April Fools normally plays host to a couple of cute ideas from the gaming industry (along with hundreds of terrible ones) – this one from SEGA’s actually pretty good: Football Manager 1888.

It’s based, if you will, around the concept of a management sim focused on the very first season of the English Football League, with the option to manage any of the original 12 (count ’em) clubs involved in the 1888 / 89 season.

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The rules? No subs, no off-sides, no penalties for tackling. Sounds perfect.