Are you a fan of Championship Manager? If so, Football Manager Handheld (PSP) is for you. It’s Football Manager lite, stripped of the superfluities; a nod to the old days, the original Champmans, where you picked and managed a team, chose from a set of formations, and bought and sold players. You could rattle through a season in a few hours, tweaking and changing, moving positions, dropping those out of form and giving youth a chance, resting your stars in the cup, and gradually bleeding your latest starlet into the first team.

Football Manager in its current incarnation on the PC – Football Manager 2009 – is a far, far more in depth proposition. Interaction with players and the press, training, prolonged transfer negotiations, hiring and firing non-playing staff – for an immersive managerial simulation it is perfect. But it’s too much for some people. Some people just want to manage a side and play matches.

FMH (Football Manager Handheld) does include a very basic version of the 3D match engine but it’s not to the detriment of the game; and you can interact with players on a very basic level. There is a training module; but you can leave that to take care of itself. Aside from that, it is essentially Champman 2 with updated players.

And for me, that’s brilliant. I can’t be bothered with all the finite tweaks and intricacies of the PC version – sometimes it takes a few hours to get through just a handful of games. Get FMH for the PSP, and play a few games in just a handful of minutes. It may not have the immersive longevity of the full Football Manager, but for a bit of gratuitous fun, it’s brilliant. Especially for travelling on planes, trains, and automobiles.

If you already have a PSP, buy FMH below (from Amazon):

And if you don’t have a PSP, buy one now – thn buy FMH…

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