20 Problems Only Football Manager Fans Will Understand

Cherno Samba. The greatest footballer that ever lived.

Championship Manager Goal Gif Never before has something brought so much joy and so much pain in almost equal measure. In millions of years' time when the human race is long gone and aliens are pouring through our historical artefacts to try and make sense of us as a civilisation, the one thing they're going to be stuck on is this game and the role it played in the lives of so many. You won't be able to blame anyone from planet Zog for not understanding the game's appeal, as even the most dedicated humans still struggle to tell you precisely why taking Yeovil on a surge towards the Premier League has been worth 213 hours of their life. If every player had put as much time and energy into something more useful then we'd probably have wiped out every major disease and be zipping around on hoverboards by now. But that wouldn't haven't been anywhere near as much fun. It's an obsession of course, and whether it's a dreary Sunday afternoon, the middle of the night, or at the back of their friend's wedding there are few times when seasoned Football Manager players wouldn't want to load up their current save and get cracking. Like all good addictions though, Football Manager has managed to unite its junkies with a sense of commonality. Whatever problem it is you feel like the game is making you suffer, you can almost guarantee that somewhere out there is another player with a small bald patch from tearing their hair out over precisely the same issue. Here, for your reading pleasure, are 20 such FM nightmares.
In this post: 
Cherno Samba
 
Posted On: 
Managing Editor
Managing Editor

WhatCulture's Managing Editor and Chief Reporter | Previously seen in Vice, Esquire, FourFourTwo, Sabotage Times, Loaded, The Set Pieces, and Mundial Magazine