First female winner in Ricoh Fantasy Football League February results

Congratulations to Jennifer Hykin of Acorn Press, who takes the February team of the month award in the Ricoh Fantasy Football league - its first female winner.

You have to feel sorry for Kathryn Bigelow, after becoming the first female best director winner at the Oscars, she might feel somewhat upstaged at Jennifer's win with a haul of 216 points and a team built from a host of London clubs: Fulham, Spurs and Chelsea.

There can be no better time to click into form than February, the beginning of the end of the football season. The first trophy of the season has been handed out to Manchester United, who aren't a one-man team but needed a flu-ridden Wayne Rooney to come off the bench and score the winner in the league cup final.

Things are not all good however. At the wrong end of tables up and down the country, clubs are fighting relegation. Nowhere is the plight more desperate than at Portsmouth, where February brought administration.

It wasn't all bad for the South-Coast club. In the FA Cup, they reached the semi-finals having dispatched of high-flying Birmingham City.

One person who would have been pleased with that result was Joanne Cooper, of NB Group, whose CoopersTroopers team pulled in 214 points this month to finish in second spot.

If Cooper wants to push on to the end of the season she needs City fresh with three of their squad in her line-up.

The third spot goes to Colourgraphic Arts' John Scardarella. His team The Monkey Pirates grossed 211 in the month.

Each month's winner of the Ricoh Fantasy Football League receives two tickets to a Coventry City match, as well as the chance to nominate two people to play at the Ricoh Arena against a printweek.com/Ricoh XI side, plus one month's banner advertising on printweek.com for their company.