What do you do when you get angry?

We all know that, when playing FM, we experience a variety of emotions. There are those days when it brings joy.....and there are those times it makes us so angry we could punch a hole in every wall of our house/apartment.

When I get angry, I keep playing. I never quit playing if I am in a bad mood. I always like to end things on a positive note......oddly enough I don't think I have ever quit playing FM after a loss lol

So what do you do when this game causes you to blow your top? Do you stop playing right then and there? Or do you continue playing until you feel better?

If I get angry mid-match, I usually just shout at the screen and end up punching a sofa or something stupid lol, but occasionally on the old FM's, I used to just turn off the pc/laptop but then it never felt the same as I felt like I was cheating.

If I'm on a bad run, I normally try and get through it or wait until I have a winnable match and save it before so once I've calmed down and start thinking straight I can get started on a good run hopefully.

if i get angry, i come off the game for a little bit to clear my mind...

if i carry on playing angry, i take less time on doing stuff, making rash decisions and coming up with thoughts that the game is conspiring against me...

therefore, by taking time out, i can sit back and look at what i need to do...

Smash the table a bit. I mean when you have some idiot named Diego Costa on your At. Madrid team who runs with the ball 10 times, has 9 shots, but you're still losing 1-0 you just want to kill the brazillian!!

Smash the table a bit. I mean when you have some idiot named Diego Costa on your At. Madrid team who runs with the ball 10 times, has 9 shots, but you're still losing 1-0 you just want to kill the brazillian!!

I also tend to scold my players repeatedly. It's to the point of embarassment

I guess I'm just "passionate"...

Curse a lot! Usually in the language of the league I'm managing.

After a really bad loss, I'll save immediately (after the loss). Then I fine/release everyone on the team, offer them mutual termination, just terrible petty things. A few minutes of this and then i reload the save and get on with it.

I never get angry over this game, which is strange because I get angry over other games. I guess this game isn't very frustrating. Maybe cause I always choose a top team and cruise through every season, haha, I don't know.. I guess I can get annoyed if we concede a late goal in an important game, but not like I pound the keyboard or throw stuff.

Ban an OTFer.

The sofa/cushions usually get a pummling and i will shut the laptop in a none to cautious way and give my self a few minutes break!!

I tend to shout and swear....a lot!

If I get annoyed I will play on but it's hard when you're doing badly. I sometimes will save and leave it for the day.

When I used to play with my destkop,my desk was in costant danger XD

Now that I play mostly with the latpop,the worst that can happen is "smashing" the TV remote on the sofa...

and obviously cursing (in my head,don't want my family to think I am nuts)

I have a very conveniently slanted ceiling over my bed, which is where I play FM on my laptop, it makes a really satisfying sound when I punch it.

Give the defense and captain ****.

My team talks get vicious, I storm out of press conferences and I tell every player in the team privately that they are in danger of being put on the transfer list XD

If that doesnt help.. I just start a new game

I don't get angry. I win some I lose some. I quit the game when I get tired of playing it. Usually after a few hours.

It's just a game.

anyone ever banged there head off the wall and jumped out the window stole a car and kidnapped a kid.....or am i the first? lol

Sometimes I'll play drunk and the next day I go to play the game and all of a sudden I have messi in my team!!!

I turn it off and sulk

I get angry when my players don't want to play football and make stupid mistakes.

Normally I take out 1 or 2 players off the team

Sometimes I'll play drunk and the next day I go to play the game and all of a sudden I have messi in my team!!!

The biggest lol I've ever seen!! LOL

change to 4-2-4 , pump ball into box and swear more

Ban an OTFer.

hahaha isn't that a bit extreme?

Stick cocktail sticks in the cat. One per clear cut chance missed

I turn green, swell up to giant size, rip all my clothes except my trousers and throw the computer through the window. It gets quite expensive.

I haven't really got angry when playing FM11. Maybe that'll change when 11.3 is out and I start my 'serious' saves.

Stick cocktail sticks in the cat. One per clear cut chance missed

Such a useless stat

I've got about 15 stress-ball type things on my desk. I normally have at least one in my hand when I'm playing FM cause I'm nearly guarunteed to get stressed out in some way or another. SI should consider making their own stress balls.

depends how angry I am, if its a slight annoyance like one of the little ****s in the team complaing about wanting a transfer ill generally think **** you and move him to the reserves never to be seen again...

If I lose to Tottenham laptop murder suicide is on the cards

Such a useless stat

Such a useless cat

If it's something that irks me beyond muttering "hmph", then I can end up rage-deleting my save, and then regret it later.

Hence why I rarely get past a season.

I swear extremely loudly, slam the mouse on the desk, walk over and drop onto the sofa and weep uncontrollably.

ALT + F4!

Most of the time back for more within minutes though.

You know now that I think about it, the only thing that makes me angry is when my strikers shoot the ball right at the keeper 15 times in a match...

Yell at the screen, question the integrity of the player in question's mother and threaten him with the transfer list.

Oh my, when I was younger I've done some really crazy stuff when losing my temper because of CM/FM.

I've put holes in walls, smashed at least three screens, several mice, countless keyboards and threw the entire PC tower out the window once (it still worked!).

That's not to mention ringing up an old g/f and blaming her for a heavy and unexpected loss and dumping her.

Then again, another lass I went out with threw me out of the house because I dared to call her a name after she dared to tell me it was "just a game".

I've broken so many things because of this bloody game over the years until finally, I realised it wasn't the game, or MY TACTICS, it was all down to me.

Now, I can honestly say, I barely mutter a naughty word under my breath.

I couldn't keep behaving like I was, I've got a wife (who actually lets me play FM quite a lot without much complaint bless her) and I've got two young lads now - got to set a decent role model to them, I dread them playing this and behaving like the mindless nutcase I used to be...!

LOL, I've still got one mate in particular who still smashes screens when he plays it, so he quit playing, he just cannot handle the pressure and plays COD instead.

he just cannot handle the pressure and plays COD instead.

That's even worse haha.

The worst I've probably done is shout at the screen demanding answers as to why my team couldn't defend a two goal lead.

I go out and get some beer or take a shot of whiskey.

I find a spot of 'self pollution' helps clear the mind.

Turn off FM and read a book instead.

Usually find myself spending the night at one of Her Majesty's bed and breakfast establishments!

When I first started playing CM2 "96/97" I would get extremely emotional if I lost an important game.

Runing around the house screaming, destroying keyboards and mouses, occasionally starting a conversation with my computer because

it surely was the computers fault that I lost the game and ending up punishing the PC but not using it for a whole day.

Ohh yes, those were the days... But now I dont give a damn if I lose a game, and just enjoy the game to the fullest.

Life's too short too get mad about a game. (repeat after me: It's only a game)