Beautiful Bergkamp and Magical Messi
Pep Guardiola. Close your eyes and imagine a Guardiola team. What did you see? My expectation is that your mind's eye generated the image of a ball being zipped around…
Through The Big Window – Football Manager 2016 Part 5
The whole point of this New England Saints project is to develop young English players with a bias towards those who featured during the 2017 summer. In two seasons the…
Much Too Much – Football Manager 2016 Part 4
The second season at New England Saints has been completed. On the pitch it was a second season of unexpected success. Off it, there was an ongoing takeover bid that…
Farewell Phillipe
Steve McManaman broke my heart. Not so long ago I wrote a piece about how McManaman leaving Liverpool for Real Madrid had left me bereft for a considerable amount of…
Amazing Things – Football Manager 2016 – Part 3
The season is over. At the beginning of the season the expectations for my (deliberately) young squad were low. The board would have been delighted if the side had finished…