quote Mitch

Mirrors of the updated 8.02 patch:

Football Manager 2008 - PC (boxed)
http://www.ut3.yourfirstcreditcard.com/fm2008_802_boxed_pc.rar
Use WINRAR to extract.

Football Manager 2008 - Mac (boxed)
http://www.ut3.yourfirstcreditcard.com/fm2008_802_boxed-mac.dmg

Worldwide Soccer Manager PC (Digital download version)
http://www.ut3.yourfirstcreditcard.com/wsm2008_802_digital_pc.rar
Use WINRAR to extract.

Worldwide Soccer Manager Mac (Boxed)
http://www.ut3.yourfirstcreditcard.com/wsm2008_802_boxed-mac.dmg

Futbol Manager PC (Digital download version)
http://www.ut3.yourfirstcreditcard.com/futm2008_802_digital_pc.rar

No registration needed. Download manager supported.

quote SI Games - Changes

Football Manager 2008 v8.0.2 Patch change list (Build 117931)
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General
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- Injured players will not get offered out on loan by parent clubs
- Human gets taken to the competition news screen on big events such as yearly award news items
- Ensured AI replaces overage captains promptly
- When Hearts play Hibs, both teams can now play in their first kits.
- Awards news no longer always refers to manager award winners and runners-up as having "nothing to choose between them"
- Stopped duplicate player appearing in Best Eleven if the same player is loaned twice by the club
- Stopped players being unahppy when an international captain is replaced following his retirement
- Fixed post match key man watch comments not mentioning player being injured/sent off/subbed etc
- Changed turkish regens to always be turkish by first nationality and have small chance of a specific second nationality
- Added new possible second nationalities for players born in England
- Tuned retirements of young players without a contract but part of the national squad
- Tweaked down grey player CA at the low end for non active teams
- Team records now processed for international friendlies.
- Stopped various Feeder links getting cancelled when they shouldn't be.

Interface
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- Can no longer choose American All Star teams when creating a tour in USA.
- In a network game, a user is now kept on a team screen if he was using it before the game was continued by another user. Before, the user was always forced to view a new screen.
- Removed code from U18 contract offer screen.
- Removed "Most Team Points" from Competition Summary screen for Cup Comps
- Changing to a saved team selection would sometimes not show players picked that were in the reserve or youth team.
- Fixed filter flickering on and off on the notes section when it was changed.
- "Information" section for clubs would sometimes showed a number instead of an informative string.
- Double clicking on the last word in an edit box wouldn't select the right text.
- Fixed some match colour clash problems.
- The selected row highlight doesn't disappear when changing player instructions outside a match.
- The advisor would sometimes be disabled by default.
- Fixed window not maximizing properly in large monitors.
- Calendar quick link did not work in some situation where the manager was an international manager.
- Calendar quick link button is now always available (regardless of if manager is unemployed or not).
- The advisor quick link button is now disabled if there are no advisors for the current screen, or if advisors are disabled.
- Fixed bottom half of the player comparison screen not being visible in some rare situations.
- The name of the saved game is correctly translated on the game status screen when changing languages and the game hasn't been saved for the first time yet.
- 'Return' and 'Enter' will complete wizard dialogs such as Start New Game and Add New Manager.
- The Player Search quick link button works if manager is international manager.
- Sorting the player history achievements list then selecting a different team/year now displays the correct details below.
- The player profile on the competition player stats section now displays the birth date and age rather than just the number (for age) without any text.
- Captain player reaction strings now show for non-first team squads.

FULL CHANGE LIST HERE

Underated's Quick Guide To Patch Installation

How To Install The Patch:

1. Once downloaded, make sure you don't have FM open, otherwise the patch will not update.

2. Double click on the file you've downloaded, you'll get something looking like this:




3. Click on 'Update'.

4. Once that's done, click on 'exit'.

5. Load up Football Manager as normal and click 'start new game'.

6. You should get an option of which version to use, you want to click on this one:



7. That's it. Enjoy the patch!



PATCH 8.0.2 IS SAVE GAME COMPATIBLE

quote liam123456789

Hi , Is there a jermaine defoe bug of some sort?

LW: !!! ...*starts game as Tottenham*

quote Anthropophagite

Isn't there somehwere you can download the patch without using bloody Torrents?? coz that kinda sucks with dial-up (yeah, i should get DSL, but that would mean getting a better job, which isnt' on the cards at the moment)