This is the fourth in a set of ten tips on how to encourage children to get into reading through their love of football - to celebrate the new season.
Fantasy Football could be the way to get your children into reading more about football. It might encourage them to read more in newspapers and online in particular.
If you don't know what it is, Fantasy Football is a game you can play in newspapers and on some websites, where you pick a team using all the players in the Premier League.
Then, as the season unfolds, you gain or lose points from your players' performances: how many goals they score, or their team concedes; if they set up a goal or get sent off.
You can transfer players throughout the season.
Most people play it in leagues, pitting their football expertise against friends and workmates.
So why not do it with your kids? Or even with their friends and other parents?
It's fun and it makes Match of the Day more interesting.
The reading bit is... to make sure you know who the best players are to sign for your team or to make sure you know who is injured or on international duty, you need to read match previews and reports in the newspapers or online.
If you don't read up on it, you lose.
That's the idea.
You can set up a league on various websites. The most popular are the Daily Telegraph and the Sun, but there are several more to choose from.
To read the newspapers, if you can;t afford to buy a paper every day, try the newspapers websites, like the Mirror. Or go to the library where you can read newspapers for free.
And if you win a national competition, you can win LOTS of money. But you probably won't...
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