10 Weirdest Things People Have Done With Football Manager

7. Sabotage Their Own Game

Some of the non-traditional methods of playing Football Manager are tantamount to sabotage, rather than simply creating new challenges. Mutually terminating the contracts of your entire backroom staff and trying to get on with the worst replacements you can hire? Only buying players who weight at least 13 stone and are 6'4"? Utter madness. But the true Heart Of Darkness which some player actually choose to venture into, is to rig the game so there is basically now way to win. At all. Doesn't matter how good you are. The methods involves opening the editor before starting a campaign, create scores of young free agents with 200 potential, and watch them scatter amongst your rival squad to dominate the leagues. It's basically FM S&M, masochism without any real reward. You can't beat teams like that. Once it gets to the point that you're playing Football Manager to deliberately not have fun, you're truly through the looking glass. Or the laptop screen. Either way, probably about time to put it down and go play a game of FIFA, or something.