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Read about my experience with the best football simulator of the world: Football Manager 2009.
Here you can find my stories, my impossible challenges, the winning tactics I created and the players I bought.
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Is there a ten men issue in FM 10?
Ouch!! One of my worst nightmare, when I play the game, is having a man sent off, but not in my team, cause that would be the lesser evil, I’m talking about the opponent team. Believe it or not, even a less than average team will be capable to ...
You cannot be serious!
It’s time to tell you about my second season at Peterborough, in this post I’m going to talk about my whole season, a very strange second season, lots of things happened and I really hope you could be interested in. The first thing I̵...
Working on the transfer market
Darragh MacAnthony, my chairman, is a funny man, he gave me the chance to spend 24 mil. on the transfer market, the odd thing is that we don’t have such a huge amount of money in the bank, our balance is no more than 1,5 mil! Gunnarsson I kno...
Planning for the EPL
Yesterday I asked Steve Gatting, my tactical coach, his opinion about our team, to better understand if we were ready for our oncoming debut in the Premier League. Steve didn’t comfort me so much, I was aware we needed to improve our team but...
No time for losers
Last fixtures of the season: We did it! Defeating Plymouth 3-0, we gained direct access to EPL, next year Peterborough United will join top flight football! Man of the match: Nikita Andreev Andreev scored two, Motaeb added another one, Grandi...
A thrilling finale!!
Well, to be honest I would have avoided that, just one match to play and we don’t know yet our final position, above all we don’t know if we’ll be able to have direct promotion to EPL. These are our last results, some up & down ...
Always closer…
Here there are the fixtures you were waiting for, 6 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses inthe league, the top of the table is very close for us but the race for promotion is far from ended, too many teams in few points and eleven games to be played. The ba...
Thank you Darragh!
Yakubu will join Swansea City During a season in the Coca-Cola championship many things could happen, it could even happen that your Chairman decides to sell your best defender, Abubakari Yakubu, my precious right back. I signed Yakubu ...
My name is Boyd, George Boyd.
My next matches were two difficult away games, Newcastle United and Sheffield United our opponents, but I was curious to see if we were already mature to aim for something more than just avoiding the drop. We did two 2-2 draws, both matches had a...
The age of the Wizard
No, I wasn’t talking about Harry Potter or similar, I was referring to the new tactics creator implemented in this year edition of Football Manager. This new and engaging tool let you build from scratch a tactic, following few simple and logica...
Do you need a comeback?
October was a really good month for us, we started slowly, two draws, with Nottingham and Bristol, then we had a sudden change of pace. Everything happened during the match vs. Doncaster Rovers, an away tough game, after few minutes we were already 2...
Let’s play!
The dawn of a new season. We were eagerly waiting for our travel to begin, even if the odds were clearly against us, I was confident enough for this brand new adventure, a good start could be determinant for the continuation of the year. To be...
Peterborough United – Team overview
Before I could press the “continue” button, I needed to check the usual things: club finances, players and staff. After a little talk with the board, we agreed about this season target, as I told you before the team is weak, so our first ...
Up the Posh!
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, a population of 164.000. This is where my story starts. After wondering a lot about my FM 10 first serious career game I decided to manage Peterborough United, nicknamed the Posh, in the Coca-Cola Champio...
The METODO: an historical Italian tactic
Who’s that man in the picture? He’s Vittorio Pozzo, the great manager of Italian national team that won two World Cups (1934 & 1938). He and his friend Hugo Meisl, the coach of Austrian national team (the wunderteam) created the Metod...
The METODO: a historical Italian tactic
Who’s that man in the picture? He’s Vittorio Pozzo, the great manager of Italian national team that won two World Cups (1934 & 1938). He and his friend Hugo Meisl, the coach of Austrian national team (the wunderteam) created the Metod...
FM 10 is out (together with patch 10.1)!!
Today Football Manager 10 has been officially released, but it’s not alone, if you want to start your first game, be sure to download the patch released from SI some hours ago. DOWNLOAD PATCH 10.1 (Mac & Pc) ...
FM 10 is out!! (together with patch 10.1)
Today Football Manager 10 has been officially released, but it’s not alone, if you want to start your first game, be sure to download the patch released from SI some hours ago. I’m almost ready to begin my first FM 10 game, I’...
Football Manager 10 announcement!
Today SI games announced that Football Manager 10 for Mac & Pc, will be released on Octobre 30th. “This will be a more polished game” announced an excited Miles Jacobson talking about the new features of this new FM release. For th...
