You Know You Are A Football Manager Addict When.............

Gillington

For Forks Sake wrote: »

I remember a few years back on another forum a lad documenting how he got dressed up in a suit just to play a FA Cup final on FM.

Hahaha! I need to read this!

johnf1004

when you have a goal in a big match ruled out for offside and you have your head in your hands ...followed by a quick glance to make sure no one else is in the room

Hazys

johnf1004 wrote: »

when you have a goal in a big match ruled out for offside and you have your head in your hands ...followed by a quick glance to make sure no one else is in the room

And if you do get caught and your friend asks whats wrong? instead of telling the embarrassing truth, you say "i just go an email saying my Cousin just died!". :cool:


If your team is going down the drain this could possible be your 5th cousin to die this week.

Xlami

When you break your laptop due to a loss.

For Forks Sake

Gillington wrote: »

Hahaha! I need to read this!

It was on the Football365 forums. I'd say it's long since lost to time at this stage.

Richy06

When you continue playing FM08 until two days ago because you want to win the World Cup with Brazil in 2022 having won the league/Champs League and the two cups (apart from a year or two) for 15 consecutive years and establshing Manchester City as a dynasty who's youth team feeds the first team and is never stuck for money....then deciding you want to win the Euros so you resign from Brazil and plump for Italy, who are awesome. I figure I can get through the two years in afew months...then I'll buy FM12 hehe

barrybo

When you win the champions league with Cork city after years of attempts! 15 years of LOI titles before I managed it!

jam08

when a team signs someone for big money and you have a little chuckle and remember how you bought him for half a million in one of the older games!

shefellover93

barrybo wrote: »

When you win the champions league with Cork city after years of attempts! 15 years of LOI titles before I managed it!

When you're watching a City match, and when a player misses, you turn to your buddy and say 'Would've scored that on Football Manager' :pac:

Mc Love

When you play it at work :O

RandolphEsq

When you start a new game and it takes 4 hours for you to progress past the first day such is the dedication you have to building up a complete plan for all aspects of the club

RandolphEsq

lol from last night; when you disregard your scout's recommendations because 'you know best'

antomorro-sei

When you convince yourself that sorting out your away form is far more important than studying for college exams!

Julez

When you gain real emotional attachment to your players.

G.K.

When you lament players from an unchecked 'Use Real Players' database aren't real.

Liam O

when it says on the commentary bar, 'his manager's got his head in his hands', but you don't see it because your head's in your hands

markesmith

When you fall asleep thinking of the pounding you'll give Villa when next you meet...

RMD

When you refuse to sell / free transfar what has become essentially a useless and unfit 35 year old valued at 400k on 80k a week because he's been a servant to the club for the last 12 years and you've built up a digital "relationship" with him.

Mc Love

RMD wrote: »

When you refuse to sell / free transfar what has become essentially a useless and unfit 35 year old valued at 400k on 80k a week because he's been a servant to the club for the last 12 years and you've built up a digital "relationship" with him.

Feck that I had a 19 million pound 33 year old at my club and he wanted 500k a week!!!

Chnandler Bong

Where can I get this FM game

Link?

Mars Bar

...when you are studying for your digital workstation exam and you read the abbreviations FM, FC and AM as Football Manager, Centre Forward and Attacking Midfielder.

They actually mean frequency modulation, frequency carrier and amplitude modulation.

Glico Man

Chnandler Bong wrote: »

Where can I get this FM game

Link?

Computer game stores?


or Steam of course

Ken.

When you see a player doing well on motd and immediately start up fm to check him out

Reganio 2

lucyfur09 wrote: »

When you see a player doing well on motd and immediately start up fm to check him out

When you already have FM open, cause you don't switch it off.

Jake93

When you have twenty days game play and your only in your 4th season

Captain Havoc

When you start imagining the back pages, it's worse when you create them:

Superbus

When you get a warm, fuzzy feeling inside when your entire first team is available with 100% condition.

paddy kerins

When you beat Man Utd 3-0 without having a clue how to play the game properly

Denners.ie

When you offer Phil Jones €105,000 a week with Liverpool and when he agrees terms you cancel the transfer to get back at him for snubbing your club in real life. :pac:

Glico Man

When you have to take a break from the game in order to give you time to decide whether to take a new job offer or not.

major bill

you start getting heart burn when on the verge of winning something.

3 hours of your life goes like 10 mins

you begin to hate players in real life cos of something they done in the game.

you question real life managers tactics and use fm to say what you would have done.

G.K.

When you've spent 16 days of the last two months playing one save file... :pac:

Captain Havoc

Yawn it's late, I'll just get this easy game out of the way, lose 1-0 FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU, I have to win next game to stay in contention, lose 1-0, FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU, maybe a change of tactic or I'll take a look for a new striker, this guy is OK but stats are incomplete, I'll scout him/ offer trial and then go to bed. Get scout report, OK, I'll sign him, start bid/ contract negotiations, play match in between, he refuses to sign, start search again, play another match................ It's daylight FFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

spirit_77

When you haven't got a clue what day/week/month it is

Captain Havoc

spirit_77 wrote: »

When you haven't got a clue what day/week/month it is

or you forget the 2016 European Championships aren't happening right now.

threein99

You have to replace your mouse several times due it being smashed to bits after another bad result

conlufc

when u have two leaving cert exams tomorrow but your too busy reading this thread to care!

spirit_77

you play your country's national anthem before a international game

G.K.

spirit_77 wrote: »

you play your country's national anthem before a international game

LMFAO

Karl96

when youre on here posting a reason!

Superbus

You forget that the Europa League is not called the EURO Cup.

partyndbs

you change the names of all the tournaments to their real names

Captain Havoc

The only thing on your mind during an important day at work is your far more important six pointer/ big cup/ big European game as soon as you get home.

Revolution9

A good friend of mine is often called Lars because the first time he introduced himself to a group of people that would eventually become our good mates he claimed his name was Lars Poulsen, which of course was the name of a regen player that was the star of his team in FM. Five years later and it still wouldn't be uncommon for someone to jokingly refer to him as Lars.

Slim Charles

there are starting line-ups in formations on the back of all your work stuff

The Volt

You walk/drive around pretending your being interviewed about your current club's state of affairs.

Glico Man

You record yourself on garageband questioning and answering the in-game press conference questions

When you tell your manager your not going to tidy up at the end of the day because it's not going to benefit your game.

The Volt

When you do the imaginary handshake and salute to the fans at the final whistle of every match

Glico Man

Voltwad wrote: »

When you do the imaginary handshake and salute to the fans at the final whistle of every match

I do that too...

and wave my arms frantically and swear when the ref turns down a penalty appeal :pac: I'd get so many fines from the FA if it was real life