Football Manager’s 2012 season kicked off in earnest with a home game against Fulham at the DW Stadium. As manager I opted to stick with the system of 442 which had worked well in pre-season. With Moses just returning from injury and Boyce and Di Santo long term injuries I was forced to bring in […]
Football Manager 2012 (FM) is up and running and already with only the pre season completed I am feeling the pressure. FM is an amazingly realistic game and there are a few things you notice straight away. The first was that FM12 lists Kirkland as out injured with his back, this is before his […]
Good performances eventually yield good results, that’s the theory anyway. This was very much the point Roberto Martinez was making at the end of last season and referred to the draws against Villa, Spurs and Everton in the latter months of the season.
Many words have been scribed about our plight and the fractious fallibility in some eyes that our manager in situ is not the guy for the job. Fair enough, we are all entitled to our valued opinion but do you not think that we are […]
Well would you? On reflection it seems a silly question, we all love football or we wouldn’t be looking at football website and who wouldn’t on the face of it like to get very well paid for training and managing a bunch of footballers. Sounds simple doesn’t it ? But look at the other side […]
…it’s a phrase that I’ve heard a lot over the last few days. With suggestion being that defeat to Bolton, admittedly a damaging and verging on embarrassing defeat, has taken us into some new ground, over some boundary where somehow things are different and it becomes more acceptable to call for the managers head, whatever […]
You don’t always get what you wish for in football, however on Saturday it appeared that we got the exact opposite.
Wigan slumped to their fifth successive Premier League defeat (6 in all matches) in probably the most tame derby seen in the past seven seasons against a Bolton side seeking its first win in seven league games. Martinez opted to rotate the squad bringing in Alcaraz, Jones and Gohuri with Van Aanholt Figueroa and Stam […]
From our Guest writer Sigurd Sigurdsson It’s been said that you don’t win the championship in October, at the same time you can set the foundations for relegation in this period . Have to stick with the prediction in the Wigan season preview that they’ll survive again Wigan Athletic Fighting the Good Fight . For […]
You just knew it would happen, I am surprised it is Liverpool, but then again not as they are American owned. So they want their own individual overseas deal, Like I Blogged last month, Spanish team have their own deal or a greater % for the branded teams. So it would only be a matter […]