A collection of all the posts that don’t really fit anywhere else!
GOALS FROM UNUSUAL SOURCES – THE INVERTED WING-BACK
TIME TO CATCH UP… For the first time probably ever, I went months without playing Football Manager this year. After my FC Volendam save came to an abrupt halt I had a 4 or 5 season personal save with Newcastle and their millions, and then nothing. No desire, no inspiration, and quite honestly no time.…
THE BOYS OF EASTER ROAD
At the start of the Football Manager ’22 cycle I had huge plans to blog my Anderlecht save, which would allow me to only sign Belgian players. That save lasted one season, and just two and a half blogs (the half is sat eternally unfinished on this laptop). We won the league in the first…
MY FM22 EXPERIENCE, AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR FM23
Way, way back at the end of FM18’s life cycle I wrote a post called ‘What I learned playing FM18’. Looking back now, it was garbage! (It does still exist on the internet, but I won’t be linking it here 🙈 brownie points if you can find it!) It was a very mundane list of…
PICKING A STARTING TEAM? EMBRACE THE RANDOM
I know what you’re thinking. Getting your starting team right is huge. You want to start as your favourite team, or maybe you have an FM team that you always start as? Well it’s time to forget all that and embrace the delights of the random. Full disclosure, I run a website – the9llamas -…
APPLYING A PRAGMATIC APPROACH TO FOOTBALL MANAGER
Gareth Southgate has now led England to a World Cup Semi-Final and a European Championship Final in successive tournaments, making himself and the legendary Sir Alf Ramsey the only men in history to lead England to the Semis or further at two major tournaments. Surely this makes him a national hero? Not quite.A lot of…
xG AND THE MYTH OF BEING “FM’D”
We’ve all been there. Dominant for 90 minutes, creating chance after chance, but their goalkeeper is having the game of his life; it’s still goalless. Cue the inevitable counter-attack, and a crushing, soul-destroying 1-0 defeat. You’ve been “FM’d”, there’s no shame, it’s happened to all of us. Dig a little deeper though; do the FM…
On the Break 