"Previously you'd sit there with a mouse in one hand and a book in the other," King dev Ross Alexander jovially explains. So what's Championship Manager 2008 doing to change that? Well, for starters it doesn't have any loading screens. To say since then Champ Man has been in the shadow of their new Football Manager series would be an understatement. The truth, of course, is that it refers to something far worse, back in 2004 when the original creators of Championship Manager split from Eidos, taking most of the series' hugenormous fanbase with them. It's as if 'The Split' they're referring to was when the lead designer's mum was cut in half by a car crash. Everyone else even stops reaching for the little bowl of Celebrations in the middle of our meeting room. There's always the tiniest of pauses before someone mentions it, and it's pronounced slightly softly, with a teeny bit of trepidation. ![]() It's slightly weird how the staff of Beautiful Game Studios - the development team behind the current Championship Manager games - refer to 'The Split'.
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