World Cup 2026: Welcome to World Cup Fantasy

Whether you're PFPing (playing for points) or PFVing (playing for vibes), it's time to dive headfirst into World Cup Fantasy.

World Cup Fantasy is live! Join the FML FPL league here: https://play.fifa.com/fantasy/join-league/WQRK6PBA

We're also running a discount from now until the start of the World Cup: 25% off your first month: https://www.patreon.com/1069944/join

Chapters:

00:00:00 New USA-Style World Cup Theme Music and Welcome to World Cup Fantasy

00:01:01 World Cup Fantasy Rules and Our Interpretations: Scouting Bonus for the Win

00:20:27 Groups, Fixtures, Favorable Matchups, and Scouting Bonus Targets

00:27:18 Premium Picks and Top Teams: Brazil's Vini and Raphinha, Spain and Yamal, and Many More

00:31:54 More Players and Teams We Love, More Players and Teams We Hate, and Early Picks (Subject to Change)

Find the episode at:

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/world-cup-2026-welcome-to-world-cup-fantasy/id1024068765?i=1000770673165

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7sBmII0CAoleOR3UvjuwJZ?si=XblBRX2zQ6uH_3PTwHN9oA

YouTube: https://youtu.be/2-e8sBo7nd8

All Links: https://linktr.ee/fmlfpl

Post-mortem: Our 25/26 FPL Season Autopsy

We’re not good FPL players and we’re not having fun, so something has gone very wrong. Let’s break it down.

World Cup Fantasy is live! Join the FML FPL league here: https://play.fifa.com/fantasy/join-league/WQRK6PBA

Or just use the code: WQRK6PBA

We’re also running a discount from now until the start of the World Cup: 25% off your first month:

https://www.patreon.com/cw/FMLFPL/join

Alon will be on The FPL Last Resort post-mortem episode on Monday:

Chapters:

00:00:00 Admin Stuff: Cup Winner, Mug Winners, World Cup Pods, and a Discount

00:03:01 Very Quick GW38 Debrief: Walsh Transferred In Someone Who Didn't Play and Alon Saved His Transfer for Next Season

00:05:38 The Forgotten GW1 Bandwagon: Reijnders and Future GW1 Punts

00:16:10 The Timing of Holding Too Long or Too Short: Bad Process

00:26:07 Are the DefCons in the Room with Us Now: Use Transfers on Midfielders and Forwards Instead

00:51:08 Capping Palmer and Capping Gyok: Pay More Attention

00:52:55 What Is the Purpose of Playing FPL and What Is the Goal of Playing FPL

01:05:48 Our Benches and Our Autosubs: Not Good

01:10:37 FPL Burnout

01:15:55 The Joao Pedro Story: Evolving Our Evaluations and the Moving Target of "Nailed Players"

01:20:47 Bench Boost GW1

01:23:22 Liverpool and Slot: Bad Management and Injuries

01:29:03 How to Deal with New Rule Changes: They Will Be Broken

01:33:54 Nerfing Pen Takers

01:40:21 Rapid Fire Notes and Things to Chew On: MGW, Teams In and Out of Europe, and Carl Rushworth

Find the episode at:

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/post-mortem-our-25-26-fpl-season-autopsy/id1024068765?i=1000770112065

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/56gA72VPers6qDjTDY65bh?si=nnJNhtkSQ5iZlU-swD-fJg

YouTube isn't up yet cuz the video is taking forever to render so im just posting now

All Links: https://linktr.ee/fmlfpl

GW38: Last Normal Pod of the Season

We talk some stuff in what looks like a bit of a meh GW38 for a meh FPL season.

Chapters:

00:00:00 Admin Stuff: Upcoming Schedule for This Week and Next, and Yes, We Will Be Doing Regular Fantasy World Cup Pods

00:01:25 GW37 Recap: Captain Gyok on the Bench Is a Fun Way to End the Season

00:06:35 Managerial Merry-Go-Round: Mostly Getting Us Excited for Next Season

00:16:00 Arsenal and City in FPL: Bad Picks

00:22:22 GW38 on Hard Mode: How Many Teams Will Play Starters and Have Something to Play For

00:26:21 Some Free Hit Picks

00:30:58 One Lifestyle Question Before We Go

walsh: saving

GW37: Forget About FPL and Let’s Lifestyle

A little FPL as a treat, and then we get to business (lifestyle questions).

Chapters:

00:00:00 GW36 Recap: Triple Captain O’Reilly, So Far Not That Good

00:06:15 The Arsenal: Who to Pick and Why to Pick Them

00:11:51 A Potpourri of Other FPL Questions: Beach Teams, Liverpool and Slot, FPL Picks, and More

00:27:50 The Pod Really Begins Here with a Lifestyle Bonanza

00:40:48 GW37 Schedule

walsh using all five free transfers: palmer, ladro, pisshair, tav, and senesi OUT for benny blanco, sarr, hinsh, saka, and gyok IN

alon: scott to hinsh

GW36: A Fake Double Gameweek and a Whole Bunch of Bullshit

Blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Too many options and too few options, and plenty of time to get it wrong.

Chapters:

00:00:00 GW35 Recap: Pole Calmer on the List

00:11:40 Allegedly There Is a Double Gameweek: Crystal Palace Picks

00:16:20 Manchester City Actually Have a Double Gameweek: Who Are We Backing

00:20:45 Ndiaye Frustration Through the Roof, Throw in Minteh Too

00:29:54 Delaying Arsenal Picks and Questions Until After the Champions League Second Leg

00:32:24 Players Walsh Has His Eyes on for His Five Free Transfer Bonanza

00:37:15 Ending on Some Lifestyle Questions and Wrapping Up

Thumbnail and GIF by Cole: @ilovemonsters on Twitter and @colelovemonsters on Instagram

Find the episode at:

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gw36-a-fake-double-gameweek-and-a-whole-bunch-of-b-t/id1024068765?i=1000766178979

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4IZJWd12PFyMs8nitrt2Sj?si=Q_qIbqTMRKa4pM0g60HwvA

YouTube: https://youtu.be/8R8deTnGn6o

walsh: saving even with 4 frees

GW35: Trying to Care

Picking players from teams who still have something to play for. That’s where we are.

Chapters:

00:00:00 Free Hit GW34 Recap: Injuries and Blanks

00:09:11 Interesting Table Situation: Teams to Target and Teams to Avoid

00:24:46 Man City Picks: Cherki or Load Up on the Defense

00:30:27 Chelsea Firing Rosenhower: Captain Palmer?

00:35:40 Hitting Some Questions: Wildcard 35, Mo Out, Rice, and Casemiro

00:53:04 Alon Bench Boost Situation

Find the episode at:

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gw35-trying-to-care/id1024068765?i=1000763973397

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0lQNL8THCM2Hj4miCSIlyN?si=9V_79h1xRHylMwadrJdBQQ

YouTube: https://youtu.be/gY0Zg-dAI-o

All Links: https://linktr.ee/fmlfpl

BGW34: Free Your Hit and Your Ass Will Follow

The annual Free Hit pod always comes as a relief because we are released from the double and blank gameweek shackles and get to play fantasy sports for one week.

Find the episode at:

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bgw34-free-your-hit-and-your-ass-will-follow/id1024068765?i=1000762531245

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5rJgpWBIBZJqeAL4DqmOai?si=cHsEt6y8Ts2HJPXfLguOQg

YouTube: https://youtu.be/Olbngt-SbAU

DGW33 Teams: Alon Wildcard and Walsh Bench Boost

walsh: roll and bench boost

DGW33: Walsh Flight and Alon’s Wildcard

Same teams we talked about on last week’s emergency Walsh wildcard pod, but this time Alon is wildcarding.

Chapters:

00:00:00 GW32 Recap: Wwwaaaalllssshhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

00:10:16 Baseball Umpires Wearing Blazers

00:11:56 A Lot of Man City Chat: What to Do with O’Reilly, Cherki, What’s Up with Haaland, and More

00:28:56 Title Race and Relegation Race

00:34:52 Rosenior’s Chelsea FC in the Double and Beyond

00:40:40 A Quick Chat About the Other Doubling Teams: Burnley, Brighton, Leeds, and Bournemouth

00:46:28 A Couple More Questions and Then Talk About… the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Republic of Congo

Find the episode at:

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dgw33-walsh-flight-and-alons-wildcard/id1024068765?i=1000761248743

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6HHe2wEIskBreUlH1KEOy8?si=8G8ElVrkR8GRbok-xXq_CQ

YouTube: https://youtu.be/lkR4tW5XjKQ

All Links: https://linktr.ee/fmlfpl

A million weeks have gone by and we are left with Walsh’s wildcard team and about 12 hours until the GW32 deadline.

No editing, no music, no chapters, and no nice audio this time — Alon is out of town and we had to get this out quickly.

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gw32-wildcard-walshs-wildcard/id1024068765?i=1000760602727

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5kDGuURSRepVOokOwd3GR8?si=VJ40YQKrQ1er5OnZIquRtw

Youtube: https://youtu.be/AwHKuieSO9c

GW32 Break: Nothing Matters Until It Does

A very strange time in the season: a long break, wildcard uncertainty, teams already mentally on the beach, and just enough FPL left to string us along.

Chapters:

00:00:00 BGW31 Recap: Would Rather It Not Have Gone the Way That It Went

00:07:23 Thiago and Brentford in the Homestretch

00:13:45 Walsh Has Ripped the Wildcard Button: What Do We Know Now and Who Are the Early Targets

00:21:11 Looking Ahead to Manchester United and Chelsea Prospects and Other FPL Defenders

00:28:49 Reasons to Maybe Not Use the Wildcard This Week

00:33:19 Which Teams Might Already Be on the Beach: Palace Have the Flip Flops On

00:37:45 Ending on a Couple of Lifestyle Questions Before a 2.5 Week Break

walsh: roll