[spireitematt]

Only joking about the Football Manager, Matt; even I`d never go that far.

Interesting what you said about clubs using the same database, though. I read a story - a couple of years or so ago now - about a guy who, purely out of academic interest, took over a non-league club on the game, gave it £1 billion to spend and then sat back and let the game`s algorithms run the club to see how far it would get. From memory, I think he used FC United first (they got to the top half of the Premier League, as I recall) and then Boston United, who actually made it to the Champions League. I`m not sure whether that would happen in real life, though.

It was a Youtuber I think who did it because I remember watching the Boston United one he did.

When I play FM, I can build Football League teams and Non-League teams who don't have much money. Best one I did was taking Stockport County from the National League North to the Championship in 7 years until the save corrupted itself that was on Football Manager 2018.

On Football Manager 2013 I managed to get Chesterfield into the Premier League from League 1 and also into the Champions League.