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I’ve been playing football management games since the days of the PS1, where you needed a full memory card to save. Since then I played a lot of Champ man 4 and it nearly cost me my A levels. -Winner of 3 UEFA cups with Villa on CM4 -Statue outside Villa Park -FA cup winner with Chelsea on FM05 -guided Crewe to Championship mediocrity on FM16 Now a father of two I picked up FM17 and decided to start writing about it I hope you enjoy

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Attempting to win the World Cup with England on FM26

Memorable World Cup matches
I am slightly late to the game regarding the international and World Cup modes added to FM26 last month. This may be because I was enjoying my club save so much. To be honest, I was never the biggest fan of international football on FM....

Quantifying the Press: A Guide to Modern Defensive Intensity Metrics

Quantifying the Press
Football analytics has transformed how pressing is understood and evaluated. What once relied entirely on the eye test a sense of how hard a team worked without the ball can now be measured, compared across seasons, and broken down to the individual player level. The...

Pressing Metrics Explained: How Modern Football Analysts Measure Intensity

Pressing Metrics
Pressing has become one of football's most discussed tactical concepts, and with the growth of player tracking technology it has also become one of the most measurable. Where analysts once had to rely on subjective impressions of how intensely a team pressed, there are...

FM26 Tactic testing: GYR Red Guardian 343

GYR Red Guardian 343 FM26
We are back with more tactic testing on FM26. The latest tactic we are testing is the GYR Red Guardian 343 FM26 by one of our favourite tactic creators, GYR. The tactic brought some good things and not-so-good things to our test. How was the...

FM favourite wonderkid Bardghji set to leave Barcelona

Bardghji Barcelona
If you mention the name Roony Bardghji to Football Manager players, many will instantly regale you with a story of how, as a wonderkid, he inspired their team to some sort of glory in FM24. Long before his high-profile switch to Catalan giants FC Barcelona...