Football Manager/YMMV
- Ending Fatigue: It is possible by getting the right tactics and training as well as having hundreds of millions pounds worth of cash to afford all the best players that it becomes impossible for opposing teams to beat you. The game technically never ends too.
- Ensemble Darkhorse: Arguably invoked due to the game being part reality part speculative. Some players who have not achieved anything of note in real life football are very popular with fans of the series due to being great in the game. A short list:
- Taribo West. Freddy Adu. Maxim Tsigalko. Fernando Cavenaghi. Freddy Guarin. Billy Jones. Kim Källström. Mark Kerr. Cherno Samba.
- Others were completely fake players invented as a laugh by researchers in far flung areas, like the legendary To Madiera.
- Especially common with younger (21 and under) players. Since it's impossible to know exactly how good a young player will turn out to be, many are much better in the game than in real life. Some examples from this generation include Carlos Fierro, Erick Torres, and Vaclav Kadlec.
- Game Breaker: Abusing some the tactics used in corner kicks could lead your team to score at least once per game in every corner kick (to the point where it's called "fraud corners" in Korea).
- I Knew It!: What fans of the series get to proudly tell their friends one of those wonderkids turns to be as good in Real Life as in the game.
- Memetic Mutation: Pretty much every line from the News section has been subjected to this. Those are often used in Fantasy Football games.
- Moment of Awesome: Again like in the real world of Football, the game is designed so you can amass several personal CMOA's over the course of it. Things like coming back from defeat to win a Cup Final with seconds to go or scoring seven or eight goals in a match for example.
- Obvious Beta: The release version of Championship Manager 4 was such a disaster that many people have wondered if Sports Interactive already knew they were going to split from Eidos, and deliberately released a piece of crap in an effort to damage the Championship Manager brand and make things difficult for the succeeding development team.
- That One Achievement:
- The various "bottom to top" challenges, known as Country Hero achievements on Steam. Example, English Hero, where your goal is to take a team from the lowest playable league, the Blue Square North/South league, all the way to the English Premier League, 6 divisions above the start.
- Taken Up to Eleven by the long running unofficial "Dafuge" [1] Challenge. Not only do you have to take a team from the bottom league to the English Premier League, you have to take a team who got promoted to that bottom league [2], and they have to win the English Premier league and the Champions League to complete it. The vast majority of players give up or fail. It takes the best players hundreds of hours to complete it at a minimum. Some constantly reload the game until they get one of the weaker teams being promoted to make it just a bit more challenging.