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]
The default FM 2009 skin is good enough for me, or maybe I got used to it. I enhanced it with backgrounds, logos, kits and facepacks and it looks quite nice. If you want a custom skin I definitely would recommend the Steklo Skin. I used it for FM 2008 and it was very good. Now the author, Tom Dixon, released the FM 2009 version. If you install it your game screens would look something [Read more]
Due to legal reasons Sports Interactive doesn’t use the real names for some competitions. For instance, the Premier League is called “Premier Division”. But you can change that easily. Let me show you how. Download this file. It is made by the Italian website called Panoz. If you unpack the rar file you will have a folder named “lnc”. Now I’ll tell you what to do with the folder, depending on your game configuration. If [Read more]
I found a great backgrounds pack! It has all the stadiums for the English teams, from League Two to the Premiership! If you install it it replaces the normal backround picture to the stadium picture of the resprective team (that is if you enable “show background pictures” in your display & sound preferences). How to install it It’s very simple. Unrar the file and place it into your \My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2009\graphics\backgrounds folder. If [Read more]
There are a lot of logo packs for FM 2009 out there, but this one that I’m going to tell you about is definitely the most complete. It has virtually any logo you can think of, from Albanian clubs to the Yemen first division clubs. The pack was compiled by Cristi and Delije and it has more than 35,000 logos. How to install it It’s very simple. Unzip the file and place it into [Read more]
As I promised I’m going to reveal the tactics that helped me to get my Chester team from a media prediction of 21st to the real… 1st place in League Two. The tactic is nothing special, it’s a 4-4-2 tactic with an offensive touch. The team instructions might give you more information about the style. As you can see the tactic uses zonal marking and the offside trap. There are individual player instructions too [Read more]