Football Manager BUT With CRAZY CM 97/98 Tactics? 

Yank here, was looking for a "football sim" as in American football sim in 1999 and Championship Manager kept coming up. Because of the universal high praise, I decided to mail order it--sent an envelope with American cash to a retailer in the UK (I had to guess the exchange rate and just sent more than I think I needed) and had to trust that there wasn't a region block for the CD coming back--and instantly became hooked to the superior football--I played Championship Manager BEFORE I ever saw a football match on TV (aside from World Cups). Championship Manager 3 was my first, tortured myself by starting in lower league with Northwich Victoria.

That classic tactics page makes me very happy. I used to skive school to play CM97/98 with my mate.. signing Zambian wonderkids for Bolton and Derby 🤣

This was great, you should do a video where you recreate the tactics of some historically great sides like, Brazil 1970, Celtic 1967, Hungary 1950-56 & Ajax 1965-73 etc

Incredible. I started on CM2 with mates, but the first one I owned was 97/98. Mad how time flies.

Many people don't know that Rai is the younger brother of Sócrates.

Love it used to play Commodore 64 back in late 80’s spent hours on it even turned down dates to play it.

Would love to see a part 2 to this. I’m seeing shapes I’ve never seen before, and no, I’m not high! 🤣

Tried your CM tactic: 31132 - no individual player PI, with Malaysia team Selangor (on 3rd season), beat Korean team 3-2 on 2nd leg of Round 2 of AFC (aggregate 6-4 win). It was a roll-coaster 3D match to watch 😂

The algorithm knows me well 😂 Anything from CM01/02 worth trying? Roma’s 3-5-2 for example

The FM tradition of bonker tactics 😂

0:25 the absolute grin on my face seeing those names...a proper footballing powerhouse, my country once was 🥲

Great video stinger, nostalgia aplenty, keep up the top work, always great to see unique content like this 👏

🙌🙌 I’ve still got my Amiga 1200 and all my copies of Champ Manager, Champ Manager Italia etc from the very beginnings. Loading the floppy disks and swapping them over took ages at times 😂 Oh but the pure joy of being in control of all the iconic players throughout the decades 💪

Wow - that was a bit of a trip down memory lane!! 😛 CM 97/98 was my first time on 'FM'. Only wasted the last 25+ years of my life...🤣🤣

CM97/98 was full of supertactics. But even better, one of the defaults was basically a supertactic out of the box. The default 3-1-3-3 worked so very well.

Ive been using these tactics for the last couple of FMs, great highlights to watch and always the highest scorers in the league. Usually its 2cbs 2 wbs, standard 2 CM and DM in midfield then 3 narrow strikers

I loved CM97/98, my favourite game of all time ❤

I remember playing this as a young teenager playing cm 97/98 on my mum pc so many hours lost playing the game

I remember an OP CM 01/02 tactic that had 1 SW, 2 DC, 3 DMC, 1 MC, 2 AMC, and 1 FC. And a bunch of arrows. Broke the game.

Mate this was my era. I remember creating a 4231 with Juve before that formation was even a thing 😂. My biggest achievement was winning the champions league with Notts county.

Love it, I think 97/98 was my first version.

Insane how those tactics work now....wow.

I used to have a version of the 4-3-1-2 but mine was a 4-3-3 with the centre forward dropping into the hole. Probably worked the same. The default 3-5-2 attacking was amazing too.

that was dope that last season was crazy unrelated - maybe you could do a 0-10-0 that's a condense 4-4-2 (2 wingbacks, 2 dms, rm, lm, 2 cms, 2 ams)

cm97/98 was the first management game I played when the diamond formation was king lol

Can you try with the default tactics from 97/98? Especially the "Norway" with wide target man, and the "Ajax" variants?

Cruyff 3-3-3-1 Barcelona famous 1992, trust me its most difficult formation for using in the Football manager series, require deep understanding of transitions because Cruyff didnt want fullback or wingback 👍

I still play CM01/02 occasionally. A lot of us do. Its still really popular, with updated databases. Even this version, people still play it. How about doing a WM formation?, which was a real tactic used successfully by Herbert Chapman at arsenal

I remember buying the Championship manager magazine also that had a 3313 narrow tactic detailed in it by a bloke called Paul Beasley. I’ve often tried to replicate it but never truly matched its original success.

My first love was CM9798😍

Bring back dem arrows 😀

They didn’t say that the second one was a 2-3-5-3, it said that it was a 2-3-5 with 3 dms.

Interesting test. :-) I do think, though, that you did not fully execute the second tactics as it was shown, since it was called a "Direct Style" of play and I noticed you had short passing selected in the FM24 version.

Stinger, how about you do a rebuild using a tactic from each CM/FM for each season up until FM24

you could make wheel of these tactics and switch every season of a rebuild

I do wonder how many roles could be replaced by lines like this.

Do the infamous Diablo tactic from CM 03/04 which broke the game

Probably get shot for this one, however; no such thing as an Amiga 1600. But also 97/98 was exclusively released on PC

I do miss the attacking lines 😅

Now try CM1 broken tactic.

This isnt episode 3😢. Jk, love all the vids

Did you setup overlap on the first tactic the in possession screen seems to show the wing backs not coming forward?

What’s the player instructions or did you just leave them blank?

Diablo please..

what skin do u use pal?

A lot of cm databases you could overrun by overloading the midfield and playing 1 upfront, not cheating tho 😂

too young for it 😄

Don't worry my friend, there are people older than You. I play this game since Championship Manager Italia '93🤣