Fantasy football player apologies for ‘pathetic performance’ on giant Salford Quays billboard

A fantasy football manager has plastered his face on a huge billboard in Salford Quays to publicly apologise for finishing last in his friends’ league.

Zac Evans, 30, said his Fantasy Premier League season was “an absolute catastrophe”, so he agreed to fulfil the forfeit for coming bottom of the pile against his friends and have his face placed on a giant screen on the side of Victoria Warehouse in Trafford Park along with an apology.

A post on X, formerly Twitter, shows Zac posing next to a huge digital billboard with a picture of himself and a statement saying: “I would like to publicly apologise to the below for my pathetic performance.”

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The caption is followed by a list of the names of players who finished above him in the league.

The apology appears in a slideshow on the billboard directly after a Labour Party campaign advert of Sir Keir Starmer posing next to his “six pledges”.

Zac, a marketing director from Leeds, told the PA news agency: “Keir Starmer’s up there, he’s obviously trying to change the world and stuff, and then there’s me acting like an absolute idiot.

“I thought it would be a good bit of fun at the end of the day and life’s a bit boring, so it’s a good talking point for the memory book.”

Zac, who is a Spurs fan, has been playing fantasy football with a group of friends for three years.

He said: “It got to part-way through the season and there were just four of us at the bottom. So we kind of said ‘What’s the point in concentrating, what’s the point of changing the team?’ So we said let’s make a bet.

“We all used to play Fifa back in the day, and we used to do a public apology when you lost 5-0. We’re a bit too old for