Championship Manager 2008 The game boasts a vastly improved match engine with improved realism, analysing each player and making them react on pitch to the action depending on what their 'real-life' tendencies are as a footballer. For example, a player who likes to overlap and send crosses in from the by-line will try and do so as much as possible during a game. This new system creates a realistic simulation of how footballers behave in real life match situations and managers can even train individual squad members to incorporate tendencies into their match skill set.