Meet The Team

Fantasy Football Scout has a growing team focused on delivering the best Fantasy Football experience across various platforms and media.

THE TEAM

Chris James – CEO. ‘El Fozzie’ has extensive experience in journalism, events, games, and digital media, and has played FPL since the glory days of 2010/11. Proud of his best overall finish of ‘5k-ish’, Chris is a keen Everton fan who tipped Youssef Chermiti to be the break-out star of FPL 2024/25.

Sam Bonfield – General Manager. A vocal Spurs supporter, Sam runs the day-to-day operations at Scout. She manages our team, as well as our relationship with the Premier League. Sam is one half of FPLFamily and regularly appears on the Official FPL Pod and the Fantasy Show.

Tom Johnson – Partnerships and Community Manager. A Chelsea fan intent on breaking the top 10k, Tom worked on the social media and video parts of FFScout before becoming Sam’s deputy in 2025. He can probably be found telling the team why Cole Palmer is the best captain this week.

Editorial

Neale Rigg – Editor. Newcastle United fan and FPL veteran, Neale is still searching for that elusive top 1k finish. He joined the team in 2018 after years of loitering and now spends his time as a ‘Pep roulette’ guru, trying to second-guess Premier League managers while writing the Team News.

Tom Freeman – Deputy Editor. Tom has a staggering record in FPL having finished five times in the top 1k and another three times in the top 10k. A moderator before moving full-time into the Deputy Editor position, Tom dedicates his spare time to eyeing up differential Aston Villa options.

Paul McKinnon – Head of Content. The site’s first full-time contributor, Paul was previously lead writer for WhoScored. On board since 2009, he was FFS Editor for a number of years before taking on a more varied role. Paul prefers FPL Draft, as well as staying out of the limelight.

Marc Jobling – Staff Writer. A full-time editorial member since 2021, this versatile Newcastle fan splits his writing time between FFScout, sister sites and various signed partners, alongside some podcast and video duties. Marc doesn’t like coffee or tea, while his jokes have an uncanny ability to miss.

Louis Roberts – Staff Writer. Louis’ main focus is our sister-site, Fantasy Football Community (FFC), covering a large range of games from FPL and UCL Fantasy to Bundesliga and Serie A Fantasy. Louis is always on the look-out for another game to cover, so look-out Super liga Srbije.

Social Media

Ian Archer – Social Media Manager. Formerly known as ‘FPL Partridge’, Ian came on board ahead of the 2021 season to manage our many Social Media channels and keep abreast of Elon Musk’s daily mood swings. Ian has helped grow the FFScout ‘X’ (formerly Twitter) to 350,000+ followers.

Marketing

Josh Scott – Marketing Manager. One half of the popular ‘FPL Graduates’ TikTok channel, Josh joined the team in 2025 with the aim of promoting our membership offering and developing our email marketing. Josh is grateful that his new job means he can spend less time thinking about Man United.

Video & Audio

Yelena Cekerevac – Video Administrator. Yelena joined the team ahead of the 2025/26 FPL season to run our YouTube and Podcast channels. With plenty of experience from her own FPL YouTube channel, Yelena is driving our YouTube offering to new heights and trying beat Az (again).

Rhys Johnson – Short Form Content Creator. Having worked with some of the biggest players in the FPL YouTube space, Rhys brings a wealth of expertise to our short form content channels. As well as working with Yelena on our YouTube shorts, Rhys also has input on our TikTok and Instagram strategy.

Commercial

Ed Gray – Commercial Lead. Ed started working for FFScout in April 2023 just to get a free membership and try to win his mini-league. To date he has been unsuccessful. During working hours, Ed negotiates commercial deals with the latest players in the industry and is the co-founder of Fantasy Football Fest.

Tech

Reece Chown – Product Manager. When he’s not helping other team members set up their work computers, Reece is the the leader of our Tech team. Reece is also the brains behind the Plan FPL tool and has a love for music. He can often he found DJing in Ibiza or volunteering at Glastonbury.

Will Timbers – Tools and Matchday Manager. Will’s proudest FPL moment came in 19/20 when he won the Mods & Cons league. Away from the Tech department, Will manages Mini League Mate and is a lifelong Spurs fan. His great-grandfather used to make the leather footballs for the club.

Dan Bailey – Developer. Dan joined the team in 2025 to work alongside Reece and will be at the forefront of our site redesign and Members Area refresh during the 2025/26 FPL season. A keen Wolves fan, Dan hopes for a return to the Nuno-lead European glory days.

Contributors

Alex Dakers. Alex joined our editorial team in the 2024/25 season as a freelance writer, contributing to our FPL and Fantasy EFL offering. As well as working for FFScout, Alex writes for the i Paper, i Paper Sport and BBC Sport. He has previously worked at the Radio Times.

Joe Lepper. After spending years dishing out advice in the community, Joe was welcomed into the team as a writer in 2011. Although he has recently taken a step back, Joe can still be found on our YouTube channel drawing on his vast FPL pedigree that includes eight top 10K finishes.

FPL Greyhead. Andy, known as FPL Greyhead on site, writes the weekly humorous round-up of the ‘Great and the Good’ of FPL managers. When he’s not analysing the best managers around, Greyhead enjoys partaking in the popular community competition ‘Strikers Keepers, Losers Weepers’.

Chris Atkinson. The professor is the brains behind the Rate My Team tool (RMT), which is available to our Premium Members in the members area. Chris used to appear reguarly on our flagship podcast, the FPL Scoutcast, where he regularly proved that machine can beat man in FPL.

Moderators

Kiran – Lead Moderator. Kiran has been a keen user of FFScout for well over 10 years and is still hungry for more top 10K finishes. Also know as ‘FPL Brains’ on Social Media, Kiran is in charge of our ‘Mod Squad’ and strives to keep the site friendly and welcoming for all users and members.

Rotation FPL. Having started playing FPL at the age of 8 in 2008/09, Rotation has grown up with FPL and joined the moderation team in 2018/19. Ted acted as the lead Moderator and then as Community Manager, before leaving to take up a role in the Football Data industry.

TorresMagic™. The moderator from Down Under has been around for as long as anyone can remember (probably longer). He can mostly be found patrolling the Dead Zone (12am to 6am UK time). Custodian of the very popular community competition ‘Last Man Standing’.

Rainy. Having lived just across the downs from Nick Hornby, and now in an equally verdant corner of North America, grey skies mean home comforts for this Dead Zone denizen. Enjoys a new player, a price change, missing an Eliteserien deadline and believing he’ll best a top 3k FPL finish.

RedLightning. Used to be a strong chess-player but now prefers FPL, which he started playing in 2009/10. An active member of the FFS moderation team since 2016 and also runs a number of community mini-leagues including Top 10k Any Season and the January to May League.

G-Whizz. G-Whizz is an ex-South Londoner living in Bournemouth, who (at his age) doesn’t take life too seriously, except for when life includes FPL and clean sheet odds. Always up for a chat and usually found buzzing around on match days and the Dead Zone or moderating the YouTube chat.