Online Game+ lower league team = Serious Pressure

I am sorry if this is in the wrong forum but has anyone realized how much more difficult and pressurizing it is to play in a online game? I started an online game with my cousin and we were looking for two teams who are about balanced so no one gets a big upper hand. So he started with Birmingham and I started with Stoke ( Stoke A little better but birmingham has a huge transfer budget so no one gets a big upper hand)

We have just finished the first season and I am amazed at how SI make the game so tough and you have ups and downs just like in IRL. I was about 13th the whole season and he was about 16th and at the end i had a very bad run and he had a great run and some how he was 17th and i was 15th and the last game i had was against him if he loses he goes down.

I wasn't going to get relegated for sure but i was worried he would move over me in the table which would be horrid since i was in front of him the whole season. I ended up winning 1-0 at his park and on GD i got up to 12th! He got relegated so we stopped the save because he didn't want to play in CC.

Back to my point, While playing the Online game with a friend or in my case a family member, every result matters! I know some people like the re-loading trick but in Online Game you cant do this maneuver.

Stoke and Birmingham are lower league teams?

No but i meant to say relegation threatened teams

Birmingham definitely have the upper hand on stoke with the money they throw at you at birmingham...

Thats the whole point of online game, half game, half insulting your friend about how useless his team is etc...

online is way more competitive, going for the same players and youths etc where on a solo game u get all the best players u want, i play online mostly on fm as its more fun but takes longer but its worth it.