Can a 10 Year Old Girl Manage Barcelona? Yes, on the iPad

Football Manager Handheld for iPad

My post title should really ask ‘Can a 10 Year Old Girl Do a Good Job of Managing Barcelona?’. And the answer, at least in my household, is an emphatic Yes.

This is Reason Number 343 that my daughter is the most amazing kiddo on the planet: she loves the Football Manager Handheld 2013 game on the iPad. She used to be content with watching me play the game. She’d ask 101 questions – about team and city names, about players, rules, what this meant on this game screen and what that meant on that game screen.

She didn’t think her dad was too crazy for spending huge chunks of time with the game, or at least she was nice enough not to say anything about that. Then one fine day recently she asked about getting the game installed on her iPad mini. How could I say no?

Playing on her own lead to lots more questions – about which team to play as (might as well start with one of the…

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