FIFA needs to add mascots. I shouldn't really have to explain this stance - it's hardly controversial - but the game could benefit greatly from the addition of some goggle-eyed, freakish-looking caricatures on the sidelines. And no, I don't mean the children who used to accompany players onto the pitch in pre-COVID times.
We're talking about Partick Thistle's abstract representation of angst, Kingsley, or West Brom's imaginatively-named boiler with legs, who is called, well, Boiler Man. Even the more "normal" mascots like Arsenal's Gunnersaurus or Manchester City's Moonchester (it's literally a bloody moon) would add another level to the FIFA 21 experience.
After all, each iteration of FIFA struggles to find something to differentiate it from the last edition. Yes, players and kits are updated and some changes are made to dribbling or AI or how accurate the crowd looks, but there are few changes that make as big a splash as adding mascots would. After all, we already get a shot of Jurgen Klopp looking moody when we lose our fifth consecutive Weekend League match, so why not add a camera angle showing the Gunnersaurus breaking down by the corner flag after you concede a particularly embarrassing Neymar scorpion kick?
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