It has been watched more than 700,000 times on Reynolds’s Twitter feed alone. Wrexham’s FIFA 22 social-media video starred the Welsh non-League club’s showbiz co-owners Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds. The film has been viewed 1.7 million times on YouTube at the time of writing, which will delight EA Sports, one of Liverpool’s sponsors. Robertson is stronger than Mohamed Salah, Joe Gomez is a better dribbler than Joel Matip and Jordan Henderson is unimpressed. Liverpool, for example, released a seven-minute film that showed Andrew Robertson and Virgil van Dijk presenting team-mates with presentation packs containing a copy of the game and their individual ratings. You do not need to play FIFA or even like video games to know this, as it is very likely your club has recently told you how proud they are to be “in the game” or your favourite player has complained about EA Sports, its maker, underestimating their pace.
Sandwiched between transfer deadline day and the first round proper of the FA Cup, the arrival of the latest edition of the world’s most successful sports video game is now as much a part of football’s autumn offering as an England trip to a country smaller than Barnsley, the first waterlogged pitch or Watford firing a manager.
Or FIFA 22 day, as it was known in my house. If you live with children aged 50 or under, you will know we have just ticked off another one: October 1.
ITS IB THE GAME SERIES
The release of the fixtures, the opening of the transfer window, the first match… the football calendar is a series of milestones every fan looks forward to, no matter how many times we have passed them before.
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