For Manchester United follower Sam Pater, the last day of the 2011/12 Barclays Premier League season was a nervy, tension-wracked experience.
But not because the team he supports was attempting to win the title.
The headteacher was in the running to win Fantasy Premier League; his team, samcity, had a chance of finishing first out of an incredible 2.8 million players in the biggest fantasy football game in the world.
Pater admits it was a fraught conclusion to the campaign as he constantly checked his team's score against the other two who could realistically challenge him for the title of Fantasy King.
"I was surprised at how nervous I was actually," Sam told premierleague.com. "I suppose in the month or two building up to it I'd thought about it a fair bit, so it meant quite a lot on the last day
"I had my brother-in-law - who introduced me to the game six years ago - round and told my four kids who to cheer for if any of my players scored, and we watched Final Score on the BBC.
"I knew it was between one of three teams at the top, so I wrote the other two guys' teams down and was constantly checking.
"There were plenty of ups and downs - like celebrating when my captain Rafael van der Vaart got an assist after two minutes, but then going through agony when he was taken off after 59 minutes!
"When the day ended, I was level on points with one of the other chaps, Garry. Bang level. I was trying to work out how the bonus points would go, then I was trying to work out how you work out the bonus points, as I'd never done it before!"
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