Jon Reeson of Bedford in the UK, one of the recent champions in the Barclays Premier League Fantasy Football, beat 2.3 million others to win this famous competition.

It is meant to be as realistic as possible with January transfers included.

Rule Changes

Jon said "Previously, players had only one chance all season to make big changes. This gives people the chance to switch things around if they make a bad start but with the security of knowing they can still sign plenty of new players in the New Year.

"It should make the game even better although it is already excellent. It is easy to see why it is the world's biggest fantasy football game and, in my opinion, the best.

"It is not just the fact it is free - although that is a big bonus. It is the fact it is so well set up and it has evolved so well. The transfer values are spot on to the point where there are many occasions where you are just 0.1m short. It can be so frustrating - but that is also part of the skill and the fun."

Reeson still finds it hard to believe he beat so many other managers to top the Fantasy Premier League, winning a VIP trip to a Barclays Premier League match, hotel accommodation and £250 spending money.

He added: "I was top for the whole of the last three months of the season so the pressure was on me going into the final gameweek even though I had more points than anyone else.

"I hardly slept the night before the deadline as I thought about every decision to make sure I did not mess it up.

"But it all went well and I was thrilled when the points were confirmed and I saw my name still at the top.

"It feels quite strange to know I beat almost two and a half million people across the globe. But after leading for so long, it was more a feeling of relief than anything else.

"I ended up getting quite a lot of attention on various internet forums where people were talking about me. One person even pretended to be me and was giving people advice so in the end I had to register for the forum and tell people what was going on. He disappeared quite soon afterwards."

Extra Research

So what are the secrets of success for the real Jon Reeson?

He said: "I have been playing this game for years and I stick to the same formula consistently.

"I get cheap defenders and goalkeepers and I move them around according to their club fixtures and I save my money for the big-name players I really want such as Robin van Persie, Sergio Aguero and Eden Hazard.

"I had van Persie as captain most weeks and I was fortunate that the weeks I changed him were usually the ones where he had a low score and the person I picked in his place seemed to do well.”

Jon, a West Ham fan said “I always try to avoid picking Steven Gerrard. He is a great player but I have not forgiven him for almost single-handedly helping Liverpool beat West Ham in the 2006 FA Cup final." Well, that game was definitely reality!

Click on the talk and quiz tab below to tell us the players that will go in your fantasy football team and click on the learn tab to try some activities to check your English.

Activity 2:In the text, Jon used some adverbs to say how he did things. Look at these examples and think how adverbs modify other words.

I hardly slept the night before the deadline.

Reeson still finds it hard to believe he beat so many other managers.

The adverbs in the examples are changing, or modifying the meaning of the underlined verbs and adjectives but they all explain ‘how’ we do something or ‘how’ we feel.

To find out more about adverbs, visit the English Grammar page on adverbs on Learn English.

Sentence Adverbs

Jon said he sticks to the same formula consistently, which means he always uses the same process when choosing players for his team.

‘Consistently’ is a sentence adverb. Sentence adverbs are a great way of saying how we feel about something. They usually go at the beginning or at the end of a sentence:

Luckily, we got there on time.We missed the train, unfortunately.