FC Clowder City, sponsored by the Clowder Press, is the only FPL team whose players are selected their cat factor.  

How are we doing?

Well, we can report cautious improvement. According to the FPL stat crunchers, our average weekly haul is 50 points against a global average of 56, which is one more than last month. We had our Finest Hour to date in GW24 when we chalked up 99 points.  So, a very tiny hurrah to us.  

The past few Gameweeks have been more than usually exciting as we have had Double Gameweeks where some teams have played twice in one week, and Blank Gameweeks, where some haven’t played at all. You have to be on your toes in this game, which is very easy for cats as they are permanently on their toes, what with being digitigrade.

Or, how they do this, see How Cats Work, a Clowder Press Essential title. 

One of the teams that played twice was Liverpool, whose captain, the superlative Mo Salah, is also the captain of FC Clowder City.  Not only does he have cats,  he is also Egyptian and currently a favourite twinkle in the eye of Bastet the God Goddess. He has been spectacular.   

Squad News

Roger has suggested some tweaks, which we have implemented .

Core Squad

Bernd Leno GK 

Defence

Rúben Gato Dias  

Milos Kerkez 

Djed  Spence  

Midfield

Mo Salah 

Ismaila Sarr 

Thomas Partey

Idrissa Gueye

Forwards

Omar Marmoush

Liam Delap

Bench

Darwin Núñez

Ben Johnson

Oleksandr Zinchenko

Out

We have had to sacrifice midfielder  Pape Matar Sarr (sorry) to bring back the glorious Bukayo Saka. We chose Sarr because he is not currently in form, but will always reconsider.

In

Bukayo Saka, back at last, and seemingly restored. And even if he is not up to full speed yet, we want him in our team because he is such a very splendid chap. 

Insights

• Djed Spence: it seems that Bastet has deserted him for now. He acquired a Yellow Card and scored just one point in his last game. However, Bastet is capricious and so we are keeping faith , as Spence is an actual pharaoh.

• Rúben Gato Dias: back on the park and in perky form.

Bench News

• Darwin Núñez: he has annoyed the Liverpool manager, and so has been demoted to the bench IRL,  subbed on for a mere 15 minutes in the second half in his last match. Nul points. Roger opines that he may be gone by the end of the season, so we shouldn’t overinvest. 

• Ben Johnson: he is simply off his game, but is safely stored on our bench.

• Oleksandr Zinchenko: has seemingly gone full cat and is still asleep

Quality in the Final Third

Currently we have 915 points, which is not brilliant, but we have only been playing since GW 12, so  naturally we are behind all those who started from the beginning. Next season we will Rule. The FPL community seem stunned that Susan Clarke topped the FPL on 29 March , despite being a woman , 67 years old, and choosing her teams using paper, pencil and original thought. Won’t it scramble their algorithms if next season a team managed by cats reaches the top….

Go Clowder City!