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June 15th, 2009

One More Game…

By: Tom | Comments 5 Comments

The addictive properties of Football Manager are well documented. We all know the “just one more game” syndrome. When you get on a good run it’s incredibly difficult to stop playing. If you then have to blog about it all, you’re forced to play some serious catch up. Hence the large number of games covered [...]

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June 12th, 2009

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Agbonlahor?

By: Tom | Comments 5 Comments

At the start of my summer transfer dealings I identified Gabby Agbonlahor as my key target. Here was a pacy young Englishman that I foresaw becoming the focal point of this brave new Arsenal for years to come. I’d had one failed experiment with England’s past in the shape of Michael Owen, so it was [...]

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June 5th, 2009

The Team’s All Here

By: Tom | Comments 7 Comments

I promised you an update on my formation and line-up for the coming year, but the prolonged transfer saga of Ashley Young was very dragged out, and injuries to key players in the squad meant that I couldn’t really start making changes just yet. The first few games of the season have seen the same [...]

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June 2nd, 2009

Glorified Friendly

By: Tom | Comments 1 Comment

In my last post I debated the rights and wrongs of signing a non-English player, thereby going against the spirit, although not the rules, of my original Arsenal vision. Ultimately, I thought that as long as it didn’t affect my ability to reach my season-on-season targets in terms of numbers of English players fielded, I’d [...]

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