No passing, no training, seven discs: the joys of 90s football gaming | Max Rushden

If people had been paid to play computer games in 1991, my life could have been very different

S Claridge races clear. [Pause.] He slides it past the keeper. [Pause.] And it’s in. It’s a line of commentary that won’t be familiar unless you spent the early 90s playing Championship Manager – the precursor to the ludicrously successful Football Manager empire.

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