THE RULES

Although I have memories of playing Super Mario Bros when I was three when I visited my aunt in America, I've been told that my first exposure to gaming was when I was a baby, lying in my crib next to the TV while my dad and his work colleagues played Football Manager on the ZX Spectrum.

In the 25 years since, I've developed to become a fully-grown hardcore gamer, and have played more football games (or soccer for those in the States) than I'd care to mention. Some great, some decent, many awful.

Recently though, I started wondering... almost all these games have some sort of tournament mode or league mode in them. Has anyone ever won every single type of cup in every single football game ever created?

Probably not. Nobody's mad enough. I'm certainly willing to give it a go though.

Here are the rules I've set for myself:

• I have to win a tournament in as many different football games as possible, regardless of age or format.
• If the game has a tournament mode and a league mode, I must win both.
• If it has no tournaments or leagues (some very old games don't), I need to at least win a match.
• I need to take photographic or video evidence of victory screens for each tournament.
• If Celtic is a selectable team in the game and is eligible for the tournament, I must play as them.
• If Celtic is not in the game or is not an eligible team, I must play as Scotland.
• If Scotland is not in the game or is not eligible, I must play as Italy.
• If neither Celtic, Scotland or Italy are in the game or eligible, I can choose any team I wish.
• If a game has multiple trophies (for example numerous club leagues for different nations) I do not need to win them all unless you see the trophy in the game and it clearly looks different. Otherwise the leagues are considered clones with different teams in each, rather than unique leagues. I can do them all if I want for the sake of completion, however.
• If possible, as well as proof of the trophy, get a video of a decent goal scored en route to the tournament in order to 1) make this blog more interesting, and 2) gather loads of clips eventually for a big montage video thing.

I've not set myself a time limit for this because it's clearly a huge task and I don't want to dedicate my life to it. It's just a bit of fun that I'll work on any time I'm bored.