![]() "It was a well reported flaw in the last version of the game," Jennings concedes. In terms of impact, it was LMA 2006's Calciopoli. They'd encourage your centre-forwards to work on their defensive skills, which were obviously a bit rubbish, to the detriment of their striking ability and eventual transfer value. The main problem was that the backroom staff were lousy. It was less daunting than the genre-leading Football Manager series, which we liked, built from the ground up for console control, and perfectly happy to let you hand off the less exciting elements of day-to-day football management to your backroom staff. Last year, we gave LMA Manager 2006 on PS2 and Xbox a bit of a kicking. It's not the only time the LMA team has been a bit annoyed about docked points. The poor old game, in its unmodified form, regarded minus 30 as the same as 30." Juventus fans probably wouldn't have minded. ![]() "We're obviously not far from submission now, and the team had to drop everything and work out how to handle a team starting on negative points. "That caused us headaches," says mild-mannered John Jennings, the game's executive producer. And he wasn't the only one cursing either - over in Warwickshire, the Codemasters team working on LMA Manager 2007 were feeling the effects too. His views on the whole thing are decidedly Anglo-Saxon and a bit unprintable. Fans went ballistic - taking to the streets, and, in Fiorentina's case, blocking off a railway line after Franco Zeffirelli appealed to fans to "cut Italy in half".Įffects have been far-felt. Within a week half the players involved were looking for new jobs. Italy won the World Cup on Sunday, 9th July. As I type, an Italian court is delivering its verdicts on the appeals made by four clubs caught up in Calciopoli - the Italian football corruption scandal - which has seen three of the country's biggest football sides relegated, two then reinstated, all four docked points, and only the Milanese allowed within half a mile of European competition. ![]() It's been a hell of a month for Italian football.
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