Football Manager 2019 review: the best the series has ever played on day one

There is no other game like Football Manager. Nothing that crosses the boundaries between reality and simulation quite like Sports Interactive’s singular management sim. Even to just pigeonhole it as a management sim is sailing perilously close to doing it a disservice; to its fans it’s as much an RPG as anything else. There are those who will dismiss Football Manager 2019 - and, indeed, its forebears - purely as a series of spreadsheets. But to do so is to ignore the oft-told tales of players dressing up in suits while they watch with pride as their team takes to the Wembley pitch for a cup or playoff final; dropping out of University because they had to play one more game; or sending virtual CVs to real clubs with management vacancies. The passion and pain the little computer people hoofing balls around your screen can illicit is as powerful as anything you might feel from a ‘real’ game. But that slight blurring of the lines between sim and reality is not really what I’m talking about here.

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