Never really wanted to be anywhere else I suppose.
You sort of look around stands in the stadium
and you sort of think. Yeah! It's just it's a proper football club.
Every season I just kept building this team.
This squad. I actually have a philosophy with them as well.
I made sure that they played football and I sort of thought you
know this is. This is quite magical. This.
I would never fall in the shout unless the players really need it, you know.
And then if I was shouting then you that done something wrong.
I ended up winning the Premier League and in
the European Cup and now in 50 years in...
85 years old I am...85.
It's quite emotional actually. Doesn't feel real, somehow.
[Music]
Since all about obsession delusions and general idiocy...
from a bloke who should know a lot better for clearly doesn't really earn.
Everyone's you haven't tried to explain it...
so because you maybe don't know when it...
sounds a bit weird to be honest.
You know yourself talk to people cause well.
It's a video game where you play on your laptop
or your job is obviously rather surprisingly...
to be the manager of a football team!
You can read a book in a couple of days and be in that universe...
but you can't affect anything whereas...
the football manager every single thing you to affect everything in the universe.
Which more than gave me it's like a bit legitness from it.
It's always just one more game.
If you lose it's not enough. You can't leave it on that note.
If you win you've got to keep it going. Don't leave it.
It's all football I mean that's what it is...
you know and it just...
really doesn't really enjoy doing my own admin...
yet here I am spending hours hours of my life...
simulating the administrative duties of somebody else.
This is a familiar scene. One day is replicated the world over...
and whilst the protagonist may change and the locations may differ
the goal always remains the same.
What did you guys do? What are you doing? NO!
Jonas go. Don't let him pass you. What are you doing mate, you are useless!
There is no end to this thing.
The late nights the studio application of a plan...
but then there is no end...
to football management. - Forward!
Forward! Forward!
Don't dive into tackle! - For in the players mind...
they are all that a few clicks from glory.
- Yeah! A couple of signings away from...
creating a squad to conquer the world.
- Yes! [Music]
They are in charge...
- Yeah! Thanks that mean - Yeah! - They are the...
manager.
[Music]
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't personally play
a video game called Office Manager if one existed.
Where you're in charge of a small independent office maybe
and your job is Thomas. You restock staplers and maintain for the copiers...
and negotiate friends does pay rise because the little news item come through
that you know she's for making noises about what do these challenge in
DHL what apparent even sniffing around her. Safe to say the best we call our..
Office Manager is getting a little...
wounded whose work experience life...
covenant whose missiles the new building.
This is a story of how Football Manager has grown...
to become an integral parts of football culture.
We know more about the
players I feel of the tournament it's
harder to pull the wool over fans up and
that's partly because
of a Football Manager.
How its created a worldwide database of players...
that it's become so accurate, it's used within the game
You spot them early on and...
you can see is going to
developing into star...
and you can buy them as a 16.. 17..year old..
and then later on in real life you...
you just actually see them play as...
that's nice.
How its enchanted with the lives of millions worldwide.
If I have nothing else to do...
and no other distractions...
I'm actually I could play that game all day.
Including the players and managers who make up the game.
I can imagine that...
every manager we saw will be used them.
To get started turn the computer on.
Now type in the word load and press the Enter key
the computer responds with an
instruction to press the play button
The 90s a technological revolution
a world where the megabyte was a catalyst of change
and football was on the cusp of a metamorphosis.
In the embryonic studies of the Premier League in the early 90s
it was popular more popular than it had been during the 80s but still wasn't
anything like it is now and footballers were still for the most part earning
sums of money that went that far from you know what your parents would be
earning and so there's an altogether more more normal experience
it was to be television that would shift the public
perception of the game football had hit the big time
set like TV money had bootstraps it into the modern world and
the modern world demanded entertainment
if you think back to 1992 it was in a
two years after Italia 90 where we had
this amazing rise of English football
team gasp of Tears there was a kind of a
suddenly a glamour around an excitement
around football that we've not had you
know that late 80s was a period of calm
doldrums for football you know we've had
a series of stadium disasters that was
problem with hooliganism and suddenly in
the early 90s like football it exploded
as a kind of legitimate family entertainment
The elements the genesis
were in existence and in their bedroom
in Shropshire rebus Paul and of Collier
had been studiously developing an alpha
copy at a different type of football game.
One that placed the player in the hot seat.
Miles Jacob then joined the
team a couple of years later and
together they would go on to change the
landscape of football gaming
if you goback to when we first started playing
these types of games football manager
games in about 1981 or 82 we felt that
we could do something ourselves that was
kind of in the same and we were there
very simplistic when they were limited
and you felt that you wanted more nurses
come yeah game we thought well this
isn't right you gotta you gotta want to
create a world and put these the first
minutes and then then he got real going
he's got real simulation and the game
that were actually carry on without you.
You account at the center of the
universe in the early game and we wanted
something where you were part of the
universe and the universe was the football world.
And that was our core
philosophy from the start it was so very
noticeable of someone playing the first
game there was that wow factor going and
how I'm playing against this to like
actually see who the players are and I
can get Skelton we're all telling me
- yeah - I'm having fun but the other
- matches were actually taking place - yeah
between teams that weren't yours and you
could go and look at the results and you
know click or whatever on there on the
results and get a report and the rating
was little guys I think we just felt
that was a better way to do it and then
we sort get you to the point where we're
playing with our friends and everyone's
having a great Saturday afternoon
playing it and getting very competitive
and start thinking you know what can we do
with this you know the Colliers had this
idea works on it alone or in a bedroom
send out letters to um you know 20 or so
publishers to try and get them
interested in the game and got turned
down by his new body
I'm sure they've still got the rejection
letter they got from Electronic Arts
which said no I'm sorry this idea is not
going to work you know it's kind of a
Hollywood story but with the two kind of
unglamorous cards rather than Brad Pitt
the game eventually did get taken up
don't want publish the Collier's work
championship manager was to be its name
a text based simulations released on the
Commodore Amiga and Atari ST the game
allowed players to play in all four
divisions of the English league made up
of imaginary players first game came up
in 1983 all right now works out I played
every single version okay so yes there
is more and a half and clapping this is
my midlife crisis you're right brick and
pointed out I saw twenty years twenty
other and playlist game I which is a
ridiculous amount of time until school
thirteen fourteen also my parents got
divorced at that time as well source
where my mom was still haven't appeared
that I would go upstairs and I'll go on
the computer and Cheney I wasn't looking
at pornography she knew I was looking
for wingback so I thought see it's up
there you know because it's based if I
play twenty years worth of football
manager I have not been sexually active
for twenty years of I guess championship
manager to would take it to another level
real players and detail snap it quickly
became the stuff of legend then in early
2004 things changed between the
collier's and miles had built now called
sports interactive lose to a new
publisher Sega leaving their old
championship manager named behind to
become football manager crucially they
took the code and the database with them
I remember the first and first attempt
to get mass research going with the fan
beans we basically we wrote to all the
fans eNOS oh yeah exactly she said can
you write your pliers please so third
person I would say we've made educated
guesses about the attributes of the top
division players he didn't plan for the
day supposed to be any particular size
it was just literally this is the game
we have this is the leagues we're
simulating within the database sir as
the game grow as more recent noted more
leagues we obviously needed to expand
the database and I guess the whole thing
has become out of control because you
know we have people wanting this league
went in that league and and we've
expanded it so much that you need the
huge database so it's just necessity
really we didn't really think we're
going to end up
these databases which have happened all
of the artificial intelligence couldn't
exist if it wasn't for the tens of
thousands if not hundreds of thousands
of different character types that we
have in the gang because of the data
right from the beginning that Collier
brothers were absolutely obsessed with
detail it was it was an injured detailed
game even before they had a scouting
Network we should eventually put in
place where you know hundreds of fans
around the world got together and
started G scouting teams and coming up
with really realistic authentic SAP it
kind of matched the desire of football
supporters to have something which made
them feel as though they were kind of
involved with the game
the scouting Network an integral part of
any football club an integral part of
football manager and much like football
the game spends countless hours scouting
teams and players except they are making
sure that everything is accurate rather
than just scouting for talent growing up
in South Africa at the time we only
really had a English football and it was
a rare game on television the only team
I used to watch back then with a little
pool because Bruce Rubble I was born in
Durban so if there was a natural
affinity for them being a wife point is
that for jock a former rugby cricket
culture but I got introduced to the game
because it's freaking actually my
brother was playing cricket at George's
party for Elizabeth and one of the
drives when the when they said to me
listen they're playing soccer the next
day and why don't I come watch and I got
to see Gemma so no play live I've never
seen anything like it
we did things of the ball I didn't know
what's possible and I think like any
sort sment if you see one of the greats
as a kid that's how you fall in love
with the game I spend my life in
football writing and editing for the
past four five years I've been happily
doing the South African research I still
focus on the local game and with
football manager researching it's like
I'm always out there trying to discover
those guys I fell in love with when I
was a kid trying to find the new one
every now and then we have young a young
player that I just want to keep track of
you know to see what happens idiot
career we're at Vasco de Gama in Cape
Town it's good to come to training
because you get to see whether they can
show that potential skill that they have
there's nothing wrong with seeing these
guys in this environment it's certainly
going to add to the data collection we
actually had one Nigerian guy recently
signed in South Africa we kept saying is
21 years old but his entire professional
careers on record you know he played in
France at this age and invade in Nigeria
for three years before that which would
have made him 12 and they've never had a
twelve-year-old professional in the major
it's why we have to keep records because
you can't be 21 your entire career
football manager Scalia network is
worldwide and in its home country there
is a researcher for every club I mean
research with Si and also professional
Scouts for five years and I've worked
and unfair fun enough for that Tonya I
was being at games using super manager
to just check those attributes at
halftime and other Scouts coming across
the last me and you know how did I know
all this information about the player
that I get it all and saying that you
know just something like I've spent
together they can thank you miss again
in terms of being an algorithmic day
today if the unsurpassed and
unsurpassable I don't think there's any
other results that will allow you to
search for a leftist goalkeeper that
under five foot three and can also play
right back and isn't friends with Ryan
Giggs this would be impossible you can
do that on a circle managing we're here
today to take a look at some of our
encounters players in particular waters
one of their most important playmakers
Mme Easter settles deficit only one in
four five and the days and then
displaying it I think it's a realism of
it I think having depth occasion to
extreme you can go to relate so much to
the real game nowadays and take that's
what I and many other fans love I've
heard of players having it written into
their contractual clauses rested in so
that they can take football manager on a
coach and the way to go you get to into
it that much that it becomes part of
part of what you do especially playing
it a lot and traveling bound to three
hours becoming a finalist self claiming
on the coach for most of the way I'm
going to be assessing will for me were
the new football manager game later I
will be updating its histories and
specifically things like that but in
particular to down the commune's
interview and see how far is progressed
since last year there are just looking
here and quite genuine
like pay some thirteen I'll say that all
day long there are 1,300 researchers in
the world all checking or measuring all
ensuring that the information within the
gain of accurate its the database that
makes the dream of being real
became aware of the game mid-nineties
we've been playing it again we used to
pull stuff in school stay off the
Chesterfield and we'd like right back
and tell you after the in actually sodas
ask for a couple years and then suddenly
footy manages called a nice like well
that means simply acting like a
revelation we got into it get early and
sixteen solidus maybe maybe 95 could
have been 96 we just have at it
solid six-week solidly that were it got
people to go to stagnation on a
previously she ever play on slightly
manager our Chelsea yeah probably a
lease job and we've stuff like I
invented that felt being stupid we still
do we have to invent a backstory you
can't dispute manager you've gotta like
a reason why like I used to place a
we're going to move to Chelsea of
eighties and would you like to invent a
backstory for a cell that make it a bit
more realistic c'mon you not I mean
no Chelsea I want I want last year we
Marty was either at Newcastle must've
still think about him at the thing I
like about the game is old and competent
in it there's no like slight something
he dipped into just take some of your
life a family mission I like I remember
playing Glastonbury right first time I'm
playing Russian there's going to be like
thousands of people I'm like backstage
like they don't know right wing
different on you know every one of them
like mental in it I'll show you
physically I why approach the game right
so like I'm married right so like Laura
gets in bed she falls asleep before me
right so I'm like I'm like yeah right
like this that laptop on belly she's asleep
boremont leg ok bomb on me leg so she's
facing that way okay we'd like to turn
it over so she won't like I got a couple
of weird incidents where she's like
turned over at middle at night let me
kick the legs of its wash not medium
flag disastrous do - where's my easel if
you've been listening to music I play it
on silent night if you've been listening
to news abuse - thought you'd listen to
music and you're like laying better than
I'm gonna be dead quiet
a little sneaky game when it comes on
terrible idiots big black circle
something caught my she poem by a moment
sorry goes Soviet I've woke up a few
time you scream get back up should be
done initially but yeah that's that's
pretty clear I played up Mike that's my
vibe is like flat on your back laptop on belly
Bosh they're like one time out I just
gave up man you right
sign the rights I got like a proper side
together I'ma be able to avoid champions
we fight us in like a sorcery thriller
know me I'm losing I've come back I would
I've got no blood loss and philosophy
come at it all out tougher law of
Michigan some important to our next year
dugouts that's like the workouts like
how long of my life I'd actually spend
clearly spit for example yes I spent one
hour of every day or for 20 years right
this one acquit to seven thousand three
hundred hours of my life right now I
know what fellas you think in the 20
years is Fight League years where those
are the five hours don't worry they're
in there as well right accurately 20 now
in it year I thought but that's not
that's not possible
that's not possible everyone in this
room who's played football management
Lord it's not possible but we play for
one hour a day right one hour on
football manager is barely long enough
to make your staff and players for the
first time maybe a more realistic
timeframe would be maybe three hours a
day right now if it takes seven thousand
three hundred five hours we multiply
that by three that comes out at twenty
one thousand nine hundred and sixteen
hours and all houses precipice of that
right they gets worse when you divided
by 24 the number of hours on which in
every day it comes out at a rather
alarming and depressing two and a half
years of my life right yes
two and a half years I could have got my
coaching badges in two and a half years
after learn a second language that would
have been helpful in all rosetta stone
reckon it only takes 96 hours on average
to learn a second language that have
been really useful I could have gone and
managed in the different could be and
everything
we're about a year away from a married I
was in a honeymoon location and at the
same time I just started speech testing
the 2008 version of the manager the
English League rule taken as we needed
somebody to test the Bulgarian League
and the theme in their locally available
called Nessebar to start playing with
them enjoying testing with them and
getting to the game and started really
looking into the actual team themselves
in real life and found they were based
on the East Coast so Bulgaria and their
Black Sea her holiday was all for sunny
beach and I thought I wonder if it's
possible to someone get there so
mentioned this is who and say and she
said okay similar so we decided now
we're going to be our honeymoon and it
was also going to be my first time I
just going abroad on a holiday a really
conservative time definitely the team
you know puts so much effort into on
that about them and playing a football
manager how am I going to do this it
took a bit of working out something a
logistics behind it and things just kind
out perfectly really - we made friends
with other English holy mates out there
and the poison so myself and also I
decided one day they're going to go off
together and you know not enforce those
guns in my local football and they were
what's in their nest about playing the
Bulgarian second divisions yeah devices
a nice time didn't know he knew we were
going to football and it's over to the
football manager record leader we were
there so the uninitiated
this behavior is very strange indeed why
would a player constructor life based on
a bunch of stats and why did the early
versions of the game attract so many
despite being graphically challenged you
don't used to get text back in there
like you are exactly like newt
imagination I've got a good imagination
self-satisfied I really miss the very
old ones where it was just it was a text
report and your imagination had to fill
in the gap there was something beautiful
about that that you pictured everything
in your head season in season now I
think I'm a bit sad in that respect but
I can watch teletext for hours and just
wait for a digit to change the Gulf's
girl's name to come up and that was what
that version was like that that I think
was my favorite probably call me it's
just the right time
sort of in between girlfriends before
pub there was a certain charm about the
original version that can't evolve and
it followed so did the graphics I'm a
mother first find out where their little
circles for players on the pitch then
the dot came out best thing I've ever
seen I mean actually see who played him
on side now you know me to shout out
that was brilliant and then it went
through stages of having kind of 3d
images you could you could watch a kind
of real game so we've got that 3d picked
presented our god makes old be in love
forever and now a new development more
realism to add to the simulation today
we're in ocean at their motion capture
facility and we are capturing a new
motion capture data for inclusion in
football manager 2015 we're using real
professional science provided by FC
women previously in the past we had hand
animations so those that have been trade
completely from scratch by hand
and we're now replacing that with real
believable data from real focus real
human motion and that will add to the
immersion and believability of the of
the actual match engine itself good good
good very nice this is going to look
good in the game really good there's a
lot of nuances that you pick out that
people naturally do I mean every takers
whenever an individual types because no
one's doesn't say things like what we
have here is we've got a full CAF like
on lot school motion capture system
video cameras each one of those will
pick up up to 53 markers on each
character which identify which joins us
on a character and how they move so
you're going right loath first choice
maybe one of you come out of there to
hear a little bit more for these cameras
all right let's go then
right today that's beautiful the volumes
that we use which is the states that
people working if 11 by 12 meters which
gives us a life-size table to be moving
around them running about Nagala
freedom this is more like you know
possible counter-attack you know you
know and you might be about to throw the
ball to a fullback that's been captured
as basically a bunch of dot on the
screen what happens then is the software
will join those up together and create a
skeleton for that in place and then in
turn skeleton is transferred onto a
character within 3d software and
animator will do an animation file for
that and then they chose paint again
what I can gain from this is having a
whole set of movements for one person
which will be different on the screen to
a different player doing the same thing
now it's really nice it's these small
little intricacies that we're trying to
capture basically to give the game a bit
texture really just add these little my
new details that fans will hopefully be
a couple because a floating thing across
a lot different so of course it's
drilled into the first photograph
straight though
I'd say something a little bit more on
the next one the difference is more than
we even imagined before we started is
only the first time that we've worked
with professional players and the Gulf
in technical class and execution of the
actions is enormous and that's going to
have a really really big impact for
mobile manager and the animations in the
game it's saved the game like football
itself had constantly evolved so some
it's a second job while for others the
handheld or classic versions allows them
to fit in their football management
responsibilities around a busy lifestyle
it's come a long way from attacks only
generation
the atmosphere at football particular
7-8 years I was in your growling up
there's nothing like it
vicarage wrote the really special place
to me I've spent so much of my time
there about being done to Watson after
35 years so it's a place that's full of
emotion lots of highs lots of love but
mainly highs
[Music]
Maybe because I wasn't as good at the
game as I wanted to be but my brain what
should be going on that's why I've
started studying the tactical side of
things and also trying a lot of the
games that I did at the time time the
original football manager made me more
interested in that element managers
still managing different ways so we have
to reflect that in the game the tracks
linked versus more suited manager there
are some managers who are down on the
training grounds were literally running
the training session whereas there are
other managers who are a bit more
hands-off to give directions to the
conscious of what they want the coat is
to do now Tait I'd like to learn more
about what's going on and it is
important to my work I've been fortunate
enough to go to team meetings learn a
lot more about the terminology that's
used and that kind of stuff does end up
making it into the game since things
like the player roles for example there
was a time where you know as you went
into the punch training thing meeting
there'd be two balls there one of them
full-width or one of them without fall
in some clubs probably still do that but
I've learned from being a training that
player roles have become so much more
prevalent now and it's the same inside
today the player role does handy what
the player is done to do with the ball
and when they don't have the ball it's
amazing access that we get not just in
watching the training and learning what
goes on during the sessions because even
just working on set pieces like they are
now means that I can go back and talk to
the guys who do the set please Creator
inside the game about what we're doing
go back and salute to the match team
about the way that great things are
being done for example just say you saw
the team that are attacking the ball
running back and running forward which
isn't something that we've got in the
game at the moment and that's something
that could coming
I don't know the people form an
emotional bond this game itself but they
do form an emotional bond with sixteen
and with the players I believe that the
relationship that people have with their
own team inside football manager can
actually be greater than the
relationship that they have in real life
[Music]
Basically I within the cup final it's a
big deal to me has not been a cup final
before this is exciting to me so you
know I might as well get immersed in the
game as I could so I did this sound with
the stadium for the room and folks can
feel like a real match so outside of
play is a real master going to the full
90 minutes it just felt like being an
eyesore football manager for the night
football and then once I'll commit I'll
go into further on and I thought well
it's going to be in that kind of
environment it's probably wear a suit
wouldn't you just I mean you're the
manager after all and the game is
predictably quite an exciting one that
was thrilled
so they scored and we scored going
through the full full gamut of emotions
and won't be holding anything back
it was galavant a little dot to you know
do things and told them to do before we
commence really looking for it now team
silver at the time in front of the most
fun of us you say yeah
so technically when a master was there
and knock at the door brought me back to
reality and went to open the door the
blue light just made its way in to the
room and there's two policemen flanking
my next-door neighbor either side and
they were just making sure and I wasn't
being robbed or verbals or assaulted the
axe down there started to policemen and
explain in pretty much fit amount of DLF
I wasn't there nothing wrong I wasn't
any immediate dangerous just getting
really overexcited saying in a Cup final
on football manager which was probably
one of the most sobering moments of my
life and of course is the way I should
play not two people say football manager
which is just yeah Cup Finals wore a
suit full game got excited pleas for
calls and I was like oh yeah the phone
lines the other hands up never suit with
personally me brothers who would maybe
Rob pursue it
we thought he's one man I called am the
man right living Nottingham at least
geezers like fifty odd year old right
he's got four kids pretty respectable
fella little pool time right
it's what little pool support finals so
wouldn't be would we really those
claiming early I was at morning like
hour for leave morning got a little pool
to court file divided route with salt
Eliezer the pool it's the big moment
french fries put Suwon even got yourself
a little lap flower right mission just
coming to at room and these like
prophecy wouldn't do it with now I add
explaining looks we Adam it looks like
everything affair or like you've got
some weird fingering I'm like I don't
think people understand some guys really
tight playing the game to a whole new
level now it's become something of a
cliched put on your very best soup for a
cup final I've done that myself and the
great success and but some people took
it even further than that there was one
guy who was actually shaking hands with
the doorknob pretending it was princess
Michael of Kent and he was introducing
his team there was another guy really
worrying development who before an away
trip to Istanbul opened his bedroom
window and set the wastepaper bin on
fire just to really create the right
atmosphere
this is cross park form of life Spartans
brings back a lot of memories the best
what must have been the Champions League
final I mean how they reclassified it
anyway for category a stadium you know
make up uh privileges I suppose you know
I remember it clear is there you can
imagine this what a European night this
is going to be rocking okay so I
remember the third goals I was the one
that sealed it okay with to nail up with
playing Valencia there's a little sort
of different colored bit of grass we
have that deliberately put there because
that was where the right winger was
going to cut in and he then pulled it
straight back to me lost George of it
who's a serbian center forward I are
absolutely clinical he was he moves 20
25 yards from goal
Errol's it right at the top corner
everyone was absolutely not the big
screen is flush and it's gone it's gone
it's gone it's three nil we're going to
be the european champions for the first
time ever at the moment the dream moment
you know after the Champions League
after the goal that wins you the first
European Cup and by night by night we've
won the Champions League and I thought
this is amazing like this is genuinely
fantastic the same experience I've ever
had in my life the next day I put myself
on one little city sightseeing buses
they've got in Newcastle and gave myself
an open table the obsession with reality
is a common theme for the football
manager player to be real you have to
act real but what about those who are
real
after say I've been into computer games
and crippled computer game since I was
eight or nine the packet back in the old
lady was from the Commodore 64 and
supervisor she came out is like proper
people for me I was nineteen them to
play over 24 hours a day more or less
when you didn't have training with you
[Music]
Organizing my squads trying to save a
tactic here it says three to two to one
but I'll call it a three for three
you know when you're a professional
footballer and most the times where you
travel a lot so you're on the coach you
stay away in hotels the night before a
game and you need to be able to fill
your spare time me and your Detroit
played a lot against each other and they
got me into the Spanish league and all
those players and while I was more in
the into the English surely because I've
always been that's always been my my
interest but me and you already spent
hours and hours and she can ask our
wives or girlfriends throughout the time
like they weren't too happy with us I
always put myself I never had the chance
when Adam only peace man United let me
go not only was a service
place them are as obsessed as any other
fun and I've run it too late there was
one who wanted to take his involvement
to another level
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quasi Valerie Alta the realism of the
game was making a countable impact
within football scouting teams
researching players but what about
influencing signings could a computer
game really arm a real-life manager with
the information he needed to buy a
player Lane does a fantastic institution
we all stay down
from particular job although you don't
know when it's forever until you
actually experience an old firm game
his main blowing so we're starting a new
game I always went for this is the tried
and trusted players it's terribly well
in the other clubs
I suppose otherwise take the job that my
dad is currently an Avenger deployed
from Lucretius manager let me get inside
okay so I wasn't Glasgow at the time and
I think it was about 20012002 season
and I used to like Barcelona is always
near the be seen in the seat inside
great James o'clock and viscera bark and
I'll get them on Lord and then this one
kid who though I was drafted meant to
the first team already and given them a
few games in each score a couple of all
I think he must have been 15 a 14 and if
that's from someone that age and just
incredible first thing that was done
without a but he told me that's very
it's going to be the best to everyone
and I see is okay from no partner headed
and let them go and we're back in early
day to begin as other some players that
you felt they weren't incredibly
realistic it's a real life in terms of
whether careers ended up but that's just
felt like something definitely but this
case you know why we didn't at 17 she
was you know made this mistake and that
yet the kids go away no message for them
it's like we she refused a guy just want
to be the best tool in the world and
then they're not happy Marsh I made them
much each go straight with my two boys
falling off to three years later Rangers
enquired about site in messy or alone
and then I referred I'd seen from the
game not recommended to like that the
young boy were formed 10k and sea bass
or never get any kids coming through you
actually asked of Leo Messi was
available on one and this is no chance
he dead said all the any extra kid
coming on
so it told you that any SS boy was very
lightweight but nobody could get near
him on the patch it was playing the
bustle on our Beatty and then hit 10
caps on back and one day and said can't
the liquid in the first team at the
weekend and the coach is going to take
them on at the first team squad with an
EMS but it gets like these up when they
were late 14 I think it Italian it'll be
like a deal at your last and thought
just a computer game but I think I was
the one that was right in there
[Music]
Got them may have missed out on messy
but it does host the star of a different
kind
he is the stuff of legend part of a
select group they excite every player
the unheard-of gems that reside inside
each copy of the game Islamic calendar
but a noted into heroes like each loving
click by click of the mouse
most like Messi will become heroes in
real life
let's end up having more success in the
virtual world mark wallop liar
he just became the pivot upon which the
whole of your squad could be both he was
the man who never ever let you down
but what really events team around the
negative attention recently traveled a
genius player in the game the instilling
these visit clearly so 40,000 pounds you
have ever spent like it's Colin marker
he was a diver dinner-table really for
him he bought it he was the Claude
makélélé role before Claude
makélélé was invented started off
just a local team just and get involved
not me some flames and my dad is
involved enough understand in class one
day she'll kick in wait they are for
about five years which is a great
experience and growing up so walking off
me it's a coin is playful cook our money
forget today anyway the foxy my yellow
on and like wanting to came just before
the end Emma for season really I just
are physically and I hardly really had
me done in some Michele family in a game
of football like and you're challenging
in the football manager was seen us come
on I need a cold I've had done a couple
of things growing up to 2001 and couple
of us and swings on Ryder the game and
Andy how you good at on and again the
funny thing about marker with it wasn't
that any of his stats were particularly
amazing he didn't have the best shot in
the game he wasn't quickest player in
the game it was his work great and
determination his ability to follow
orders that I was probably not BC for
years after that I saw thought was key
not I think you didn't get by going in I
had King fearless like one of the best
players in it used to go thing for
Arsenal for the judge of this world for
you Venice it was always the captain of
Scotland and I'm sure like with a lot of
that to the reality of heart and within
the game I know you have your legends
their 27th oh geez I think it doesn't
have you in a she won the Champions
League finally they thought that mascot
big or particulars I'd be I had on it
and we always have supposed so much
[Music]
There's any Saladin view they never met
you in real life but in 40 manager to
the gods are Thomson's all never seen
I've never seen what it looks like look
I'm out of googling right now let's see
fun today I want to know I think my
favorite was plant on denim of cocoa
he was obviously the legend of the game
for a number of years if you had him in
your side he would your side was
virtually unbeatable you could plot this
guy I think this movie from Joe Gardens
and Sweden for about twenty thirty five
thousand pounds and no matter what club
we put a lot he would score a hat-trick
for gold five balls for than two seasons
he just follow the best player in the
game I remember back in the day Videla
but food they added a little bit if you
had added you Ranjana well no I didn't
ever really know when you see somebody
that never goes up with a football
manager he can with a Fiat no one will
ever replace Mike Duff in my affections
he was in one about 12 years ago he cost
20,000 pounds from Cheltenham Town you
could throw him in the Manchester United
team you confirm in the South ng 19 team
he would be the best player he was the
greatest bargain that game has ever seen
and it I can't tell you how happy I am
to see that even in real life though we
haven't quite matched that he is now
back in the Premier League or Burnley
for me I see both sides of state there
are there data errors there things that
should never have happened
and I'm not cruel enough to want to take
those memories away from the people the
people he loved those plays and you know
I've got a big soft spot from our curve
as well he did very well for my what for
tune for many years was the player that
you could afford a full to buy but but
then on the other hand as a against
director I see them as negatives because
they're not true to the simulation that
that the game is meant to be and it's
what we want the game space
people message me on a plantain he's far
too good you nfm Gardens before us
there's been a book recently absurd the
players and that were all the players I
found of the kids would stuff and
getting on Twitter after that themselves
within that book tune with the way that
that was going on and people obviously
sending me reference we spent on getting
26 in 27 and stuff I so it's great to
see that my player doing well so I try
and sign myself lot I've been let down
with some honest yeah and we weren't
doing well enough for my standards and I
only got this just being there because I
was the manager in the department you
know I mean it's got that little click
chat you dropped on air and tell myself
I've been dropped I always seem to find
myself as the years go on I've got more
expensive so it's been difficult about
myself for PSP booked off at 25 million
I think and then didn't cut it because
also had Rodriguez Bale and stay Maria
all those sort players being cut it and
I've told myself a 10 million after one
season so I'm ruthless as well if I need
to be sure I don't even know why I'd
have to dominate the Italian league and
when the chumps League maybe five or six
times and then I probably working in the
conference got one at the moment
Stalybridge from conference north and
we're top top ass Premiership side at
the minute even in the Premier League
and just trying to push on from there
it's making assholes because the
Chairman is not that willing when I'm on
the plane right there always always on
foot manager we're always looking over
each other's results are always
celebrating when the other team scores
and so yeah it's definitely a lot of
rivalry I think that to my teammates are
Spurs and I've obviously gone for PSG
because I feel like suspended money
punch the screen many times when the
results not going right and and
obviously it does happen in games way
you batter a team are game they got
they've rendered on the last minute he
has it's the laptops got a few right
hooks from me and few straights and it's
just one of the things that afters on it
and football and also happens in the
game because it's probably the best
replication but I don't think we have a
constantly said we're gonna tap into
this Eggman wants to be as well or
managed you think you don't think it was
just a week or the kind of thing we
realized afterwards yeah I think we
wanted to be yeah exactly we did it for
ourselves BOE and our mates and then it
turned out that we were quite normal
the game is more than just man
management it is a test of skill a
tactical must have the license though
always for 1ce to attack in with the
full-back pushing up and the right level
if you're just pushing up to support as
well you know a lot of the time I see
myself a between an attacking midfielder
saintly as a center much futher level
play with anybody on behind the
straightest obviously their first name
I'm very attack gamers as you know for
my planes though I don't have too much
emphasis on defense at the moment I play
a free slide - but the - wingers are
high up the picture is more like four
three three four and just go out and
allow attack I like starter for two
above a 1 with fielder and kind of stuck
that law a lot offensive and then one
target man striker and one faster strike
you can play off the target man I
generally like to have very defensive
minded where he almost am a colonial
some defensive back actually in front
and that will give a little long
structure for the rest of the team to
bomb on what about one defensive is the
other see central midfielders killing
with one striking father in football is
quite a few faster you know the amount
of knowledge we have about irrelevant
players and relevant stats and the
relevant goal was going back decades and
I think anything else about the
publishers Trainspotting or something
people contribute in a massive geek so
it's perfect the problem and reappears
for that demographic I think what the
game did was give people a certain
empathy with what football managers were
going through but never ceases to amaze
me Murphy phones talking about players
in other countries you know and and
having really good knowledge so and over
and fluence wisconsin several managers
were holding vocabulary that I never
knew existed
I know defenders are there and I know
the field is level are we cleaning in
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I don't know what what it is we only
shines when you castle times here in
over here noise large arty fantastic
magista deploy in is you walk like the
Makelele role of anything is there's no
question that fans now because of games
like football manager have a more
they're more familiar with haptic they
seem more approachable more time as
accessible than they were used to
understand the choices choices a system
to understand Li you know the changes
that have been made more it's all added
to our knowledge of the game I think
it's a two-way street you know
want more knowledge to help them play
football managers out and find good
young players or or use very intelligent
tactics and happens the other way around
I think the knowledge you get from
football manager means you're maybe more
interested in the tactical server things
maybe you know more about foreign
leagues so I think it's typical really I
think football manager has given people
an understanding of the intricacies of
football they never would have had
before and I'm sure football
commentators must play the game
[Music]
At first place football manager as a
1112 early teens maybe and probably one
of the first incarnations and I
absolutely loved it
while the way the hours twelve ways to
be hours you might say instead of doing
homework and I look like a I always play
as York City and see my support my local
club it's not just for that reason that
and it's because I think you got to
start at the bottom and work your way up
you don't start as Liverpool and start
on the Premier League and have
everything there in a plate and be able
to go out and sign some of the 30 million pounds
no no you've got to start by building
something yourself a feeling of
accomplishment as you go up the league
I'm sure it was better ethic would be
much more fulfilling I'm sure that's the
right way to play it as well I find
again these days an aide and a hindrance
it's a good research tool in a way but
only wants to start the game you can't
get into it too far because then
it becomes a hindrance
I remember once getting very confused
legged a bit a few years ago now and he
was Aventis client but I was absolutely
convinced he with Real Madrid didn't
cause any problem in a commentary
because obviously when you start doing
the preparation for a commentary you do
it properly but if I just stroll for
that game without doing any preparation
Champions League commentary as well I
would have been surprised to take
advantage naming the events of TV
because I would have thought of it
relative I know it's not only my kitchen
well example good forward to the laps to
be honest I mean we went to go down to
ten minutes were defending the trolls
Israeli first 10-15 minutes because it's
real and down but thankfully allowed sir
also again you know they're good at what
they do they've got great taste from the
camp and you know what equalizer Tremont
who the Turkish figure this is actually
discontinued see if I had that that I
would be in trouble if they anything
done I'd be like I wouldn't put the
finger I'm about to that ball phone
enemy I like to watch you know even in a
spare time and which did this legal
support on watch visa football in as
well as a premier Sheppard as well as we
panama team celtics and you know with
very with the other games are lots of
awesome all they usually I'm static and
I was managing certificate the team
I got to go and they became the knife and
one of the occasions to his eight men
and I got to go into the first round so
to meet the team magnet now this one guy
I never had another one sir so on and I
couldn't figure why and let me shake it
comes out like it I think he left
training city weeks in the role in the
game and then you know to the point at
if I had to go to the two weeks of HP
and then never talked about games the
third guy in real life where these which
is an imaginary counterpart was em
adulation
on May 282002 we were already knew that
we'd lost the fight to stop women
actually relocating to Milton Keynes at
the time there were lots of rumors about
clubs being bought and moves there were
a couple of clubs that were looking to
move to Dublin and we just thought live
healthier was completely wrong you can't
buy a car for losing twenty thirty forty
miles away I was doing lots of TV and
radio interviews because we announced on
that day that we would start against a
lot of people in football were skeptical
that Saints that actually run a football
club and I think that I spoke quite
passionately that day about how was to
do this now we would do this we were
going to make it happen even though we
didn't ever ground we didn't ever pick
we didn't have an official name but we
were going to make this happen
so we heard over hello the commercial
director talking on five lives when the
when the decision had been made and I
gave him a call he said that he'd
enjoyed listening to the interview and
that he was inspired by what we were
going to do I see it's good I like to
get together and see what we can do
because it's just paid the right field
the first cool driver was literally to
find out how much money they needed to
set up a club and we found a bill a
couple of days later the money in the
early days was critical to us there was
no doubt about that because we needed
and have needed every penny that was
ever been able to write the funniest
thing when we first started working with
me as I didn't actually have tips so for
that first match they will our office
fiber size kit we have always wanted to
be part of a certain community and I
don't think there is a better way to be
part of community than to be associated
with football manager football
management is a totally strange and
unique job unless you're sitting in the
hot seat you can't imagine what it's
like it's a pre-season friendly at the
end of the day so whatever happens I'm
not going to speak themself up or get
down about it if we if you know fail to
accomplish which which might be
inevitable I always wanted to play
against the best and you know I've got a
study album of photos and they plan
against a bit and today I'll get to be
in the opposite they'll go into probably
the best or one of the top three coaches
in the world which is fantastic we came from nothing
and then nine years later we made it
into the Football League we're on the
verge of a new ground factor flower lane
just roots if you felt as if new
and it's fantastic theorists then you
can come from nowhere and end up playing
for believe it's probably the rise of
stuff the Wimbledon story resonates
amongst football fans worldwide
this is real football but the simulation
has gone on to have a more widespread
effect on the game the database so
informative to its sound now has a real
world impact thanks to a deal with Pro
zone now anecdotally without over the
years of course that football managers
dip into football manager the gains a
database to come ask out players but
this has kind of been legitimized now
there is all official the program deal
with sports interactive basically means
that all of the knowledge that sports
interactive acquired over the last
twenty years of producing football
manager is available to club they've
been talking to us for a while about
their systems and about recruiter and
about what they were trying to do with
the product and then turn around said
that they needed our help which was was
just bonkers the data provided has the
compulsive recruiter a software package
that could like Huddersfield Town can
use to help our player
that is a have a smooth stone stop even
in the championship we have a good
budget that there's some clubs with
significantly more money than ice
dispenser we have to be intelligent in
the marketplace one of the only teams in
Italy called it's not been in the
Premier League at some stage and so
we've never had the parachute cameras
have the CD revenue so when you've got
teams were able to spend eight million
eleven million pounds on strikers our
record transfers just over a million
pounds so you know you go short you up
against recruiter is the program
developed by program which includes
small interactive football manager data
and it enables tools basically to do
their due diligence on players it's not
real it's not the case that clubs will
be signed employers from football
manager they won't be opening up again
st. in Sterling 2017 and teaching that
will buy him you can do everything you
would need to do to staff the player
apart from the one crucial thing and it
will always be crucial to that we go and
watch the player protons recruiter had
80,000 players in it and the link with
Sports Interactive has widened the net
to include 250,000 players we provide
all the biographical data before at a
club steps over a team steps over the
white line whereas pro zone provides all
the analysis afterwards interesting with
such a simple partnership to come
together because they have such a vast
experiences as player to this and it
just goes hand in hand with what we want
to do in a professional space we have
over 1300 escapes worldwide we're in
great position to provide that data and
clubs are looking further and further
afield to try and find talent that
within their price range the analyst
ones have slugged up a plate in French
so immediately a connect another player
agents find out what he value lately to
be what she's contract was he's wages as
it was fair while following maps where
if the answers alright eh then we will
be entertained one of our engaged from
here one of our senior gates dismantle
what's that book the best thing for me
into the club is the fact we can really
make it and be spoke to us so we can put
the the indexes behind the data all of
which can be weighted which gives us a
real ability to fine-tune exactly what
we're looking for so we can see a set of
players and names that nobody else is
seeing video analytics craft Kim compare
those for statistics and information
video footage and everything like that
and it can help the manager make up make
a more informed decision as to which is
where we to say to the cryptography so
we now do a search or sit down and say
write the exact sort sentence
we want nothing that looks like a lot of
writings let's not change the way that
we use the Scout just change the way we
make our decisions and the risks we can
afford to eliminate scouting will always
have a role in football but the
recruitments will really support
services that we try and do from our
perspective we've always been extremely
proud of the database and the realism it
reflects so to have real football
managers now using our data to bring in
their their big new signings it's
fantastic from our perspective I work on
stealing penis scale I guess if Stephen
denies our most high-profile player that
over these guys will recognize I'll work
from then I have seen be nice and see
was that's the School of Excellence
which was before he joined IX save time
which is before Jared IX so I can relate
things to how he was the neediest for me
is always comparing to the player who's
playing directly with them as long as I
get it right at the beginning it should
be pretty accurate we're at the Athlon
stadium in a solonian caitlyn and
tonight is a ESL match between IX Cape
Town and biggest 77 island cup of
teenagers in the I-x team the richest
team is very well scouted I think 3/4 of
the team in city class so they've been
in football manager for a decade or for
one or two the ice kids they you know we
obviously saw monitoring them there's
Rivaldo Casilla even the captain of I
expect town is young 2122 years old
it's pretty much a team of development
players let's come through the IO system
the roller coasters another Street been
doing his job pretty well so far she's
been working on being live in Chris Kasongo
he's a dangerous striker and we've
always been locking him out of the game
at 17 it's obviously hard to judge way
of going to go from you but the truth is
is that there's a good chance he won't
be enough yourself for more than two
years I escaped on are connected to eye
exams to them and they have already had
a look at him but of course until he
turns 18 he can't leave the country
Wesleyan goba hang the hang he still
goes again and again he scored 149 of
them and go behind the hang beautiful
I'm a warrior
I took over the reigns at Gateshead on
football manager 2010 in dire need of a
striker at assaulted my parents club at
Newcastle and who had a man called
Wesleyan Gerber hanging in their
reserves I took him on loan to the
season he finished his top scorer its
contract run out so I attempted him back
over the river on a full-time contrast
and he stayed there the next ten years
as we made our ascent up to the Premier
League he scored in every single
division along the way which made him a
bit of a cult hero at the club when I
played because I just mean for me I
decided to fire Gateshead shit and then
get his name and number printed on the
back go ahead to contact the club
secretary and arrange for them to send
it off to their official club princes
threw out the name and number of a man
that has never appeared for that club
onto the back of the shirt about six
months after I last played that safe I
got a bunch of notifications through on
Twitter and so I checked them and it
sends out like Gateshead had genuinely
taken Wesley and go behind on trial but
they didn't sign him and this sort of
the story ends early for him I did have
a Wikipedia page that edited for Wesley
and overhang to detail all those exports
while I was at Gateshead
so he left it there for a good month or
so maybe two months before they notice
that it featured apparently sexual
information basically in the future
which goes against their sense and
conditions for articles what is reality
is it using a computer game to help win
your real life match if it helps like
manager who listens to his teenage sons
advice or is it taking your virtual team
success very seriously that you have to
dress up for the occasion in a way all
of these are real the thought we found
that our game caters to is the sort of
fan who wants to be the manager there
the person that rather than going into
the pub after the game getting drunk and
complaining about it is actually sitting
there going well if I was the manager I
would have brought an anchorman in
in the transfer window and here's a list
of training Chileans that we can be
looking at that's the kind of common
theme with football fans and I suppose
again gives these people the chance to
try out their ideas and yes it's true I
tried to this guy and I said how long
you played this game for and he gave me
the best answer this question I've ever
heard he has looked me straight in the
eye and went on five years clean it well
that wonderful thing there's nothing
quite like vanishing for three to four
hours in this abstract universe and only
with a notepad a biro a bag of means and
burials and a pot of tea
interacting mad that people do to
current rightly offers oh it's just the
databases you know she's by looking at
the novel and a greener and just saying
oh it's just a collection of words on a page
it has honestly made me stop and think
many many times
now go that wrong that game was that
real and that's just too many hours
playing it we could stick me over there
Island spared me see them football manager yeah
please like tree city obviously it's a
nice to be escape yeah I think because
of reason so many people over there
is my personal finest soldiers from
training camp cheesy but we'd be mighty
came for ourselves I like it better than
some people and yummy but I've got ready
to like someone said like you can lose
these threaten the rap emigrates a New
Zealand or you can never plan for online
go again I've sent me for anything
reading I like anything with competition
I just love women just having with
control of the team and kind of guiding
them hopefully to success feel
emotionally again and hopefully prepare
myself for one day when I do retire
enough fingers crossed do it through I
know what to get I know it's a game for
you can't help but feel a little bit
proud when to jump in late nights in life
[Music]
Well Jamie cook would you take a look
what you done celaya
always reasons for change of seasons now
I might see my fallen hard wig
struggling out on the way so then you
came in to show how it was done in your
white free ball you score so many goals
but honestly Jesus boy did you Bernie
yeah you face down shouting fluffy
cheese some kid show no gratitude and
now Jamie you had once it's rude fucking
midfielder age 24 he won nothing before
we met and I won't let you forget and
that I picked you up for free
you showed you thanks by leaving me
Paul Janey why can't you see these tears
fall from my eyes
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Because your computer
well we started salutes so I turn to
booze you can really use your skills
back at the club well I'm pretty mess
because you don't exist not just a name
on screen and I'm relegated to the pub
you've got new besties open for coffee
grassroots nigga gives me and left me
alone just like ultimate you are the
only God in my just leaves it's God now
that nobody have sent me I am the rest
because if you baked and showered in
platitudes some kids show my gratitude
and now training you had one bitch to go
attacking midfielder
you are nothing before we met and I want
to let you to get that I pick you up for
free you don't you thank you by leaving
me Oh Janie why can't you think these
tears fall from my eyes because your
computer
I come here to ride because your
computer I don't get the right
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You