It’s official – I have given up trying to select a captain! With Bony getting my teams captaincy arm band, he was benched by Swansea. I was ok though, because Downing was my vice captain and had 10 points, but alas, Bony came off the bench and played 15 minutes, getting one point. I’m absolutely clueless […]
Author: Bruce
Dear Santa: a sports fan’s Christmas wish list
2014 has flown by quicker than a Dale Steyn short ball and Christmas is all of a sudden upon us. It’s been busy here at LeftBacks HQ, so we totally forgot to send our wish list to the North Pole. Luckily, we’re confident that a week is enough time for the fat, bearded old man to get our […]
Fantasy Premier League Gameweek 16
This past weekend was one where the big names flopped. Meaning points were low. Diego Costa started things off in the early kick-off by drawing a blank in front of goal and picked up a yellow card to boot, scoring only one point. Aguero got injured after just 6 minutes, Hazard got two points but […]
Can the Proteas win the World Cup?
The relationship between South African sports fans and the Proteas is a strange one. If the Proteas were your boyfriend / girlfriend / husband / wife, the scenario might look like this: You have an amazing relationship, you’re constantly traveling to exotic places around the world, ticking hundreds of things off your bucket list each year. You […]
Fantasy Premier League Gameweek 15
Aguero, Aguero, Aguero! DAMNIT AGUERO. It’s one thing not being able to afford Aguero, and instead have Costa, Hazard, Sanchez, or all three of them – it’s a whole other thing having Aguero and not captaining him. I was one of those fools. I was convinced that Sunderland would put up a similar fight to what […]
Running Shoe Diaries: update
After some convincing from the rest of the LeftBacks team, two weeks ago I decided to put my running story into words and to my surprise it got quite a decent reception. You can read that first post here. I’m still amazed at the response it received. Both Health24 and a magazine in Australia emailed to ask for permission to […]
SportsBetting – 2 December
Every now and then we like to place a little wager on the football (sometimes rugby, cricket and golf too) So keep a look out if you want to see which way we are leaning. We’ll often pick outsiders if the odds are tempting. The LeftBacks Single, Double and Treble Bets for today Single: Liverpool to beat Leicester […]
Fantasy Premier League Gameweek 14
This weekend was the most bizarre week of Fantasy Football this season – I looked around at everyone’s captaincy choices, and wondered whether I chose the correct one. Di Maria went off after 13 minutes with a tight hamstring and I officially had a captaincy nightmare. But then other teams captains played, Sanchez and Hazard got three and Costa […]
Fantasy Premier League Gameweek 13
I often wonder if making fantasy changes does more bad than good. Sometimes I’ll make a change and the player I brought in gets the same number of points as the one I took out, or if I take a 4 point hit, I never really get the points returned. Last week I didn’t make any changes. […]
Southampton’s bubble is about to burst
Put your hand up if you thought Southampton were on the relegation shortlist this season. My hand’s up. In fact, before the season kicked off, I went online and looked at the odds of them going down as I fancied putting money on it, but the odds weren’t worth it. Who remembers the Saints spine last year? It […]