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Folks. I’ve quit @OfficialFPL and will be retiring this Twitter account. Here’s why… (thread)
The thought of quitting has been knocking around my head for a few years, but it’s only after I turned 40 that I decided to act. As pompous as it sounds, time is the only thing of value we have in life and I’ve got to a point at which I realized I want use it differently.
FPL has accompanied me in everything I was doing in the past decade. It was my first thought in the morning (checking player prices/positions in mini-leagues), it was with me when I was at work, when I was spending time with family and friends, when I was going to bed.
I felt bad about checking my phone every few minutes during weekends. That habit has extended to weekdays because of the way @premierleague, and modern football as a whole, has evolved. It’s gradually encroached on our time, demanding more and more attention. I don't like that.
I felt I was neglecting other things that mattered to me. I haven’t read as much as I’d like to. I haven’t had time to think as much as I’d like to. I’ve barely had time to write or develop other hobbies.
It’s now been three weeks since I made my last transfer and I have to say I feel truly liberated.
So this is a goodbye to the FPL Twitter community and all the amazingly talented people who are part of it.
I’d like to thank @FPLGeneral for setting up, and inviting me to, the Elite64 mini-league. There’s nothing better than competing against the best of the best. I feel privileged I was part of it (and just a little bit sour I missed out on winning it last year) 
Thank you @Davvawavva for being kind of enough to put my thoughts about FPL in your great book, which remains the best piece of long-form writing on the game. Being a writer of much shorter forms myself, I know how hard it is to put such a huge piece of work together. Well done!
Thank you to podcasters and writers from @ffscout -- you were the key source of everything I know about FPL. Thanks to the wise and gifted creators of the @WGTA_FPL podcast who really should get more recognition, not just in the FPL world.
Thanks to @FPLgeek20 who posted my musings about my team on his site, and to exceptional FPL talents @lateriser12, @BigManBakar, @zophar666 and many, many others who shared their FPL wisdom on Twitter.
If you want to stay in touch, please follow or DM me at @maciejonoszko. I’ll be taking down @fplword by the end of next week. Cheerio!
