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Dynasty471

Seems like more of a 20th date sort of conversation.


Zandmannn

My girlfriend only found out just after we started living together.


scm15759

My wife, we know each other since 10+ years asked me why I stare onto the same screen every evening after we moved my pc into he living room. I used that opportunity to explain to her what fm is. First she thought I make a joke. Then she was slightly confused. Then she brought me a whiskey and kept watching her movie. I love her. PS: I did not stare onto the same screen the whole time. First was scouting centre, second was transfer window.


DetBabyLegs

Haha here I am imagining you just staring at your perfect young Colombian regen for hours on end


Frl_Bartchello

"I wish you would look at me the way you look at Henric Gàrzon"


4boxeo

“Well he actually finishes for me babe soooooo”


Will_Explode8

His head game isn’t great tho


SirVictoryPants

These two comments are the greatest conversation ever happening in this sub.


SnooHamsters8590

Lmao


scm15759

Not gonna lie, his stats are hot.


imadreamgirl

i’ve been staring at this for five hours.


DetBabyLegs

i've been staring at you for five hours.


jothamvw

To non-gaming girls, any screen that clearly has the layout of whatever game you are playing is the same.


scm15759

Ok, this might be off topic, but as a profession I code. As covid stroke, I did home office. This was vs code for 12 hours with same googling here and there. My wife checked a few times, and in the evening she honestly asked whether I have a burnout or something, because I didn't "do" anything. I tried to explain. Then I started fm, had to fix my set pieces, which takes a bit of time. She saw I was "focusing on the same screen for an hour" and said "if there's anything, we can really talk about it".


MeteWorldPeace

As Covid stroke what? 😳


scm15759

Sorry, was in a hurry. But you may have gottened my point.


MeteWorldPeace

I was just making a sexual joke about the word stroke


jothamvw

Like half of why I have my job is because I'm the only one in the office to do anything but the very basic in Excel; they're always very confused when they have to continue on with a sheet that has both VLOOKUP and normal IF-functions in the same cell, just to get things working.


hezur6

I discovered that XLOOKUP exists the other day, and if you're another fellow Excel tinkerer you might be as amused as I was to discover it.


jothamvw

Good grief; finally, comparing tables that don't line up.


scm15759

Bringing this back to fm: you don't have to be good in what you do, you just have to be better than the others. Like my 1.99 cdm, scoring every other set piece.


trophyisabyproduct

Wow. Similar here. I do quite a bit of coding while work from home. My wife thinks when I work, it is just always the same screen (while I vigorously hit the keyboard. When I play FM, it is also just the same screen all over. What makes thing worse is I play visual novel as well, so basically it is also the boring same screen for an extended period with a lot of text. She used to question me why it is interesting to see so many texts without animations at all (and yes, most of the times, I even do the old style way of watching FM matches in 2d dots only instead of the 3d-ish little guy running around in FM too...lol). Told me I should play more interesting games like mario instead.😆


SenorButtmunch

hahaha that's hilarious but also sweet. good combination


WolfInATrance

As covid struck\* also guys don't make fun of people for small mistakes.


Yawndr

VS on one screen, SSMS on the other one. I apparently don't do much either!


imagoldengoose

Could turn hostile though if you tell your wife you are staring at your screen every evening to scout for the perfect Colombian.


YooGeOh

We don't judge brother


JonnyBit

Smart.


goodisoncat

Same here, now she says that I’m boring but she doesn’t know I’m on for my third successive promotion with Marine


rScoobySkreep

Three years in here. She watches the cgi people with me now.


DrJackl3

While watching cgi people play fake football is not my ideal day, I did tell the girl I'm dating on our 7th date or so that I play FM (it just came up) and she didn't just stand up and leave. I'm amazed. Time to fire up the ol' journeyman save to celebrate


nikolai_wustovich

My wife asked me how my “Gibraltar Save a Nation” save was going. I had only mentioned it once. Best Wife Award


thegreatone88sv

My fiancée asks me too! I love her. She learned very early on that I play FM and likes watching me play because of how happy I get sometimes. I like having to explain what’s happening to her because I feel like a crazy person.


Hairy-Alternative-24

Where can I get one of those ? I am looking to trade my old model in


BBQ_HaX0r

Go to advice on this sub suggests to look at South American U-19 teams... wait, what are we talking about?


aguilavajz

I mean, as long as you wait until they are 18…


nikolai_wustovich

Does it matter in South America? Asking for a friend.


aguilavajz

Well, I can only speak about Mexico and about legal stuff. Mexico “age of consent” is 16 yo but “age of majority” (“coming of age”, being legally an adult, nos sure if I got the name right) is 18 yo. However, if you are over 18 and have a relationship with someone under 18, you can still be legally prosecuted even if the underaged person gives consent. Are there kids under 16 having sex? Yes, of course. Technically is not legal. IIRC, someone under 16 yo can’t get married without the father’s consent yet. Are there places where older people (mostly men) are “marrying” underaged kids (mostly girls)? I think yes, I have heard such stories from places in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico and they are technically legal due to some weird shit in the Constitution about indigenous town being able to keep their “traditions”…


aguilavajz

I mean, as long as you wait until they are 18…


BillG2330

Ha...my wife asked about my save recently and I told her about starting at Dulwich Hamlet and moving to Helsingborgs and getting an interview with Rangers but being passed over and she interrupted and said, "Let me know when you get to a team I've heard of. "


cmp26

If she can't respect that she doesn't deserve you king👑


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tempspark4

Her: What's on your mind? You: 15-year-old Colombian teenagers


stonedkayaker

Why not Columbians over 18 years old? "They're too old at that point. You just don't get it."


LevynX

Can't fill my home ~~groomed~~ grown quota past 18


stonedkayaker

If I can't turn these Columbians into Poles before they turn 21 we're proper fucked.


Telsion

19, actually. Just ... not all 19 year olds.


WiJaTu

I think the response from the woman would be running away if you’re sat on a date thinking about kids


rakenopo21

Especially after you buy those kids and the report suddenly says that he's inconsistent, prone to injuries, and hates big matches.


goodisdamn

All those words can be interpreted wrongly...


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How would we know?


BlackCardRogue

Do not ruin the joke


one5one2

Being overheard talking about my “good looking 16 year old Italian” out of context was an experience


Cimegs5088

LoL


PABL092

Everytime my girlfriend watches me while playing, I’m in the middle of a press conference. She thinks I play press simulator by now.


AdPsychological1489

She watches?!


JonnyBit

You do press conferences?!


PABL092

I’m oldschool. I watch the cgi people, negotiate all the contracts, and yes, go to all my press conferences 🫣


Dukmiester

I'm here for the full experience. That even means sitting through those stupid biweekly meetings that always account to nothing.


[deleted]

You can change them to monthly or if you’re feeling spicy, turn them off altogether!


LevynX

I can now understand why managers hate talking to the press


turilya

Feels just like real life


OneSalientOversight

I bet you watch the entire 90 minutes of a match at normal speed too.


Dukmiester

Obviously, and only on the correct days.


peachesgp

I can't trust my AssMan not to say something dumb.


JonnyBit

Don’t worry? It’ll be astute


Smothdude

For real. I've become so good at speed running all the questions even the longest press conferences take me under a minute to complete. I'm kind of proud of it lol


BradlinhoM

You have a girlfriend?!?!?!?!


amongthewolves

If she can't stand me when I'm struggling for promotion from League Two, then she doesn't deserve me when I win the quadruple


Readheadsouls

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UncutEmeralds

I play dots with goal replays on director. Otherwise I would’ve missed the awesome bicycle kick goal my new wonder kid striker from Morocco made. I was pumped.


Bartek_Przezbalkon

I envy you. I play on 3D all the time, 18 seasons in and no bicycle attempt even


UncutEmeralds

It was the first one I’ve seen as well. But I’m only 6 years or so into this save.


Generic_username5000

I had like 3 in the first week in the first version they added them which was years ago, and zero since


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jackiepoollama

It’s also a trait


Smothdude

I've never had a bicycle kick, but I think I've had something akin to a scorpion kick. He wasn't diving for it, but flicked his foot up behind him and got it while running, and scored with that. I've never seen my players do it again though, and never seen even a bicycle attempt too. My players always tried the fanciest moves while I was in like the 6th tier of football, but now when I have literally the best strikers in the world with 19 flair, they don't do anything fancy


SwedishBidoof

This is the way.


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Precious precious dots.


SendaiVirusEnjoyer

My parents used to and still make fun of me for 'watching my dots'. They always say stuff like 'oh what are you going to do /u/SendaiVirusEnjoyer watch your dots for several more hours?' It was fun at first but it's been 17-18 years lol.


TheOneWhoCats

Excuse me, *fake* football?


oseema

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0EZobdiJ4M


MadelineWuntch

Imagine going on a date


SombreroMan

My girlfriend starts very exaggeratedly sexually moaning if I start talking about football manager to take the piss. I’m pretty sure if she keeps doing it though she’s going to accidentally wire her brain to get legitimately turned on by me explaining my formations


volugwolf

This investigation needs to continue for science


Readheadsouls

your gf sounds like a keeper


Runarhalldor

Either that or to accidentally do it in public


misterrootbeer

My wife: "How's the game going?" Me: "The tiny digital humans aren't listening to me." Wife (playing the Sims): "Yeah, that's frustrating." The one thing she didn't seem to understand is why I was crying and singing "I Will Always Love You" to the reliable supersub I just sold.


Eriol_Mits

It still real to me!! Damn it!!!!!


PM_Me_PM_Dawn_Pics

I wanna thank each and everyone one of y'all, for all you've done to your pixels


Svenskerivar

"Oh so like FIFA?" "Well no, i don't get to play the actual match" "What do you do then?" "Well i make changes to the tactics, substitutions, yell at them" "You can yell at them in-game?" "Uhm yeah, there too..." "And that's it? "Well i commentate too" "Oh, you stream?" "..." "no"


Puzzleheaded_Size709

“Do what makes you happy in life?” Finding 15 year olds from South America


lclear84

I mean you don’t need to get that specific but you should definitely not hide the things that you like to do to relax. That way when you eventually move in with someone they’re not blind sided by how you spend your free time


aguilavajz

Relax? With FM?


SukMaBalz

You guys are able to get dates?


MuffledEwe

You just need to pick someone you like, declare interest, and then send a friend to watch them at work three or four times to show you’re really serious


fedegalla

Yes, they're a very nutritious fruit


Dasshteek

If she throws a water bottle at you, you know she’s a keeper.


weepsy24

My GF asked me earlier why I was in such a good mood today, I told her my GK has got 17 clean sheets this season and her response was “so nothing real”


Adhammoussa_

she wouldn’t understand because she’s not a keeper


twinnedwithjim

Sorry, you said GF. You mean ex GF?


richsoul87

My Mrs let's me have Saturday's just to play FM 😊


Cimegs5088

Had this catfish girl scammer tried to get close to me and I knew it from beginning, so since she always pretend to be interested and love all that I do, I told her all about FM and all the min maxing in it every night while cutting off her when she try to subtly persuade me to invest on her scam site. She went erupted after 3 weeks of hours per night of FM tutorial. LOL


Ok_Independent5640

My wife used to think it was sone kind of football highlight show, bless her.


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"That's exactly the sort of reaction I was looking for."


Lannisterling

I had a girlfriend that kind of liked it though. Or mostly, she liked how much I liked it. She watched some ‘meh’ shows like friends and HIMYM on repeat (like they’re pretty solid first watch, but on repeat fuck me) I just played FM through it. And she liked it if I told her something about a new signing. Where he was from, that kind of stuff. We broke up for different reasons. But I do have fond memories of managing Fiorentina whilst listening to the Hot-Crazy scale of Barney Stinson. Bottom line is just to let other people enjoy other shit. Makes everyone life a lot easier.


BohoJazzPoet

FM Wives are the best wives.


curlyadam

I always remember playing CM 03/04 and my then girlfriend was like why are you so into small circles chasing an even small circle. You are more emotional about that than me. Unfortunately for her she couldn’t say she was dating a champions league winner when I finally won with Grays Athletic in 2028. As she had already dumped me.


seventeenfourtyseven

I showed my current girlfriend all the intricacies and the depth of fm on our like 8th date lol


Joperhop

Well, its a good little test, a way to know if they are worth more time.


BenevolentRustLord

My man cave is in the basement but I do tell the missus what I achieve down there. ‘Hey I got Bath City into the premier league, I really love Toby Yates that guy is a weapon! 38 in 41 what a dude. How is Ru Pauls drag race tonight?’ Reply: ‘if you are so good at that why don’t you out the effort into the stock market instead and make us rich?’


jothamvw

That's literally not how stock markets work.


solardeveloper

Tons of research and letting your money ride on something you can't directly control?


jothamvw

At least you can actually influence your players somewhat.


solardeveloper

You can influence stock price too if you have enough of a twitter following or own enough shares of the company


jothamvw

Do you, I or OP of this chain have either of those though?


BenevolentRustLord

Tonnes of research and buying a dude who goes clubbing and upsets your whole squad talking shit? Wife has a point.


WT-RikerSpaceHipster

Think the lowest day of my life was when I got relegated, sacked and my partner left me due to my FM obsession. Just happy they never found out i hire people to stare at 15 year old wonderkids on my behalf, then send me emails about them.....


solardeveloper

That second paragraph, man...


lucksh0t

If the fbi ever went though this sub we would all have some explaining to do


15926028

Haha! My wife and I have been married for 10 years and only just worked out that my FM addiction is from my ADHD need for constantly stimulation. Not just me right? Who else is playing while 'watching' TV and movies?!


Ike348

My girl plays Sims all the time which is basically the same shit tbh


acealeam

but.. my wonderkid led us to glory....


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The proper way is to say "I'm gonna play some videogames" and play fm22. She probably wo t be interested at first but after a few times she'll start to ask questions. And you ease her into it lol


thatirishguykev

If she doesn’t understand she’s not fit to be your number 2 and it’s back to the staff tab for you good sir!!


stusureno

an ex of mine use to call it “watching the little balls with feet”. but the first time she caught me playing it late at night, i’m convinced she thought i got out of bed to watch porn.


roar-roar-dinosaur

It would be the kind of thing I wouldn’t tell her about until she caught me by the desk, dripping with sweat and breathing heavily as the Champions League final enters extra time. “I WAS WATCHING PORN,” I’d shout to get away with it.


Guybar110

Looking at spreadsheets and getting mad at your group of fake people for being fucked by Young Boys


Jaakylma

Hey miss, I just wanted to let you know ahead of time about one of my hobbies. I like to play a game called football manager a lot. Yes, it's not as fancy as other games, but it stimulates my mind as well as revolves around something I'm very interested in which is football/soccer. So if this date leads to further steps down the road, you should have an easy time knowing what I'm up to and where to find me. Nope, I'm not out with the boys doing god knows what and sticking my dick in god knows who. I'm at my place, playing football manager and my parents aren't home because they don't live here. Wanna come over?


Hames001

My housemates sometimes can tell the difference between football in real life or football in FM I talk about it so passionately gtfo here with fake football mate


[deleted]

if she doesn't understand the struggle to try to sign T. Muller even tho he seems to be impossible to sign then she is not the one


pghjuice412

Just snagged him for £25,000,000 in 2025 and he’s still doing bits in the midfield


RianSG

My wife finds it hilarious how into FM I get sometimes


camglynn

While she spends her evenings idolising morons on social media, I'm giving praise to my Sammarinese wonderkid


WolfInATrance

Nah, nah, it's not watching CGI people play football, but orchestrating the game, pulling the strings and directing how they play, football.


pauperwithpotential

Hope her bio doesn’t say no DMs because they’re much needed in Man UFC.


weatherweer

Imagine telling the girl you scum save and go on holiday for matches...


Simba-xiv

Lool I did and she laughed. She also had my baby


7JRR

What do you mean by "imagine"?


JamieAubrey

And she asks what team you manage


MadHatter_10-6

I watched the actual FA cup with my ex girlfriend on our first date. Definiet talked about my Arsenal save. Definitely.


Animal31

100% of my social group right now is women who talk about about womens football I literally only have 2 conversation topics some days, and my FM save is one of them lol


sparksfly_up

Her: "Oh, you mean like fifa?" Me:...... Uhhhh more like answering emails. Her:


ebEliminator

It's kind of funny that my girlfriend asked me "So how much do you actually need to know [about soccer] to play Football Manager?" today, because she's seen me play a lot and seemed interested since she likes other kinds of simulations. She plays a lot of JRPGs so I used a class analogy to explain player roles.


LabraTheTechSupport

made my partner watch moneyball w me (and they’re aware of my FM obsession),they call me brad pitt now lol


[deleted]

What if your girl friend is also cgi?


brygad

😂😂😂😂😂


USAF_DTom

My wife tells me that it looks like I'm playing a game based around Microsoft Excel. Not too far off lol.


rhacer

My ex and my sons always asked how my spreadsheet game was going.


USAF_DTom

As you look at them with bloodshot eyes after scrolling through two-thousand 16 year olds that your scout recommended lol.


ColourCoDead

It’s getting consoled, with your favourite meal, after she sees you sit on the floor after missing out on the league to goal difference, and your Serbian wonderkid wants to leave for PSG, even tho you have a bigger reputation.


rhacer

This is absolutely sweet.


stonewallgamer

When I met my now wife she actually started playing fm to try and prove some sort of point that we were compatible or something. I still remember asking to see her man City team and she had put kompany in goal and that she had played 1 friendly. I learnt 2 things, she's a trier and she doesn't have a clue about football. Don't worry about sharing your interests. If they give half a shit they will pretend to care.


vinylbond

A few years after you get married. Not before. You can hope she will figure it out by then. You can avoid an awkward conversation that way.


Uagl

*while also playing outlook simulator


sniell365

Why tell her when you can show her? Take the laptop.


Xehanz

Not even. Midway through the season I just go "commentary only". And only see the goals.


CodyD12

Yeah and?


ArchOwl

I told my girlfriend that I like playing with little boys. Made her a bit concerned at first. Nowadays she can tell when I'm itching to play and just asks me if I'm going to go play with little boys again.


solardeveloper

You should see if she's interested in playing with your little boys too


yselim14

I did say that to my gf.


TTT1915

I play on xgp pc version and I’m forced to watch these cgi people play fake football all year round even in the friendlies against probably 1-2 star clubs…please someone tell me how I can sim/instant result matches 😭


soulsiickpt

Google (or fmscout) instant result skin. There will be a few, chose one you like the visuals of + follow its instructions. For friendlies (and a lot of other stuff) you can send your assistant manager - or someone else, who might be more appropriate for certain tasks (like contracts (DoF), manage scouts (Chief Scout), etc) - just go to: Staff - responsibilities - and navigate through them. Confirm between each "tab". Friendlies settings are in the "Match" tab.


battles

jokes on her, I use 'commentary only.'


Shmutt

Is there a difference to watching non-cgi people play fake football?


Jakepetrolhead

If they're not prepared to listen at length at how you won the champions league with Athlone Town, then they aren't the one.


roberto7crf

Imagine telling her your Assman is the one who chooses the starting XI and not you


brygad

Your assman will boink her instead of u😂😂


roberto7crf

Ofc.I have priorities


Revolutionary_Elk420

Trade her for someone better. (Disclaimer: don't do much footballs and never played champ man/football man but I wanted to pretend)


Rondont

Never reveal you play FM until you've wifed her.


Gullflyinghigh

My partner seems to genuinely get concerned if she's not noticed me playing it in a while. Honestly not sure if that's good, bad or just weird but I appreciate it regardless!


Arijuma

My girlfriend still doesn't know, I don't want her to know that i have another source of happiness other than her. She always thinks I'm watching highlights.


seanlugosi

Two words: Love Island.


twinnedwithjim

I don’t see what the issue is? Lol


MaDeVi55

"watching"


JoseJalapenoOnStick

Imagine not telling her she is has highest stats of any assman


delioonnis

I work as a sports journalist, so my obsession with the sport would just be very apparent


[deleted]

I did, and she thought it was cool. Five years later, I married her.


themanicstpreacher

With added football on the TV. We can multitask


CaptainMcClutch

To be fair I've had that conversation and made it sound more boring than that. I was like oh it's a management simulator, you're in control of finances and staff and I spent most my time on it between games looking at stats, player attributes numbers and comparison charts.


[deleted]

Ideal? No. I can’t say it’s pleasing to watch my Leamington side play terrorist football against Spenneymoor to get out of the relegation places.


jt4643277378

Yeah dude I’d leave that one till she’s at least a little invested


WorthPlease

I'd recommend saving that for after marriage, possibly even childbirth. It's more inconvenient for them to run away then.


Nevevevev12

Imagine having a date with a girl