As I use PC, I usually have a slightly wider than wide using the camera tool.
That's exactly how I feel about FM. I used to love that game now it just feels like having a second job which is a real shame. I started playing it way back on the Amiga and once had a 27 season career with Wycombe of all teams
As for your 'rant' I wouldn't consider it that for a minute

It eloquently summed up modern football for many I think. The endless drivel pre and post game that I now refuse to even watch. I turn the game on at kick off and switch it off at the final whistle. In fact with some of the Premier games since lockdown I've turned off well before the end.
As to that England squad comparison, I don't think I'd take anybody from 2018 over 1996. Go back to include 86 and 90 and you have the likes of Hoddle, Robson, Wilkins, Barnes, Beardsley, Waddle, the list goes on. Could you possibly pick a less creative midfield than one with Dier and Henderson in it?
Football, and in particular the Premier League at least, has sold it soul I think. The clubs milk fans for all they can get, playing on our loyalty. Look at the proposed wage caps they are talking about for the Championship, League One and League Two. If they do get voted in that would be a huge decrease in outgoings for a lot of clubs. Will any of them lower ticket prices? No chance. I'd doubt the PFA will allow the wage cap to happen though, they will probably threaten to go on strike or something. I do think if it were to happen then it should probably be based on income rather than a blanket figure. Plus the figures are bizarre with the Championship proposed figure of 18m, League 1 of 2.5m and League 2 1.25m. All that will do is create the same huge gap that is currently between the Premier and Championship to then be between the Championship and League One.
In League One they are proposing a 2.5m wage cap and I think a 22 man squad. I saw a report regarding my team saying that it would mean an average of around 1800 wk where as now it's about 3500. Now fair enough that's a big cut in wages, but forgive me for not caring too much as 1800 a week works out to £93k a year to play third tier football, that's not exactly putting them on minimum wage is it. That goes back to my previous point, that would cut our wage bill in half but the ticket price wouldn't go down.
While I'm now ranting

we had four home games left when lockdown happened. Eventually the club offered three options for season ticket holders, one to get a refund of four games worth of the season ticket price, two was to get that back but keep it in your account to go towards next seasons ticket or three, donate it to the club to help them through the lockdown spell. All well and good and understandable if the club were an Accrington or similar team who are genuinely struggling to survive through this period, but we are owned by a billionaire! Yeah sure, have my money mate, you've had it since last year anyway! Why would I want it back when I can help see you through this tough time and help put food on your table.
I'm off to lie down