After the first half of the Coca-Cola Championship season my Chester team was clear of the relegation places, we were lying in 16th place. The bad thing was that we were almost 1.5 million euro in debt. There was some hope of earning some cash in the FA Cup, our first game was in 3rd round at home against Nottingham Forest. We managed to beat them and to get around 150 K from ticket sales [Read more]
I guess the title says it all, it’s a Premier League facepack I’m going to offer you today. I like this facepack because the pictures are sticker-style, I used to collect such stickers when I was a child. The pictures look like this: If you like the way these pictures look you can download the whole thing from here. How to install Extract the zip file to \My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2009\graphics\players. In the game [Read more]
The team, the fans and the board were very happy but very nervous too: Chester City was beginning the Coca-Cola Championship season hoping to avoid relegation but fearing that it couldn’t do more than one of the last three places in the table. There was another thing that was keeping us on our toes, a negative financial balance. Well, I won’t go around talking no more, here are the results we managed to [Read more]
FC Basel? You might wonder why… I’m not Swiss, I’m not an FC Basel fan, I never played the Swiss league in Football Manager. Well, there’s only one reason. When I started my Chester City career I signed one player from FC Basel, and he still is my star player today, on his third season with Chester. His name is Federico Almerares, he is Argentinian with Italian passport, my star striker and I bought him [Read more]
After two miraculous promotions, first from League Two and then from League One Chester City were preparing for a difficult season in Coca-Cola Championship. We had virtually no transfer money this time too, but the board allowed me to have more scouts and coaches, and that was quite good. I managed to get 7 stars in every training category except set pieces and send my scouts all over Europe, from Portugal to Russia. Despite the [Read more]
Since you seem to have enjoyed the downloads I offered you so far I figured one more would be welcome. This time it’s a match graphics tweak, a patch that modifies the ad boards that you see on the sides of your pitch in Football Manager 2009, depending on the league you are playing in. The patch is made by Frank Hovis and it has realistic ad boards for the following competitions: -Champions League -Uefa Cup [Read more]
Hello folks! I wasn’t able to write the last part of my Chester 2009-2010 story although I desperately wanted to. The reason is that I was a little bit sick, I somehow managed to get chickenpox That’s very weird because I had it in my childhood, so I wasn’t supposed to catch it again. anyway, here I am, it’s been itching like hell and I also had a tremendous fever. Things are better now but [Read more]