Confessions of a Football Manager – “I deliberately destroyed the club after a row with the boss” | games | entertainment

In many respects, Sega’s Football Manager is less of a game and more of an addictive game. Fans pour hundreds of hours into each new game, only to do it all over again when the next game is released. However, not every wannabe football coach plays the beautiful game the way it was meant to be played. Some use dark arts to ensure victory, others leave the hard work to their in-game assistants, and few people cheat. To celebrate the recent launch of Football Manager 23, Sega and developer Sports Interactive have asked fans to acknowledge their bad behavior in the long-running series.

In an entertaining thread on Twitter, Football Manager fans admitted to all sorts of dirty tricks.

Unsurprisingly, the act of “save the wreck” is one of the most common feats used by Football Manager fans. This is when you make a regular save, quit the game when something doesn’t get in your way, and then reload your previous file to try to get a different result.

One Twitter user used the technique to avoid getting hit by big teams in cup competitions, another did it over 30 times to take Celtic to Champions League glory, and one person remains unbeaten after 189 games thanks to his save.

Keep in mind that the above misdeeds seem rather mild compared to the following confessions, all of which involve subversion.

“Before accepting a new managers job, I pitched my new 3-star deals with embarrassingly low release clauses, and picked them all back up at my new peanut club after 3 months in the summer. Stonks,” one person wrote.

Another said: “Last season I had a falling out with my boss (at Stoke) so put a lot of horrible players on huge long term contracts, lock them all up at the under-23s and play kids until they kick me out.”

But the next act of mismanagement may be the worst: “I got angry with the club, offered everyone crazy salaries, then left. The club fell apart over the coming seasons.”

Fortunately, as these following tweets prove, not everyone plays dirty. Some people simply like to amuse themselves.

“Score players based on what titles I can give them,” a Twitter user posted. “6’7 GK called Benjamin Watts with 9 tackles and 11 responses… ‘Big Ben’.”

“Signed player with last name Tipple, pretended to be my son,” reads a tweet by Twitter user John Tipple.

“One time I introduced myself to a new co-worker in the office who really used to be a ball player by shaking his hand and saying, ‘Hi, buddy. By the way, you were an excellent signature in the CM97/98.”

“He looked at me like I was crazy.”



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