A lighter look at FML

As Monty Python once said, "Always look on the bright side of life!". Here some of the guys in the forums do just that while discussing some of the ironies of being a FML Manager.

1. Despite your team desperately needing a centre back, you will go out and buy a centre forward.

2. You will finish typing a message even though your opponent has left the game.

3. The first manager to say “Hi GL” does not get an advantage.

4. You will at some point wish the AI "GL".

5. You will always play one game too many before you go to bed.

6. Typing a message like “My striker couldn’t score in a brothel” will instantly cause said striker to score a wonder-goal, which will duly only be rated as “3 stars, above average”

7. You will click the confirm change button to take a player with a 5.9 rating off a millisecond after he scores a goal.

8. You'll give up looking for that right smiley.

9. Your daughter asks you if you can hook them up with Beckham since you’re his trainer.

10. As soon as you log off you remember why you logged on in the first place.

11. You start to have conversations with anyone who'll listen about your recent transfers and how you plan to raise cash for the next one, even though they have no idea what FML is!

12. As soon as you decide to count how many games you've been unbeaten for you will lose the next game to a team ranked at least 200 places below you.

13. You will log on "for 5 minutes" in the morning, before work, to change skills... then spend the next 20 minutes reading through news and mail, and looking for players. Then you will forget to change the skill anyway, leaving yourself learning something that finishes at lunchtime.

14. You will half wake up in the night, having just figured out what the missing link in your team is. And then have forgotten by the time you properly wake up.

15. Music by Lionel Ritchie makes defeats easier to take.

16. You do a search on your second name to see if any youngsters have came through to pretend it's your son. Nationality doesn't matter, he was born on holiday.

17. You'll work out a way of paying for that striker in instalments that the bank won't veto... two minutes after he signs for someone else.

18. Any player aged 23 or below is a wonder-kid, except yours.

19. You buy Ronaldo finally after saving up all those pennies for him to be injured in an hour for 3 weeks and you forgot to take out injury insurance.

20. Your wife is leaving you, but Messi is joining you, so it probably works out for the best.