Insurance Times selects some of the best and punniest team names from the recently launched fantasy football mini-league
Yesterday (1 August 2024), we launched the Insurance Times Fantasy Football League – and just one day after the official launch, our mini-league has been joined by just under 100 members of the UK insurance sector.
There are a couple of weeks left to go before the Premier League season starts on 16 August 2024, but there’s still lots of time left to join in the competition, select your team and spend far too long thinking of a funny – or rubbish, depending on your perspective – pun to use as a name.
Insurance Times will be producing weekly content across the season, monitoring the league table and speaking to some of the industry’s top performers about their team tinkering and footballing hope.
But, with the season yet to start, we thought we’d round up the top five best team names from those that have entered so far. Did you make the top spots?
5. I Love Eggs XI – Chris Gagg
This one nearly didn’t make the list, but we couldn’t help applaud the artful simplicity of its message. Sometimes, the best way to describe a team is to put what it does on the tin.
It’s also been quite fun to imagine who might make it into an eggs-based XI. Perhaps Humpty Dumpty could do a job up top, but then there were those reported injury problems.
It is, as yet, unconfirmed whether Chris actually loves eggs, but the writing does seem to be on the wall.
4. Bowen Arrow – Jack Cross
An excellent distillation of the Fantasy Football team naming conventions here – Jack has gone for an archery-based pun using the name of West Ham’s excellent young English forward Jarrod Bowen.
Interestingly enough, Jarrod Bowen is engaged to Dani Dyer, daughter of Mr West Ham himself Danny Dyer.
Will Jack’s Bowen Arrow hit the target this season?
3. Alisson Chains – Joe Brown
One for the fans of rock bands originating from Seattle in the late 1980s here.
Joe Brown’s gone for a grungy team name, but Liverpool’s Brazilian goalkeeper Alisson Becker status as perhaps the best keeper in the world would suggest he’s anything but untidy.
I Stay Away from these sorts of challenges usually, but I’d say there’s No Excuses for Joe Brown this season. Win the league however, and he could end up as the Man In The Box.
I’ll let myself out.
2. Sub-standard Liege – Chris Joyce
Some quintessentially British self-depreciation from Chris with this team name.
Belgian football team Standard Liege came in at sixth in last year’s Belgian Pro League, but can Chris shake off his sarcastically low opinion of his chances to reach even higher?
One thing’s for sure, the stakes are much larger in the Insurance Times Fantasy Football League.
1. Palmer Chameleon – Helen Bowers
Congratulations to our team’s top pick for best name in the league, with Helen opting to recall the endlessly catchy Culture Club hit Karma Chameleon.
Palmer set the league alight last year, scoring 22 goals and 11 assists in the Premier League.
He’s certainly in the heads of many Fantasy managers this season – just like the song.
Extra points to Helen for opting for a team name that could – or perhaps already has been – turned into an actual chant.
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