Nelson Arruda, right, receives his $100 gift voucher from Stephen Wright, of The Royal Gazette sports department, after becoming the first monthly winner of the RG Fantasy League.

Arruda’s team, “O Glorioso” came up on the rails of the front-runners to end August with 196 points. Arruda made a polite request that the season be ended now so that he can scoop the $1,000 first prize.

Calls to the Premier League offices in London went unreturned, so we suppose that football will indeed resume this weekend and that Arruda and the rest of the 400-plus members in RG Fantasy League will have to get their manager’s hats back on