Sussex Hammer Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 The reason I ask is this : REAL LIFE Last Sunday. West Ham 1-0 up against Spurs when Carlton Cole inexplicably passes towards his own goal straight to a Tottenham players feet and they score. Moments later they score again and come from behind to win 2-1. FM Tonight West Ham 1-0 up against Spurs when Dean Ashton inexplicably passes towards his own goal straight to a Tottenham players feet and they score. Moments later they score again and come from behind to win 2-1. Now ok the players in question are different but it was rather freaky experiencing that again as Hammer!! Know how Zola felt now!!!! ------------------------- Any other weird experiences? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl87 Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 Mine was buying Fabricio Coloccini for my Newcastle side purely because I needed a central defender, he's awesome (on the game) and he had a £13M release clause. Only for Newcastle to announce the signing of Fabricio Coloccini about 3/4 months after in real life. This was when FM09 was first released, so no patches had been applied. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie MUFC Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Buying Michael Owen for Manchester United in FM08 due to lack of attacking options. Thought it would NEVER happen in real life. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hershie Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Signing Denilson (who I'd never heard of) for Arsenal on FM06 the day before it happened for real. Then followed it up by signing Eduardo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristoaster Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 When Sven Goran Eriksson bought all the amazing unknown players from FM07 for his real life Man City side (Corluka, Elano, Bojinov, Castillo) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcftm Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 I signed Lorik Cana on about 3 games with Sunderland. Loved him because he used to win so many tackles, and pick up a fair few cards! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
18-WATP-73 Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Im convinced the rangers managers are looking over my back! I sign Kirk Broadfoot, they sign him. I sign Marc Reynolds, they try to get him. Been a few others aswell that we signed who I got on fm. If only they listend to me at the time and got van de vaart and tomashuk, if thats the correct spelling. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
velonce Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Paul Robinson misses a backpass from the right flank and it goes in for a goal. Except this time it wasn't from Neville or England, but for Tottenham and Hutton. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taytaz Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Ancelotti appointed IRL 4 days after the AI replace him in FM...freaky. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCIAG Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 When Sven Goran Eriksson bought all the amazing unknown players from FM07 for his real life Man City side (Corluka, Elano, Bojinov, Castillo) "Unknown Brazil international Elano..." Craig Bellamy fell out with John Arne Riise. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haynes28 Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Ancelotti was also appointed manager of Chelsea in my game a couple of months before it happened IRL. West Brom signed Joe Mattock on one of my games before it happened in real life. Arshavin's transfer to English football (Aston Villa though not Arsenal) happened on the last possible 15 minute slot of the 2009 January transfer window on my game too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 This happened in my game not long before it happened in real life. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elrithral Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 I was appointed manager of Valencia and I expect to be appointed manager of Valencia IRL. I'll keep you posted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scath Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Signing Carlos Tevez for Manchester United... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexNFFC Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Not exactly freaky, but quite often when I'm playing FM whilst watching Soccer Saturday on Sky, one of the players who has just scored on my game will score in quick sucession in real life. It's very weird to hear Jeff Stelling read a player's name out when the very same name is on my laptop screen! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CooCooKaJoo Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 all the good loung player i signed from a few FMs ago ended up getting signed by big clubs irl Assou Ekkotto, Paul Mcshane, Kompany, Vanden Borre ect Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCIAG Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Paul McShane? My Chelsea team a few versions back: Hart Corluka Richards Kompany Bridge SWP De Jong Kaka Robben Tevez Robinho All of whom have since played for Man City bar Robben and Kaka (he has been linked to them though). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
celebritykiller Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Signing Elano for City season before he actually signed IRL Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kroblues Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Real Madrid signed Ronaldo for £88M on FM08. That was a little bit freaky. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristoaster Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 "Unknown Brazil international Elano..." Weeeeelllll... I hadn't heard of him other than on FM Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy.b Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 on an old FM 2005 game, I sign torres for LFC about 2 months before Rafa signed him. I did better thou, and signed him on a free transfer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RBKalle Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 Sorry for bumping this up but I just had an awesome flashback... That mirrors almost perfectly the epic 3-0 win Rosenborg took at Westfalenstadion almost 10 years ago. In FM Toivonen scores an hat-trick, while IRL Sørensen scored "only" twice. But both players scored a fantastic DFK... Once again, if just in a game, "vi leker med Bundesliga!" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aderow Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 now this aint exactly what happened in real life tho..... well we all remember the champions league semi final secong leg.....at the bridge..... and how ovrebo (the ref) wouldnt give chelsea a penalty to save his own mother's life...... well i played the champions league final a few days after that and he was the ref......i won 4-1 and he gave me 3 pk's..... how weird is that..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferrari312 Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 Signing Javier Mascherano, Fabio Aurelio and Gabriel Paletta for Liverpool in FM06. The latter two arrived in real life a few months later, with Mascherano arriving in January 07 (although I had FM07 by then, and funnily enough I signed him from West Ham in that game by then too!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanBRFC Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 Back on LMA 2005 My friend was the manager of Bristol Rovers, who he supports and he signed about 4 players and all 4 players then came to rovers about a month after. He also signed Jermaine Beckford (Who had yet to be signed for Leeds and wasnt very well known) and he turned out to be the top league scorer about 5 times in a row. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moaner Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 Sold Aaron Mclean to Peterborough ages before it happened in real life. (Although it was for a lot more then IRL) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougyMarshall Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 Watching Rangers playing someone on TV, and seeing Boyd score only for my ingame Rangers team to set up Virtual Boyd to score about 10 seconds after he did in real life. had a cheeky smile. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssestig Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 Signing Samir Nasri for Arsenal for £8m on FM08 about 3 months before he did IRL Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich_sotdc Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 Signing Samir Nasri for Arsenal for £8m on FM08 about 3 months before he did IRL yeah same here mate!but i paid alot more than £8m for him! good one on my 09 game, spurs rebuying all the old players they once had - keane, defoe, crouch. but also berbatov and carrick! (highly unlikely!!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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