With very few changes to LMA Manager 2001 beyond an upgrade to the match engine and the inclusion of several more European leagues, I went for the Dortmund job for a slightly different experience. This conspiracy of silence only happened in the world of LMA Manager 2002, of course. New manager Iain Mew was similarly tight-lipped on the subject of his team’s ill discipline afterwards. Hansen preferred to suggest that Dortmund had been lucky to win given that they didn’t keep hold of the ball well, as opposed to because they had eight players on the pitch by the end. Stranger still, when Football 1 showed their highlights package for the game, introduced as always by Gary Lineker and talked through by Alan Hansen, they omitted any mention of the violence. Yet even as Bobic, Ricken and Rosický lost their heads, Dortmund still managed to win the match, with a late penalty scored well after two of the red cards had occurred. They finished the game with three players having been sent off, two for violent conduct. On 11 August 2001, Borussia Dortmund played a Bundesliga game with an unusual outcome.
LMA Manager 2002 (Codemasters, PlayStation 2, 2002)
