Was a serious addict for many many years going back to it's early days as Championship Manager on the Atari ST!
Likewise though for a number of reasons, not played it for several years, so lost touch with it's current state of development.
Believe there was some kind of fall out which meant to the developers could no longer use the name, so it became Football Manager.
Easy hack to get round modern financial fair play rules, edit the data base and make your stadium 250k all seater with an average attendance at almost capacity and watch the money roll in, couldn't spend it quick enough!
I think my finest moment was on the Atari St when I took Wycombe from the 4th to 1st division pre-Premier League days in successive seasons and recruited an ageing Peter Beardsley to add an experienced head to a young team. In another game, gave a 16 year midfielder his debut in the cup, he scored a hat-trick! I never played him again that season for the sole reason his career record showed first season stats as Played 1, Scored 3, Average Rating 10!
Sky Sports News use the FM database as a way of comparing real life players
I wonder how many days/weeks/months/possibly even years of my life were spent playing this game?...