September 1 – An Addiction is Born and Heskey Makes it Five!

Sven’s finest hour in the England dug-out and a pair of Everton fans try and ruin everyone’s life.

1992 – An Addiction is Born

Brothers Paul and Oliver Collyer have got a lot to answer for. Exams have been failed, relationships have ended and social lives ruined thanks to them. On this day in 1992 they unleashed the first edition of Championship Manager, the annoyingly addictive football simulation computer game. Read all about it here.

2001 – And Heskey Makes it Five!

FAR too many times on this website we’ve had to tell you about a shambolic/frustrating/heroic England defeat, so we thought it was time that we’d look at one of their better days at the office.

Today in 2001 there was no penalty heartache, no silly red cards, no broken metatarsals and no dodgy keepers, just a 5-1 win over Germany at the Olympiastadion in Munich. Click here for the whole story.

There’s no pain quite like that of losing at Championship/Football Manager