{"id":61364,"date":"2022-10-09T06:11:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T06:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/uncategorized\/from-abandoned-board-game-to-birthing-a-genre-football-manager-at-40\/"},"modified":"2022-10-09T07:10:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T07:10:21","slug":"from-abandoned-board-game-to-birthing-a-genre-football-manager-at-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/features\/from-abandoned-board-game-to-birthing-a-genre-football-manager-at-40\/","title":{"rendered":"From abandoned board game to birthing a genre: Football Manager at 40"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nOver the last ten years, I’ve interviewed many of my childhood heroes – those talented coders I used to read about in the pages of Crash or Your Sinclair. But today is different, because back in 1982, not only did Kevin Toms create a smash hit game, he invented a whole new genre.\n<\/p>\n