In many ways, Sega’s Football Manager is less of a game and more of an addiction. Fans put hundreds of hours into each new title, only to do it again when the next game is released. However, not all aspiring soccer managers play the beautiful game the way it was intended. Some employ the dark arts to ensure victory, others leave the hard work to their in-game assistants, while some people simply cheat. To celebrate the recent release of Football Manager 23, Sega and developer Sports Interactive asked fans to confess to their own bad behavior within the long-running series.
In an entertaining thread on Twitter, Football Manager fans admitted to all sorts of dirty tricks.
Unsurprisingly, the act of “saving the scum” is one of the most common exploits used by Football Manager fans. This is when you make regular saves, quit the game when something goes wrong, and then reload your old file to try and get a different result.
One Twitter user used the technique to avoid being drawn against the big teams in cup competitions, another did it more than 30 times to lead Celtic to Champions League glory, and one person remains unbeaten after 189 games thanks to save the scum
Mind you, the aforementioned misdeeds seem pretty minor compared to the following confessions, all of which involve sabotage.
“Before accepting a new managerial job I offered my 3 starlets new deals with embarrassingly low release clauses, picked them all up at my new club for pennies 3 months later in Summer. Stonks,” writes one person.
Another said: “Last season, I had a falling out with my chairman (at Stoke) so I put a lot of terrible players on massive long-term contracts, got them all into the under-23s and played with the kids until I fired”.
But it’s the next act of mismanagement that could be the worst: “I got mad at a club, offered them all exorbitant salaries and then left. The club fell apart for the next few seasons.”
Fortunately, as the following tweets prove, not everyone plays dirty. Some people just like to have fun.
“Files players according to the nicknames that I can give them,” publishes a Twitter user. “6’7 GK called out Benjamin Watts with 9 handling and 11 reflexes… ‘Big Ben’.”
“I signed a player with the last name Tipple and pretended he was my son,” Twitter user John Tipple read in a tweet.
“I once introduced myself to a new co-worker in the office who actually used to be a footballer by shaking his hand and saying ‘Hello mate. You were an excellent signing at CM97/98 by the way.”
“He looked at me like I was crazy.”
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