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Football Manager

If I had put as much time and effort into anything else as much as I have done with Football Manager of the last few years I could have taught myself new (and useful) life skills.

I could of even been on the path to achieving great things.

However, this comes down to how you define 'greatness' because personally I think taking Wycombe Wanderers to the Champions League final (only to be defeated) is a great thing!
 
I applied for the Wolves job once saying very similar things to this bloke although I'll admit my achievements weren't as impressive. On the flip side I made it clear in my letter to Jez that I'd do the job for about 10k. He never replied though. Boo Moxley you pie eating fiend.
 
Templeton Peck said:
I applied for the Wolves job once saying very similar things to this bloke although I'll admit my achievements weren't as impressive. On the flip side I made it clear in my letter to Jez that I'd do the job for about 10k. He never replied though. Boo Moxley you pie eating fiend.
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When Sir Jack was selling the club for nothing, I wrote an email offering to buy the club and got a response! I'll see if I can dig the email out, but I fear it may be lost
 
Is there anywhere I can download old Championship manager games legally for a netbook....I can't play the new ones because the netbooks arent powerful enough.
 
Fantastic story. I need to check this game out.
 
I've been playing the game since the original "Championship Manager" for DOS. I dread to think just how many hours of my life I've lost to SI products over the last 20 years.
 
I had football manager the original on my Sinclair Spectrum IIRC
 
Paddingtonwolf said:
I had football manager the original on my Sinclair Spectrum IIRC
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Yes, me too. It had the annoying habit of changing all your "rating 5" players to "rating 1" every close season. And Wolves weren't in it.

That all changed for "Football Manager 2", though, when a certain "S Bull" appeared in the list of about 20 players.
 
I remember the adverts featuring the picture of the bloke who created the game. He looked like Peter Sutcliffe.
 
Kevin Toms.

Great game for its time. Like most things from the past though, don't play it now, it will just upset you. People get too caught up with "X was better than this now", they really weren't. CM 01/02 was great at the time but it is SHIT now.
 
Agreed

I wouldn't play Elite now. Plenty of better versions like X2 The Threat about.
 
Games from 8, 9, 10 years ago have aged pretty well - Halo, for instance, or Project Gotham, or Grand Theft Auto (any of the ones from when it went 3D) - all still very playable. But stuff from the 80s and 90s, forget it, with only a few exceptions. Flashback is still ace, I have it on an emulator, and Rollercoaster Tycoon is still ace.
 
I remember the model for old CM being sign Alex Aguinaga, Mads Jorgensen and Kennedy Bakircioglu (he recently played at Ajax, Toon) and you'd be laden with goals from midfield. Later versions (00-01?) meant signing Helder Postiga, Carlos Martins, David Fox and Garbh Gallagher as youth players on frees and hanging on to them for dear life.

Mogens Laursen was a fucking goal machine from FC Midjtylland (sp.) too. Happy days...

I managed to get York City promoted from the bottom division to the PL in four seasons in 00-01 but didn't make any real headway thereon. I also got Peterborough promoted in the same game but they wouldn't expand the ground or allow high wages so had to sign players on aeons-long contracts to protect their value.
 
the best part of football manager is signing a player then a couple of years down the line all the big clubs are after him!

notables for me include mascherano, kallstrom, rodallega. you sign them when they are like 18 and then a couple of years down the line they sign for big teams and you feel dead chuffed!

another also great thing is when you have players and you develop a picture of what they look like. then you watch some random match like in the europa league and see them playing and then you are shocked that they look totally different to how you imagined!
 
I do a daily podcast for the fans on the way into work in the car.

When I was getting grief from the ex-wife for staying up all night, I'd go to bed at the same time as her, but set my alarm for 2 hours later. I'd wake up all ninja style, and sneak downstairs. First thing first - got a glass of water that I'd start walking up the stairs with as soon as I heard a noise as my cover.

I do actual press conferences post game, and for new signings. Not the game ones, *actual* talking.

I have also woke the family up whilst celebrating a goal. It was only an equaliser away at Man City, when I was firmly in midtable, but I'd came from 3-0 down and made some radical tactical changes (4-1-2-1-2 to a 3-2-2-3 (new to the players) and felt vindicated. I then went to a 5-4-1 to protect my point...

I've thrown a full can of Pepsi (I had a contract with them/lots in the fridge) at the wall when I missed out on the signing of Jonas Lunden one pre-season.

I've also put on a suit for a cup final.

My biggest achievement was on the 21st of May, 2022 - 4071 days after I took the job of managing League 2 Rotherham - the day The Millers became Champions of Europe.

165 players bought, for £301m. 245 players sold or released, for £269m. A game that I'd been playing for 8 days, 1 hour and 3 minutes. Never has a victory smelled so sweet.

I was rewarded three seasons later, after winning a further 2 CL's and one Premier League with this:

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I fucking love this game.
 
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It's a good job I know you, it really is.
 
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Amazing scenes, Jeff.
 
When I was getting grief from the ex-wife for staying up all night, I'd go to bed at the same time as her, but set my alarm for 2 hours later. I'd wake up all ninja style, and sneak downstairs. First thing first - got a glass of water that I'd start walking up the stairs with as soon as I heard a noise as my cover.

I do actual press conferences post game, and for new signings. Not the game ones, *actual* talking.
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!!!
 
Del Woppio - Inspirational stuff!
 
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