A few facts about a true phenomenon:
1. Football Manager (or Championship Manager as it was originally known) has been cited in 35 divorce cases.
2. SI, who produce the game, have the biggest scouting network in the world (over 900)- several non-league and lower division clubs have admitted to using FM/CM to find talent, and they’re currently working with a Premiership side looking to do the same.
3. The latest version has over 350,000 players in its database.
4. SI employ 15 in house game testers – these people are basically emplyed to sit and play FM all day. Amazing!
5. The two creators are brothers Paul and Oliver Collyer, whose few lines of code written in 1985 became the first full game in 1992. They starred in original versions (obviously becoming amazing).
6. The 2005 and 2006 editions combined racked up sales of £1.5million
7. The most recent (2008) edition topped the gaming charts for an incredible 22 weeks
8. Retailing at just £30 (the price of 2 DVDs), considering the amount of hours you will get from the game, it represents amazing value.
10. Sold? You can buy it here…
[...] the full FM09 article here – it was reported that a Premiership club was thrashing otu a deal to access the FM database and [...]
Everton… Interesting…