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Best Football Manager version?

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  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 95,028
    MrLargo said:
    Only a matter of days before I cave into temptation. Think 03 was the last version i played and that was definitely starting to get too intricate for me.

    Summer of 98, my parents went on holiday for a fortnight. I reckon 10 days out of 14 I was on the PC at 8am and played solidly through to 1 or 2am. Might explain why I didn't get laid much as a youngster.

    Love that so many people have had the same obsession with it. I've heard stories of people putting on a suit when their side was in the Champions League Final, and I once found myself scrolling through a Champ Manager message board where people were reminiscing about their favourite players from older versions of the game, obscure Dutch defenders, Leyton Orient reserves and so on who went on to become superstars of people's CM teams.
    Cant stress how disappointed I was when Kim Kallstrom's loan at Arsenal didnt work out - He's another Id also focus on signing each game and always wanted to see him in the Premier League

    Tallan Martin (the kid I mentioned further up) was playing in the NSW Premier Division when I went to Sydney on Holiday one summer... took a two hour train down to Wollongong one day as his team were playing them. Game was bloody awful but what was remarkable was the fact that both teams got penalties yet each got taken by Goalkeepers rather than the Strikers, unsurprisingly meant that both got saved quite easily
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    edited March 2020
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51904874

    As an aside I have a genuine signed to tonton zola t shirt in my man cave :-) 
  • Oh_Yoni_Boy
    Oh_Yoni_Boy Posts: 1,763
    edited March 2020
    North Lower Neil said:
    Oh_Yoni_Boy said:
    ForeverAddickted said:
    Best version will always be Championship Manager 01/02

    You can download it for free now

    https://www.fmscout.com/a-championship-manager-0102-free-download.html

    3-1-2-1-2 formation

    Chiotis

    N'Diaye Okoronkwo West

    Said

    Kerr Wellens

    Zolo-Moukoko

    Collins Farnerud

    (To Madeira is cheating because he's not real)
    No way, 41212

    Chiostis
    Duff, Okowonkwo, Klompe, West
    Said
    Kerr, Doukas
    Moukoko or Bakircioglu
    And two of Tsigalko, Skalidis or Papadopoulos upfront.
    Crap, I forgot a player... it was 3-1-3-1-2! Gonna sneakily edit in Kim Kallstrom...

    Tsigalko was class, could never bring myself to drop David Collins though.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,516
    Worth watching if you’ve never seen this before https://youtu.be/SN92RPIYaeo
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,032
    Thinking about it, the version I played had Charlton in the Championship (or whatever it was called) so probably was 1999/2000

    Just like 'arry Redknapp, I had my favourites. The one which stuck in my mind as doing a great job for Charlton, whenever I played Championship Manager was Kevin Betsy. Now England U17 coach, I taught him well
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,802
    Addickhead86 said:
    Championship Manager 97/98 was peak for me.
    Especially as you could edit it in Dos and put yourself in as a player with a rating of 20 on everything.
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    killerandflash said:
    Thinking about it, the version I played had Charlton in the Championship (or whatever it was called) so probably was 1999/2000

    Just like 'arry Redknapp, I had my favourites. The one which stuck in my mind as doing a great job for Charlton, whenever I played Championship Manager was Kevin Betsy. Now England U17 coach, I taught him well
    That version was good until I learnt you could cheat, could never really play it again. 
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,838
    Cafc43v3r said:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51904874

    As an aside I have a genuine signed to tonton zola t shirt in my man cave :-) 
    He was prolific behind the front two or up front.
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,278
    Ahhh

    Daniel Prodan, Viktor Leonenko, an 18 year old Danny Murphy, Peter Smith

    All bedrocks of my unbeatable Charlton Athletic side playing a 4 3 1 2 

    Cherno Samba 

    Me and my mate bought the italian and french versions of the game circa 96 as well. My PSG team were well ahead of their time, had a cracking right winger Claude Makelele, wonder what happened to him. Bixente Lizarazu, Zidane, Djorkaef, Martins, Didier Domi, Bernard Lama, Le Guen. Pretty sure at one point the french national team all played for me. Oh and a bargain Ryan Giggs who I picked up somehow 

    Discovered a cheat in the 96 game where you could buy players for nowt. Up your bid so high it got accepted then modify the bid down to 0. 

    This game also went a long way to ruining my GCSEs 
  • paulie8290
    paulie8290 Posts: 23,345
    SouthLondonisRed said:
    Love the Championship Manager and Football Manager games in the past.
    But the best one on Playstation in my eyes is LMA Manager, would play hours and hours on that game. How they haven't brought that back I do not know.
    LMA manager was quality, I wished they had that now for PS4, come to think of it they dont have any manager games for ps4

    I used to write watch the cup draws on LMA manager and write down my predictions for who I thought would win each round lol

    Nothing better on a rainy day than playing a bit of LMA Manager

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  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,516
    FM20 is free to play for the next week

    https://www.footballmanager.com/news/football-manager-2020-play-it-free-right-now?utm_source=SI+INSIDER&utm_campaign=89ab846fbe-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_18_01_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8adf862544-89ab846fbe-39168245
  • mrbligh
    mrbligh Posts: 3,056
    there is a way to get an offline login on ebay for 2020 the grand sum of £3 - i say no more. google away my friends
  • 2121
    2121 Posts: 1,218
    What a great idea! Was going out of my mind with boredom and dont have a console. Gonna get! 

    The best manager game was the original one ahhh forget what it was called....
  • 2121
    2121 Posts: 1,218
    Ultimate soccer manager! Especially when u could afford to put the corner stands in and fill the place up with hot dog and programme stalls
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    2121 Posts: 1,218
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    2121 Posts: 1,218
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  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,976
    PopIcon said:
    Premier Manager (92) was my game.
    Always started off with Wycombe Wanderers in the conference.
    I had it on the Atari ST, genuinely surprised the floppy disk didn't wear out.

    Floppy disk, kids Google it.
    @PopIcon
    Wycombe on Premier Manager was epic. I still remember loads of the Wycombe player names:

    Hyde
    Carroll
    Creaser
    Crossley
    Scott
    Stapleton
    Guppy

  • PopIcon
    PopIcon Posts: 5,970
    DamoNorthStand said:
    PopIcon said:
    Premier Manager (92) was my game.
    Always started off with Wycombe Wanderers in the conference.
    I had it on the Atari ST, genuinely surprised the floppy disk didn't wear out.

    Floppy disk, kids Google it.
    @PopIcon
    Wycombe on Premier Manager was epic. I still remember loads of the Wycombe player names:

    Hyde
    Carroll
    Creaser
    Crossley
    Scott
    Stapleton
    Guppy

    Love it, I remember some of those names.
  • Oh_Yoni_Boy
    Oh_Yoni_Boy Posts: 1,763
    2121 said:

     Looks like you've built Spurs a replica of Wisla Krakow's stadium



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  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 23,012
    Premier Manager 2 was brilliant too.


  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,976
    North Lower Neil said:
    Premier Manager 2 was brilliant too.


    Halifax Town was the team to start with in that game 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,032
    edited March 2020
    Got my copy of FM2020 and been playing this evening. Frustratingly the Charlton squad I've inherited is the post January window one, so despite being back in July preseason, I've no Gallagher and am stuck with the rubbish Southall brought in!
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,516
    killerandflash said:
    Got my copy of FM2020 and been playing this evening. Frustratingly the Charlton squad I've inherited is the post January window one, so despite being back in July preseason, I've no Gallagher and am stuck with the rubbish Southall brought in!
    When you start a new game you should have the option of which database you use.
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,278
    DamoNorthStand said:
    North Lower Neil said:
    Premier Manager 2 was brilliant too.


    Halifax Town was the team to start with in that game 
    Front 3 of Obebo, Greenwood and Paterson

    That game was the beginning of the end for me academically 
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 23,012
    edited March 2020
    DamoNorthStand said:
    North Lower Neil said:
    Premier Manager 2 was brilliant too.


    Halifax Town was the team to start with in that game 
    Yep but I must admit I used to start as them and Welling and sell Greenwood, Thompstone and Paterson to Welling.
  • sholland
    sholland Posts: 487

    Remember coming home from school and my nan had unplugged my zx spectrum to hoover my bedroom. Charlton were top of the league, I cried into my Star Wars Pillow (still have it)

  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,032
    Scoham said:
    killerandflash said:
    Got my copy of FM2020 and been playing this evening. Frustratingly the Charlton squad I've inherited is the post January window one, so despite being back in July preseason, I've no Gallagher and am stuck with the rubbish Southall brought in!
    When you start a new game you should have the option of which database you use.
    That's fine, and it gives me new admiration for Bowyer too  :)
  • Addick in SW16
    Addick in SW16 Posts: 1,421
    edited March 2020
    ForeverAddickted said:
    Best version will always be Championship Manager 01/02

    You can download it for free now

    https://www.fmscout.com/a-championship-manager-0102-free-download.html
    I knew I shouldn’t have followed that link. I started my game with Plymouth, but was dismissed just before Christmas.

    My wife is working from home at the moment and I’ve had some uncertainty over my own work situation. So when I yelled, “I got the sack!”, she literally jumped out of her chair, before realising that I wasn’t talking about the game.

    Oh and if you were concerned by about my work situation, after a year of applying for positions, I’ve finally got myself a job as the manager of Shrewsbury Town and am officially addicted again! 🙄
  • up_the_valley
    up_the_valley Posts: 4,247
    edited March 2020
    PopIcon said:
    Premier Manager (92) was my game.
    Always started off with Wycombe Wanderers in the conference.
    I had it on the Atari ST, genuinely surprised the floppy disk didn't wear out.

    Floppy disk, kids Google it.
    I had this on the Mega Drive. In fact I've still got it somewhere. Was very addictive. 

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