Seizing on the opportunity to promote its latest release, the Xbox version of Championship Manager, developer Sports Interactive has transplanted the Old Firm into the English Premiership, swapping them for English relegation candidates Leicester City and Derby County, in order to simulate how changes to the leagues might effect the teams’ fortunes.
“Originally, we just decided to do it for fun because it was interesting", Managing Director and football nut Miles Jacobson told us on Saturday. “Then the Scottish Sun decided to run a piece on it, so we did it as a full blown experiment! It seems to have worked, as Radio 5 have talked about it this afternoon, and lots of other people have been calling today wanting to cover the story.”
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