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Originally Posted by rudel.dietrich
This version of FM does include the J-League
SI and Sega were able ot negotiate a license.
But FM has never held a EPL license, but every team includes that league and team.
And the EPL can be very litigious.
Of course, the game does not use the real league name or logos.
But it does use team names and real players.
FHM uses leagues it has no license for.
That is what I meant by being overly cautious.
None of us will ever know what happened behind the scenes. But it was a blow to the game for sure.
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from my (admittedly rudimentary) poking around, it looks like the Professional Footballers Association has a deal with Football Manger, but not the Premier League itself - kind of reminiscent of the old Sega game Sports Talk Baseball that had a deal with the MLBPA but not MLB itself, so you have Howard Johnson, but he only plays on the "New York team" and not the actual Mets.
Japan has its own version of the PBA, soI wonder if that's maybe an end-around that OOTP is working on.