Played this a lot (years and years) with a friend of mine, Walsall vs Scarborough. Played like 70+ seasons, our managers were 110 years old!! Best game ever. We introduced some restrictions on playing tactics thoug, because otherwise it would be too easy. Best player 9.02 average and 101 goals. Shame I don’t recall his name….
Fantastic game, started playing it back in 93′ as a teenager, recently started playing again nearly 20 years later! I heard there is an editor available, is this true?
[...] Being avid Stoke City fans, transfer deadline days of yore were not really much of an occasion. It usually entailed us selling the occasional gem to ‘bigger clubs’ and bringing in the odd unremarkable signing you’d probably never heard of. Despite the inevitability of it all, we still remember taking a pocket transistor radio (these were pre-interweb days) to school and surreptitiously listening in for any updates (usually nothing to report). We were kind of self appointed correspondents, relaying the information to Stoke=supporting cohorts, occasionally persuading a football-following teacher to nip into the staff room and check teletext for us, and then curating the ensuing debate as everyone pretended to have heard of Kofi Nyamah. Or claimed that Mark McNally was ‘good on Championship Manager’. [...]
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Played this a lot (years and years) with a friend of mine, Walsall vs Scarborough. Played like 70+ seasons, our managers were 110 years old!! Best game ever. We introduced some restrictions on playing tactics thoug, because otherwise it would be too easy. Best player 9.02 average and 101 goals. Shame I don’t recall his name….
Still playing this game today.
Fantastic game, started playing it back in 93′ as a teenager, recently started playing again nearly 20 years later! I heard there is an editor available, is this true?
like always shit like this NEVER works for me….
all i want to play is some form of soccer game, and its near impossible since i moved to fecking Canada -.-
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[...] Being avid Stoke City fans, transfer deadline days of yore were not really much of an occasion. It usually entailed us selling the occasional gem to ‘bigger clubs’ and bringing in the odd unremarkable signing you’d probably never heard of. Despite the inevitability of it all, we still remember taking a pocket transistor radio (these were pre-interweb days) to school and surreptitiously listening in for any updates (usually nothing to report). We were kind of self appointed correspondents, relaying the information to Stoke=supporting cohorts, occasionally persuading a football-following teacher to nip into the staff room and check teletext for us, and then curating the ensuing debate as everyone pretended to have heard of Kofi Nyamah. Or claimed that Mark McNally was ‘good on Championship Manager’. [...]