For football fans, there are few things more excruciating than the wait for a new season to begin during the annual footballing sabbatical ...
For football fans, there are few things more excruciating than the wait for a new season to begin during the annual footballing sabbatical in the summer.
These gaps are often plugged by international football but there are many who feel that World Cups or Euros can quite match up to the weekly dose of the excitement of club football; the bread and butter of the sport.
But as the sport has evolved over the years, so has the experience of consuming it. In the internet age, the mid-season gap has been shrunk to an extent with constant communications from the club on social media and the drama of the transfer window. Football now is pretty much a year-long business.
For Premier League fans, though, there’s even more. The Fantasy Premier League, or FPL has it become to be known popularly.
It’s an online game that puts you in the shoes of a fantasy manager, where you pick real-life players that score points for you depending on their on-field performances.
But from being just a fantasy game when it began in 2002, FPL has grown exponentially. The 2019-’20 season had over 7.6 million people playing the game the world over.
India, where the popularity of English top-flight football has skyrocketed over the past decade,...