Now Remastered in Ebook Format

I finished it. For the past two months, I’ve been plugging away at a thoroughly-edited, revised, expanded, prettified, remastered version of the blog. And now you can read it.

I did custom layouts for every page, doing my best to make it a great magazine-like experience. I hope the results speak for themselves. I’ve linked to a sample version below, which is just the first month. Scroll to the bottom of the post for screenshots.

I’m charging $5 $2 (AUD) for it, so that I can make back at least some money for the huge time investment this thing turned out to be. If you don’t want to or can’t afford to pay, no worries—the blog isn’t going anywhere. But if you want a good experience as you read through this enormous project, you’ll need to pony up the cash. And if you want to pay more than $2, be my guest—it’s just the minimum, so you can pay $500 if you’re so inclined.

So what do you get?

You’ll receive a zip file (~120MB) containing PDF, ePub, Kindle, and HTML formatted versions of the ebook. They all have the same text, although only the PDF has custom layouts and lots of images. I recommend the PDF version, read on an iPad or Android tablet. But the other options are there.

If you need any help reading any of these, or putting them on your device of choice, hit me up and I’ll walk you through it as best I can.

The whole thing is around 91,000 words, of which close to a tenth is explicit fourth-wall-breaking criticism about the game and the nature and appeal of virtual football management (the rest is a diary in Juan Day’s voice).

I believe this is the first time that anyone has written at length about the nature of football management games, and the strange ways in which they simulate reality. I hope you enjoy reading!

Click here to make your purchase.

Here's a sample PDF with the first three weeks.