20 Problems Only Football Manager Fans Will Understand

2. Having To Reassess Your Entire Life When Your Go-To Tactic Doesn€™t Work At A New Club

For some it's a 4-4-2 with pace on the flanks. For others it's a 4-3-3 with a bruiser leading the line. For others (there's always one) it's some sort of 3-3-1-3 with an extravagant South American centre-back starting every single attack from his own 18 yard box. Whatever a Football Manager player's go to tactic, it steadies the ship at their new club, and occasionally helps take them on to greatness. That is until the day it stops working. Whether you're just in the wrong league or coming up against a succession of teams who are set up to deal with it, when the tactical rug is pulled out from under you there are few things more unsettling. Do you persist and hope it comes good, or start messing around with it and pray you're an inverted full-back away from the winning formula?