o/t things you LOVE about the football/championship manager series (all versions)

[turienzo's lovechild]

1. when a player scores and runs into the OTHER TEAMS dugout to celebrate....imagine if that actually happened?

2. when a player scores and runs off to celebrate in the corner, followed by no-one, all his team mates are casually strolling back to their half

3. when in old versions some cheeky developers would put THEMSELVES in the game and make themselves f***ing amazing (ie to madeira)

 

[culvers]

Re-gens in 97/98 waiting for George Weah and Paola Mandini to retire and come back as young superstars in the making.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

there was one version where you could get world class players to sign for you at even league 1/div 2 level in the year or so before they retired, for free and on fairly low wages

i remember managing someone shit like burnley and building a team around ronaldo and shevchenko upfront, with denilson and zambrotta rampaging up the wings against bemused league 1 defenders

 

[00snook]

Mominais Bokoto.

Freddy Adu.

Chucks Nwoko

in no particular order.

 

[Gus is god]

Freddy Adu what happened to him, he was going to be the next superstar at one point.

 

[00snook]

Perhaps Champ isn't as accurate as we think?

Surely not

 

[Keeping The Dream Alive.]

Do f***ing amazing at a club and they build a new stadium named after you

 

[Richard Hebberd's Syrup]

there was one version where you could get world class players to sign for you at even league 1/div 2 level in the year or so before they retired, for free and on fairly low wages

i remember managing someone shit like burnley and building a team around ronaldo and shevchenko upfront, with denilson and zambrotta rampaging up the wings against bemused league 1 defenders

That was 2001-2002 I think - I had Alan Smith of nearly 100 England gaps and 50 goal fame banging them in when he reached the age of 38 at Division Two level

 

[Seagull27]

For me it's the little things the makers put in as a joke, for example funny player personalities for the new generation players.

I once had one called 'cluck cluck', which then described him as: 'addicted to a certain brand of grilled chicken and peri peri chips. If XXXXXX is not fed with this meal at least twice a day then 'The Rage' can quickly descend on his shoulders and nobody leaves the football pitch in one piece.'

 

[supaseagull]

Bakircioglu was IMMENSE in CM 2000/01

 

[Badger]

CM2 (95/96?) when you could play 2-4-4 all-out-attack in the first half, go in with a 4-0 lead and switch to defensive in the second half, coasting to victory.

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

there was one version where you could get world class players to sign for you at even league 1/div 2 level in the year or so before they retired, for free and on fairly low wages

i remember managing someone shit like burnley and building a team around ronaldo and shevchenko upfront, with denilson and zambrotta rampaging up the wings against bemused league 1 defenders

You can still do that - I've currently got Almunia and Joe Cole playing in League One for £500 a month.