With both teams deservedly sitting in the bottom half of the Premiership tonight’s Liverpool-Aston Villa clash is hardly one to clear the diary for.
Since Gerard Houllier turned Liverpool dull a decade ago little has changed under Rafael Benitez or Roy Hodgson.
The occasional flicker of life and sign of hope is quickly followed by disappointment for Anfield fans as reality bites that they are as far from winning the Premiership as they have ever been.
Pairing Houllier and Hodgson together might be a great photo opportunity but the chances of a 4-3 Kevin Keegan style Fantasy Football spectacular are virtually negligible.
For over a decade now various Fantasy Football games have been adding interest to any match with supporters showing interest in ‘their’ player and whether he’s been picked, in the winning team, creating an assist or hitting the back of the net.
The downside of Fantasy Football is that it usually takes all season to win a prize and interest can quickly dwindle when you are stuck in mid-table with half your players crocked and needing snookers to get back into contention.
Picklive have come to the rescue with an innovative game that scores points in the usual way but has games and prizes spread over 7.5 minute ‘matches’.
Neatly allowing six matches per half the key seems to be to select attacking midfielders or a goalkeeper or striker whose likely to be busy.
Games last about 7 minutes and during that time you can swap your players as many times as you like as long as it’s one at once and you wait 30 seconds.
The stakes are really low too, you only need £1 per game and every-time you have a realistic chance of winning.
Points are won for things like short passes, long passes, assists, tackles, interceptions and of course, goals. Points can also be lost too, for fouls or poor passes etc.
To kick things off Video Celts has been given some free credits to play tonight’s match followed by the midweek Champions League clashes.
With the teams selected you don’t have to worry about non-runners, the highest scorer in each match picks up 70% of the prize pot, the runner up 20% and third placed player collects 10% of the prize fund.
Pick your three players, avoid a Sebo and best of luck finding a Lubo or Henrik.
GOAL- 20 points
ASSIST- 10 points
SHOT ON TARGET/SAVE- 5 points
TACKLE- 3 points
SHOT OFF TARGET- 2points
COMPLETED PASS/ INTERCEPTION/ COMPLETED CROSS/ GOALKEEPER ACTION- 1 point
FAILED PASS: -1 point
OFFSIDE/FOUL: -3points
YELLOW CARD: -10points
RED CARD/MISSED PENALTY/OWN GOAL: -20 points
