How did your club do?
Back in the optimistic days of early June, when the World Cup was new and fresh, Michael Owen played for England and Trinidad and Tobago were the talk of the town, I set out to track the performances of all the premiership teams with players involved, writes Michael Hodgkin.
Using the Channel 4 News fantasy football game as a guide, I awarded each of the 16 English premiership and four SPL teams three points when one of its players scored, with two for an assist, and points to defenders according to how many goals their side conceded.
Predictably (and as predicted by some of my colleagues) the result was even more of a runaway Chelsea victory than this year's premiership - in another Italian victory, Claudio Ranieri's side beat nearest rivals Arsenal by 24 points. But it was an interesting exercise, nonetheless.
The point of More4 News's World Cup fantasy premiership was that many football fans, as well as following national side, have a competing loyalty to their club's foreign players. So Arsenal and Chelsea fans could unite behind the France of Henry and Gallas in the final, though neither picked up any points.
In fact, the cup-winners Italy were one of six teams with no UK-based players at all, and the only one to make it out of the group stages.
With Chelsea and Arsenal each providing 16 players to the various squads in Germany, it was always going to be an uneven contest. Chelsea's top point-scorers were actually the Portuguese striker Ricardo Carvalho and the Ukrainian striker Andrei Shevchenko - who could be classed as a ringer, since he's yet to kick a ball for the Blues.
But Tottenham fans can take pride in the fact that, with only five players (four from England and one South Korea), they managed 17 points - all, believe it or not, courtesy of England keeper Paul Robinson, helped by the fact that goals in penalty shoot-outs don't count!
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