With the new season under way and the annual Football Manager update looming large on the horizon, one could think that it was the end of the road for the 2012 incarnation. What was once exotic and new has become jaded and old- the ability to add tones to your team talks may have wowed us in the halcyon days of October, but a year's play makes us into altogether more indifferent beasts. We long for progress and innovation; an updated game that would see Wolves in the Championship, Laudrup at Swansea and Stewart Downing's inflated abilities brought crashing back down to Earth. Yet for a chosen few, this is a magical time. They've spent a year honing their perfect game, building up their own personal empires like the hybrids of Brian Clough and Alexander the Great they are. They don't care that the database is going to be updated. In fact, they're not even looking at the 2012/2013 roster- they're far past that. As far as they're concerned it's 2045, and they're hoarding more silverware than the Queen's kleptomaniac butler. Theyve built an empire, the kind it takes time to create. This time distinguishes the normal from the passionate, and the passionate from the truly bananas. It takes a years for their in-game achievements to come close to matching their bottomless wells of crazy, yet eventually, itll all come out. But are you one of these crazy people? I can help you find out. Next time you load up your game, test for these five signs. If you fulfil them, then Im afraid that you too might have to be put into the FM Asylum. Before we begin, I must point out that I fulfil these categories.