Here we go again, the toughest month of the season was about to begin. We were in 5th place in Coca-Cola Championship at the end of January and three of the next five games were going to be against our main contenders for a playoff place. But before that we had to play a less difficult home game, against 19th placed Huddersfield. We drew 1-1 when we played against them away from home in September, [Read more]
Hello my friends and welcome back to my Football Manager 2009 story. The year 2012 ended quite nicely for my Blyth Spartans, we were in 5th place after 25 games played in Coca-Cola Championship. Our main weakness so far have been the away games, we only managed to win twice away from home in the first half of the season. But we had a chance to improve that record right on the 1st of January [Read more]
So, here we are, the last month of an outstanding 2012 for my Blyth Spartans. After getting the unexpected promotion to Coca-Cola Championship we found ourselves fighting against very good teams and so far we came out without too many bruises and scars. We were in 6th place at the end of November with a good chance to remain in the playoff positions for at least another couple of weeks. The first game in snowy [Read more]
The Blyth Spartans are making history and you get to witness that! Hello my friends, welcome to a new episode of the Blyth Spartans Football Manager 2009 story, more of a fairytale so far We were in 8th place in the Championship table at the end of October, very good for a newly promoted team with no money in the bank. We were pretty close to the promotion playoff places too, so a good run [Read more]
Hello my friends, here’s another episode of the Blyth Spartans Football Manager 2009 story. Our first two months in Coca-Cola Championship were quite difficult, we had to face strong opponents but we did pretty well so far, we were in 10th place at the end of September. A good run in the five games that we had to play in October would have given us a solid position in the top half of the table. [Read more]
Here we go again my friends, the Blyth Spartans Football Manager 2009 story continues! Last month we played only three games in Coca-Cola Championship and judging by the results one could predict that we would be in for a very difficult season. We only won one of the three games and lost the other two and we were also knocked out from the Carling Cup by Fulham in the 2nd round. We have 5 league [Read more]
Hello folks! After a busy pre season in which I went hunting for bargains and free transfers again my Blyth Spartans were ready for the biggest challenge yet: Coca-Cola Championship. Last season we achieved another fantastic promotion against all odds so the question that I’m facing is “could we do it again”? I have no answer to this question right now, we’ll just play game after game and we’ll see how the season develops. We [Read more]