“The ‘no graphics’ thing was a big thing,” Ov says of another publisher’s feedback. There were knockbacks, of course, with Electronic Arts turning Championship Manager down for not featuring enough ‘live action’. “The other side of it was when we’d spend our holidays locked in the attic just trying to make it better.”Īnd better things got-as the project took shape, the brothers starting hawking their wares to publishers around Britain, trying to get their new take on an established genre noticed. “There were times when maybe six months would go by when we didn’t do anything on it,” Ov explains. A big reason why it took so long was that… well, Paul and Ov were in school and college, literally bedroom-coding the game. This ambition took time to bloom, however, with the original Championship Manager being worked on here and there for six years before it was finished in 1991, and released in 1992 for Amiga, Atari ST and, shortly afterwards, PC. “ checking out all the other games of the time, and deciding we didn’t like them very much so, in our arrogance, deciding that we might be able to do it better.” “We were playing the other games-League Division One, Mexico ‘86, the sort of international version of it, and Football Manager,” Ov explains. Two brothers, Paul and Oliver ‘Ov’ Collyer, decided to try and make their own game of soccer management from their Shropshire home. The series once known as Championship Manager, now Football Manager, turned 25 years old in 2017-but its story begins further back than that, in 1985.
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