The super obscure Football Manager crossover you definitely never played 

Football Manager has been a near constant success for our entire lives. Ever since the Championship Managers of the late 90/s, Sports Interactive’s footie spreadsheet simulator has hit (almost) every year with new mechanics, players and more. 

With FM25 cancelled and the wait for FM26 ongoing, we’ve gone back to the past to uncover games we haven’t thought about in years. After rediscovering the single ridiculously expensive FM game, we went back to the one Football Manager crossover most people probably haven’t experienced. 

Football Manager… in a racing game 

As it turns out, the faceless Football Manager that adorns the cover art of our annual franchise is actually a character in his own right. Despite changing from year-to-year, FM publisher SEGA has cemented the spreadsheet champion as an actual video game character outside of his own games. 

This is already kinda funny enough, but the titular Football Manager was celebrated as a playable character in one specific version of SEGA’s Mario Kart-style game, Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed. 

Only available in the PC version of the game, alongside characters from Total War, Football Manager is an actual character, complete with a car that has football wheels and a license plate that reads “MN4GR”. 

In the game, the face of Football Manager is, well, faceless! Just like the box art of every game in the series, the top half of his face is completely hidden, this time with a helmet. 

Other adorable facts about the character are his special skills which are as follows: 

• Managing his team 
• Knowledge of football 
• Racing

Additionally, the human FM mascot actually yells out football terminology while racing and pulling off tricks. In a surprise addition, all of these lines are voiced by Sports Interactive studio director Miles Jacobson. 

Locked behind one specific version of the game, most Football Manager fans probably have no idea that the mascot for the series is actually playable in a real racing game. However, it’s an awesome oddity, and a sign of just how much SEGA values the FM brand. Sure, he’s never really popped up anywhere again, but that’s probably because there’s surprisingly little crossover between managing teams and performing wild saves and driving next to Sonic the Hedgehog.