Let’s go back to the year 2007, like FPL Rubber Ducky and his article of how he got into the modern Fantasy Premier League game. I had just turned 17 years old and was waiting to hear back from my local SuperValu about gaining my first part time job. That never happened and thus I had much more time to concentrate on my FPL team.

It was just that, it was “my” FPL team, I had not heard of anything to do with Twitter, Facebook, blogs or podcasts based around the Fantasy game. There was not a whole deluge of information around team and player stats etc. I was just playing this game, simply because it was fun to do, to tinker. I was a casual because back then I was a student, in secondary school and college. I had other things to concentrate on.

I was in College studying a Computer Science degree and looking for jobs in that industry. During this time though, FPL was starting to come to the fore more in my life. Sometimes, I would use it as an escape from my personal life, when things weren’t going as well as I thought my life was supposed to be.

While I was in College, I did start a “class league” for my Computer Science class for the three years that I was in College. It was a fun and easy way to get into FPL, the banter we used to have on the chat section was fantastic. Alas though, after the three years of College, that League went by the way side and I needed something bigger and better. That’s when I found Twitter and the FPL Community on there.

How I really engrained myself into the FPL Community and World is through podcasts and blogging. Some of the first podcasts and blogs that I listened to and read include: The Gaffer Tapes, Hail Cheaters, Fantasy Yirma and FPL Hints which I seem to remember, I wrote a blog post or two for. If they are about, I would love to read over them again for nostalgia.

Let’s fast forward to now, the season of 2019/20 is almost upon us and I have created out of the goodness of my heart a Fantasy Premier League blog for the FPL Community.

But, back to my journey in FPL. At one stage I did get a bit too much involved in FPL, with the blogging, with the podcasting all of it. It got too much and it took up too much of my life from about 2016 – 2018. I was way too more involved in FPL than I needed to be. I couldn’t cope anymore and needed to take a step back. Keep in mind now, this came back when the World basically was in a recession and everyone had no money, so again I used FPL as an escape.

This season though, I am going to manage myself, as well as manage my FPL side. I am going to write blog posts and manage that too. Make sure basically that FPL doesn’t take a hold of my life again, like it did in the past. I don’t want that to happen.

So, that is just a little bit about my journey with FPL.

Thanks,

Aaron