Not Private Eye Not Private Eye Not Private Eye was a one-off spoof of the British satirical magazine "Private Eye". The spoof of "Private Eye" was published in December 1986 by Robert Maxwell, to celebrate his £55,000 libel victory over "Private Eye" caused by an accusation of attempted cash for peerages. It was printed using the facilities of the "Daily Mirror", of which Maxwell was the owner. "Private Eye", meanwhile, was trying to sell a Christmas edition (at £1 rather than the then-usual 45p) in order to cover the costs of the libel case, estimated at £255,000. W H Smith was refusing to
Football Manager Live same match engine and many of their fundamental concepts. Users were assigned to a "Game World" of up to 1000 players and created their club and filled their squad with real players, similar to fantasy football. Players were signed via a proxy bidding system similar to that of eBay with the player signing with the highest-bidding club. Whilst "Football Manager Live" utilised a very similar database to that of Football Manager 2009, like its offline counterpart, ageing players retired and younger players were randomly generated in their place within each game world, creating an increasingly fictional environment as seasons progress.