From the editor
Football takes itself seriously enough.
Educating Pork is a home for the stories that make a fantasy football mini-league worth following.
The points matter. So do the conversations afterwards: the captaincy decision nobody understood, the bench haul nobody wanted to talk about, and the manager whose carefully explained strategy lasted exactly one gameweek.
That is the territory of Educating Pork. Football. Fantasy. Questionable Management.
Why Educating Pork?
“You can’t educate pork.”
It’s an expression for the frustration of trying to explain something to someone who has absolutely no intention of listening.
Which brings us neatly to fantasy football.
We study the fixtures. We discuss the numbers. We explain why taking another four-point hit is probably a terrible idea. Then somebody does it anyway and calls it a long-term plan.
Educating Pork is our weekly attempt to make sense of the decisions, celebrate the occasional good one and preserve the evidence when it all goes base over apex.
The editor is very much included.
They say you can’t educate pork. We publish the homework anyway.
One publication. A league at its heart.
Educating Pork PL is our flagship competition. The Weekly Gameweek Report is the core of the paper: a record of the results, decisions and stories behind the table.
A season worth keeping.
The archive will preserve each published report, while the main league page brings together standings, records, awards and developing storylines. When the final gameweek is done, the season will still be here to read.
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