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rather than wanting my computer games to more closely resemble televised football, I'm starting to wonder if it should be the other way around

I've found myself recently listening to a few of our games on the radio, but I find it incredibly stressful because you don't always know who is attacking and who is defending.

I also find it really frustrating to watch live games on TV now, because so much of the action is missed (either due to non playing camera shots or replays) and because you don't know if a VAR check is going to prevent you from celebrating a goal. A TV feed gives the impression of giving you full information about what's happening, but it doesn't actually deliver that. It is MUCH further from being at the game then people tend to think. It's much closer to listening on a radio than actual attendance.

Perhaps the best way to find a balance between building tension and delivering information was the match engine from Championship Manager 2. Perhaps this one:



There was something about how it led you from "nothing is happening" to "danger" to "goal" that respected your emotional readiness. Whereas radio can go straight from "nothing" to goal" and TV can give the impression of "nothing is happening" even if danger is building. A few games last season I just watched the BBC live feed, but that didn't update enough to hold attention.

So here me out for a business idea:

- Provide a feed for an Everton live match
- Using the CM2 match engine
- On a slight delay so that VAR checks get flagged before displaying a goal
- Keep it text based, deliberately retro, like a cross between a Teletext page and a video game

Surely AI can create that based on the output coming from existing news sources?? Just route the BBC live text into a CM2 match engine and display.

I honestly think that I would prefer that to live TV or a radio.