Football management: the games, the history, the real thing.
Which Premier League club should you pick for your first Manager of Football save?
8 October 2026
All 20 clubs of 2026/27 sorted by the season you want: win now, fix a broken giant, overachieve, survive, or learn the game in peace.
Manager of Football vs Football Manager: what you give up, and what you get back
6 October 2026
An honest comparison between the 40GB simulation and the browser game with a similar name: scale, the match, the season length, and who should play which.
3 October 2026
PSR is gone. The Premier League's squad cost ratio caps spending at 85% of football revenue. How the rule works, who it squeezes, and how the game uses it.
What does a Premier League manager actually do all week?
1 October 2026
The real weekly rhythm of a Premier League head coach, from Sunday's review to Saturday's match, and what manager games leave out.
How the top Premier League managers actually set up (and how to copy them in a manager game)
29 September 2026
Arteta, Iraola, Alonso, Maresca, De Zerbi, Emery and Glasner: how seven distinctive Premier League managers set up, and how to build each style in a game.
The best Premier League wonderkids to sign in any manager game (2026/27)
26 September 2026
Dowman, Ngumoha, Estevao, Madjo and the rest: the young Premier League players worth chasing this season, whatever manager game you're playing.
Every Premier League manager sacked in 2026/27 (updated list)
24 September 2026
The running list of Premier League sackings this season, the full opening-day line-up, who's under pressure, and last season's record ten departures.
Football Manager Mobile vs Top Eleven vs Soccer Manager: which one should you play?
22 September 2026
The three manager games most people choose between on a phone, compared on cost, depth, licences and how a season actually feels.
Football Manager 27: everything we know so far
19 September 2026
FM27 release date, platforms, pre-orders, the playtesting programme and what SI has promised to fix. Updated as Sports Interactive reveals more.
Football Manager 26, one year on: what went wrong and what got fixed
17 September 2026
FM26 was the second most played game in the series' history and its worst-reviewed launch. What broke, what the patches fixed, and what it means for FM27.
A short history of football management games, from a ZX81 to Unity
15 September 2026
Forty years of football management games: Kevin Toms, Championship Manager, the SI-Eidos split, FM's long reign, and the Unity gamble that shook it.
Football Manager alternatives in 2026: what to play, and why people are looking
12 September 2026
FM26's rough year sent a lot of managers looking elsewhere. The best alternatives by type: full club sims, fast retro games, boardroom sims and multiplayer.
The best browser-based football manager games you can play right now
10 September 2026
Hattrick, Trophy Manager, OSM, Gaffa and more: the football management games that run in a browser tab, and how to pick between the two very different kinds.
The best football manager games on PC that aren't Football Manager
8 September 2026
We Are Football, the FIFA Manager community patch, CM 01/02 and more: the PC management games worth playing that aren't made by Sports Interactive.
The best free football manager games on your phone (2026)
5 September 2026
Soccer Manager, OSM, Top Eleven, Hattrick and more: the free football management games worth downloading in 2026, and where the in-app purchases bite.
The best retro football manager games (and how to play them today)
3 September 2026
From Kevin Toms's 1982 original to Championship Manager 01/02: the classic football management games still worth playing, and how to run them now.