bassistuk Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 For me Real football is boring, annoying and frustrating to know so many crap players earning millions for nothing. On the other hand Football Manager fills a hole where real football cant for me. Where i get to decide who lives and who dies..... What do you guys think??? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruisey Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 I dont hate football but stopped going to matches along time ago. I still love watching Soccer Saturday with Jeff Stelling. Makes it all still exciting. But yeah I love playing FM much more than watching football on tv. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmurfDude Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 I don't particularly enjoy football much these days because there's so many horrible spoilt cheating player's about who can do as they please because they have too much power. Match tickets are far too expensive as well. The sport is rotten at the top. FM will always be great fun though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
twattyatkins Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 I like the best of both worlds, I'm a Birmingham City season ticket holder (most away games as well), and when I'm not there I'm playing FM Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Beef FC Kyle Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 Football management games are probably what got me into football. I remember liking the old 1s before I liked football much. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ackter Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 Friend of mine detests football, but I described FM to him as if it was a role playing game and he now plays it more than me. He actually stole my FM12 code because he was at my place when it arrived and I was in work Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Welsh Lad Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 The only reason why I like FM more than Real Football is that I get to boot McLeish out of Villa. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimland Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 I don't hate football, I'm rather indifferent to it. I don't follow it and I find watching matches rather boring. Still been playing various management games since the old C64 days. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewpot01 Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 For me Real football is boring, annoying and frustrating to know so many crap players earning millions for nothing. On the other hand Football Manager fills a hole where real football cant for me. Where i get to decide who lives and who dies..... What do you guys think??? I don't attend games any more - I chose to work Saturdays instead. For me FM allows a certain amount of escapism from the real game that has become become rotten at the top level and cares for the lower level very little if anything at all and then we have greedy foreign owners kicking around the idea of banning relegation -although I suspect it will never happen. I was in my teens in the 70's so for me that was when football was at it's best, still full of characters and players who were in touch with the fans. Football is no longer a working class game. In fact it's becoming a laughing stock. So for me FM gives me the chance to enjoy in the form of a game what I no longer truly do in reality. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carmi88 Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 I couldnt imagine playing a game of something I dislike and finding It enjoyable. Best example is American football, don't like the sport and hate the games Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technique Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 LOVE Football and have done all of my life. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gusano Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 i enjoy all sports, but hate how they are run. I like the editor so I can play football how I enjoy. if only I could do the same for basketball. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquaplex Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 No idea how you can play FM for more then 5 minutes if you don't like football in real life. Mind boggling. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ackter Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 Because if you ignore the football aspects, FM is one of the most in-depth stats-based role playing games in the world. You can play Final Fantasy without liking magic Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
soldierblue123 Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 I addicted to football both in reality and in the virtual world of FM. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewpot01 Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 I couldnt imagine playing a game of something I dislike and finding It enjoyable. Best example is American football, don't like the sport and hate the games I never said I disliked it, I said that I don't like the modern game, and besides what business is it of yours? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deisler26 Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 I've got less passionate about football as I've got older. But still like it and watch it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamsyLFC Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 I hate what football has become, but I love my club and i'd never stop following them aslong as they exist, if that makes any sense to you all. As for FM, as i've got older I have found myself getting less and less into it, but I still enjoy playing it and it's a great way to escape if my real life team has played poorly or has had a bad result. Just stick FM on with all my wonderkids and forget how **** my real team has played. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Demus Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 I enjoy both. But it's a different form of pleasure they give me. FM is the feeling of managing a club, buying and selling and so forth. Watching my favourite teams on TV is a totally different thing, but I wouldn't be able to choose just one of them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich74 Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 For me Real football is boring, annoying and frustrating to know so many crap players earning millions for nothing. On the other hand Football Manager fills a hole where real football cant for me. Where i get to decide who lives and who dies..... What do you guys think??? i have never heard anyone say this i am shocked, without my obsesive love for real football i could never play fm,football is everything to me without it i dont know if there would be any point in living Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Eskenen Un Un Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 I like both indeed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawlore Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 I have no interest in the Premier League, and it would cost me £23 if I decided I wanted to catch a Gillingham game on the day. League Two. In a European country, that'd get me into a top tier match, with a programme and a portion of chips. When matches start being priced realistically in England, I'll start going again. Soon I'm moving to Paris, for good. Till then, there's FM. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanNUFC Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 love football, love fm. the two go hand in hand for me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlosEsDios Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 love fm - as every year goes by my love for real football dwindles. Every six months I go to cancel Sky Sports, they discount it and I keep it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassistuk Posted October 23, 2011 Author Share Posted October 23, 2011 I LOVE FM because of the depth of play. Its gives me the chance to fill a real manager's boots but in my world. I have no interest for real world football and havent done so in years. FM gives me a chance to create my own footballing fantasy. i hope SI continues to make this game for years to come. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technique Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 I feel a bit stupid now. I just presumed that everyone on here was football obsessive like myself. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassistuk Posted October 23, 2011 Author Share Posted October 23, 2011 Why feel stupid? you're allowed to love Football if its a passion of yours. For me my main passion is Music and secondly football manager . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimland Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 I like the type of game as Ackter pointed out it is a rather amazing thing in its own right. I like the challange it provides me but in the end I see more numbers and statistics than I see football when I play it. I would probably enjoy the game even if it was based on some other sport, I know I used to love EHM (I'm actually a fan of hockey), as long as I can get my head around the rules and numbers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FollowFollow54 Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 Very surprised by this thread. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay96 Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 I watch non leage football, so the Sky/Premier League/Foreigners/£50 a ticket etc etc that affects the Prem doesn't affect me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butters76 Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 I'm starting to hate what football has become. moneydoping. But I will always love FM. I have bought every version since CM93 (except a few of the league spesific cm1 and 2, like dutch and german) cm2 Damn, Si has gotten alot of money from me over the years. But it has been worth it. I still play cm93/94 and cm 97/98 in dosbox now and then. The great part with those games is you can finish 4 seasons in just 4-5 hours of playing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoDi Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 Ive never really liked football too much, but have loved football games since early 90's. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArranoBeltza Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 All this talk of top division clubs being greedy and it being all about money has me confused. Y'know being an Athletic Club fan and all. TOQUERO LEHENDAKARI! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawlore Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 As much as it can claim to be a realistic sim, for me, FM represents a purer version of football- what football should be, rather than what it actually is. Nods to the uglier parts of the game, rather than attempts to replicate it. I sigh when the referee blows his whistle and players surround him. It happens at every game, in every division. In FM, it's one, maybe two lines of text, and then the game continues. I get fed up of the diving, of players on both sides appealing every little challenge, and the subsequent replays and overanalysis from the experts. In FM, diving is at nowhere near a realistic level, and Gary Neville and Mark Lawrenson are (thankfully) nowhere to be seen or heard. If you want to see it again, you look yourself. If not, you move on. I get sick of the media, TV and magazine, trying to stir controversy on slow news days, or of leading witchhunts for things completely unrelated to what happens on the pitch. John Terry losing the England captaincy. Glenn Hoddle losing the England job. Sven and Ulrika. WAGs. And that's just concerning to the England squad. I'm saddened, immensely saddened, as so many other people have pointed out in this thread, and as Bryan Robson pointed out in that C4 documentary (which he got slated for), that making money has overtaken glory as the number one priority in football. For me, the rose-tinted glasses came off with Franchise FC- at that point, the FA made it very clear what they considered most important- and the answer was money. These stupid Premier League proposals- playing a league game abroad, scrapping relegation- only highlight this further. And one of these days, one of them will get through. Perhaps it'll be Liverpool's idea to negotiate their own TV deals, which'd risk killing half the PL and a hell of a lot more in the divisions below that. I love Gillingham FC, and I always will. They are my one and only true love in this world. I still go to a few games a season- mainly away games, because at least I can make a day of it, go to a new place, experience the thrill of being in a minority fan section, singing our hearts out. Those moments can never be sold- the moments of despair when your team gets relegated on goal difference, or of elation when your boys have fought back from 2-0 down to score a third in the last minute of injury time. We all know them. Those moments, FM can replicate- indeed, it forces us to experience them- and that's why I follow football. The way in which the people who have control of football in England are wringing it dry of money is nothing short of criminal. There is no reason, none whatsoever, for football to be as expensive as it is for the supporter, and that applies to every division, top to bottom- not to buy a replica shirt, not to go along and support your team. It's disgusting. I won't fall out of love for football. But I don't have to like what it's become. And I'm happy that FM is my safety blanket, reminding me of a better time, staying focussed on what should actually matter. Rant over. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donki Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 I love football, I love Tottenham Hotspur and I love FM. How anyone can like FM without feeling for the sport is beyond me, the pride I feel leading my team to victory, loving every player I bring on from obscurity to glory, its not about stats to me its about winning and and feeling in deep down inside. I feel emotions in FM liek i do when I watch football thats what it all about and IMO you cant feel these emotions by it just being a statistical game, again this is just my opinion. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassistuk Posted October 25, 2011 Author Share Posted October 25, 2011 True passion in the making Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deisler26 Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 I love football, I love Tottenham Hotspur The two things are mutually exclusive Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 It doesn't make sense to me. As someone said I couldn't imagine playing an American Football game as I hate the sport. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeper tom Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 I'd rather go to watch my team Reading than play Football Manager any day of the week. Any true supporter would. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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