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You think it at work or in the car, wondering if Michael Bridges can cut it at the top level or just how long can Teddy Sheringham compete in Premiership ("no" and "two seasons maximum" are the answers).ĬM is also a breaker of homes - just ask my missus after she hasn't heard from me for six hours and another essential DIY project is left undone for another weekend.
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CM has since evolved to include more leagues, more information, more statistics and greater tactical control, but even after a decade of updates, at its heart CM remains the same addictive-as-hell game with a cast iron guarantee of hours, days, weeks, months of anguish, tension and sheer enjoyment. Even then, it was an all-consuming management game, with a level of detail and involvement never before seen. It is now ten years since the game first appeared on the old Commodore Amiga, packed into three floppy disks. But for those whose heads have been buried in the sand, here's a brief recap on the CM phenomenon.
CHAMP MAN 01 02 UPDATE
The latest version of Championship Manager is upon us, and it is, to be fair, an update of last year's superb edition. There at least his career was usually memorable, as he could be guaranteed to be cheap, or even free, and be a building block of a trophy winning team.It's time to don the sheepskin coat, get the teacups ready for the half-time rant and settle down in the virtual dugout for a lifetime of agony and ecstasy. Lunden returned to GAIS as Sporting Director a year later, until the club relegated him to a part-time role in 2015 due to financial troubles besetting the club.Īn altogether unremarkable career for a man that will forever be better remembered for an unreal life on a video game. A move to Elfsborg followed, where he was converted to play on the wing or at full-back.Īfter five seasons with Elfsborg he made a move to GAIS, where he played out his career until his retirement from playing five years later in 2011. Lunden was not quite the golden prospect that he seemed to be in the game, though he was highly rated enough to win one Sweden cap in 2001, the highlight of his career, where Zlatan also made his national debut. In real life Lunden was born in Borlange, Sweden in 1980 and began his career as a forward at IK Brage before a move to IFK Gothenburg, where he was playing when this version was released. One of those players was Jonas Lunden, a forward in the game, who would develop into a world class performer and guarantee you goals. Either that or Sweden, in particular, had a whole 'golden generation' that got lost on the way, as you could easily build a team for peanuts from Swedish youngsters that would sweep all before it. The game had just added Scandinavian leagues to its database and clearly the scouting was not being done properly. All you had were numbers on a screen until you got to the match with its flashing text. It must be said that the improved scouting of the modern game, added to all the little 'improvements' they have made, has made it lose its charm and become less of a game.īack when 01/02 was released, none of that mattered. In the days when Champ Man was the most addictive spreadsheet ever made, when marriages foundered on the rocks of flashing text in place of animated matches, the scouting left a bit to be desired but the game itself was all the better for those little nuggets you could unearth. Jonas Lunden Championship Manager 01/02 Edition