Football Manager can be a great game. It can be enormous fun when things are going well and you are banging in goals left, right and centre. And it can induce rage and frustration like almost no other game I’ve played.
Yet that is part of its charm, and possibly indeed part of football’s charm. The struggles and the frustration make the good times all the sweeter. If we ever have any.
This season has to rank as one of the most frustrating I can remember in nearly 30 years of playing football management games. From an incredibly strong position in early March, the team would fall apart and… well, read on to find out what happened.