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Gameweek 23

This week’s winner was Jack Wootton’s team Real Madras with a breathtaking 109 points, winning him a free Top Corner match for his team Baker Tilly from the Southwark Tuesday Premiership league.  Jack’s Real Madras moves up to 266^th in the league with 1075 points!

Next week the same fantastic prize is there to be won – enlist your team-mates to the cause!  The more of your team’s players that are taking part the greater your chances of being awarded a free league game!!

Full details of how to join are here.

The top 10 stays the same with just a few moving positions:

The Top Corner Top 10*

* Eligibility: players joining before Gameweek 1

David Oliver is still holding on to top spot at TC, racking up 59 points rising to 121^st.  David is being caught week by week by Top Corner’s MD Kevin Burns now just 67 points behind!  Paul Edwards made a big impact on the league this week with a huge 13 points!

A reminder that late entries are not eligible for the annual prize, and you must be in the competition for at least a week before you can win a weekly prize.

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Thanks to our friends at England Netball we have a great opportunity for some of our netballers to share the court with England’s all conquering women’s team this weekend at the B-Fit Expo. The event will be taking place at the Excel Centre in Canary Wharf on 28-29th Jan 2012.

The England girls will be out on both days to keep the crowds entertained and show off the skills that made them World Champions. If you’d to come down and join the fun we have a great 2 for 1 discount for all Top Corner teams and friends. Just head over to www.b-fitexpo.co.uk to book tickets, and use the code NTB 241. Anyone booking two tickets will receive a second free. Grab a friend, come down and see what all the fuss is about.

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Top Corner has teamed up with the Reebok Sports Club to deliver our first lunchtime league for the city.

The sports club is situated in Canada Square, Canary Wharf, in the heart of London’s vibrant business district. Occupying 100,000 square feet over three floors, the Reebok is one of Europe’s most exciting fitness spaces with a vast array of facilities and services.

The club has been named as ‘Britain’s Best Gym’ by Men’s Health Magazine as well as being commended as Time Out’s Most Luxurious Gym so we were delighted when they approached us about a collaborative project to develop women’s netball.

Top Corner will be lending it’s expertise and passion for netball to deliver an engaging and rewarding alternative to the your average work-out. We will provide two fully qualified umpires and all your equipment so all you’ll need to do is to pop down and play!

We will be running a FREE taster session this Friday lunch between 12.00 and 13.00 with our inaugural league to launch the following week on February 3rd. Both the taster and the league will be open to members and non-members alike who will be able to enjoy use of the changing facilities and shower.

For more information about this fantastic opportunity please call Jen Hart on 0207 036 9911. To enter this league click here

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We’re a little late on this one but we couldn’t let the new year pass without launching our customary team name competition. You can see last year’s offering here. As ever, we want your your input so get nominating, especially all you netball teams!

Our short list below includes one of our first basketball teams (guess who?), plenty of new entrants and a few oldies who are finally seeing recognition for years of service in the name game. Make no mistake, crafting a name is a fine art and this year’s winner can expected to be rewarded! Prize TBC.

Halal— Is It Meat You’re Looking For?, Hoxton Netball
Sian Massey’s Mates, Holloway Women’s League
Space Jam Changed My Life, Mile End Basketball
Dissent Ettiene, Islington Football
Fiorentina Turner, Finsbury Park Sunday League
One Firm One Team
Powerleague Fatigue Holloway Women’s League
Notinyourmums Forest Holloways Men’s League
Fc Twente Somethings Waterloo Football
Sparta Lebowski Waterloo Football
Standard Liaison
Big Balls Vauxhall Netball
Dyslexia Untied Paddington Football
Sheffield Tuesday Islington Football

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For the past 7 weeks some 400 Top Corner players have been fighting it out to be the best Fantasy Football Manager.  Prizes totalling over £500 have already been won and there’s a long way to go …

“This is great!” says overall leader David Hough, who won a free match in week 4 for his team Park Strife. “This is one of the benefits of playing with Top Corner.”  David also won a team shirt as the best player overall in August, and to cap it off, his team-mate Daniaal Awais-Dean was winner in week 6 which means Park Strife have so far saved themselves £120!

If you’ve not already entered, what are you waiting for?  The more of your team you get to enter the competition, the better your chances of winning free matches over the course of the season.  You won’t be eligible for the main annual prize of a team kit, but you can still win the weekly and monthly prizes.

How to join. And don’t forget to sign up for the Newsletter and select ‘Top Corner Fantasy Premier League’ to get our weekly update.

The latest weekly update is here.

PS We’re still seeking Ruth Livy, who won the prize in week 5 but for whom we don’t have contact details … Ruth, please get in touch with Chris on 020 7036 9920.

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More than 300 entered Top Corner’s Fantasy Premier League competition, and the winner in Gameweek 1 was Mark Cunningham’s team MonKey MaDDneSs XI, scoring a superb 81 points.  In second place with 78 is Stuart Forbes.*

Mark wins a free Top Corner match and takes the lead in the race for the August prize of a Premier League shirt of his choice.

The Top Corner office acquitted themselves respectably with three getting in the top 50 – MD Kevin Burns on 66 points and League Managers Chris Marsh (65) and Raj Pahal (62) not far behind.  The Hall of Shame is occupied by Paul Edwards on 39, back in 263rd place.

The Top Corner Top Ten

1. Mark Cunningham 81
2. Stuart Forbes 78
3. Rich Wood 74
4. Paul Evans 73
5=.  Ross Feakes 72
5=.  Gavin Duke 72
7=. Joe Hilton 71
7=.  Theodore Rohou 71
9=. Chris Wilson 70
9=. Aaron Collins 70
9=. Andy Moylan 70

Next week the same fantastic prize is there to be won – enlist your team-mates to the cause!

Finally a note about tie-breaks.  If teams are equal on points for a prize they will be separated by adding points from the subs’ bench, then total goals scored.

Full details of how to join are here.

* The updated FPL site seems to be working more slowly than last year, and these awards are subject to further updates, but we’re fairly confident now of our winner.

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With the 2011-12 season almost upon us, Top Corner is delighted to announce our Fantasy Premier League game.

It’s free to enter and is hosted on the Fantasy Premier League site.  We hope you’ll take part, and encourage all your players as well.

Fantasy Football is a great way to add to your enjoyment of the Premier League.  Whereas before you might never have considered the crossing ability of Everton’s Leighton Baines or the goalscoring form of Stoke’s Jon Walters, these details could be the difference between glory and failure for your fantasy team.

It’s not just for footballers … we’d like to challenge the netballers to take them on!

And you get to play against the Top Corner guys and girls!

Fantastic prizes:

• Every Gameweek – win a FREE Top Corner match for your football or netball team (worth up to £114)
• August – win a premier league team shirt of your choice.  More monthly prizes to come …
• Overall winner – win a brand new kit for your team

You can enter only one Fantasy Premier League team but of course if you enlist your team-mates you increase your chances of winning a prize for your team dramatically.  You can also set up your own mini-league, and you compete against the fans of your favourite team and against your fellow countrymen (naturally you have a better chance if you claim to come from somewhere obscure … Top Corner MD Kevin was the top Yemeni fantasy manager last year, a fact he pathetically mentions at every opportunity).

How to join:

1. Visit Fantasy Premier League and set up your team.  You can change it as much as you like before the start of the season.
2. To join the Top Corner league, enter the code 138774-46273 … then if you click on “Leagues” you’ll see your team.
3. Sign up for the mailing list here.  Don’t forget to check “Top Corner Fantasy Premier League”.  This is optional but it should add to your enjoyment as Top Corner’s Chris Marsh provides weekly updates!

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FC Twente Bensons

Our annual countdown …

10. Ball’s Out
It sounds obscene, but it’s actually not … rare example of a double non-tendre?

9. PR-Tick Thistle
Public Relations may not be the most popular industry in the world, but this team is doing its bit to soften the image – putting a new ‘spin’ on the Scottish Division 1 team affectionately known as The Jags.

8. Sultans of Ping Pong
When Dire Straits proclaimed themselves the ‘Sultans of Swing’ in 1978, let’s face it: no one else was competing for the title.  This team from our table tennis league takes naffness to another level.

7. Kiss My Pass
Mixed netball is a growing sport in this country (Aussies having worked out long ago that it’s a great way to get to know members of the opposite sex).  Curiously, only mixed teams made our list this year … maybe they just have more fun?

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Here’s a fantastic idea for your children’s next birthday party.

Instead of hiring a hall and organising everything yourself, why not come to T47 Sports Venue at London Bridge?  We’re offering an all-inclusive package with an hour’s activities:

- sports pitch for football, netball or basketball
- massive bouncy castle
- table tennis

After the kids are tired out, cut the cake in our cafe area.  We will organise food if required from £4 per child.

T47 is perfectly located at London Bridge tube and rail station.  It’s just 3 minutes’ walk from the station, and the venue is ideal for a party the kids will never forget!

“Thanks to the staff at T47 for all your help and making the day a memorable day for my son,” says Arlene. “The staff were welcoming and really helpful. There was loads of space to play and I’d recommend it to anyone!”

And the kids? “It was wicked!”

The cost for this two-hour party event is just £150. Saturday and Sunday afternoons are currently available for parties 12 – 6 PM, as well as weekday afternoons 3.30 – 6.30 PM.

If you require a coach, or would like to organise a special party with sports like Dodgeball, roller disco or archery, please contact us. We are happy to discuss your individual requirements.

Please email Refiye or call 020 7700 1888.

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Round about this time of the year we like round up some of the more inventive team names from the leagues.  Here again is last year’s impressive collection of daftness.   Want more?  Click the link at the bottom to check out lists for previous years.

This years lucky winners will be announced in January …

10. Al’s Cunning Trousers

Straight off the bargain rail at Primark and into our top ten.

9. The Young & the Restless

The first netball team in Top Corner history to be named after this long-running day time soap opera, set in Wisconsin.  Which has to be worth something.

8. Grampus 8 My Hamster

This is exactly what happens when players spend too much time in the pub discussing pop culture and not enough on the pitch.  For the rest of us … Arsene Wenger’s CV when he took over at Arsenal included a recent stint at Japanese outfit Grampus 8, which roughly translates as “Lucky Number Dolphin” .  Older readers will recall the classic tabloid headline Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster.

7. Alonzo de Guzman FC

The first team in Top Corner history to be named after a man who, according to Wikipedia, was the commander of the Spanish Armada (a mole tells us it’s also the name of a horse the team won a few bob on-Ed).

6. Crystal Phallus

The old ones are the best.  See also: Norfolk n’ Chance.

5. Dyslexia Untied

Obviously we cannot codnone the mokcery of the lexicogphylcly chalng;

4. ABCDE FC

Keeping it simple, possibly for the benefit of the previous team.

3. Dog in a Bath

The first team in Top Corner history to be named after … a dog in a bath.  And the day that there’s no place for surrealism in parks football, all I can say is … “Bicycle Pump”

2. Halal! (Is it meat you’re looking for?)
The much mocked Lionel Richie classic (all together now: “Are you somewhere feeling lonely, or is someone feeling you?”) is mined once more for laughs by a team of kebab-eating netballers.

1. Euston, We Have A Problem

NASA and all those involved in the Apollo 13 debacle (Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Ron Howard, don’t be shy now!) would be proud and honoured.  And for the first time, a netball team – from the Euston league, obviously- claims top spot on this glorious list.

Special mentions to:

Red Star Opramen … A tribute to Czech beer and old-school Eastern-bloc football teams.
Eff & Jeff …. Although clearly we cannot have effing and jeffing in our leagues, we enjoyed this one.
Crack Chicken Commandos … Nobody messes with chickens on crack.  Especially if they are trained soldiers.
CSKA Meatloaf  … Yet another Eastern European team with a proud record is culled for the sake of childish amusement.
Acton Villa … just one misplaced consonant takes us from the Premier League to nowhere.  See also – Brixton & Hove Albion.
North Korea 66ers … with the plucky Communist state about to make its second World Cup appearance in South Africa, time to remember the last one.  They beat Italy!
Sons of Pitches … see also – Smack My Pitch Up.

Lists for previous years.

Do you agree with our ranking?  Or did we miss a classic?  Leave a comment below.

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