Thought I was dead and buried. Early season injuries and poor form laid waste to my carefully assembled team of gifted point-scoring ponies, forcing me to do the unthinkable and play my wild-card in mid September.
But like a hexagonally panelled leather phoenix, I have risen from the flames of Sergio Aguero's knee injury and Vincent Kompany's mystifying early-season form to strike back with unheralded cloggers such as West Ham's Winston Reid and Kevin "chicken dance" Nolan.
With a squad now valued at over £105m and a sizeable transfer kitty in ze bank, the future is once again looking rosy for your reigning Dissensible Soccer champion. Aww yeah.