No.14: Tracksuit Manager - Goliath, 1989
With zero graphics, or indeed frills of any kind, Tracksuit Manager may seem a bizarre choice for inclusion in my top 20. Yet this vast and complex football management has no peer on the Spectrum, even from Football Manager, admittedly from seven years earlier. I loved two facets of this game in particular: firstly, the ability to redefine your own squad, giving the game an up to date or personal slant, if you liked. And secondly, the match day ticker-tape style readout that detailed every single event in the game you were taking part in. Together with a supreme in-depth ability to micro-manage the game of football, this is the finest soccer management simulation for me on the ZX Spectrum.
