And then I never just play with the first team. I like to assemble a backroom staff, prepare a coaching routine, get the youngsters mentored by senior pros, practise set pieces, deploy scouts, everything. I love taking over a team and assessing the squad. I’m not locked in 1992.ĭr But you like the concept, you like the micro-management? No, I’ve bought every new one when it’s been released. Am I weird?ĭr You’re not playing the same one are you? The same one with a picture of an angry man on the box? I’m basically spending all of my free time doing something which is pretty much an extension of my day job. Within reason, and dependent on travel budgets, I can watch any football match in the country and get paid to do so. At some point, I’m going to be on my death bed, surrounded by family members, gently ebbing away into the next plane of existence and all I’m going to be able to think about is the fact that I must have spent a cumulative total of six unbroken months playing a computer game. When I think about what I could have achieved in my life, the languages I could have learned, the places I could have seen, it really does break my heart. Since the very first one, the one with the picture of an angry man on the box, came out I’ve spent hours and hours and hours of my life tinkering with make-believe football teams, playing with tactics, scouting and recruiting new players. I’ve been playing the Football Manager games for 20 years. Me You see… Actually, should I be lying down for this? Thank you for seeing me at such short notice.

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