The Nursery Arms XI returns:
| Goal: | ||
| Stewart Taylor | Arsenal | £2m |
| Full backs: | ||
| John Arne Riise | Liverpool | £4m |
| Wayne Bridge | Chelsea | £2m |
| Centre backs: | ||
| Sami Hyypia | Liverpool | £4m |
| Rio Ferdinand | Man Utd | £4m |
| Midfielders: | ||
| Claus Jensen | Charlton | £3m |
| Steed Malbranque | Fulham | £3m |
| Harry Kewell | Leeds | £5m |
| Svetoslav Todorov | Portsmouth | £3m |
| Forwards: | Nicholas Anelka | Man City | £7m |
| James Beattie | Southampton | £8m |
I’m not entering the Telegraph Fantasy Football game this year, just Andi’s (so you’ll know what AFF means when I mention it, won’t you?), in which I got to the quarter finals in the Cup last season.
This year’s team raises the following questions (feel free to post answers, and perhaps your own questions, in the comments):
- Will Arsenal be any good this year? Everyone seems ready to write them off, but I’m not so sure.
- Will Wayne Bridge get any matches? Chelsea seems now to be full of so many good players that they can’t possibly all get a run-out every week.
- Will Todorov be up to Premiership standard? He was awesome in the First Division, but this is a whole new league (haha!). I also note that he was injured in training today.
- Will Beattie have to play second fiddle to Phillips at Southampton – or will they be the dream team?
- And, as they said when they sold me that endowment policy, past performance is no guide to future returns. So which young gun should I have picked?