5 Signs You've Been Playing Football Manager Way Too Long

3. You're Just Dicking Around For the Hell of It

It takes a while to come up with a successful tactic. Indeed, you might have to tinker for months before you find the correct blueprint for your side. But when you do, it's fantastic. Suddenly, that team you've been painstakingly building for months starts to fulfil it's potential. In fact, you're unbeatable. You romp to the season's title, picking up a couple more trophies along the way. Then you do it again next year, this time shattering all records and winning a Champions League trophy. You're feeling pretty proud of yourself right now, and you can't wait for next season to begin. But what happens in ten year's time? You've found yourself with the Midas touch, and a formidable trophy collection to boot. Yet something is off, a niggling sensation in the back of your mind. It's becoming... whisper it... boring. You're piling up wins, game after game, season after season. Your overall win ratio is touching 90%, and you've won enough consecutive Champions Leagues to make a virtual Michel Platini cry. There's just no challenge any more. So what do you do? You begin to dick about. You try and start a team of all one nationality one week, a team where nobody is over 22 the next. You retrain a 40 year-old Balotelli as a defender and start him in the FA cup final. But shockingly, you just keep winning. It's not even a real game any more- you're just seeing what you can get away with. Then one day you realise you've won a Champions League trophy with nought but your Congolese reserves, and that's just sad.