If people had been paid to play computer games in 1991, my life could have been very differentS 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.Last week a YouTuber from Plymouth gave up his job as an engineer to sign a 12-month contract to play FM 2022 full-time. Luke Robinson is now a content creator for Facebook Gaming. Continue reading...
The Wolves man’s golden-goal win against Trent Alexander-Arnold kept Liverpool waiting for a title at the climax of a pound-shop version of MTV CribsIt was the least fitting of finals: after a tournament that had featured a net-busting 106 goals in just 18 matches when the best players met there were just two in the final, shared between Trent Alexander-Arnold and Diogo Jota, with the latter eventually winning after 68 impossibly tense, albeit sped-up minutes of golden-goal extra time. Still, after the events of the last few weeks the merest glimpse of the word “live” in the corner of a Sky Sports screen must have been enough to make action-starved fans quite emotional. Related: Esports ride crest of a wave...
This week’s round-up features a lot of Dominik Diamond. Plus a wild futsal own goal and Seb Coe training kids in 19801) Sportspeople and GamesMaster. There is a lot. Forgive us the clip timings. Dewi Morris and Rupert Moon play EA Rugby in 1995; John Barnes and Vinnie Jones meet on Fifa International Soccer, Vinnie Jones faces Andy Townsend and Les Ferdinand meets Vinnie Jones. Oh and then Kasey Keller and Townsend turn up in 1994 (Keller also featured with Andy Cole that year). An old favourite as John Fashanu hits the bar from a yard out on Manchester United Europe. Emlyn Hughes gets a beating on Emlyn Hughes International Soccer. There’s also Ian Wright, Tony Daley playing Striker on...
Emphasis on simulator work in motor sport means more drivers will emerge from the gaming scene – if they can conquer problems over the lack of ‘fear of death’When Lewis Hamilton looked to his future in Formula One in 2012 and decided to leave McLaren, the team with whom he had grown up and won his first world championship, the decision was roundly questioned. After securing two further titles for Mercedes, the move was regarded as inspired but predicting what is round the corner in motor racing has never been easy and, with F1 having just begun the process of reinvention under its new owners, the future is very much on the agenda.Many sports have faced new challenges and opportunities...
TV and MLS have played a part in popularizing the beautiful game Stateside, but video games’ influence on the American soccer fan cannot be underestimatedFor Kelvin Garcia, growing up in a Dominican family from New York City meant two sports took priority. “As a Latino kid in the Bronx, all I ever played was basketball and baseball,” says Garcia, who now lives in Texas. As a boy, soccer was barely on Garcia’s radar. He remembers working at a sports camp with European counselors during the 2010 World Cup and wondering what the excitement was about. As a basketball fan, he was more interested in whether LeBron was going to the Knicks.Nowadays, Garcia cannot go a day without talking about his...