| Football manager stole my life. 17:21 - Aug 14 with 9552 views | runningman75 |
Just finished this book. Very good about the obsessiveness from Championship Manager and the affect this had had on relationships etc. I can remember around 10 years ago losing whole weekends on this game. Also looks at the the players who were stars in the game and scouting systems throughout the world so many young stars come through football manager. Maybe someone should get Harry Redknapp the latest version. |  | | |  |
| Football manager stole my life. on 12:28 - Aug 15 with 2500 views | toboboly |
| Football manager stole my life. on 12:25 - Aug 15 by runningman75 |
The book talks a lot about Tonton Zola Moukoko who was a 15 year old prodigy at Derby, now playing in the Swedish league. Funny as some young stars have made it whilst others are in the equivalent of non league. Also how there are thousands of people playing football manager with their teams every weekend whilst feeling the real managers do not have a clue most of the time. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonton_Zola_Moukoko
Not even played a hundred first team games. |  |
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| Football manager stole my life. on 13:50 - Aug 15 with 2461 views | Vish |
Oh yes, Tommy Svindal Larsen was quality.
As was Dennis Schulp from Ajax - a steal at £1m. Denilison was another good buy
So was John Curtis..... | | | |
| Football manager stole my life. on 13:58 - Aug 15 with 2452 views | Metallica_Hoop |
| Football manager stole my life. on 13:50 - Aug 15 by Vish |
Oh yes, Tommy Svindal Larsen was quality.
As was Dennis Schulp from Ajax - a steal at £1m. Denilison was another good buy
So was John Curtis..... |
I used to get John Curtis to play for England...
Was so disappointed when I saw what the reality was playing for us 
Denis Schulp good call, I forgot about him. |  |
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| Football manager stole my life. on 14:28 - Aug 15 with 2436 views | Neil_SI |
| Football manager stole my life. on 09:56 - Aug 15 by simmo |
That is a really scaled back version. I also dont find it anywhere near as realistic as the main game. |
The handheld and mobile versions are based off our old CM3 engine, obviously somewhat enhanced since then, but they are the full game in its entirety so anybody who loved CM3 01/02, etc, this is that game in its full glory. |  | | |
| Football manager stole my life. on 14:32 - Aug 15 with 2428 views | Match82 |
| Football manager stole my life. on 14:28 - Aug 15 by Neil_SI |
The handheld and mobile versions are based off our old CM3 engine, obviously somewhat enhanced since then, but they are the full game in its entirety so anybody who loved CM3 01/02, etc, this is that game in its full glory. |
01/02 was my favourite. I actually bought the mobile version, which seems similar, but for whatever reason I can't love it in the same way. Not sure why, perhaps I should give it another shot. I still have the 01/02 version on my laptop! |  | | |
| Football manager stole my life. on 14:41 - Aug 15 with 2420 views | FDC |
| Football manager stole my life. on 10:47 - Aug 15 by JamieNaz |
Kim Kallstrom and Mike Kerr from Dundee. Can't even remember if they were in the same version of the game. All blends into one now.
Robbie Earnshaw used to either be an absolute God or crap due to variation in his potential in one of the old ones.
The new one is maybe a bit too complex - but still bloody love them. £40 seems a bit steep for the new one though... |
Kim Källström must have been around 1999 - 2001, I remember always buying him.
Getting Farnborough Town up the league was a proud time for me, despite my IRL academic achievements taking a dramatic nose-dive. |  | | |
| Football manager stole my life. on 15:19 - Aug 15 with 2395 views | toboboly |
| Football manager stole my life. on 13:58 - Aug 15 by Metallica_Hoop |
I used to get John Curtis to play for England...
Was so disappointed when I saw what the reality was playing for us
Denis Schulp good call, I forgot about him. |
I said to my cousin, "He's great on Championship Manager so he must be good in real life....."
90 minutes later and my hopes were dashed. | |
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| Football manager stole my life. on 15:22 - Aug 15 with 2393 views | BasingstokeR |
Maxim Tsigalko - goal machine |  | | |
| Football manager stole my life. on 15:28 - Aug 15 with 2390 views | Bluce_Ree |
I played it when we were in League One. Got QPR promoted to the Prem but a contract dispute with Mark Bircham turned the squad against me. It was a bug though, I'd already offered him the contract.
Fked it clean off after that.
I've played the Xbox 360 versions since though. Generally I like to take over Chelsea and sell all their players to whoever and give them our worst players. Not for any tactical or cheating reasons, I just find it cathartic. |  |
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| Football manager stole my life. on 15:30 - Aug 15 with 2387 views | Northernr |
| Football manager stole my life. on 14:41 - Aug 15 by FDC |
Kim Källström must have been around 1999 - 2001, I remember always buying him.
Getting Farnborough Town up the league was a proud time for me, despite my IRL academic achievements taking a dramatic nose-dive. |
Källström , Svindel Larson were on there at a time when every player you bought from Scandinavia was a guaranteed success. They must have had an over-enthusiastic Swede working down at SI at that time. Rade Prica, who eneded up at Sunderland in real life, was fcking gold.
There was also, randomly, a Cheltenham Town team that had eight players all available for under £20k who were all bloody amazing - Steve Book, Bob Bloomer, Dale Watkins, Jamie Victory, Michael Duff and a couple of others. You could take over a dreadful QPR team with a £200k budget, hand the whole lot over to Cheltenham and take a job lot of their players and ride off into the Premier League. I remember we set up a joint league in our uni flat that was on a spare laptop and sort of always on in the background - we had Ipswich, Arsenal, QPR, West Ham and Spurs all running on there. They all pissd themselves when I went out and bought the Cheltenham team for £200k. Well they weren't laughing for long I can tell you. Those were the days I used to put a suit on for the cup finals.
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| Football manager stole my life. on 15:35 - Aug 15 with 2379 views | Northernr |
| Football manager stole my life. on 15:28 - Aug 15 by Bluce_Ree |
I played it when we were in League One. Got QPR promoted to the Prem but a contract dispute with Mark Bircham turned the squad against me. It was a bug though, I'd already offered him the contract.
Fked it clean off after that.
I've played the Xbox 360 versions since though. Generally I like to take over Chelsea and sell all their players to whoever and give them our worst players. Not for any tactical or cheating reasons, I just find it cathartic. |
I used to start a game as QPR and Man Utd and buy Trevor Sinclair for £30m to give me a colossal transfer budget, then resign from Man Utd. Neil and his cronies inserted a "the board have vetoed this deal as it is unrealistic" feature in to stop it though. Bstrds. Now known as the Philip Beard feature - they just need to let me get on with bringing in some top lads who I know can do a job for us on Champ Manager. | | | |
| Football manager stole my life. on 15:44 - Aug 15 with 2373 views | BklynRanger |
Thanks to that game I can hold my head high when walking around Gillingham.
Not that I've ever walked around Gillingham. There might be a statue of me outside Priestfield for all I know... |  | | |
| Football manager stole my life. on 15:46 - Aug 15 with 2370 views | Metallica_Hoop |
| Football manager stole my life. on 15:19 - Aug 15 by toboboly |
I said to my cousin, "He's great on Championship Manager so he must be good in real life....."
90 minutes later and my hopes were dashed. |
I did much the same 
North, Michael Duff always took over from Gary Neville when he retired but was over 30 by then so got 7-15 caps.
Was very sorry to see him stretchered off against us at Loftus Road once JUST because of his loyal service in the game!
Martin Lauchan aged 16 usually got 125 caps or so for Scotland. | |
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| Football manager stole my life. on 17:55 - Aug 15 with 2154 views | Hoopstar |
Ah football manager. Some of the regens used to be ridiculous. I remember signing an AM from the UAE called Ali Saeed who cost about 50k and developed into a player with all 20's in the most important attributes. I'm not normally great at FM as too lazy to put required effort but think that was the year that coincided with me going to Uni and subsequently built the greatest team that ever lived around that Saeed bloke.
I did so terribly in FM 2013 that I gave up the ghost. |  | | |
| Football manager stole my life. on 18:28 - Aug 15 with 2134 views | NorthLondonR |
| Football manager stole my life. on 15:30 - Aug 15 by Northernr |
Källström , Svindel Larson were on there at a time when every player you bought from Scandinavia was a guaranteed success. They must have had an over-enthusiastic Swede working down at SI at that time. Rade Prica, who eneded up at Sunderland in real life, was fcking gold.
There was also, randomly, a Cheltenham Town team that had eight players all available for under £20k who were all bloody amazing - Steve Book, Bob Bloomer, Dale Watkins, Jamie Victory, Michael Duff and a couple of others. You could take over a dreadful QPR team with a £200k budget, hand the whole lot over to Cheltenham and take a job lot of their players and ride off into the Premier League. I remember we set up a joint league in our uni flat that was on a spare laptop and sort of always on in the background - we had Ipswich, Arsenal, QPR, West Ham and Spurs all running on there. They all pissd themselves when I went out and bought the Cheltenham team for £200k. Well they weren't laughing for long I can tell you. Those were the days I used to put a suit on for the cup finals.
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I'm so glad I wasnt the only one with the suit thing, also played the finals in real time..... I kid you not once my mate Chris downloaded the national anthem before he played the FA cup final as Leyton Orient.
I think it was the 01/02 version where you could start as Rushden and Diamonds in the lowest league with a handsome war chest of £6million.... Marco Negri and Pep Guardiola in as freebies and then the Swedish u21's where every player was superb, I remember Labinot Harbuzi getting me about 50 assists.....But To Madeira was the player, £5k or thereabouts from a low level Portuguese outfit and would simply score hatrick after hatrick. |  | | |
| Football manager stole my life. on 07:33 - Aug 16 with 2083 views | Konk |
| Football manager stole my life. on 10:03 - Aug 15 by fakekerby |
Eddie Johnson (the American) up front would guarentee you 40 goals a season at any level for about a million quid despite only having good physical stats. |
In real life, Eddie Johnson would guarentee you frustration, desperation and finally depression. Probably a lovely bloke, but a truly woeful player. |  |
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