If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you might know that I had some wonderful news on Wednesday night. My sister had a baby son, making me an uncle and adding some much-needed light to what has otherwise been a very dark 2019.
To celebrate the start of our family’s next generation, I’m going to play a ‘generation game’ spanning 20 years of football.
For this article, I’ve found 20 Premier League players in the Football Manager 2020 database whose fathers were on Championship Manager: Season 99/00 as players themselves. I’ve taken screenshots of all the dads on CM99/00 and written a little bit about their careers before and after the turn of the millennium.
There’s a good mixture here of dads who’ve already been upstaged by their lads, plus some very famous fathers whose offspring are taking their first steps in professional football.
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