Here's our list of the 7 best Football Manager memes of the past year that will get you cracking.
Here's our list of the 7 best Football Manager memes of the past year that
will get you cracking.
Football Manager gets people talking online. Players like to share players who are hidden gems, boast about winning the Champions League with Torquay United, or laugh at other people’s fails.
Like any other popular internet topic, Football Manager has its own share of memes, funny videos and gifs. It seems each edition brings something new that raises a smile.
To find the best ones, we scouted Reddit for seven top-scoring memes of the past year. Some are even funnier than we imagined.
The Wonderkid Monkeys
You put him into a crunch top-of-the-table clash against your rivals and wait expectedly. This is his time to shine.
Only....he doesn’t. He drifts around the pitch looking like a boy lost at sea. It’s perfectly normal, of course: young talent needs to be nurtured and their debuts are often difficult.
Still, it doesn’t stop us from sitting around like the orangutan in this viral meme.
The Zoom Class/Meeting
Having a meeting on Zoom may come with technical problems that you wouldn’t get face-to-face, but it also has its advantages.
You don’t have to leave your house, or even put on trousers. You might even get away with a low-attention activity, like playing an online slots game at the same time.
FM is a different matter, though. If you want to do the best job, then you need to give it your undivided attention – which is why this meme is so apt. Scouring the lower leagues for release clauses demands our concentration, so when the teacher or boss asks us if we’re listening, we may not always tell the truth.
Gordon Ramsey
Take your star striker, for instance. You know how good he is: he’s saved your bacon more than once, after all. So, when he misses that open goal, you can’t help but yell at him. With maybe a careless insult thrown in.
As for that player you don’t like, but you have to play him for his finishing. Well, it’s OK when he misses: call him what you like.
The Gordon Ramsey meme captures the irony of both reactions being eerily similar.
The Backup Goalkeeper
Going into a match right after an FA cup game against lower league sides:
If you’re a top British club, then FA Cup games against lower opposition are the perfect time to give your backup ‘keeper a run-out. Maybe he’s the next best thing and needs valuable game time, or maybe he’s a quality bargain stopper and you feel bad for not playing him.
Either way, we’re not used to him being there in the starting XI. So, when the next league game rolls around, it also means we’re not used to checking the GK position, given that the number 1 is normally there.
Whoops! Best sneak in that change just before kick-off.
Year 2058
This one’s for all the teenagers out there. Your new online class is going great, you tell your parents. The teacher’s great and you’re on course for top grades. They congratulate you on a good job well done.
Reality: those valuable lesson minutes have been put to good use: in FM. You’re now 36 years into the future, where you’ve just won the Champions League final on Mars, and a 72-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo is finally hanging up his boots.
Your poor parents.
The High Line
Reality: The opposition’s young forward uses his explosive pace to breach the backline again and again.
You’re 3-0 down after half an hour. They’re not quick enough.
When you auto-assign squad numbers
But beware. Maybe your goalkeeper wants to be number 1; perhaps your left wing-back has special affinity for the number 5; or maybe your new record signing, who just happens to be the best player that’s ever lived, gets lumped with the number 30.
As one Reddit user put it: “Don't worry, your 18-year-old fourth-choice right-back, who's only in the first team for mentoring, will have the 10 shirt instead”.
