hi,
i had the same problem, but found a working .D64 copy of 'football director' at : http://s64.emuunlim.com/games/football/football1.htm
(u can load/save games too)
only thing is; it seems to be a slightly different version as the start-up screen is grey/blue as opposed to black/white & its much harder (like going ALL season without scoring a goal with a poor team).
im trying to find out if this is a later version of 'football director' or whether the disk version was always different from the tape version.