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We Can Rebuild Them
By: Tom |
8 Comments
Booting up Football Manager to continue the game after my last round of matches, I spotted something that somehow, amidst the flurry of news items in my managerial inbox, I had managed to overlook. Michael Owen picked up an injury in the last league game against his former employers Newcastle. This much I new, as [...]
Category: FM09
That’s More Like It
By: Tom | 3 Comments
It’s been a mixed start to the season so far. My league form has been a bit patchy, and there was the major disappointment of failing to get into the Champions League. With quite a few new players coming in and the pressures of trying to find a system to play to their strengths, the [...]
Category: FM09Out of this World
By: Tom | 7 Comments
What a match! I’m still reeling. We welcomed Saturn to the Emirates for the UEFA Cup 1st round, 2nd leg, needing to score to progress, having lost the away leg 1-0. We really didn’t make things easy for ourselves.
Category: FM09Always Look on the Bright Side
By: Tom | 3 Comments
If I am going to try and put a positive spin on things, then I might reason that a season in the UEFA cup instead of the Champions League is better for my young English squad in the long run. There is less pressure on them, and hopefully a chance for them to show what [...]
Category: FM09Back to Reality
By: Tom | 6 Comments
Grown men are crying into their beer all over the red half of North London at the prospect of a Champions League-less season. The manager is distraught, and understandably a little concerned about his long term job prospects. Nothing to be done about that now though, as the fixtures are coming thick and fast.
I made [...]
Category: FM09The End of the World
By: Tom | 4 Comments
Atletico Madrid have done a proper number on us, and there will be no Champions League football for Arsenal FC this year. I’d like to say we were unlucky or that it was all down to injuries, but truth be told we were simply very poor.
Category: FM09It’s All About the League
By: Tom | 5 Comments
This has not been an ideal start to a season. With quite a few new players to bed into the team and some out the door I could have done with a nice slow start to the fixtures to ease things along. Fat chance. I drew Atletico Madrid in the Champions League qualifying round and [...]
Category: FM09Champions League or Bust
By: Tom | 2 Comments
The tedious friendlies out of the way, it was time to get down to business. First on the agenda, qualify for Europe. In a remarkably tough 3rd qualifying round I was unlucky enough to be drawn in what was probably the highest profile tie of the round, against Atletico Madrid.
Out of the Champions League this [...]
Category: FM09Life’s a Beach
By: Tom | 10 Comments
Pre-season friendlies are a hassle. They’re useful for giving your players a run out and building fitness levels before the season proper, but as a manager you can never read too much into them. In the past I’ve delegated the coaching in these matches to my assistant, but I have a blog to write now [...]
Category: FM09New Faces
By: Tom | 9 Comments
Now we’re cooking.
The Arsenal squad has undergone some fairly major changes. In fact, I think I might have gone a little overboard with the chopping and changing, the wheeling and dealing, and I’m a little worried about how well the team is going to gel with so many new faces.
It’s a good thing that there’s [...]
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