![]() The first thing that strikes you when you load up Football Manager 15 is the attractive "new" user interface. New player interactions allow you to pick different emojis to send to players while they're away on internatonal duty. Sadly this is the first edition in quite a few years where I fear this may be the case. Particularly if they jeopardise the very thing that makes the game so special. Still, as a product on an annual release cycle that asks players to shell out a not insignificant amount of money each year, even if all they really want is updated squads, the changes that are made must stand up to a certain amount of scrutiny. Regardless of new features, design changes, graphical overhauls and so on, this enduring quality should never be forgotten. For a football fan, Football Manager enables you to create stories and knit together memorable experiences that are simply unparalleled in modern gaming. And I begin in this way not just for the sheer pleasure of sharing Football Manager stories, but also to serve as something of a disclaimer for what lies ahead. Yet, now, I feel strangely attached to the area. I have never been to Ellesmere Port, or anywhere along the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal, for that matter. When Arnott resigned in a fit of pique midway through his second year in the top flight, frustrated by his squad's perennial unhappiness with the stature of the club and the failure of his record signing - a £23m Brazilian wonderkid plucked from Real Madrid's B-team - to produce any kind of form, there was not a man or woman in Ellesmore Port who would begrudge it being described as the end of an era. He developed an innovative 4-3-2-1 formation that so suited some of his early signings they remained integral parts of the team throughout his tenure - including an Irish regen, Jimmy Burns, who never once fell below an average 7.3 rating in his combined wide target-man/set-piece specialist role. After an astonishing run of five promotions in seven seasons he brought Premier League football to Rivacre Park for the first time in Vauxhall Motors' history. ![]() It's been a memorable year in the life of Jack Arnott, football manager. ![]()
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