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Soccer 101

#168 What is Football Manager, and why is it so addictive?

Soccer 101

TSS

Sports, Soccer

4.9822 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Graham and Taylor continue to talk video games on this week's episode! This time, it's Football Manager! What is it? Why is it so popular? How into the weeds can you wade? What has been its real-world impact? We're getting into it!

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0:00.0

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0:59.2

Welcome everybody to Soccer 101. My name is Taylor Rockwell, and this week it is Graham's last 101 for two weeks. He's going on vacation, so we figured why not make it a Graham Ruffin special

1:04.2

by letting him talk about football manager for anywhere between 20 minutes and four hours.

1:09.0

Graham Ruffin, how you feeling? Hello, Taylor.

1:11.2

I am feeling well.

1:12.6

How are you?

1:13.2

Should I lie along the sofa for this episode?

1:15.7

Because half an hour on Football Manager, for me it's going to be like therapy.

1:20.8

All right, so let's hold off on psychoanalysis and your deep-seated feelings on Football Manager to just explain what Football Manager is in the first place.

1:30.3

Because I think last week we did, well, I know last week we did an episode on FIFA.

1:34.0

I think most people are aware of FIFA or have an understanding of FIFA or at least are more aware of FIFA than they might be a football manager.

1:41.4

So for anyone who hasn't played football manager before, it is a football

1:45.0

simulation game where essentially you are the manager of a team, a team that the clue is in the title,

1:51.4

and it's up to you to pick the team and choose the tactics and make the transfers and even things

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