Fantasy Football is a game where you choose a team of real football players from different teams and win points according to how well the players play each week.

BBC commentator Alistair Bruce-Ball, who presents the BBC’s Fantasy 606 podcast, said: “It’s an incredibly impressive achievement particularly as we’re now more than halfway through the season.

“Even more so given how many more engaged FPL managers there are in the game who read the articles, consume the content and understand the strategy required to be successful.

“It used to be that to be considered a consistently good FPL manager you would aim for a finish in the top 5,000 or even top 10,000, but now the top 50,000 is considered a decent achievement as the game is so much more competitive.

“I speak as someone who is currently outside the top million in what is my 19th season of playing FPL so I take my hat off to Charlie and wish him lots of luck for the rest of the season.”