The things Football Manager makes you do!

When i was around 11 years of age, i went round my friends house to play "Championship Manager 2000-01". I loved it and to my surprise i found my self strangly hooked on this game that i couldnt play. On release day, for Championship Manager 2001-02 i begged my mum for some money ( i had £20 and needed a little more for the purchase). She declined my proposal. So i did it, i stole from my own mother! Not only that, the way i did it made me feel dirty for years!

I got the tenner from my mum's purse and took it outside into the garden. I then tactically(just like i do in FM!) placed it in the bushes. When my mum ventured out into the garden to put out the washing, I went outside to play football in the garden. This is where i "accidentally" kicked the ball into the bushes, where i mysteriously found an old 10 pound note! I wonder where it could have come from...

To this day i still think my mum knows what i did, but admired my ingenuity.

Has anyone else gone to extreme lengths to get hold of a Football Manager game?

getting championship manager 2001 for free in a polish magazine

i'm polish so no biggie

Ignoring my girlfriend and possibly failing my dissertation

calling in sick for work

i'm too sick to work but well enough to outwit the AI

calling in sick for work

i'm too sick to work but well enough to outwit the AI

I've seen on these forums that one person took a whole week off work after release date, so he beats you there, but kudos for audacity.

Failed my higer exams because of CM96/97. It's also caused me to destroy several mouses, keyboards etc over the years. Once went out on a bender because I won the league!

i shot a man in reno, just to play fm

1) Smash the protective screen for my monitor by punching through the glass when I threw away a 2-0 lead versus Hadjuk in the Uefa Cup with Swansea.

2) Make endless cup of teas and batches of toast (coz, food/drink wise, that's all you can do when you're 8, isn't it?) for my brother in exchange for his 'CM time' when I was desperate to stay on.

3) On about the 15th of December, went upstairs and searched for half an hour in my parents' room to find where they'd hidden the new CM (we'll say it was 99/00 for argument's sake, though it may have been earlier) as I couldn't wait 'til xmas day. Took the CD out, replaced it with the disc for 98/99 thinking my parents probably wouldn't notice, and went downstairs and played 99/00 right through, then on Christmas day had to act desperate to play my, err, new game.

4) Several punch ups with brothers

5) As we speak, it's preventing me from studying for my English Lit exam.

6) Put on weight, because there's nothing better than tucking into a nice ham sandwich whilst it continues game (particularly important in the days of having a crap PC).

7) Lose weight, because doing laps around the back garden after a last gasp winner at Hillsborough is, naturally, good exercise.

8) It's probably gonna make me go to Leicester uni rather than Leeds, as Leeds want me to get an A in English Lit...

9) Cry. I genuinelly went to bed sobbing one night after an horrific playoff defeat with Redditch (and given that it's Redditch, that gives away that this wasn't a long time ago!).

10) I'd be surprised if I didn't kill someone, including myself, because of footy manager at some point in my life.

lol@Niall

I don't know whether to get you a trophy or professional help.

I've upset a girlfriend in my time and heard the "You care more about that stupid video game than me!" line a million times. When will they understand it's not stupid!?

Honestly mbchuz, if you'd have seen the manner of that playoff defeat for yourself you'd have gone to bed crying n all...

my girlfriend calls it "stupid pretend manager"

I am now 30 and married and have recently been getting back to my special "fm time" well most evenings and weekends

I still get it in the ear that it's just a game and "you dont even play the game yourself"

She even moans the next day when I have stayed up til the early hours playing, even though she was fast asleep in bed so wouldnt be able to tell if I was in bed or not.

Bloody women

Things Football Manager makes me do????

Smother my body is chocolate sauce!

Also, Ignore the mrs, for hours on end sometimes, the when she dare speak after a defeat i snap her head off.

I get through about a mouse every couple of months as they get flung at the wall in anger so often...

My wife calls "it" a weapon of mass destruction. I dunno what she calls the game tho. har har.

I am now 30 and married and have recently been getting back to my special "fm time" well most evenings and weekends

I still get it in the ear that it's just a game and "you dont even play the game yourself"

She even moans the next day when I have stayed up til the early hours playing, even though she was fast asleep in bed so wouldnt be able to tell if I was in bed or not.

Bloody women

same here, i have found that I sometimes lie about what time I turn in after a long night time session. hope that isn't the start of something serious!

same here, i have found that I sometimes lie about what time I turn in after a long night time session. hope that isn't the start of something serious!

I may start lying and just pretend that im tired due to watching tv all night.

Every night lately it gets to about 8.30-9pm and I am like so shall we go to bed. I know full well as soon as she lays down about 30 mins later she will be asleep. As soon as she is asleep I sneek off downstairs.

Is this sad for a man my age? You dont have to answer ha ha ha

getting championship manager 2001 for free in a polish magazine

i'm polish so no biggie

A polish magazine? Is that Mr Sheen weekly?

LOL

:-)

Bradt Brad

:-)

I travelled from Germany to London twice for the sole purpose of buying the latest Championship Manager while obviously giving completely different reasons to my girlfriend

Beat this

A polish magazine? Is that Mr Sheen weekly?

LOL

:-)

Bradt Brad

:-)

nope

the magazine was actually called FOCUS

I may start lying and just pretend that im tired due to watching tv all night.

Every night lately it gets to about 8.30-9pm and I am like so shall we go to bed. I know full well as soon as she lays down about 30 mins later she will be asleep. As soon as she is asleep I sneek off downstairs.

Is this sad for a man my age? You dont have to answer ha ha ha

Just be careful you dont get accused of doing 'stuff' on the computer if you know what i mean, has happened to me. It was with great delight that i proved to her i wasn't 'cheating' but was merely being a 25 year old man sneaking downstairs to play a computer game.

Just be careful you dont get accused of doing 'stuff' on the computer if you know what i mean, has happened to me. It was with great delight that i proved to her i wasn't 'cheating' but was merely being a 25 year old man sneaking downstairs to play a computer game.

ha ha brilliant

Just be careful you dont get accused of doing 'stuff' on the computer if you know what i mean, has happened to me. It was with great delight that i proved to her i wasn't 'cheating' but was merely being a 25 year old man sneaking downstairs to play a computer game.

haha thats just happend to me as well the missus wasent happy when i showed her i was just playing on the best game ever lol

haha thats just happend to me as well the missus wasent happy when i showed her i was just playing on the best game ever lol

Yeh, even though i proved her wrong she was still right, like they always are!

my girlfriend calls it "stupid pretend manager"

HAHAHA whatta ledge!!

I am now 30 and married and have recently been getting back to my special "fm time" well most evenings and weekends

I still get it in the ear that it's just a game and "you dont even play the game yourself"

She even moans the next day when I have stayed up til the early hours playing, even though she was fast asleep in bed so wouldnt be able to tell if I was in bed or not.

Bloody women

yeh what is it with people who say that 'you dont play the game' haha dthey just do not understand

and that whole thing where you stay up to play it and thye get angry, im sure they would prefer it if you were on porn!

love this thread! things fm makes you do

after a meeting at work all youve jotted down is tactics for tonights matches

talk about fm like it was real 'well if xxx would just play better we'd be ok, i need to win to survive' etc etc

yeh what is it with people who say that 'you dont play the game' haha dthey just do not understand

and that whole thing where you stay up to play it and thye get angry, im sure they would prefer it if you were on porn!

love this thread! things fm makes you do

after a meeting at work all youve jotted down is tactics for tonights matches

talk about fm like it was real 'well if xxx would just play better we'd be ok, i need to win to survive' etc etc

I have to look at porn while I have the whole black screen/not responding issue

Every night lately it gets to about 8.30-9pm and I am like so shall we go to bed. I know full well as soon as she lays down about 30 mins later she will be asleep. As soon as she is asleep I sneek off downstairs.

Is this sad for a man my age? You dont have to answer ha ha ha

I thought I was the only one

I also stay up until stupid times in the morning knowing I have to get up at 6am for work. My girlfriends name for it is Football Wa**er, nice!

I tend to also tell all my work colleagues about the amazing regen I signed for £50k and a friendly and they look at me like WTF? They just dont get it

My girlfriend HATES the game. I went round the other night saying "oh yeah, of course I'll spend all my time with you", and I was thinking "damn, no FM tonight!"

But then I remembered she had wanted to do her CV, and her laptop was away being fixed and the family desktop was broken. So I turned up at hers, laptop in hand, and gave her the impression I'd brought it round to help her do her CV. I went to set up iWork (I have a MacBook) and then said "awww it's not working for some reason", clearly making it up, but with enough of the right tone so that she thought I was telling the truth.

I sat at the other end of the bed for a couple of hours "trying to fix it". She was NOT happy when she found out!

I made it all better though haha

When I let my mum on my laptop i have to tell her to leave FM09 on because I can't be bothered to click the button to open it again.

I start talking to myself infront of my family .. so my family think I am some mental freak.

When I drink my booze I feel bad that my players on FM09 can't .. even when Torres scores a hat trick and you just want to celebrate with him.

I have to hold my pee in as I can't miss a single thing on FM09 so I end up on the floor holding my privates.

I run around the room when we score and pretend im the goalscorer and celebrate with the "Aeroplane" celebration.

I ask my sister to shake my hand at the end of each game(i get her to pretend shes the other teams manager)

When I let my mum on my laptop i have to tell her to leave FM09 on because I can't be bothered to click the button to open it again.

I start talking to myself infront of my family .. so my family think I am some mental freak.

When I drink my booze I feel bad that my players on FM09 can't .. even when Torres scores a hat trick and you just want to celebrate with him.

I have to hold my pee in as I can't miss a single thing on FM09 so I end up on the floor holding my privates.

I run around the room when we score and pretend im the goalscorer and celebrate with the "Aeroplane" celebration.

I ask my sister to shake my hand at the end of each game(i get her to pretend shes the other teams manager)

Others are funny, the last is just ridiculous. LOL

'Good Game, Rafa!'

'Who?'

=D

Others are funny, the last is just ridiculous. LOL

'Good Game, Rafa!'

'Who?'

=D

Funny enough she does it .. she only does it to get rid of me though.

i forgot to add that when we win a trophy I pretend im lifting it up infront of 60,000 fans .. when its really a shoe and its not a pendlum its a chair in my dinning room LMAO

When I won the Champions League win West Ham in FM08 I did go into my kitchen, get out a silver tray and walk round the front room parading it to the waiting journo's and paps. Unfortunately for me it was only my mrs and her mum who had come round for a cup of tea.

She still looks at me in a strange way :confused:

I once went to asked thirty people in my secondary school, to lend me a pound so i could by the game. lol

Just be careful you dont get accused of doing 'stuff' on the computer if you know what i mean, has happened to me. It was with great delight that i proved to her i wasn't 'cheating' but was merely being a 25 year old man sneaking downstairs to play a computer game.

I am now 30 and married and have recently been getting back to my special "fm time" well most evenings and weekends

I still get it in the ear that it's just a game and "you dont even play the game yourself"

She even moans the next day when I have stayed up til the early hours playing, even though she was fast asleep in bed so wouldnt be able to tell if I was in bed or not.

Bloody women

These are so true for me its unreal, when the night starts out she will say to me fancy watching a dvd tommorow so im like aye sure but guaranteed next day comes she says are we watching that dvd? im like oh emm na maybe tommorow and this has happened for THE LAST 8 years now.

Oh and don`t forget the what time are you coming to bed the night? im like I only have a few games left till I get to the end of the season then I will be up, next thing you know its 4am and im half way through the next season.

LONG LIVE FM:thup:

I have broken lamps, keyboards, mice (mouses!?!) and my right hand middle knuckle twice!

A laptop is the answer along with ceding full control of the TV remote to the missus. If she complains about the FMing you just point out that you want to choose what to watch on TV if you can't sit there with your laptop. Easy

I remember the main reason I passed my GCSEs was because my old amiga broke so I couldn't play any more cm9495. Usual plan was getting home from school, sticking it on then going to bed 10 mins before my folks got up in the morning to make it look as if I'd slept all night. I had no chance of passing uni when cm2 came out however...

Whilst playing CM 01/02 I held a whole press coference whilst on the toilet about my upcoming appearance in the champions league final, my girlfriend heard it and thought I had gone quite mad!

Can I just add that I had no idea that my press conference had been out loud!!

I'm 34 and still play this game to the wee small hours of the day atm.

Get a rather snotty e-mail from boss about constant lateness. Something thats happening to the extent Im investigating the parental controls on Vista to stop me playing FM at a certain time through the week so I can actually get some sleep!

My failure to have studied for any of my exams since I got into FM, still doing well though, top set for most subjects, so I must be lucky or something.

Heading the carton of milk back into the fridge, it didnt end well.... and also putting a hole in my computer screen thanks to my fist, thats also didnt end well.

I travelled from Germany to London twice for the sole purpose of buying the latest Championship Manager while obviously giving completely different reasons to my girlfriend

Beat this

Ok kids stay away from the crazy German.

Whenever I do anything else other than play FM, I always think of it as eating into my FM time.

I am guilty of doing commentary for the game.............I once took my gf out to dinner after finally winning the American Second Division on CM4. I had lost 4 straight finals and finally won, I was so happy I called her up and told her to get ready cause we were celebrating; When she asked what we were celebrating I just said "Celebrating our love."

I drove the family car to the nearest games shop to buy CM0102 when I should have picked up my younger sisters from school.. they had to wait a bit but I was sure they would be fine

I am guilty of doing commentary for the game.............I once took my gf out to dinner after finally winning the American Second Division on CM4. I had lost 4 straight finals and finally won, I was so happy I called her up and told her to get ready cause we were celebrating; When she asked what we were celebrating I just said "Celebrating our love."

LMFAO I just laughed out loud at work, and looked around sheepishly at people that might have been staring....that's flippin' brilliant!! LOL

I have started to make sure that when I go to bed, I make to sure to turn FM off. I know that it probably won't last long though especially when I get to a crucial time in the season.