So far as I can see, FM17, for all its incredible verisimilitude, omits the following.
- Ludicrous appeals: ‘Our throw, ref’.
- Trying to steal 20 yards at a throw-in.
- Throwing the ball forward before taking a free kick, again to steal a few yards.
- Shepherding the ball out of play.
- The increasingly frequent breaks in play where everyone rushes to the bench to get a drink.
- Taking the ball into the corner to kill the game.
- Kicking the ball away to waste time.
- Having to go off and come on again after treatment.
- Stretchers.
- Checking studs.
- Punch-ups.
- Managers getting carded.
- Programme notes.
- Crowd trouble.
- Streakers.
- Bungs.
- Betting on Alan Curbishley.
- Players biting other players.
- Managers’ agents.
- Slang.
- Players embroiled in twitter controversies.
- Swearing.
- ‘Sack the board’.
- Racism.
- Homophobia.
- Jail.
- Safeguarding – or lack of.
- Fog.
- Matches having to be abandoned (rather than postponed).
- Fake sheikhs.
- Bereavements.
- Drugs.
- Club chaplains.
- Court cases.
- Joleon Lescott’s phone sending tweets on its own accord.
- Unions.
- Knighthoods for FM managers.
- The Confederation of Independent Football Associations (please!).
- Above all, women’s football.
If anyone has spotted any of the above, please let me know. Ditto anything else that’s been omitted.
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