REMEMBER THE DAYS (or maybe you’re going through these days at the moment) when you’d come home from school with loads of homework to do, but instead neglect it to play a Johnstone’s Paint Trophy second round replay with your beloved Burton Albion team on Football Manager?
Well children in Scotland may soon be actually doing homework by playing the game, rather than avoiding it and going further down the road of exam failure.
Plans were discussed this week at a meeting of the Scottish Association of Teachers of Physical Education to bring the playing of games such as Football Manager and Just Dance into physical education lessons.
Mr Almond said: “Games such as Football Manager are a very good way to get people to understand football and the role it has in our society.”
The only downside is that, if it does come in, only an hour’s play will be designated at a time and, as we all know, it’s simply not possible to play Football Manager for such a meagre amount of time as one hour.
How could you explain to the teacher/non-enthusiasts that you spent an hour just choosing who to be?!
Championship Manager 99/00, the Parma team with the likes of Buffon, Thuram, Crespo, Cannavaro, Ariel Ortega….enough said!
Can’t forget Marco Di Vaio
Leaving Dino out of that list is criminal
I can see Football Manager being useful when it comes to finance and business etc, its the only game that I’ve ever played where you have to consider income tax brackets and interest on loan repayments!
I have learned some of my greatest life lessons from this game. Why only today I issued an ultimatum to my employers over the lack of funds invested toilet facilities. I’m dreading the reaction in the local papers. Maybe, to distract their attention, I will put in a bid to sign the work experience guy on a three day loan deal.
Capitalism 2 was great for economics for me back in the day
Tsigalko lunden kallstrom bakireglu moukoko samba lucic to madeira buy the whole lot for 15 million then just sit back and relax
Championship Manager 2000-01 I remember buying Kallstrom for like £75,000 before I even knew who he was and he always brilliant for me :)
Maxim Tsigalko had the lot in FM. Took my Cardiff City to Champions League glory. Sadly, this ability didn’t translate to real life. What a talent!
No better man, Maxim Tsigalko in 01/02 was all you needed. Selakovic, Agahowa, D’Alessandro and Mark Kerr were others of my favourites. Millwall were a class side, Tim Cahill, Sadlier, Samba, Joe Dolan and a few others. Loved starting games with them.
Joe Dolan actually went on to become a moderately successful singer
How did you lot get Maxim signed for a British club?? In 01/02 the dreaded work permit red tape scuppered my chances to snap him up early!!
“Monday’s homework: sign Tó Madeira and Tonton Zola-Moukoko”
Somebody was a fan of Championship manager 01-02. Great taste!
Start game – sign Taribo West (free), Mike Duff (30k), Hugo Pinhiero (50k) – Gk/Defence sorted for 10 seasons
There is no replays in Johnston’s paint trophy
Football manager, finished it. FA came looking for me
Championship Manager 2 – the first edition, remains a gaming classic. If you could sign Ronaldo when he was young, and that misunderstood Basque genius Julen Guererro, you were sorted.
Don’t forget Freddy Adu and Freddy Guarin, who if signed for any small club propelled you towards the dizzy heights of Champions League success! Pity Adu turned out to be an absolute donkey in real life
In one of the earliest editions you could get Pep Guardiola on a free transfer. First transfer…Still think the current games got too technical.
I agree. There is great depth in the games from Championship Manager 3 onwards, but the simplicity of the older games made the much quicker to progress in and insanely addictive.
Advocating a computer game as physical education is about the saddest thing I can imagine, PE is about the only exercise some kids get these days as it is.
As far as I understood from the article, the game wouldn’t be replacing PE it would be designed as a homework activity to help the understanding of football..
Article suggests using it in lessons.
No it doesn’t.
Headline uses the word “homework”. Maybe have another read of the article?
touché
It could also be used in business studies to show the many ways there is to run the clubs financial side.
Ruin*
Ah yes the ‘arry Redknapp effect. See Portsmouth for reference
Definetly a lot of love for FM on the Journal. kennedy Bakircioglu and other Swedish gem and Lee Chun Soo always did it for me along with the usual suspects.
Jay: “Completed it.”
Neil: “But it’s Championship Manager: you can’t complete it.”
Jay: ” Well, I was offered a role in the England setup. I took Woking from the Conference to the Champions League in six seasons, Neil. Stuff like that doesn’t go unnoticed.”
In CM 01/02 I edited as many Irish teams into Counties just like in GAA…brilliant craic taking Donegal to the UEFA Cup final only to have too long of a break between our end of season and the final, all my lads were tired and my wing wizard Paddy McGrenaghan was poor (got a 3)…Club Brugge thumped me 4-0 :(
CM00/01 Martin Palermo nuff said
Fabio Paim was sick.started out as 14 years old and used to get 9 ratings every game. Insanely addictive game , used to rent out a suit for cup finals
2nd silliest move by the Scots this year