Outside of the game, Duff won 21 caps for Northern Ireland and is one of the very few footballers to play in the top 8 divisions in England, making it all the way from the Southern Premier division with Cheltenham Town through to League One, to then play in the Championship and Premier League for Burnley.
The Cheltenham Town player could be picked up for a few thousand if you got lucky and would be a mainstay in your side for years to come. And if you started a game on CM 01/02 in the lower leagues (as everyone worth their salt should), then Mike Duff was your man. Mike DuffĮvery football fan pretends to adore their unassuming but forever reliable right sided defender. However, he was probably best known for incredible hair and the green and white braids he had in the 1998 World Cup. You may not remember it, but he also had stints in England with Derby County and Plymouth Argyle (!), before finishing his career in Iran. In real life, West played for Auxerre before moving to Italy where he played for both Inter and AC Milan.
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That meant you could bag yourself a top international footballer completely free of charge. Rewind to 2001 and the golden age of Championship Manger, the Nigerian journeyman was still looking for a club when the game was released. He was hardly discovered on the game, but there are few players quite as synonymous with CM as Taribo West. So from Swedish wonderkids and Belarussian world beaters, here are 10 of the game’s greatest heroes… 10. But nothing in the game could quite compare to discovering a new superstar.Įarly editions of Championship Manager didn’t often get things right when it came to unearthing football’s next superstars, but it did still make otherwise less-than-illustrious careers that bit more notable. Whether it was leading SC Cambuur to their first ever Eredivisie title or taking Rushden and Diamonds into the Premier League, everyone has their own nostalgic Championship Manager story.