Football Manager Merch

You know it so well. One more match is not going to be enough, but that is our go-to quote when a loved one is asking us to get away from FM for a bit in order to go to sleep or do something nice for our social life. Maybe it can be just one more match if you win it. Or maybe not...

You are having so much fun that is simply impossible to focus on anything else, let alone going to work. But you still need to be thoughtful and call in sick, you cannot just skip work without notifying anyone.

A famous Game Status line that you can find under Dedication factor, previously known as Addictedness rating. It's a fun way of describing how much time you have spent in a save-game.

When you feel like you are so good at Football Manager that you think you can handle being the gaffer of an actual football team in real life. Well, some of us have done that. We are talking about stuff of dreams right there.

True story. Any serious FM fan can confirm. We get to know players by name, attributes, potential ability and stats before actually watching them play in real life. It's that moment when you stand up in excitement and point at the TV screen saying you know how good this player is in-game.

You have just lost a match to a better higher-profile team, yet you realize that your players gave it their all on the pitch. And this is what you tell them during the post-match team talk to keep their morale up.

For those of us who still watch matches in the retro 2D viewer. What do you mean it is not a job? Of course it is! Especially when you consider the vast amount of time spent there.

When you are up against a fixture congestion and your star player becomes exhausted from playing in too many matches within a short timespan. It is that fatigue feeling you get by overwork, aka burnout.

One of the classic lines of match commentary you can stumble upon after a winning performance. Love to see it, as long as you are on the winning side that is.

Eleven legendary players of the glorious Championship Manager era on the pitch. Strictly for CM fans.