Here we go, our long difficult season in Coca-Cola Championship is down to the last six games, six matches that can make or break our season. We were in 3rd place at the end of March, only two points behind the second placed team, Stoke. We had a chance to fight for that second place but it was going to be very tough because Portsmouth were in with a good chance too. Let’s see how [Read more]
Hello my friends, we’re getting closer and closer to the conclusion of this fantastic season with my Blyth Spartans in Coca-Cola Championship. Instead of battling bravely against relegation as everybody predicted at the start of the season we were in 4th place at the end of February! We had a good chance to get a playoff place at the end of it, but the six games that we had to play in March were going [Read more]
Quite a few people asked for step by step instructions on how to properly add player and staff faces into Football Manager 2009 and that’s why I decided to write this guide. I hope that it’s clear enough and easy to understand. Step 1 Download a facepack of your choice. Let’s use one just for testing purposes, the Brazil facepack. Download it and you should have a file called Brazil.zip in your computer. Step 2 [Read more]
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]