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Oh. I loved Willie Howie. Does anybody know if he was for real and what happend to him irl if that the case?

yes. willie howie was real. sadly he got badly injured after suffering a knife attack in glasgow while still playing at partick thistle but continued to play at a lower level including junior football. id say the incident not only scarred him physically but mentally aswell as he never fulfilled his potential. sad

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i'm 2 old now haha these game come along way now tho

Night and day difference from then and now but one thing that hasnt changed is its addictiveness

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i know what you saying but you have to look at that time parma was 1 of the best teams in europe. and also when i played that i just need eric cantona he was a best on it. but hated when squads got full could not sell a player. good old days

good old days indeed. not too many remember cm italia

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he played 2 are 3 times for italy so yes but with these games players ha pa so irl if he dint gt a bad injury who to say he wunt be a world beater.

Thats hypothetical tho. what if's dont count as 'made it'. what if i never bust my knee when i was 15, i could have been a world beater lol a couple of caps for italy compared with 100 in cm. know what i mean?

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but after parma he went to milan and got a bad injury

My point is Melli was the best player in cm italia by a mile. he was the most valuble player on the transfer screen no matter who he plyed for and the guy u 'had' to have. I can think of a dozen better players from around that time who were better. probably a dozen italians actually! ask 10 people if they know of melli these days and 9 would look puzzled. however they would ryhme off names like,Vialli,Ravanelli,Baggio etc. all of whom couldnt lace melli's boots on cm italia

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but after parma he went to milan and got a bad injury

so he never 'made it' then.

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he was good irl tho for parma

not european cup winning, world player of the year good tho, was he. he was ok irl. nothing special like his cm alter ego!

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But you have Ferrah Orosco (Cambridge)

Paulo/Pietro Zaini on CM Italia way back in the day (Ascoli is memory serves) - Awesome midfielder

Allessandro Melli was awesome on cm italia. was always a scramble between me and my mates to get him as he was the 'best player in the game'. didnt have the best of careers irl tho.

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Nicola Ventola and Steve McPhee would be a cracking partnership for me on cm01/02!

(slightly off topic there was a window of about 3 game days on cm01/02 where you could get Pirlo for about 3 million, and he would often go for 80million a bit later in the game!

80 million in 01/02? groundbreaking stuff!!

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Steven Pearson of motherwell at the time signed for ma arsenal 00/01 season and went on to become a world class legendary midfielder winning world player of the year on a few occasions.

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Depends on the definition but these were a few players DOMINANT on FM that were not in real life ( FM '05 onward);

Fred

Freddy Guarin

Dede

Eddie Johnson

Good times with these gentlemen.

spot on with all 4 dreghorn2. ad em all at various times and were all amazing on champ/fm but never repaeted irl. great example

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Federico Laurito anyone?

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Willie Howie of partick thistle was the frank lampard of the late 90's early 2000's in cm. used to get like 25/30 goals from midfield for my man utd save. signed for buttons. plied his trade in scottish juniour football after leaving thistle! prime example i think

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Marquinhos(AMRC/FC) from Palmeiras was brilliant

good call. i forgot about him. used to sign him all the time and was dynamite. never heard of him irl although maybe hes a star in brazil!

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Alexander Farnerud. from 02/03 i think

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willie howie

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I was feeling a little nostalgic and thinking about FM's/Champs of the past going way back to cm italia in 93'.

Ive played every version since and got to thinking about players in the game that were awsome that never repeated it irl.

here is my top 3: tommy svindal larsen

tonton zola moukoko

kennedy bakicioglu

can anybody think of others??