Matchday Programme · Issue One50p

Sacked
in the
Morning

Club Sim

You're a football manager one bad run from the sack. Every week you play a match and answer one crisis — a contract rebel, a leaked group chat, a fan protest, a director's son who fancies a trial. Two choices. Seconds to decide.

Out early October · Free to play

You don't pick the result.
You pick everything that causes it.

Three to six minutes a go

How a week goes

Beat One

The result

Saturday arrives whether you're ready or not. The scoreline comes out of squad strength, form and morale — never out of a button you pressed. Watch the meters move.

Beat Two

The crisis

A back-page story or a message from the chairman. Two options, a timer, and no third way out. Let it run down and the game picks the worse one for you.

Two weeks later

The bill

Please the board on Tuesday and the dressing room remembers it in November. Every choice you make lands late — that's the whole game.

Week 14Thurstone Athletic
BoardShaky
RoomSolid
FansWarm
PressCold
Form LDL WL Pos 22nd
Saturday · AwayResult
Halgate Utd 2–1 Thurstone

"Two down inside twenty. The away end sang your name once, sarcastically."

▼ 21st → 22ndtap to skip
The Evening LedgerBack Page

Captain: "I'll sign when he's gone"

Your skipper's contract has eleven weeks left and his agent has picked up the phone to a local reporter. The quote leads the back page. Nobody in the building thinks the "he" is ambiguous.

Decide04
Drop him for Saturday
Board ▲Room ▼Squad ▼
Meet the agent
Room ▲Press ▼
The screen the game is named after

Getting sacked is not
a game over.

The call comes at 8:41 on a Monday. You get a statement, a headline you didn't write, and three new job offers — all of them worse than the one you just lost. Then you start again, lower.

Lasted
31 wks
Final position
23rd
Win rate
19%
The Evening Ledger · Monday

Board thank him for
"his efforts in difficult
circumstances"

Career record

A CV that gets sadder

Four clubs, 212 games, a 27% win rate and three P45s. The career is the real game, and it goes down at least as often as it goes up.

Meldon Vale
Sixth tier · 12 games · 33% W
In post
Thurstone Athletic
Fourth tier · 31 games · 19% W
Sacked
Harrowfield Rangers
Fifth tier · 76 games · 41% W
Ashcombe Town
Fifth tier · 93 games · 24% W
Sacked
What's in it

The rest of it

140 crises, written by people who watch football

Transfer windows, wage disputes, agents, ticket prices, a takeover, a mascot incident, the pie prices. Six storyline chains run across a season.

Daily Fixture

Same club, same crises, same fixtures for everyone that day. One attempt. Leaderboard on weeks survived. No second chances until tomorrow.

Build your own club

Pick a shape, a colour and a motif and the crest is yours. Generated marks only — you'll never see a real badge in here.

Plays in three minutes

Portrait, one hand, no tutorial worth the name. Works offline. Free with ads, and one payment removes them for good.

Built to be readable

Meters carry a word and a texture, not just a colour. Full screen-reader labels, a reduced-motion path, and the timer extension is never behind a paywall.

Share the wreckage

Every sacking makes a back page. Every career makes a graph nobody would frame. Both are one tap from the group chat.

Small print

Every club, player, manager, competition and publication in this game is fictional. No real badges, no real names, no real leagues, no likenesses. Any resemblance to a club you support is the point, not a licence.

There is no betting, no odds and no wagering anywhere in the game, and there never will be.