Portsmouth’s stadium Fratton Park will be included in Fifa 16 – the only League Two club to be featured – and there’s quite a touching reason why.
Simon Humber, creative director of the Fifa series, passed away earlier this year and was a massive Pompey fan. The Fifa team included Fratton Park as a tribute to him.
“When you make video games, you spend a great deal of time with people, and shipping an annual title makes a team very close. I worked with Simon daily for seven years, and feel like I – and the team – lost a family member. In terms of his legacy within Fifa, he was the daddy of Ultimate Team, and played a big role in career mode – many of the features coming this year were ones he was leading development on,” EA Sports Fifa general manager David Rutter told the Guardian earlier this year.