Congratulations To Naples, Ajax: WE League Champions!

[Zeppo]

Naples, Ajax Earn Their First-Ever DSP WE League Championship

Ajax Amsterdam under the direction of Naples earned the DSP WE League Championship for Season Nine with an impressive eight wins and only one loss in ten games. It is Naples's first DSP WE League Champsionship. Last season's Champions, Slumberland's AS Livorno, fininshed in 2nd place with a goal difference of +12, but could only muster 5 wins against 2 losses and 3 draws, and could not keep up with the front-running Dutch team.

In the DSPenultimate, the 2nd Division, Sully's ACF Fiorentina side earned promotion into the top division with an undefeated season, earning 7 wins and dropping only two points thanks to a draw against NYIsles and Atletico Madrid. Sully will be replaced in the 2nd Division by Jared who uncharacteristically was unable to complete his season games with Olympiacos CFP.

In Division III, DrMacca continued his impressive run towards the top Division with his West Ham United FC side recording a perfect 8-0 season and an incredible 34 goals scored. Macca will be replaced in Division III by Leebo whose adventure with Feyenoord was marred by a 360 breakdown in the final stages of the season with a few games left to play.

In Division IV, newcomer Met34 took his Levante UD team to the top in a very tight battle with TCrouch's Inter Milan. Levante earned 19pts on the season while Inter earned 18, the narrowest of margins, although Levante's GD was +28 to Inter's +14. Despite not losing a single match, Inter's 3 draws were enough to seal their fate.

In the DSP WE Leeague Season Nine Cup, all but one Quarterfinal match has been completed. My own Monaco side, along with TCrouch's Inter and DrMacca's West Ham Utd. await the result of the game between Sully's Fiorentina and Jared's Onlympiacos to see what the random draw will produce for the Semifinal matchups.

I'd like to thank all the participants of the league for making this thing so incredibly fun, and a special thanks goes out to Jason for the hosting and the help over at his SGN League site.

At this stage, I would like to invite any and all interested newcomers to sign up in this thread for Season Ten of the DSP WE League. Also, current members who wish to continue into Season Ten should also post here, indicating if they want to keep the same team or opt into the random team draw, and if so what Tier of teams they will be drawing from (Top Tier of the best 17 or so teams in the game, or the larger 2nd Tier of the mid-range teams). Season Ten should be set to begin next Monday, May 14.

[Naples39]

I am moving this summer, but I expect to have no problems with a high speed connection, so count me in for next season to defend my crown.

I'm gonna change my team though. The 4-3-3 was fun and successful for me, but after playing these guys in DSP league and cup, and doing a league against CPU, I'm ready for a change after near 50 games with them. What can I say, I like to bounce from team to team.

[nyisles16]

In... like my squad too!

[Macca00]

I'm in and I'll keep my Hammers - the retards (and Tevez) have grown on me.

[met34]

Count me in. I guess I stick with the same team.

[RobVarak]

Congrats, Naples. Well done.

I'm in again, of course. I'm not sure about whether to keep Villa or not. I'm gonna think about it for a day or two.

[lsdean]

Congrats, everyone. I am in again with Arsenal.

[Danimal]

Sorry to all that I missed all my 2nd half games, i was on vacation.

I'm going to skip a season, I've kind of soured on the game and the warm weather will cut down my gaming time.

[Sully]

I'll be back, and I'm going to release Fiorentina. It's time to move on.

[Zeppo]

Wow. I figured we'd only have enough for three divisions this time around, but I didn't expect this little response. Assuming Jared and Slumberland are continuing, we should have enough for the regular two division league. Is this really all who want to continue? No newcomers?

[Jared]

I'll be back, and I'm now not sure if I'm keeping Olympiakos or not. When do I have to decide?

[XXXIV]

Im still in.

[RobVarak]

I say that the next league winner gets to pick an avatar for Jared. C'mon bro, we're tired of looking at your red X

[Jared]

Final games of Season 9

Olympiakos 5, Tottenham 1

Olympiakos found the best time for their best game of the season, besting Tottenham in a offensive battle. The game started well for the Greek club, with Rivaldo scoring first and Djordevic volleying home a loose ball to take a 2-0 lead. In the second half, Berbatov dribbled through the porous Olympiakos defense to take to trim the advantage to 2-1. But then Olympiakos bounced back with headers by Rivaldo and Stoltidis, and a breakaway by Garcia. The 5th goal was crucial, in that it guaranteed that Olympiakos would only have to tie in their second match against Tottenham to stay up......

Goals:
Rivaldo 28'
Djordevic 38'
Berbatov (Defoe) 56'
Rivaldo (Garcia) 65'
Stoltidis (Rivaldo) 76'
Garcia (Rivaldo) 87'

Tottenham 6, Olympiakos 2

Olympiakos' hopes at staying up in the DSP Premiership were dashed as Tottenham blitzed the Greek defense to deny their hopes. The game started with three goals in the first fifteen minutes, two quick goals by Berbatov and Keane followed by a stunner by Rivaldo. With Tottenham up 2-1 came the most important two minutes of the match.

Babangida got through the defense on left wing with a two-on-one with Rivaldo. Tottenham correctly guessed that Babangida would pass, and intercepted a pass that would have surely led to the tying goal. Then Tottenham countered, and found Keane in the box. Ouadddou tried to slide to block a shot, but instead clumsily took down Keane and was shown the harsh red card. Keane finished the penalty, and then Tottenham scored on their next two shots to go up 5-1. Olympiakos fought to equalize, but was unable to attack efficiently with only 10 men.

Berbatov 5'
Keane 10'
Rivaldo (Zewlakow) 14'
RED: Ouaddou 24'
Keane (pen) 24'
Berbatov 28'
Keane 37'
Rivaldo (Djordevic) 46'
Davids 81'


Good games Cloud.

[Zeppo]

Well, so far this is what we have:

• DSPremiership
  
  RobVarak = Aston Villa FC (West Midlands Village)
  
  (?)Slumberland = AS Livorno - San Siro
  
  CP Zeppo = T2
  
  (?)St Cloud = Tottenham Hotspur FC (North East London)
  
  Naples39 = T2
  
  Sully OS = T2
  
  DSPenultimate
  
  JaredM = T2
  
  nyisles16 = C Atletico Madrid
  
  XXXIV 34 = Real Madrid CF
  
  DrMacca = West Ham Utd. FC (East London)
  
  lsdean = Arsenal FC
  
  Met34 = Levante UD

I am giving the benefit of the doubt to the two Premiership guys who haven't posted, Slumber and Cloud, but lower division guys who haven't posted are not in the list. I still need to confirm Slumber and Cloud are still in, however, and what they are doing with their teams.

Is this really all we've got for Season Ten? I'm hoping a lot of the apparent drop outs are due to people not reading this thread, so I'm going to post a note in the big league thread telling people to post in here, but we need to start the team selection process tomorrow probably, Friday at the absolute latest.

[Slumberland]

Sad to say, I will not be continuing. I've got some pressing stuff to attend to in the next couple months, including travel and some performances, especially on weekends. Have fun, everyone.

[Zeppo]

OK folks, last chance to sign up to continue in Season Ten. Late this afternoon, I will do the first of the random draws for team selection. Right now, it's only 2nd Tier guys we're choosing.

FIFA? Cooops? Bubbaball? Terry? Truth? Blub? None of you guys is continuing? Let us know today.

[bphilipb]

I'm in. Sorry for the delay.

BB

[TCrouch]

Not continuing. Thought we only had to post if we were doing it, not if we weren't, so I didn't post, sorry. But I'm out.

[Leebo33]

I have thought hard about participating in this season, but have decided against it. My 360 probably won't be back until the middle of week 2 of the season and I am going to be out of town for an entire week during the season.

Have fun and I'll probably be back next season.

[TheTruth]

Sorry, got back in town last night and just too busy to check site at work today. I am going to take a break. Just not enough gaming time right now. Congrats to those who won. Great fun!

[Zeppo]

Waiting now to hear from Rob as to whether he wants to keep Villa or not. Also, we haven't heard from Cloud at all whether he wants to continue or not, and if so if he wants to stick with Hotspur.

Otherwise, this is what we have for Season Ten:

• DSPremiership
  
  RobVarak = ? Aston Villa FC (West Midlands Village)
  
  CP Zeppo = T2
  
  St Cloud = Tottenham Hotspur FC (North East London)
  
  Naples39 = T2
  
  Sully OS = T2
  
  nyisles16 = C. Atletico Madrid
  
  DSPenultimate
  
  JaredM = T2
  
  XXXIV 34 = Real Madrid CF
  
  DrMacca = West Ham Utd. FC (East London)
  
  lsdean = Arsenal FC
  
  bubbaball (bphilipb) = FC Bayern München
  
  Met34 = Levante UD

[RobVarak]

Eh, WTF. I'll give 'em another run. I think I'm getting better at keeping the ball away from my own midfielders, which seems to be the key with this team.

[Zeppo]

Folks:

Here is the first random team draw:

• Naples39 = Bolton Wanderers FC (Middlebrook)
  
  CP Zeppo = Fulham FC (West London White)
  
  JaredM = ACF Fiorentina
  
  Sully OS = Udinese Calcio SpA

I'm going to go ahead and reject Fulham right away and hope for something better in the 2nd draw.

[Naples39]

Leaning towards keeping Bolton, but want to check their in-game roster this afternoon.