Article: Football Manager. The World's Most Influential...

[PremAddict]

I thought this would interest all of you FM players out there.

https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/f ... video-game.

[stealthpapes]

That's nice and this is the only thread I could find to post this, from another place.

On a thread about handicapping computer games ...

Sporting one here:

Attempted to make San Marino qualify for a major footballing tournament. Effectively impossible by solely managing the national side.

The only way to really try this is to take charge of a San Marino based football club who produce San Marinese youth players. The better the club does, the more it grows, the better players it produces (within reason).

On Football Manager it is the longest possible game. San Marino calcio (the club team) are in a regional basement division but conveniently play at San Marino's reasonably sized international stadium.

Slowly but surely I wrenched the team up through the divisons, all the while co-managing the national side to work out how best to play international football as a minnow. We had some occasional success - draws against Kazakhstan home and away, a win against Lithuania.

After many seasons San Marino calcio were promoted to Serie A where shit started to get real. I had high wage earners and some international stars. The youth team was markedly improving after pressuring the board continually to Improve the youth facilities.

A near amazing result against Portugal, holding out for a draw at home and losing 1-0 away showed progression from a team of amateurs to a tight well drilled minnow.

Still qualification eludes me but 7 points at the last round of qualifying meant we didn't finish last and represents a respectable haul for a nation of 60, 000 people.

And I think this place is a waste of time ...

[tmesis]

Used to love it years ago, but then they made all about playing mind games in the media, and talking to players to stop them being unhappy.

[Sutekh]

Those were the days.

[Green]

That's nice and this is the only thread I could find to post this, from another place.

On a thread about handicapping computer games ...

Sporting one here:

Attempted to make San Marino qualify for a major footballing tournament. Effectively impossible by solely managing the national side.

The only way to really try this is to take charge of a San Marino based football club who produce San Marinese youth players. The better the club does, the more it grows, the better players it produces (within reason).

On Football Manager it is the longest possible game. San Marino calcio (the club team) are in a regional basement division but conveniently play at San Marino's reasonably sized international stadium.

Slowly but surely I wrenched the team up through the divisons, all the while co-managing the national side to work out how best to play international football as a minnow. We had some occasional success - draws against Kazakhstan home and away, a win against Lithuania.

After many seasons San Marino calcio were promoted to Serie A where shit started to get real. I had high wage earners and some international stars. The youth team was markedly improving after pressuring the board continually to Improve the youth facilities.

A near amazing result against Portugal, holding out for a draw at home and losing 1-0 away showed progression from a team of amateurs to a tight well drilled minnow.

Still qualification eludes me but 7 points at the last round of qualifying meant we didn't finish last and represents a respectable haul for a nation of 60, 000 people.

And I think this place is a waste of time ...

lol. Any upd8s?