Welcome to my second season update of The Cruijffbal Challenge. Prologue | Part 1 After your first full season at a club, you start to get a feel for what works and what doesn’t. Who your favourites are and who can go. When to change the system and when to give it time. I needed …
In his first article for Playrface, Timóteo Corça tells us why VAR is a good thing despite the controversy surrounding it.
Welcome to my first season update of The Cruijffbal Challenge. If you have no idea what that is, check out my prologue/primer to get up to speed. Given how I long I’ve played Championship Manager, I’m used to the English football league system so promotions are much easier at the start. That’s less a boast …
A new year brings a new challenge, combining the economics of Moneyball and wisdom of Johan Cruijff. Together they become Cruijffbal. The idea of retro gaming perplexes people. Hell, even the concept of gaming confuses those who don’t partake. It’s a stretch calling Championship Manager 01/02 a “retro game” (and I wouldn’t) but if it …
Don’t scoff at “soccer” – the word originated in Britain before it travelled to the US. One thing that didn’t originate in Britain, however, was the SNES or Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Known as the Super Famicom in Japan, the SNES gained a new lease of life in 2017 when Nintendo released the Super NES …
In our new seasonal series, we create Christmas-themed teams out of team sports. Our first edition stars a festive football starting XI.
It was actually yesterday but Championship Manager 01/02, the best football management of all time, is now 17 years old. Here is listicle of tips, players, downloads, and articles about the great game. I started playing a year after it was released. November 2002, a matter of weeks before CM4 came out (I got that …
The World Cup is long gone and this isn’t specifically football related but curiosity got the better of me. I wanted to know why so many Swedish names ended in -qvist.
One English sportsman and solicitors brought his law skills to the beautiful game and his name was Ebenezer Cobb Morley. To everyone scoffing at people who call football “soccer” – stop it. The term was popularised in the US but derived from 19th century “university slang”, akin to rugby being called “rugger”. Around that time, …
I am terrible for starting new Football Manager saves and never finishing them. Here are 4 tips to beat Football Manager fatigue.
It’s a question my mum references every time a Serb-Croat appears on the TV. I never knew the answer so naturally I Googled it.
The FIFA World Cup started today and with such a prestigious tournament steeped in history, we selected 5 records that could be broken in Russia.
UK design studio ∆ Studio—JQ ∆ have created some beautiful retro posters for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Afewee Football Academy, created by head coach Steadman Scott and Tony Goldring, has produced over 40 professional footballers including Nathaniel Clyne.
Pennarello (real name James Campbell Taylor) is a British graphic designer based in New York and his LPFC project marries football and music.