Flashback to @FootballManager’s announcement of Football Manager 1888 on April 1 2013.
A 🧵 on a detailed April Fool’s windup including some details you may have missed…
Alex Ireland
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Alex Ireland
@AlexDIreland
Academic - MSK physiology | Football writer - two books ‘Pretty Poly: The History of the Football Shirt’ and ‘Double Diamond: 100 Years of Umbro’ (links below)
Joined May 2020
- EVERY MUFC UMBRO KIT 1992-2002 As Umbro turn 100 in 2 days time (23 May), a 🧵 looking back to a decade when they supplied local side Man Utd…
- Replying to @AlexDIrelandFootball Manager 1888 was presented in sepia tones, using flowery ‘Victorian’ language including player post-team meeting reaction ‘looked fizzing and in high spirits’ and players with ‘spiffing’ morale
- New arrival: Werder Bremen 1991/92 away, pure 90s excess 💚
- Replying to @AlexDIrelandRenamed player attributes included Punting, Gentlemanliness, Peevishness, Nobbling, Leaping and Dashing.
- UEFA ’s greatest (statistical) sides: a🧵 West Ham’s record of 12 wins from their 13 @europacnfleague ties in 2022/23 makes them the 2nd best winning side in UEFA club comp history by win percentage. Below is the top ten…
- Replying to @AlexDIrelandPlayers would also face the prospect of players becoming unavailable due to army conscription or retirement due to serious injury
- EVERY CHAMPIONSHIP/FOOTBALL MANAGER BOX 1992-2024 - a 🧵 Which is your favourite? Championship Manager (1992)
- Stuck for a Xmas gift for a football fan? Pretty Poly: 150 years of history for £20, how and why shirts, designs, colours, namesets, sponsors & replicas emerged and evolved. Below, a brief chapter guide 👇
- Champions League Final Programmes 2000-2023 Interesting to see increased uniformity, loss of national identity, and centering of the trophy across the period. Each programme in thread below 👇
- Replying to @AlexDIrelandA full 10/10 for effort and application for the gag, which led to a flood of tweets for SI to make the game.
