It's FPL season – and for many of us, the excitement of a new football season hits no greater height than when we log in to Fantasy Premier League, select a frankly stupid team name and start spending that fresh £100 million. But while the vast majority of us are just aiming to beat our friends, family and Martin from accounts, others have set their sights way higher: no less than world domination.
Hailing from the possibly unlikely location of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, Ali Jahangirov was last season’s FPL champion – a title many of us could only dream of. Yet the 33-year-old admits that the ordeal of beating 11.4 million other competitors to the crown was actually one of the most traumatic experiences of his life.
