I'm glad that a lot of the readers of my blog are playing and following the fantasy EPL game.  It makes me feel less silly about gloating about how I am doing on a semi-regular basis!  

Thanks in no small part to yesterday's hat trick by the ugliest footballer alive (with apologies to Joleon Lescott, Wayne Rooney, Ronaldinho, and Luke Chadwick), I am now ranked 672nd in the world (out of more than 2.2 million playing the game).  With 1256 points, I now have the 13th highest score in the US (out of over 69,000).  However, although that is (barely) enough to put me top of our league, I have my primary rivals - Asa and his brother - right on my tail.

Other notables in the league are Asa (2nd place, 1248 points), Asa's brother Louie (3rd, 1247), my cousin Pranav (6th, 1203), Asa's father Richard (11th, 1131), my brother Prabhav (13th, 1115), good friend and BFP member Ron (27th, 1048), and fellow BFP member James Cross (30th, 972).

My current team looks like this:

GK:  Thomas Sorensen, Joe Hart

D: Ashley Cole, Branislav Ivanovic, Patrice Evra, William Gallas, Ryan Shawcross

M: Andrei Arshavin, Antonio Valencia, Clint Dempsey, Charles N'Zogbia, Jamie O'Hara

F: Wayne Rooney, Carlos Tevez, Darren Bent