The Boot Room - Season 3

Welcome!!!

In it's first season, the Boot Room had to adjust to the pace of the premier league, with its unique demands on technique and fitness. Last season we began to see the true quality that the Boot Room has to offer, with flashes of brilliance from Tom and Riis but also some of the tactical naivety (yes, CT, I'm talking about you) that gets punished in this, the toughest of leagues. This season the Boot Room returns as a seasoned pro, but still feels a shiver of excitement at the thought of the season to come ...

So do you want a piece of the exciting Boot Room action?

If so, then sign up now at:
http://fantasy.premierleague.com/

The Guardian site we used last year isn't running again this year, so I've shopped around a bit and this one seems pretty good: it's simple, free, and has an exciting head-to-head league option, more on which below. First games are NEXT WEEK, so sign up soon if you don't want to fall behind. (You can join later, though.)

It's easy to sign up. A couple of notes on the site:
1) The username is not the same as the team name, so it doesn't have to be annoyingly long and difficult to type in, unlike mine.
2) There's a pointless pick-your-team-colo(u)rs boondoggle!
3) There are free unlimited transfers until the first game of the season next week.

And there are two leagues for the price of one! It isn't any more work in picking players etc., but I've set up two leagues. "The Boot Room" is the classic points accumulation league like last year. In the head-to-head league, teams in the league are matched up against each other each week and compete according to the week's scores, getting 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw -- JUST LIKE THE REAL THING!!! (No idea what happens if we have an odd number of teams in the league.)