Day 65 - FPL Losers

Final day. Marginally second in both my mini leagues and obsessing over every possible permutation of the final day's oxymoronic predictable team leak surprises means there is little else on my mind. There's a morsel of Glastonbury in my brain but I may as well wait for that morsel to expand into a more sizable bulge before it's excision. And FPL isn't going to be relevant after today so no time like the present.

I currently sit at 69,658 in the world out of 11,446,402 players so I'm in the top 0.6% in the world. What a loser. Last season I finished 13,976th (top 0.1%) so I won't be beating that. What a loser. I blame Alexander Isak. What a loser. Nonetheless I am still within touching distance of a famous double and a top 50k finish would also be nice. And I've finally beaten world chess champion and FPL master Magnus Carlsen. What a loser.

Regularly finishing a higher rank that a multitude of successful FPL content creators, I wonder when I'll get my show. Everybody is heeding the advise of bigger losers than me. Losers. What's the catch? I'd rather my comedy get a platform but I'd take this (sidepoint - I now have a comedy video on the BBC website but annoyingly they did not put any links to my channels so it's slightly arbitrary. Oh well, it's not like I'm on the verge of getting given a TV series is it).

The plan for the day:
- Lets Talk FPL videos
- Check through my permutations to make sure I've not fucked anything up 
- Go for a walk so that I don't go completely mental
- Watch the FPL deadline streams & go mad making panicked decisions based on last minute team news

If the site crashes again I'm gonna be devastated. God, what an absolute loser.

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