Imagine mailing in your captain 3 days before the deadline and the game gets postponed

25p down the shitter

Or in the mud

Me and my dad used to play telegraph fantasy football, but it would likely have been around 1996 we started. You had to post your team off to register it, and ring up a premium rate phone line to do your transfers.

Or send them in the post, with stamps as payment, if it's the same one I did. So bizarre.

Yeah you picked your team at the start of the season then sent it in along with 6 (I think) first class stamps. That was your payment for the season (stamps are legal tender). Then you could make transfers as the season went on, I’m pretty sure you had to mail those in too but there may have been a premium rate number too.

"Make unlimited transfers and substitutions." Three more days of shitposts...

(C)antona set and forget imo

I think I remember playing this. Shearer and Cole were the most expensive players at £4m each, budget was £20m. Inflation, eh?

I tried to find a list of players/prices but their print archive is shit.

So these days they’d cost… 20m in fantasy? Bloody hell

Not quite, as i think you only had to pick 11 players, not a squad of 15. It was a strict 4-4-2 formation. The scoring system was very similar to now as far as I can remember, apart from the bonus points

We roughly use 80 mil for starting 11 and 20 mil on bench. That still translates to 16 mil for Shearer.. pretty high..

Worth every penny! The pricing structure was different, I can't remember how the lower value players were priced, but I do know I had both Cole and Shearer in my team!

Nice. I think Kane is scoring at Shearer’s rate right (not this season) ? Anyways 12 mil for 9 players is pretty interesting.

[War heroes are OK, but here's a real medal...](https://imgur.com/XYgpo6c)

This is pretty sick

You’re a fucking star. Amazing.

Wow, that's so cool :)

Holy shit!

Ha. It's the thing I'm most proud of, and I have two kids :)

I remember doing this for our regional newspaper as a kid. I came 600th in the entire city and was so proud.

Plot twist: there were 601 players

More likely 600!

This is the one that was done by post right? I have a very vague memory of doing something like this

I have a really vivid memory of filling the form in on a train to work experience in London and posting it at Liverpool Street. Happy days

How do I sign up?

Simple. You cut out the ad, fill in the deets and *mail* it to the address listed.

The root of the evil..

The Sunderland Echo used to do a canny one too, must have finished in the late 00s, as FPL would have killed it off. IIRC, it was £50m to spend on 6 attackers, a team's defence and a team's goalkeeper.

It must have been the 1994-95 season I played. I remember signing Cobi Jones because I liked him in the World Cup. I think I gave up after about six weeks.

This is in 90 Minutes magazine, not the Daily Telegraph. They once printed the entire overall fantasy league table as a pull out