Every Saturday afternoon, 5.5 million people around the world settle down to see how their team will get on. But this isn't the team they support. It's their team. They have spent hours assessing injuries, tweaking their formations, assigning captains, swapping in subs. Because when the day is over and the scores are in, they want to be able to look at the standings (and their mates) and say: I WIN. David Wardale - writer for the UK's no.1 Fantasy Football site, Fantasy Football Scout - explores this enormous world which turns to a frenzy every weekend.

He meets with previous winners to discover how they managed to succeed against such stiff opposition. He reveals the leagues where forfeits for failure include city centre busking and funding trips abroad for fellow managers. And how low would a manager stoop to claim a psychological advantage? Naming his team after a competitors heartbreaking ex-girlfriend perhaps? Feeding misinformation about injuries to 'friends', knowing they don't have a phone signal to fact check? David sets off in pursuit of a Saudi Sheikh, stats professors, current footballers and a member of ABBA, all in the quest for the answer to the question: What does the perfect fantasy football gaffer look like?.