Football Manager, formerly known as Championship manager to the few, is a management simulator that has eeked it’s way into the professional game by quite astoundingly levels.
From the famous story of Alex McLeish turning down a young Lionel Messi after being alerted of the Argentine’s talents by the Scotsman gaming son, to the Football Manager like system adopted for scouting players by various Premier League clubs, the game has bred an army of loyal admirers in and out of the game.
To those making there livelihood from the sport, you can forgive certain players having reservations over the judgment of those little 0-20 ratings, some times, just sometimes, the developers get it so wrong an apology is due.
In an interview with the Mirror, the creator of the entire gaming franchise since its early humble beginnings, Miles Jacobson, shared an amusing story about Spurs favourite Harry Kane.
He goes on;
We did always have him as all right but I have personally said sorry to him because there was a long period where he was on loan at other clubs and we didn’t think he was going to reach the heights that he has done.
I met him at the London Football Awards and he is known for playing a lot of computer games and I said ‘we get 0.5 percent wrong, you were one that we got wrong’, and he said to me one of the reasons he was trying so hard was to make sure his stats were better in the game.
He’s been a revelation for a lot of people and was just a late bloomer and was probably suited better to playing Premier League football than Championship football which is rare and usually the other way.
So there ya go, with no Football Manager we probably wouldn’t have a great white hope to pin all our potential future international glory on.
(Via the Mirror)