TeamTALK Spring 2014 | Page 24

THE RMS FANTASY FOOTBALL SUPER LEAGUE FINALE Written By Matt Blundell For those of you who aren’t aware there has been a contest happening throughout RMS, a battle of wits that has caused more drama than an episode of EastEnders! This is the story of The RMS Super League. A fantasy football league that has had 24 employees chasing a dream, hoping to be crowned the winner and get their hands on the all-important trophy. Whispers have been heard throughout the office and tales of secret meetings in the field have been rife. The banter has been non-stop but now the football season is over the final scores have been totalled up and the trophy has been handed out. Did we know what we were getting ourselves in for 38 weeks ago? Probably not, but would any of us change it? Definitely not! With the start of the football season looming The RMS Super League was born and slowly started to fill up. With people from every department taking part, bragging rights were definitely up for grabs and it seemed that the Operations Department would take them with James Twidale and his Huntingdon Heros moving into an early lead. Week after week people scored points, with some teams moving up and down the table with the grace of a drunk stumbling his way home from the pub. The biggest “stumbler” award has to go to Kester Roberts and his Ya Mum team who remained in the bottom three until game week 32! Playing under the name Mike Basset (I assume to hide his embarrassment) his team struggled massively until a change of management caused a sudden increase in points and saw them finally finish in 20th place. There can only be one winner though and half way through the season James Twidale still seemed in a strong position to finish top but at Christmas that all changed…… With Scott Butler and his Cupid Stunts hitting the ground running in the new year he ate up the points. Seemingly catching James each week until in game week 27 he grabbed the top spot with both hands and didn’t let go. So here he is, our champion and reigning king of fantasy football Mr Scott Butler.