by Tom Payne | Sep 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
With the likes of FIFA and PES getting access to more and more licenses for clubs names, logos and kits each year, it is clear that virtual sports games want to ensure that their product is as realistic as possible. Let’s be honest, nobody wants to play as...
by Tom Payne | Sep 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
We’ve all been there. Spending chunks of your precious evening meticulously tweaking your perfectly balanced 442 formation. Making sure your central midfielders compliment each other, your wing back instructions set so they know exactly when to overlap, strike...
by Tom Payne | Aug 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
Over the last few years, Sports Interactive has provided more diversity to the Football Manager franchise in terms of what we can play. Not only have they released their annual Football Manager game every November, they have also released Football Manager Touch...
by Tom Payne | Aug 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
Last week, I announced the start of a Football Manager 2020 journey – to recreate the original ‘Crazy Gang’ by winning the FA Cup with AFC Wimbledon, but only signing players with an Aggression attribute of 15+. The full recap can be found here. I gave myself a...
by Tom Payne | Aug 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
Nothing fills me with greater pleasure than getting that huge sense of nostalgia reading and watching famous (or, in the case of this diary, infamous) football teams of the past. From Rinus Michels and Johann Cruyff’s ‘Total Football’ at the 1974...