You know you play FPL too much when...

froog

you ask lads in the pub who got the assist in a relegation battle game
you're punching the air at the final whistle of a 0-0 bore draw.
you tell people you have .5 million in the bank "for a rainy day"

Fritzl Funderland

or when you worry that your players get injured on international duty and not be bothered how your country does

Who_8_Paul?

When it cost you 3 girlfriends over 5 years.


Worth every second though

dahat

When i end up like the people above!

FutureGuy

When you begin to associate places with what happened in Fantasy Football when you were there.

Car Park in Tesco - Carlton Cole scoring for me
Limerick-Shannon road - Steven Ireland scoring 19 points for a rival
Petrol Station on the way home - Bent ending a scoring drought right after I selling him.

The list goes on and on and on...:rolleyes:

carlcon

On my wedding day, my not-at-all-sporty American wife thought I was having some kind of nervousness or illness because I was going to the bathroom so often.

Little did she know, it was the weekend of GW1 this season, I had my phone with me and was checking my apps for scorelines and points, along with having a quick read of this forum.

Thankfully, the time difference meant the games were early morning, so the afternoon/evening went fine.

After telling myself I won't be taking the game as seriously that season, that was the day I realised I better bloody stick to that!

beglee

...when you start praying for a hat trick for one of your fantasy players in a 4-3 loss as he plays for your fiercest real life football rival

FutureGuy wrote: »

When you begin to associate places with what happened in Fantasy Football when you were there.

Car Park in Tesco - Carlton Cole scoring for me
Limerick-Shannon road - Steven Ireland scoring 19 points for a rival
Petrol Station on the way home - Bent ending a scoring drought right after I selling him.

I vividly remember walking across one of the pitches in UCD on a sunny day listening to the radio as Fabregas (my captain) scored another goal when he really took off as a fantasy superstar

carlcon

How could I forget my big one last season?

I was listening to the City-QPR game at the end of last season. I had my head buried in my hands/pillow from the moment after City's equalising goal. I am a United fan, but when Aguero got the winner, my first thought was "that bugger in 2nd place in the boards league has him as captain. I bet Aguero gets 3 bonus points for that". Aguero went on to get those 3 BPs, and I went on to lose the Boards league by 2 points.

Somewhere later in the day I thought: "****, City won the league".

Hogey007

carlcon wrote: »

How could I forget my big one last season?

I was listening to the City-QPR game at the end of last season. I had my head buried in my hands/pillow from the moment after City's equalising goal. I am a United fan, but when Aguero got the winner, my first thought was "that bugger in 2nd place in the boards league has him as captain. I bet Aguero gets 3 bonus points for that". Aguero went on to get those 3 BPs, and I went on to lose the Boards league by 2 points.

Somewhere later in the day I thought: "****, City won the league".

obviously a very casual one.

roryc

Hogey007 wrote: »

obviously a very casual one.

Aguero's last minute goal cost me 1st place in the Buskers league which I'd been leading since Christmas.

He will never again be picked.

carlcon

Hogey007 wrote: »

carlcon wrote: »

How could I forget my big one last season?

I was listening to the City-QPR game at the end of last season. I had my head buried in my hands/pillow from the moment after City's equalising goal. I am a United fan, but when Aguero got the winner, my first thought was "that bugger in 2nd place in the boards league has him as captain. I bet Aguero gets 3 bonus points for that". Aguero went on to get those 3 BPs, and I went on to lose the Boards league by 2 points.

Somewhere later in the day I thought: "****, City won the league".

obviously a very casual one.

I'm not one of those people who loses sleep when my team loses, no. I'm a bigger football fan than I am a United one. Which I like to think keeps me unbiassed, and therefore a decent FF player. I hate the majority of United players and fans just like anyone else.

I fairly randomly picked them as my team 21 years ago when I was 5. Leeds were on tv and I liked some dude who the commentator called a "magician". I asked for a jersey with that dude's name on the back for my birthday. Turned out that dude had left Leeds and went to some other team instead. I stubbornly still wanted his Jersey because I didn't know any other players. That player was Eric Cantona, and I never looked back since.

I think it would be pretty silly for me to be any more than casual in my support considering the crappy reason I follow them. I'm an Irishman living in America, and have literally no connection to that particualr Manchester team other than a strange decision as a child. "Hardcore" United fans from anywhere but Manchester are usually good for a laugh. I'm certainly not one of them.

The only duties I take seriously as a United fan are mocking Liverpool fans and giving unconditional support to Fergie.

So yeah... to keep things on topic - that moment I mentioned above shows I put fantasy football before actual football - a mistake I won't be making again, considering my opinions on others who take things so seriously.

OnTheCounter

I cheered when van persie scored the winner against Southampton.

Then again I bet spain to be Ireland ht/ft so I can be a bit of a whore.

Hairy Nipples 87

FutureGuy wrote: »

When you begin to associate places with what happened in Fantasy Football when you were there.

Car Park in Tesco - Carlton Cole scoring for me
Limerick-Shannon road - Steven Ireland scoring 19 points for a rival
Petrol Station on the way home - Bent ending a scoring drought right after I selling him.

The list goes on and on and on...:rolleyes:

Yeah I couldn't agree more for this statement. I remember the times when a captain choice for has scored more than 1 goal in a game. My memory of Fabregas goal against Spurs straight after the tip off, I was in Germany. The Charles NZogbia goal for Wigan against Ars to win 3-2 I was in Budapest. The list could go on just like yourself. That's why I love FF!

Hogey007

i remember being in a pub when United were playing on stephens day a few years back, they won 4-0 against someone like wigan, fulham?? but i remember ronaldo had scored and was then subbed after 58 minutes and there was a few groans around the pub. I thought "ah f**k, that's cost me the 60 mins extra point & the clean sheet bp as captian"

martingriff

Fritzl Funderland wrote: »

or when you worry that your players get injured on international duty and not be bothered how your country does

I was only thinking that today as I had played my wildcard. :o

Cantona's Collars

You panic when you look at the time and its 11.31 then you realise you picked your team the night before.

You pay too much attention to mid-table,meaningless fixtures because you have a couple of players involved & treat the games as if they are cup finals.

dahat

When you still log in Sunday to check the leagues even when no games have taken place!!!

SpaceCowb0y

When you start to question your morals looking for your strikers to score a hat-trick against your own team on a Sunday because your score for Saturday was pants and you only have 3 players left to play!

When you spend more time in work on this forum and messing around with transfers on the FPL site trying to suss the next 6 gameweeks out.

When your friends don't respond to your texts anymore because you only contacting them to gloat about getting a higher gameweek score.

When your coming in from a night out and rather then jump into bed with the missus you switch the laptop on and make loads of bogey knee-jerk transfers you spent the entire night out thinking about...

the list is endless....

Fizman

When you're going to Barbados in 2 days time for 12 days and are genuinely worrying about the availability of internet access over there because 2 GWs will pass during that time!

Brussels Sprout

When you look at the 12.45 kick-off on a Saturday morning, realise that you've no players on either team and say to yourself "The football doesn't start until 3 today"