What a finish!

And no, I'm not talking about the EPL.

Aaron's despair when he realised he'd left Jelavic on the bench

The end of the '11-'12 Fantasy EPL season caused as much drama as the real action itself.  While most of the season didn't cause too much drama with Bridesmaid XI, managed by Rafa Walker, being out in front from the word 'go', the end caused a few hearts to flutter.

With only 3 gameweeks to play the Bridesmaids had a comfortable 40-odd point lead over 005 (managed by Arry Lister).  Energy247nz (managed by Alex Goodall) was a further 10 points back, with Lachlan Jol rounding out the Champions League spots another 20-odd points back.  The lead was so comfortable that Lister ever conceded defeat via Twitter (imagine if politicians did that!).

All hell was to break loose though in a round when 8 teams had double headers, and the tweet mysteriously disappeared.  005, with nothing to lose, selected a certain Spanish Scouser reject who went on to bag a hatrick.  He also had R VdV as his captain who earned double points over two games where he scored two, had an assist as well as a nice handful of bonus points.  Jelavic (who it was rumoured would later refuse to play due to wage demands) also bagged a double while Mata got 4 (yes 4) assists in a 6-1 rout over QPR.  All of this meant that an imposing 116 score was posted and the once mighty lead was reduced to...zero.  With 2 game weeks to go, it was all tied up at the top.

The penultimate round found the aforementioned Spanish reject come up with nothing as his team of dickheads and cheats lost 4-1 at the mighty Liverpool, while cross town neighbours Everton played out a bore draw with Wolves meaning Jelavic came up with nothing.  005 panicked and made 2 subs during the week which cost him 4 points (while returning very little), while Bridesmaids XI kept their cool and made just the one free sub.  At the end of the round it stayed close with Bridesmaids clawing back a 3 point lead.

The final round is one that will give Arry and his 005 team nightmares for years to come.  Inexplicably Arry chose to make another 2 subs which cost him another 4 points, as well as keep the previously consistent Jelavic on the bench in favour of the 'hot then not' Torres who wasn't even guaranteed much game time in a Chelsea outfit with an eye on the Champions League final.  The extra sub was used to bring in a personal favourite of Arry (some might even say his man-crush), Moses.  Unfortunately for Arry, Moses failed to part the defense and only scored 1 point in a 57min appearance.  Torres also only picked up 1 point for playing a 22 minute cameo.  The star of the show was Jelavic who picked up a goal and 2 bonus points in an 8 point haul.  For reasons unknown to anyone however, Arry decided to bench his star player.  Some say there were wage demands, others say Arry benched him to accommodate his man-crush, others still say he was benched for not scoring the week before despite scoring 7 goals in 6 games at one point.  Whatever the reason, Arry must feel sick.  The 7 extra points that Jelavic earned over Torres would have been enough to tie with Bridesmaids, and if he had remained calm and composed and not made the extra subs in the final two weeks we would quite probably be looking at different winner.

As it was, Bridesmaids XI, like City in the real game, held their nerve when it counted and did what had to be done to get the result, and just like in the actual EPL, good prevailed over evil.  The Bridesmaids have become the Brides.

The rest of the table had Goodall and Lepper rounding out the CL spots, Hinkley coming in 5th despite missing the first two weeks, with Mead, Aitofi taking to relegation spots and the ironically named 'Team Winning' managed by Kilford getting the ol spoon.

Newcastle were the stars of the Bridesmaid outfit with Krul and the defenders picking up valuable points early on with Ba and Cisse being rotated in and out to drastic effect.

As a side note, Joey Barton has got to be the biggest twat there is.  He tweeted after the game "Once I'd been sent off, one of our players suggested I should try to take 1 of theirs with me..."

Fantasy EURO2013 is just round the corner.  Who's gonna take on the champ?  Bring it.