Chris Fuller

FM25: The Game That Never Was

Published on 12 February 202514 July 2026 by Chris Fuller

2025… bloody hell. What a rough year this has been already, and we’re not even halfway through February yet!

We’ve had devastating wildfires in California, unprecedented storms in the United Kingdom, ongoing war in Ukraine, Donald Trump starting his second reign of terror, and – worst of all – a young black man daring to make fun of Erling Haaland.

And now we’ve had confirmation – after months of delay and speculation – that Football Manager 25 has been cancelled. FM’s hotly-anticipated overhaul with the Unity game engine will not be happening… at least not this season.

After having a few days to digest the news, I will now deliver my thoughts on how the FM25 saga unfolded, where Sports Interactive went wrong, and why scrapping the game was the right decision.

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Nacka’s Yard: Season 6 (2029)

Published on 10 February 202515 July 2026 by Chris Fuller

The year is 2029. Nacka FC have just survived the first major crisis of the Fuller era. After hurtling down the Superettan table in 2028, I now have to rebuild my squad, and assemble a defence that can… you know… defend.

Will it be third time lucky for Nacka in the Superettan? Will this be the year that we make it into the promised land of the Allsvenskan?

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Retro Review: Sven-Göran Eriksson’s World Manager

Published on 5 February 20257 July 2026 by Chris Fuller

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It’s time for another of my Fuller FM retro reviews… and today’s review is particularly poignant.

Sven-Göran Eriksson passed away in August last year at the age of 76, after an illustrious managerial career with the likes of Benfica, Sampdoria, Lazio and (ahem) Leicester City. He was also the first – and, to date, best – foreign-born manager of the England men’s national team, leading the Three Lions to three consecutive tournament Quarter Finals.

I’m publishing this post on what would have been the ice-cool Swede’s 77th birthday. To mark the occasion, I’ll be playing a somewhat obscure football management game from 2002 which bears his name.

This is Sven-Göran Eriksson’s World Manager.

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Nacka’s Yard: Season 5 (2028)

Published on 27 January 202515 July 2026 by Chris Fuller

Welcome back to “Nacka’s Yard”, where my lower-league adventure in Sweden has so far been going very well… perhaps too well. If you missed our Superettan debut last season, Nacka FC didn’t just stay up – we came quite close to what would have been a third consecutive promotion!

Nacka’s incredible rise on FM24 has also come to the attention of the club’s real-life director (and co-founder) Salih Shala, who posted a lovely comment on my Season 3 summary a few weeks ago. As an FM blogger, it’s always a special and humbling moment when the club you’re managing in the virtual world shows their support in the real world – just like Lyn did on FM19, and Cambrian & Clydach on FM21.

This has already been a wonderful journey, and it has helped me rediscover why I love playing Football Manager…

…but now we get to Season 5, in which I rediscover why I HATE playing Football Manager.

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Review: Global Soccer 2018

Published on 22 January 20257 July 2026 by Chris Fuller

2025 is now in full swing, and we potentially have TWO Football Manager games to look forward to this year!

But while we are waiting for FM25, I’ve been looking at some other football management simulators from years gone by. In today’s review, I’ll be looking at an independently-made Championship Manager clone that was released in 2018, and which is now free to play on Steam!

So here is my review of… [hang on, let me make sure I get this title right…] Global Soccer: A Management Game 2018. That just rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?

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Nacka’s Yard: Season 4 (2027)

Published on 13 January 202515 July 2026 by Chris Fuller

It’s a new year… and another new league for Nacka FC.

After 2025 brought a historic Division 2 title to the Fisksätra, Nacka’s extraordinary rise continued in 2026 as they finished 3rd in the Ettan Norra – and then won a dramatic promotion play-off against Öster! For the second season in a row, we were going up!

Now it’s 2027, and we’re in the Superettan – the second tier of Swedish football. This will bring us some even tougher challenges, not least the teething problems that come with turning professional…

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Turning professional on Football Manager

Published on 8 January 202514 July 2026 by Chris Fuller

Football Manager isn’t just about the elite teams. Many FMers like to take a part-time team in a lesser-known league and gradually build them up into a dominant force at domestic and continental level.

A lot of us also like to take a provincial club from the lower leagues and take them up to the top flight. That’s what I’m doing right now on my Football Manager 2024 save with Nacka FC. After leading Nacka through consecutive promotions to the Superettan – the second tier of Swedish football – we have now reached an exciting but turbulent point.

This semi-professional club is about to turn fully professional for the first time. That means our players and staff can now work throughout the week… but it also means that we’ll be spending a lot more money from now on.

So, how can we best prepare for these challenges, so that we can continue to make progress? Here are my tips for turning professional on Football Manager… no, not like Lollujo or WorkTheSpace.

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Nacka’s Yard: Season 3 (2026)

Published on 23 December 202415 July 2026 by Chris Fuller2 Comments

It’s time to pay another visit to Nacka’s Yard, as our rise up the Swedish footballing pyramid continues.

We were crowned champions of Division 2 Södra Svealand last season, but now we face some much stiffer tests in the Ettan Norra. Surely we can’t get ourselves promoted again… right?

This will be quite a long post, because there is so much to talk about as we head into the 2026 season. I hope you’re sitting comfortably!

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FM24: The ‘Regen Bug’

Published on 19 December 20245 July 2026 by Chris Fuller

Let’s talk about a potential newgen bug I’ve found on Football Manager 2024.

In most cases, any players that FM generates – also known as ‘newgens’ – are entirely separate from and unrelated to any other player in the database. When Cristiano Ronaldo retires, he isn’t instantly replaced with another skilful Portuguese forward who has his same elite potential.

On FM24, though, some of these newly-generated players can develop… let’s call it an identity complex. Allow me to explain…

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Nacka’s Yard: Season 2 (2025)

Published on 9 December 202415 July 2026 by Chris Fuller

Welcome back to Fuller FM, and to my Football Manager 2024 series with Nacka FC in the Swedish fourth tier.

In case you missed it, my first season was a success… well, kind of. We did win the trophy for the most Expected Goals and Expected Points in Division 2 Södra Svealand… but, er, we didn’t win promotion.

Now it’s 2025, and expectations are high. Can Nacka’s new signings bring us some actual silverware and take us up to the Ettan? Or am I going to have another nasty case of second-season syndrome?

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