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Football Manager 2010 Patch 10.3 Out Now!

Johnny Karp — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:01:31 +0000

Finally, the new patch has been released. It’s the last patch for Football Manager 2010, here are the details and the download links:

For those of you that have installed and are running your game through Steam, it will auto-update the next time you turn it on. For everyone else you’ll have to download from links below. Remember, if you are running via the DVD you’ll need the ‘Boxed’ version, if you are running from a digitally downloaded version of the game you’ll need the ‘Digital’ version.

Do not manually download and try and patch Steam, as said Steam will auto-update, and patching it otherwise could corrupt the game.

Here are the download links:

Direct Downloads

FM2010 Retail Boxed (Patch) – PC

FM2010 Digital eSellerate (Patch) – PC

FM2010 Retail Boxed (Patch) – PC – (Thanks to Worthplaying.com)

Torrent Links

FM2010 Retail Boxed (Patch) – PC

FM2010 Digital eSellerate (Patch) – PC

MAC

Direct Downloads

FM2010 Retail Boxed (Patch) – Mac

FM2010 Digital eSellerate (Patch) – Mac

FM2010 Retail Boxed (Patch) – Mac – (Thanks to Worthplaying.com)

Torrent Links

FM2010 Retail Boxed (Patch) – Mac

FM2010 Digital eSellerate (Patch) – Mac

FM2010 Digital eSellerate (Full) – Mac

There are quite a few error fixes that come with the new patch so I strongly advise you to install it.

Notts County Story – September 2013

Johnny Karp — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:13:44 +0000

Here we go again fellow Football Manager fanatics, a new update to the Notts County story is packed and ready to go. Our second Premier League season started pretty well, the new signings seemed to add just what the team didn’t have last year, a more confident defense and a much better conversion ratio for the attacking chances. We also qualified for the group stage of the Europa League, the club was entering a whole new era. It was still too early to draw any conclusions, too many tough games were still ahead of us.

The first game in September was one of these tough ones, away at Tottenham. We got off to a very bad start, Defoe intercepted a poor pass in our defense, set up Crouch and we were 1-0 down right away. The lads reacted well though, they started to push forward and we managed to get back on level terms only 8 minutes later: Biglia laid a fine through ball for Hinshelwood, the youngster shot towards the far post, the keeper parried it but Sobis was there to push it in!Ten minutes later, the same drill but this time it all started from a through ball from Defour and Agnaldo was the man who pushed in Hinshelwood‘s shot. We didn’t have any trouble until half time, we were 2-1 up. The second half was more difficult as Tottenham were trying hard to score. Guilherme had a couple of nice chances on counter attacks but he was a bit unlucky to hit the post twice! The last 15 minutes were quite painful, our defense was under a lot of pressure but we survived with a bit of luck and clinched an important victory.

After that tiring match we were ready to face the first group match in the Europa League, at home with strong French side Saint-Etienne. Everybody in town was excited about that match, every single ticket was sold! Guilherme was up to the occasion right away, he finished off a team move in the 11th minute and it seemed that we were in for a fine night. The team continued to play better until the break but Guilherme didn’t find the way to the net anymore, he missed a couple of good chances. He did find a perfect assist for Sobis right after the break and the other Brazilian star couldn’t say no, he powered it in! We kept moving the ball around the park with great confidence, the team impressed me in that second half. The lads looked so confident out there, it was a nice picture to watch…

Next up, the Carling Cup 3rd round game, away at fellow Premier League side Burnley. We got off to a great start, Agnaldo intercepted a poor back pass rounded the keeper and laid it into the back of the net. We didn’t have too much time to enjoy that though, Burnley made the score equal only three minutes later. The spectators got to see an entertaining show until half time with good attacking moves on both ends. Unfortunately we went 2-1 down before the break, Sergio Romero made a bad error by coming out to catch a corner kick cross and missing it by a whole yard! Lucas Biglia got us back on track right after the break, he did that with a spectacular free kick bomb shot from 30 yards out, it went straight into the top corner. We continued to push forward but missed good chances quite frequently. We finally struck in the 81st minute when Demba Ba laid a fine through ball for Sobis, the Brazilian dribbled past the keeper and pushed it into the empty net. Then we had to withstand the pressure in the last minutes. We did that well and struck again on a counter attack, we were through to the fourth round.

Back to the Permier League for the last game of the month, at home with newly promoted Stoke. We solved the problem in the first half with four goals in only thirteen minutes! First Defour set up Sobis with a fine through ball and the Brazilian netted his 10th goal of the season. Only a few minutes later Stoke‘s defense was surprised by the exact same move, Sobis struck again after picking up the pass from Defour. The Belgian midfielder had a great first half and got a goal from himself with a fine shot from distance, the fans were delirious. The team got a bit complacent in the second half, we failed to create the same pressure and Stoke deservedly scored a consolation goal.

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Football Manager 2010 – Patch 10.2.0 Now Available

Johnny Karp — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:01:47 +0000

That’s right, a new patch that fixes a lot of things in your Football Manager 2010 game, lots of fixes and improvements available. The most important improvement if you ask me is the reduced memory usage, that was an annoying issue so far. It will also be interesting to see if the changes will have some effect on the tactics we’re using, there are quite a few match engine changes that could make a difference.

You can find a complete list of fixes and improvements, as well as the download links, here.

Five Nice Skins for Football Manager 2010

Johnny Karp — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:41:10 +0000

If you are interested in changing the look of your Football Manager 2010 game then you must read this post, I found five skins that could make your game even nicer. Let’s see how each of them looks.

1. Vitreous Skin

Author: Mark 387

Download from here

2. Vitreous 2 Skin

Author: Mark387

Download from here

3. SkyCalcio Skin

Author: Fabriziodg91

Download from here

4. Dominion Skin

Author: Nick Jones

Download from here

5. Steklo Skin

Author: TomDixon77

Download from here

How to install

Extract to My Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2010/skins. Then go to the display preferences in your game and select the new skin from the drop down menu.

That’s about it, all of the five look pretty nice but so far my favorite remains Vitreous. What about you, which one do you like?

My New Football Manager 2010 Tactic

Johnny Karp — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:14:36 +0000

The 4-4-2 tactic that I used with my Notts County in League Two was no longer suitable for my new better players, so I decided to tweak it quite radically since the start of the League One season. What came out is a new tactic, more aggressive and spectacular. Let’s see how it looks.

The formation is still 4-4-2 but the strategy is a bit different, the defensive line is higher up the pitch and the passing is focused down the flanks.The player roles are set as follows:

Goalkeeper – sweeper keeper, defend

Full Backs – full back, defend

Centre Backs – limited defender, defend

Wingers – defensive winger, attack

Left Central Midfielder – central midfielder, support

Right Central Midfielder – deep lying playmaker, defend

Left Striker – defensive forward, attack

Right Striker – complete forward, support

I guess it’s pretty obvious what type of players you need to use for this tactic, a quick keeper that has no problems with coming off the line and sweeping loose balls, quick centre backs, pacey full backs with good crossing abilities, hard working and creative central midfielders, quick wingers with good dribbling and crossing and a pair of hard working, pacey strikers. The right side striker that I use is Adam Szalai, he is both quick and tall, you should use a similar guy for that role if you have one.

The team instructions look like this:

As you can see we like to attack with short quick passes. We also press the opponents in their own half and once we get the ball back, pass it quickly down the flanks or, as it often happens, through the middle for the strikers.

That’s about it, download the tactic and try it if you want. I also encourage you to share your own tactics with us in the forum, we can discuss them over there to the benefit of every Football Manager 2010 fan!

LATEST UPDATE: You can download the latest version of this tactic from here, it’s the version that I’ve used during the last couple of seasons with Notts County and also during the first seasons with Dorchester Town. I really think that it’s the best version yet.