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A New Type of Fantasy Football: Fantasy F**kwit

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A New Type of Fantasy Football: Fantasy F**kwit
British football fans love to hate their footballers. They seem to revel in their failure, and find it hilarious when they do something stupid. And footballers are known for doing stupid things. Fans of the game probably already know what Fantasy Football is: the game where a fantasy team is chosen by people and the team gets points depending on how well the actual players perform in real life. This fantasy version of the sport has become very popular all over the world with people making their own teams and competing against their friends. Well, now a new type of Fantasy Football has emerged: Fantasy F**kwit. This interesting (and rather irreverently titled) new game begs to be explored further.
Fantasy F**kwit is a version of Fantasy Football that was developed by Keith Rogers a year ago. He got the idea of starting a Fantasy Football game, but instead of a player getting points on how well their chosen players were doing, they got points every time one of the players they had chosen did something silly or got themselves into trouble. This could be on the field or off it. The idea came to Rogers while watching a football game in which a striker scored a beautiful goal and then gave the ball away very poorly to an opposing player, who then went and scored an equalizer (reportedly a Tottenham Hotspur vs. West Ham match). It was this kind of stupidity that launched the F**kwit version of the game.
The rules are simple; stupidity on and off the pitch gives a person points. Every week, a player of F**kwit football chooses a team and whenever the players on that team do something stupid or unnecessary, the player gets points. The points are awarded on players getting booked, scoring own goals, losing matches, getting injured in pregame warm ups, even getting into a fight off the pitch, fathering a lovechild with someone or cheating on their partner, for example. This is the unique aspect of this version of Fantasy Football; a player is not only scored by how badly he played on the pitch but points are also given for acts of stupidity done in their everyday lives. Points are even awarded for the worst facial hair or worst hairstyle of the week. In case of disagreements or difficult decisions, a panel of experts is on hand to sort out the matter. The game is free to play and that is very impressive.
This rise in popularity of finding out the 'things' celebrities and sports stars do in their private lives is a phenomenon that has emerged in the last few decades. It was with the rise of gossip magazines and trashy newspapers that only focused on gossip and scandals of footballers that we started to see a lot of player’s private lives exposed in the media. This has been accompanied by the rise in the Wag culture in the UK.
Fantasy F**kwit takes advantage of this exact lust we all seem to have: to know every detail of the private lives of our favourite sports stars. We love to find out about who footballers are dating, who they are cheating on their partners with, have they been arrested for doing anything dodgy or even if they have been caught at a club when they needed to be at practise the next morning. People buy gossip magazines by the thousands and they cannot seem to get enough of them. Now people can combine their love of gossip with their love of Fantasy Football. We just have to wait and see what other types of Fantasy Football games are invented in the near future.
Rapidly turning into quite the cultural phenomenon, Fantasy F**kwit really captures the essence of what people like to do these days; play a fun game related to football and find an outlet for lampooning the players who play the professional game.

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