Jose Mourinho and Tim Sherwood headed into today’s meeting at Stamford Bridge with their jobs on the line, if reports were to be believed.
And, whilst the Villa boss has taken a massive gamble with his team selection in deploying the likes of Jordan Ayew and Kieran Richardson, that’s not going to affect anyone’s fantasy football team. If it does, you don’t deserve to play any longer.
More frustrating, however, was Mourinho’s decision to bench Eden Hazard in what is being billed as a do-or-die game.
But no-one cares about Jose throwing the dice. They care about their Fantasy team. And Chelsea playing at home to Villa of course attracted a lot of punters to employ the Blues’ best player as their skipper.
#FPL UPDATE@hazardeden10 was
Captained by 232,840
Triple Captained by 2,780The Belgian is on the bench #CHEAVL pic.twitter.com/8M2a33jGML
— Premier League (@premierleague) October 17, 2015
232,840, Jose!
Spare a thought for the Wild Card users. Looks like this chap’s bringing in Sanchez.
@FPL_Fly my WC team, like the look of it Hazard captain tomorrow if he flops can bring in sanchez next week, good? pic.twitter.com/xNXxNSBzwe
— Mandeep Sital (@mandeep1903) October 16, 2015
And it was a familiar feeling for some others…
Hazard dropped? I made him captain for this game week. Why am I even trying? #Fpl
— Kanchan Shrestha (@kanchan15ha) October 17, 2015
Sweet, leave hazard on your bench, he's my bloody captain Mourinho you fuck pot. 😡
— Khizar Bhandari (@Khizerb316) October 17, 2015
Eden Hazard is not starting!!! My FPL Captain
Daniel Sturridge is injured!!! My FPL Vice Captain
I'm Fu*ked :'( why always me :/#HH8
— Football Arena Pak (@ArenaPakis) October 17, 2015
@JoeyCarts23 hazard triple captain… Benched. Cheers Jose
— Tennis (@gameandfirstset) October 17, 2015
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