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52ndEpi - GW28 - Small haystack...smaller needle! With only 4 FPL fixtures on offer this game week, finding viable options is like looking in a small haystack for an even smaller needle! Fortunately FPL community regular Sid joins all the way from India to help the surgeons find a range of players for this slender game week. How many players are acceptable for GW28 is going to be the question on many of your lips? We discuss this with Side providing some great statistical insight into what you should be aiming for. Liverpool appear the most tempting side on offer with a home fixture against a Burnley side that have been awful on the road. Who will you pick from their star front 3? Swansea's superstar front 2 in Siggy and Llorente have been tearing up the league in the last few weeks but should you double up and do the Swans provide any options at the back? Will the impressive and Everton and WBA fixture stick to form or offer little more than a deadlock? And do Bournemouth and West Ham offer anything more

51stEpi - DGW27 - Pancakes with the FPL General! It's pancake day and the resident surgeons have very different toppings following an eventful gameweek, where Kane's stock took a rise and Gareth McAuley continued his search for the golden boot! See who came out on top as the Iceman and Bully duel for chief Surgeon status! You all loved the General so much (as did we) that we brought him back and as usual he makes some sound choices as well as raising a few names who may not have been in the thinking. Following our bonus pod we discuss the developing potential of a Manchester City double game week, whilst keeping in mind the dilemma of a fixture baron GW28. All in or conservative you ask? Well tune in and find out on this weeks edition of the fantasy football surgery podcast! *Apologies for sound quality in sections- internet was playing like Arthur Boruc this season! Please join the Fantasy Football Surgery Podcast league 17603-6718 https://soundcloud.com/fantasyfootballsurgery/ www.fantasyfootballsurger

50thEpi(b) - DGW27? - Commit to Pep? SHOCK IN THE FPL UNIVERSE! Man City are just one win against Huddersfield shy of a double game week in 27! This news was announced shortly after episode 50 of the Fantasy Football Surgery was released so we thought it was important that we consider all the issues around this potential (and likely!) situation! Who are the form players to pick for City? Do Stoke present viable options with their double game week potential? How heavily do you commit to an improving City side? Bully and the Iceman consider this with a word of caution on an issue that is in no way as clear cut as it may seem! Tune in and listen back if you have not already to episode 50, part A and B of the Fantasy Football Surgery Podcast! #upthepod Please join the Fantasy Football Surgery Podcast league 17603-6718 www.fantasyfootballsurgery.com www.facebook.com/fantasyfootballsurgery Twitter - @FF_Surgery Email - ffsurgerypodcast@yahoo.com

50thEpi - GW26 - Iceman vs JNO ft. Leicester We've made it! A half century of podcasts and who better to join us to celebrate than previous guest and YouTube regular JNO United! Once again he brings strong opinion and a differential view on fixtures that may seem cut and dry! Listen as the Iceman and JNO, two FPL titans clash over Liverpool and Leicester! Gameweek 26 and 28 dominate our thoughts with Liverpool now an option. Who are the most viable options from Klopp's men and should you be thinking about double and trebles? We scour the upcoming gameweek fixtures for the best choices, ones to avoid and a mixture of captain options. All this and more as we celebrate 50 episodes of the Fantasy Football Surgery Podcast! #upthepod Please join the Fantasy Football Surgery Podcast league 17603-6718 www.fantasyfootballsurgery.com www.facebook.com/fantasyfootballsurgery Twitter - @FF_Surgery Email - ffsurgerypodcast@yahoo.com

49thEpi - GW25 - Rise again Join the surgeons and guest FPL Chief (@FPLhints) to review the upcoming game week with all the fallout of a certain Belgium strikers 4 star antics! How has this affected the thinking when it comes to striker selection? What does this mean for a previous go to Argentine? Has he lost the love of the FPL community or is there still time for Sergio? Striker chat is the theme for the week with so many options firing at the moment. Is it time to free up some much needed cash from the stuttering Arsenal's Sanchez? Many of you have defensive questions with a focus on 5 million and under long term choices. We offer a range of options and consider their worth. We review all the gameweek's fixtures, pick our captains and answer the call of social media in this week's Fantasy Football Surgery Podcast! Please join the Fantasy Football Surgery Podcast league 17603-6718 www.fantasyfootballsurgery.com www.facebook.com/fantasyfootballsurgery Twitter - @FF_Surgery Email - ffsurgerypodcast

48thEpi - GW24 - Kun vs Jesus Peter Blake from the FPL community joins the Iceman and Bully to review the midweek results and analyse the upcoming weekend. His statistical knowledge is impressive and he makes a number of great shouts with a few less obvious! The big financial issue of the week is the expensive Kun's worth vs his prodigy/rival in Gabriel Jesus. Bully's financial argument is challenged by the Iceman's staunch position over the Argentinian! There are a number of contenders for captain this week, and Peter makes a brave but well supported shout whilst the Iceman and Bully consider the usual suspects in Kane and Sanchez. We discuss the potential impact of transfer deadline day and Crystal Palace feature heavily with their discussion. Swansea's activity is not met with quite the same excitement! We answer your social media questions, review the mini league and begin the hype for the weekend on this week's fantasy football surgery podcast! Please join the Fantasy Football Surgery Podcast lea

47thEpi - GW23 - captain conundrum Join the surgeons with special guest Tom Campbell as all the upcoming game week hot topics are put to the sword! The panel are fairly agreed on the must have player for the coming game weeks is but do Spurs offer more essentials with their run of fixtures? A surprising admission by Gooner Bully suggests this may be the case! TC is loving the Everton back line right now and he sparks a Baines vs Coleman debate, at a similar price but offering different skill sets, who will the panel settle on? Not interested in the full backs? Well we have many other defensive options in mind! We all love a cheap fifth midfielder and the surgeons think a gem may be emerging in from the rough of the January transfer window! Will this one enable some big hitters in your side with the extra cash? We announce our cup winner, review the mini league, answer your social media questions and exchange pleasantries on this edition of the Fantasy Football Surgery!Please join the Fantasy Football Su

46thEpi - GW22 - Hazardous Kun selection The past weekend offered some absolute batterings in the BPL and Pep's City side are smarting from an Evertonian lesson. Should you keep hold of Kun or are there better priced options available? Everyone has sat up and taken note of an ever more impressive Spurs side who put 4 past West Brom. Will Kane and co carry on this form against City? Special guest Az, writer for FPL Scout and Twitter community regular, offers some great views and one or two differentials that your resident surgeons had not considered! Is Costa worth backing? Are Saints the same team to rely on defensively? Is Antonio a low cost must have in midfield? Can you rely on Coutinho to quickly return to form? All this is discussed and your social media questions and our cup competition winner announced on this week's edition of the Fantasy Football Surgery Podcast! #upthepod Please join the Fantasy Football Surgery Podcast league 17603-6718 www.fantasyfootballsurgery.com www.facebook.com/fantasy

45thEpi – GW21 – with Yahoo writer FPL General Stand to attention and take note as the surgeons become FPL battlefield medics with the FPL General. A thriving twitter account and regular on the podcast merry go round promise plenty of great advice added to the usual surgery knowledge bombs! For the first time Kun's inclusion isnt guaranteed, and he bares the risk of suspension Guardiola continues to baffle with team selection. Is he essential? Another hot topic is the return of Ake to Chelsea. Is this a cheap way into the rock solid blue backline or do FPL managers need to make a snap transfer? The Iceman offers a caution for owners! We return to the discussion of great value defenders, midfield gems and which of the big hitters up to you need in your team. All this and we still find time to answer your social media questions on this military episode of the Fantasy Football Surgery Podcast! #upthepod Please join the Fantasy Football Surgery Podcast league 17603-6718 www.fantasyfootballsurgery.com www.fac

44thEpi - GW18 - Freaky Friday featuring FPL Thunshot From the Iceman's marketing escapades in Brazil to the guest appearances of Welshman Reece whilst based in Australia, it's fair to say the Fantasy Football Surgery Podcast has always been diversely inclusive! This week we continue that theme with FPL community regular Luke Thunberg joining us all the way from Massachusetts USA! A lot of talk is based on strikers this week, with Costa and Aguero still suspended for the next game week, do you look for a medium term replacement, or a quick fix before the BPL big hitters return? We through a number of names into the pot and look at who the surgeons backed to fill the void. We continue to review all the upcoming Boxing Day fixtures with our usual blend of bleeding obvious through to a few you may not have considered. Does Mourinho’s midfield offer consistent value and can we trust his back 4? Is Origi eve more valuable to Liverpool now Mane is off to the African Cup of nations? Do you rush Coutinho back? I

43rdEpi - GW17 – with injury expert Ben Dinnery The surgeons are joined by FPL community injury guru Ben Dinnery. Ben has long been the go to man for all things FPL injuries and the surgeons welcome him to an extensive chat about FPL and the true world of injuries. If you have ever wondered how BPL injuries are managed and what go into the thinking behind 50/75% ratings, the answers are hear! Ben and the surgeons review the midweek Christmas fixtures and discuss the upcoming gameweek fixtures with some huge ties between City and Arsenal, and the Merseyside derby! Has FPL become an attack biased tactical game this year or is there still value in the defence? The Iceman has strong feelings over this! We are answer your twitters questions, call the captain of the week and overwhelmingly talk all things injury in this special edition of the Fantasy Football Surgery Podcast! Please join the Fantasy Football Surgery Podcast league 17603-6718 www.fantasyfootballsurgery.com www.facebook.com/fantasyfootballsurge

42ndEpi - GW16 - Garden of green It's the first of the busy Christmas festive FPL period fixtures and to treat the listeners we thought we would give you all a bonus pod with our shouts for the mid-week games. Short term options are always tempting in this time but which players offer that beautiful garden of green fixtures on the semi-functioning FPL app and slightly more consistent website? Manchester City were taken apart by Manchester City. A wandering Kolarov and hapless John Stones may be ok against the lesser BPL teams but when a hungry Jamie Vardy turns up it is a very different story! Do City offer them same promise in the absence of Kun and is this Vardy performance the start of something special or just another band wagon? Sanchez has been discussed until we are blue in the face in the last few game weeks but does a free scoring Arsenal offer economic alternatives? We have a few in mind! Chelsea are also bagging points at will but can you look beyond Costa for this game week? With KDB and Firm

Apologies for the bad quality, this was due to the Iceman forgetting IT and recording with his laptop microphone. In a week when FPL lost its darling Kun Aguero to the red mist, the surgeons are face the momentous task of spreading his 13 million war chest around without wasting a penny and with one or two other big names frustrating over the weekend, the rage spreads to the podcast. This calls for a rant! We are guest free but very much in the company of one man who really does capture the feelings of many an FPL manager company. Validate your feelings of dismay with the Sillence rant! So where is this Kun money going? Alexis has been in fine form of late but are there cheaper alternatives? Should you keep the faith in a recently thrifty firmino? Is it worth investing those extra finances in your defence or attack? We answer these questions whilst reviewing each fixture and answer your social media questions as the Iceman and Bully do what they do best... talk FPL! Please join the Fantasy Football Sur

40thEpi - GW14 - The book of Zaha JNO United joins the surgeons again and he's brought his Wilfred Zaha gloating novel! His shout from 4 weeks ago has gone from strength to strength as real FPL differential but will he back him after that harrowing Palace loss! Manchester City vs Chelsea looks to have goals written all over it so who are the surgeons calling other than the obvious and is there any defenders you could take a punt on? Manchester United stumble on but the partnership of Pogba and Ibra looks fruitful, see what value the surgeons think you can place in these two and one potential sleeping giant according to JNO. The big debate this week is who do you swap Coutinho for after that nasty injury? Many a name is mentioned with a few standing out for the panel. We update on our mini-league top 10, the Iceman's cup, answer your social media questions and generally welcome in the festive period with an avalanche of knowledge! Join us as we turn 40 on the Fantasy Football Surgery Podcast! Please joi

39thEpi - GW13 - Emre Can you dig it? The surgeons meet with another guest as Tom Campbell join the pod for a third outing. TC is certainly in the swing of things now with plenty to offer in anticipation of a jam packed FPL weekend. The previous gameweek did not go as planned, with a rare Aguero blank and Liverpool drawing with Southampton nowhere near the thinking of many managers! We all know about the dynamic Liverpool front line but it's another reds midfielder that may surprise a few as an enabler that crops up in conversation. Zlatan is back for Utd and he is getting the iceman's attention, how will you fit him into a front line that also poses Harry Kane as a go to man? We discuss all the upcoming fixtures, answer your social media questions and showcase the regular new feature of the iceman's interval! Please join the Fantasy Football Surgery Podcast league 17603-6718 www.fantasyfootballsurgery.com www.facebook.com/fantasyfootballsurgery Twitter - @FF_Surgery

38thEpi - GW12 - Chorley Rocks the surgeons: part 2 Paul Morgan returns for the second part of our stats fueled international break filler. Has the past week changes the mindset of the surgeons with a feast of glorious FPL fixtures on the horizon? One surgeon got a little excited and jumped rather early... find out who is filled with the same regret as a Wayne Rooney hotel night out! The remaining 5 game week fixtures are reviewed. Sunderland surprisingly offers some promising picks for the medium term. Is Defoe the way to go? Some of you may be panicking with the news of 2 Chelsea superstar injuries. Find out what the surgeons are thinking on this key issue and if alternatives are in the thinking. What is certain is Boro are less than favourable this week and the Chelsea wing backs look like long term winners! The battle of London promotes an interesting dilemma, with the leaky West Ham defence set to face a mercurial Spurs side with their international players in fine form. The Iceman is refreshingly b

37thEpi - GW12 - Chorley Rocks the surgeons with stats: part 1 Another week and another fantastic guest to treat the surgeon's listeners, Chorley Rocks from Fantasy Football First! https://fantasyfootballfirst.co.uk/ This really is a meeting of statistical and evidence based minds as he and the Iceman give you the latest trends on the international game week selections. We review the first 5 games of the 19th November gameweek, with discussion so deep we decided to split the pod in two. In this part we discuss Liverpool's scintillating form but a 6000 mile trip that could impact a Brazilian flavour to your selection. Man Utd vs Arsenal does not produce the multiple shouts you might think and Chorley has worked out why Bony has not found the net often at Stoke yet! Fill the international break FPL void by planning with this week Fantasy Football Surgery!! Please join the Fantasy Football Surgery Podcast league 17603-6718 www.fantasyfootballsurgery.com www.facebook.com/fantasyfootballsurgery Twitter - @F

36thEpi -GW11 - Surgery meets JNO United! This week the Iceman and Bully are joined by a special guest from the FPL community, JNO United! JNO has established quite a reputation with his YouTube channel so check that out... once you have listened to the pod of course! With a full weekend of FPL fixtures this week's panel get stuck into each fixture with a mix of must haves, differentials and bad eggs to avoid! Bournemouth against Sunderland draws early attention with David Moyes taking another side steeped with a rich history of success to it's knees! The question is, where are the points in this Cherries side? Crystal Palace would not seem the most likely of sides to pick from this weekend but JNO has a gem to offer as cheap option in midfield, indeed a possible Capoue replacement? The City conversation is a familiar one so the surgeons touch on man of the moment Gundogan. Should he be one of your City 3 and does he stack up against a similar priced alternative in breakthrough Welshman Joe Allen? The n

35thEpi - GW10 - All evens at the top Join Bully and the Iceman for another week of FPL fixture planning as all 10 Premier League games are scrutinised and debated! Chelsea made quite a statement against their old manager at the weekend. Are United merely the ghost of David Moyes or is there some Alex Ferguson in the old dog yet? It would not appear so for Wayne Rooney but what of Zlatan Ibrahimovic? Chelsea's new formation offers some promising pics for FPL managers and a new signing is really catching Bully and the Iceman's attention. Also do we owe a further apology for a certain Belgium? City continue on their downturn in form but are they due a big week? Should you be moving away from Kun? Is it time to think Sane? Is John Stones ever going to break 20 points? We discuss this at length with a difficult tie at West Brom in the making. Liverpool on the team on everyone's lips right now after another win against the Baggies. Equal amounts of interest from the surgeons as you listeners. Do we need two Liv

34thEpi – GW9 - Bully and Iceman unplanned volume 2 (obviously) Another week of injury ravaged surgeons prompts the continued chronicles of Bully and the Iceman. The feedback for the new pod fixture by fixture format was strong, so prepare to feast on the delicacies offered by the 10 course FPL upcoming fixture list! The champions league exploits of the gunners prompt another Theo vs Sanchez debate but another Arsenal differential has caught Bully's eye at a bargain price. Could he be your way into an Arsenal team bang on form and with favourable fixtures? The Iceman makes a u-turn on the Hazard discussion but not without a strong almost Science based argument to justify the nature of this decision! Chelsea are somewhat unpredictable right now but the United fixture offers much to ponder. Is the City ship starting to falter after no win in 2 games and one of which a spanking against Pep's former employers? We debate this with Bully truly exasperated by the false economy of a certain £5million defender- yo