My Championship Manager 99/00 adventure with Scotland continues right now on Fuller FM. And let me tell you – things are about to get very, very spicy!
Remember the last chapter, where we had to get out of a World Cup qualifying group with Denmark and Spain? Well… if you’ve read that, you’ll know what’s coming up in today’s post. If not, then please check that out first, because there will be obvious spoilers below…
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This is it: the final installment of my Football Manager 2017 project.
Over the last couple of months, I have simulated a full season of an English league featuring 48 county teams who can only use players and staff from their local area. Those teams have done battle in the main Counties Championship as well as the knockout County Cup – and now those trophies are about to be won.
Today’s post will have full match reports from the Counties Championship and County Cup Finals. I will then wrap things up by handing out the end-of-season awards in all four divisions.
If you haven’t read my last post yet, then please do that before reading this to avoid spoilers. Don’t forget, also, that you can find links to every chapter in this series right here.
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Welcome back to my Championship Manager 99/00 challenge with the Scotland national team. Last time round, I began to rebuild the team after our failure to qualify for Euro 2000 – and now it’s time to find out if that work has reaped its rewards.
I’m subtitling this article “2001: A Scotland Odyssey”. I don’t like to exaggerate, but if today’s story sees the Tartan Army successfully qualify for the 2002 World Cup, it would surely rival even Arthur C Clarke’s greatest epic fiction.
More likely, though, is that it’ll end in the sort of British ultra-violence you’d expect from another classic Stanley Kubrick film.
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Hello again, ladies and gentlemen. The Counties Championship play-offs have begun, with 16 teams being whittled down to eight after the first round of matches, which you can read about right here if you haven’t yet.
Today, we’ll be going through the Quarter Finals and Semi Finals. By the end, we will know which two teams will be doing battle at Wembley for the right to take home that glittering prize (Simple Minds not included).
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After eight months of thrilling league action, the Counties Championship season has entered its final stages. 16 teams have qualified for the play-offs and remain in contention to lift the national title at Wembley on 20 May.
In today’s post, I will recap the results from Round 1 and reveal which eight sides have moved a step closer to glory. In case you haven’t caught up yet, you might want to read about April’s final round of league fixtures before you continue.
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Welcome back to the second chapter of my new retro challenge – or “fàilte don dàrna caibideil den dùbhlan retro ùr agam”, as Scottish Gaelic speakers might say on BBC Alba. Sadly, I’ve just found out that BBC Alba isn’t a TV channel dedicated to the actress Jessica Alba, so you’ll have to put up with seeing Don Hutchison’s pretty face instead.
In this challenge, I’m managing the Scotland national team on Championship Manager 99/00. I’m hoping to erase 20 years of hurt by leading the Tartan Army to success – which, in their case, would be getting out of the group at a major tournament.
In Part 1, I took the reins for the closing stages of the Euro 2000 qualifiers. Today, we’ll be entering the new year, where you’ll find no millennium bugs – except the one that turns Championship Manager goalkeepers into supermen, perhaps.
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This is it, folks. The league phase of the Counties Championship is about to reach its conclusion. After this chapter, we’ll be saying goodbye to 32 teams – and we’ll be seeing how the remaining 16 will line up in the play-offs.
March saw several more teams clinch their play-off places, leaving just five spots still up for grabs as we head into April. These final three rounds of fixtures will decide who’s staying on and who’s heading out.
Will your favourite county make the cut? Read on to find out…
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Here we go again for another chapter in my Football Manager 2017 project. We’re into the final quarter of the Counties Championship league campaign, after which we’ll be left with 16 teams battling it out for the national title.
In case you missed the last update, February saw three teams confirm their presence in those end-of-season play-offs. Who else will book their tickets in March, and who will still be under pressure going into April’s finale?
Every team will play four league matches in March before the final international break of the season gives them some respite as they head into the run-in. So, let’s see how it all unfolds…
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Hello, folks, and welcome to a new Fuller FM story. It’s been a while since I last wrote about Championship Manager 99/00, so I’ve now started another challenge to mark the game’s 20th anniversary.
After my earlier exploits with Bayer Leverkusen, I’ve gone international this time around. As you know, Euro 2020 should have been starting this evening. Then you-know-what happened, and it was pushed back by 12 months. With no international tournaments to occupy us doing the summer, I thought I’d do my bit to fill the void.
Although I’m from England, the first national team I ever managed on Championship Manager was actually Scotland. I got the job early in my first proper career, but my tenure ended early as the Tartan Army were knocked out of Euro 2000 after two group stage defeats. (I was about 9 at the time, to be fair.)
Two decades on, it’s time to give the Scots another shot at glory…
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I’m now into the business end of my Football Manager 2017 project. The Counties Championship league season has intensified, with three teams booking their play-off berths in February.
But now, after a brief hiatus, our focus shifts back to the knockout County Cup. EIGHT of our 48 counties are still standing after an eventful Round 3 – and in this chapter, we’ll find out which TWO will be playing in the Final at the end of the season.
The Quarter Finals took place in January, with the Semi Finals following a couple of months later in March. Would the cream rise to the top, or were there still a few more surprises left in a competition which had already seen its fair share?
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