Uttrykket Brexit har blitt et kjent begrep etter at britene litt overraskende stemte for å forlate EU. Dette er noe som kan komme til å påvirke spillutviklingen i landet, men allerede nå har det påvirket innholdet i spillene.
Det gjelder Football Manager 2017, som er årets utgave i den populære serien. Studiosjefen hos Sports Interactive, Miles Jacobsen, har nemlig bestemt seg for å inkludere dette i spillet, for det påvirker fleksibiliteten og potensielt arbeid i Storbritannia - også for fotballspillerne. Jacobsen sier til The Telegraph:
"We were left with an interesting situation this year when the people of Britain voted to leave the EU and it wouldn't have felt right to leave that out. It's something we had to reflect on in the game, so we sat down with the research guys and started to plan how we might put it in."
Det er dog ikke så enkelt å simulere ettersom mye fortsatt er uklart:
"Of course, none of us know what will happen. [...] Six weeks ago I would have predicted a soft Brexit, but after the Conservative Party conference a hard Brexit is much more likely"
Han fortsetter:
"We know Article 50 will be invoked before the end of March, but we don't know how long negotiations are going to take. They could take two years but there could be a general election within that time. There are provisions that if a deal hasn't been reached, negotiations could be extended or even scrapped."
Tror du Brexit noen gang vil påvirke sportsverden?