The Fantasist

What’s your favorite game (card, board, video, etc.)? Why?

I’m addicted to Fantasy Premier League, a game about a game. With apologies to Mr Paul Simon this is my song.

I’m just a fantasy manager

Though my story’s seldom told

I have squandered my persistence

For a paltry rise in rankings

Such are fantasies

All lies and jest

Still a man picks who he wants to pick

And disregards the rest

I neglect my home and family

Like I’m no more than a boy

Competing against strangers

To the glare of my PC screen

I’ve repaired

Laying low, seeking out the differentials

That no one else will know

Looking for the special players that only I will know.

Lie-la-lie

Lie-la-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie

Lie-la-lie

Lie-la-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie, lie-lie-lie-lie-lie

Asking only for green arrows, they seemed a decent lot

But I do no better

Just a come-on for one pointers from half the ruddy team

I do declare, there were times they were so gruesome

I would wildcard then and there, la-la-la-la-la-la-la

Lie-la-lie

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Now I’m laying out pre season picks

And wishing it would start, picked a team

The ‘Green’s Park Rangers’ winners won’t be bleeding me

They’ll be leading, coming home

In the clearing stands a manager

And a fantasist by trade

And he carries the reminders

Of each mistake that ever laid him down

Or cut him till he cried out

In his anger and his shame

“I am leaving, I am leaving”

But the manager still remains

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I love you