Full Backing

Full Backing is a football management game about the only question that ever mattered: does the board still fancy you? One card a week. One call. No going back. Keep the boardroom, the terrace, the dressing room and the press sweet enough to still be here on Saturday. Then Saturday happens. Twenty clubs play a real thirty-eight game season, and your club's own pink 'un lands with the result: a banner headline that is always on your side, and a scoreline beside it that never is. A THRILLER, OF A SORT, it says. LOST 0-4, says the plate. Both true, one inch apart. You take the job by opening three packs: a club, a ground, and a home end, dealt as halftone stickers from a sealed foil packet. Every decision after that is another sticker pressed into the album. There are no transfers to fiddle and no formations to tinker. Just choices, consequences, and the long walk to the car park when your full backing runs out. • 301 dilemmas, every one a parody of something that actually happened • 35 storylines, some of which the club remembers you for seasons later • Twenty clubs, thirty-eight Saturdays, and a paper to report every one • A career told as a 1970s sticker album, with 111 endings to collect • Parody clubs with their own crests, colours and heraldry • The Gaffer's Record: longest reign, honours, and who sacked you by lunchtime • A 58-second chip-band theme tune and foley made entirely of paper and tin foil