Here we go again, the Blyth Spartans Football Manager 2009 story continues. My Spartans did pretty well so far in their second season as a Premier League team, we were in 2nd place at the end of November and my dream of getting a Champions League place seemed realistic. We did pretty well in the Europa League too, we needed at least a draw at Werder Bremen to qualify for the first knockout round. We [Read more]
Hello my friends! I’ve done a lot of playing yesterday, so this post will have two months of my Blyth Spartans story instead of just one! I hope you don’t mind We had a good start this season, we were unbeaten after two months and our goal, a Champions League place, seemed to be within our reach. However, October was going to be very tough and we had to prove our worth. The first game [Read more]
After the triumphant European debut and a good start in the Premier League my Blyth Spartans had to keep up the good work and stay up in the league table. We had a perfect chance to continue with a win, we had to meet newly-promoted Queens Park Rangers. We dominated the game from the first second to the last but we only scored once, Tomas Necid powered one in. We should have won by a [Read more]
Finally, our second season in the Premier League is ready to begin! It will also be the season in which my Blyth Spartans will participate in the Europa League, the first time ever! After a good transfers campaign there was a lot of enthusiasm around the club, the season tickets were sold out! The first game of the season was at home, the European debut with Dinamo Tbilisi in the Europa League 4th qualifying round, [Read more]
Here we go, the Blyth Spartans achieved a great success in their first season in the Premier League, the 6th place and the improbable qualification for the Europa League. Now I had to prepare the squad for this new challenge and it was pretty obvious that we needed a few more good players to make a success out of our first European outing. I told the board that we could achieve continental qualification next season [Read more]
Here we go, the last two games of our fantastic first season in the Premier League. We were in 6th place at the end of April and we only needed one point from the last two games be 100 percent sure of an Europa League place. We had the perfect opportunity to grab that point right from the first match, at home with 14th placed Wigan. Our last game with them was a high scoring [Read more]
Here we go, the decisive month in our first Premier League season. We were in 5th place at the end of March thanks to some great results against Chelsea and Liverpool but now we had to hang in there and grab an Europa League place. There were very tough battles ahead of us, we just couldn’t afford a moment to rest. The first game was at home with 3rd placed Aston Villa, a very good [Read more]