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Me But I’m a football journalist and I have been for six years. You must feel you have more control in this Football Manager environment. But if you change the environment, you can change the behaviour. But they might be in their own home, with cleanliness, or where the remote control is kept. If you think about work, for example, some people are not control freaks at work because they are unable to manipulate people in that sense. Control freaks don’t control every part of their lives. It’s not weird that you don’t do these things in real life. Me I don’t like the way you draw out your ‘erms’.ĭr Sorry. Me I feel like a god, sat astride a mountain, staring down at the mortals as they scurry like ants, desperate to do my bidding, fearful of my wrath. Everything is planned and prepped, the future is mapped out.ĭr When you play the game, how do you feel? But when I get on Football Manager, suddenly I become the most meticulous man in the world. My tax records are all over the place, my diary is written on my arm in biro, I’m forever losing notepads. I’m not a precise man in any other walk of life. I’ll always control the reserves and the youth teams, just to make sure that there’s progression in the club. And then I never just play with the first team. I like to assemble a backroom staff, prepare a coaching routine, get the youngsters mentored by senior pros, practise set pieces, deploy scouts, everything. I love taking over a team and assessing the squad. I’m not locked in 1992.ĭr But you like the concept, you like the micro-management? No, I’ve bought every new one when it’s been released. Am I weird?ĭr You’re not playing the same one are you? The same one with a picture of an angry man on the box?
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I’m basically spending all of my free time doing something which is pretty much an extension of my day job. Within reason, and dependent on travel budgets, I can watch any football match in the country and get paid to do so. At some point, I’m going to be on my death bed, surrounded by family members, gently ebbing away into the next plane of existence and all I’m going to be able to think about is the fact that I must have spent a cumulative total of six unbroken months playing a computer game. When I think about what I could have achieved in my life, the languages I could have learned, the places I could have seen, it really does break my heart. Since the very first one, the one with the picture of an angry man on the box, came out I’ve spent hours and hours and hours of my life tinkering with make-believe football teams, playing with tactics, scouting and recruiting new players. I’ve been playing the Football Manager games for 20 years. Me You see… Actually, should I be lying down for this? Thank you for seeing me at such short notice. If anyone can tell me whether or not I’ve got a serious, serious problem, it’s him. I decided that it was time to go and see a man who could give me some answers: Dr Simon Moore, Principal Lecturer in Psychology at London Metropolitan University and an expert in the effects of gaming on the human condition. Why is it that I’ve never stayed up until 3am to write a book, but I did it on numerous occasions to guide Welling out of the Conference South (FM07)? I’ve had girlfriends I haven’t loved as much as my Uefa Cup-winning Southend United side (CM97-98) and friends that I haven’t seen as much as I saw my Nottingham Forest reserves (CM01-02).
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Sometimes, I worry about the effect that Football Manager has had on my life. Iain Macintosh is the editor of The Set Pieces. The Blizzard is a quarterly football journal available from on a pay-what-you-like basis in print and digital formats. The following is an extract from Iain Macintosh’s article from Issue Six of the Blizzard, published in September 2012.