last term in losing at a hostile Stadium of Light, it's without doubt the trickiest time to play one of the newbies.
Fulham drew the short straw this time around, as they will have to take their reshaped side to the giddy Hull City. While it's admittedly a little tricky to pick out many attacking threats in Phil Brown's side, Geovanni started last season at Manchester City superbly, and he's looked in decent shape during Hull's friendly outings.
One place where things aren't looking great at the moment is Blackburn. Most of their players want to leave if you believe the papers, largely because of Paul Ince. Again, if you believe the papers.
Therefore, the one thing they will have hoped for is an easy start, but the fixture computer has proved to be something of a heartless b***ard. Everton away is the assignment, and even the dashingly handsome attacking talents of Roque Santa Cruz may struggle to breach the Toffees' famously miserly back line.
Joleon Lescott was the key member of that defence last term, and there's little to suggest their stingy ways won't continue this term.
This week's recommendations: Darren Bent (Fantasy League price £6.4m), Geovanni (£3.5m) and Joleon Lescott (£4.5m)
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