Glory Of The Football Manager System

The carnival of noise that had engulfed Selhurst Park for the final twenty minutes of the 4-0 demolition of Burnley followed me down the tunnel, a wave of pure, unadulterated joy that echoed in the concrete corridor.

It was the sound of a club reborn, of a fanbase that had been dragged through the mud of a relegation battle and had emerged, blinking, into the bright, warm sunshine of safety.

The System, my silent, secret companion, had confirmed it with a cool, clinical finality: [Relegation Probability: