It's a community game · total.football

total.football was never a single-player game. It was a forum with a football game attached — people who knew each other by their club names. The new one is built the same way. Here is everything that happens between managers.

Place	What happens there
The forum	Tactics & strategy, transfers talk, newbies, Israel, announcements. Your first thread is written for you the day you finish the draft — introduce yourself in it.
Chat and messages	Talk to the manager across the table before you bid against him.
The press	Questions arrive in your inbox with a deadline — Friday 18:00 — from named journalists with outlets and tempers. Silence is an answer too, and the papers print it.
Statements	You publish; the reach is your fans times how much your matches matter right now. After a derby loss or a star sale, an ambush: two or three answers, each with a small cost.
The jury	A transfer that lands far from fair value is flagged and goes to seven managers who vote. Nothing is punished by a machine; the jury advises, a person decides.
Your club, shared	One owner, any number of helpers — each with exactly the permissions you tick (lineups, training, market, the live match…) and a weekly spending cap. Away for a while? The assistant runs your match plans for up to four weeks; beyond that, hand the keys to a friend.
Bets	1 / X / 2 in coins, fixed odds, locked at kickoff. On your own club you may only ever bet on a win.
TOTAL-15	The weekly lotto: pick all fifteen results; the federation seeds the pool, the sharpest slate takes it. One ticket per manager.

Coins are the social currency: the forum's badges, the bets, the lotto. They never buy a player. Legacy managers bring theirs back times three (tomorrow's dispatch is for you).

Clubs with friends. This is the part I am proudest of: a club can be run by a group. Sign up through a friend's invite link and, if his league still has a free slot at the highest available level, you land in his league. Then help each other — or don't.

Manners. The old forum had its own culture and it will be here on day one. There are no manager levels and nothing unlocks with progression — the leaderboards rank deeds: trophies, promotions, legends raised from your academy.

Tomorrow: legacy managers — what you get, and how to claim it.