Category: FM24

FM Mythbusting: More Common Misconceptions

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Three years ago, I wrote an article that explained nine common misconceptions with Football Manager. For example, I stated the ‘wonderkid’ tag has much more to do with a youngster’s current ability than their potential, and that having a higher xG than the opposition doesn’t mean your team played better.

Of course, there are still some things about FM and football that many players – particularly new ones to the series – don’t fully understand. So I think it’s time to look at a few more of these… Continue reading “FM Mythbusting: More Common Misconceptions” →

Football Manager (And Content Creation) Burnout

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Hello, guys. Christopher here. This is not a post I wanted to write, but in light of recent events, there are some things I have to get off my chest.

I want to talk about feeling burnt out – both with playing Football Manager, and with creating content about Football Manager. But first, it’s time to answer a question I’m sure a few of you will be asking… Continue reading “Football Manager (And Content Creation) Burnout” →

The Cracovian Chronicles: Chapter 2

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“Witamy spowrotem” to my new Football Manager 2024 series in Poland. Kamila Deyna is about to take charge of her first league matches as manager of Wieczysta Kraków. You can read more about the club in the prologue, and you can meet the squad in Chapter 1.

Today’s chapter will take us through the first four months of the 2023/2024 III Liga season. Wieczysta are expected to win their group at a canter… but if you’ve read any of my previous FM stories, you’ll know that things are never quite that straightforward! Continue reading “The Cracovian Chronicles: Chapter 2” →

The Cracovian Chronicles: Chapter 1

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After months of planning, at long last, it is time to kick off my new Football Manager 2024 story on Fuller FM!

It’s been a while since I went off the beaten track and managed an obscure lower-league club on FM. For this challenge, I will start off all the way down in Poland’s fourth division with Wieczysta Kraków. If you want to learn more about the club and why I chose them, please take some time to read the prologue.

“The Cracovian Chronicles” will follow the adventures of sisters Kamila and Joanna Deyna as they begin their coaching careers at their childhood club. Where will the journey take them, and how far can they take Wieczysta? Continue reading “The Cracovian Chronicles: Chapter 1” →

The Cracovian Chronicles: Prologue

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“Dzień dobry”, and “witam” to the start of a new Football Manager 2024 series here on Fuller FM!

After a lengthy break, I am refreshed and raring to go for a new challenge that will hopefully last me for the rest of FM24’s life cycle. This challenge has taken me to Poland – the home of Robert Lewandowski, Marie Curie, The Witcher, and Nigel Farage’s plumber (probably).

“The Cracovian Chronicles” will follow the story of two sisters from Kraków as they set out to lead their local football club to glory. But before we meet them and their club, let’s have a closer look at their home city… Continue reading “The Cracovian Chronicles: Prologue” →

Breaking FM: Anger Management

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Welcome back to Fuller FM. I’ll be starting a new Football Manager 2024 story in the coming weeks – but in the meantime, I’ve got something a bit different to tide you over.

Breaking FM is my occasional mini-series where I take Football Manager to the extreme and see how the game handles ridiculous scenarios. I ran my first experiment on FM23 last spring, when I took an all-star Dagenham & Redbridge team through the longest season possible in English football – 100 matches in barely 11 months. You can read Part 1 and Part 2 to see how that unfolded.

Only about seven people read the first Breaking FM, but I enjoyed making it, and I always wanted to come back to it on FM24 with another cunning plan.

So now it’s time for some anger management… literally. Today, I will channel my inner José Mourinho – and become the angriest, harshest, intolerant, most violent and most downright dislikeable manager football has ever seen! How far can I go before I lose the dressing room? Continue reading “Breaking FM: Anger Management” →

My thoughts on Football Manager 2024

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Football Manager 2024 has been out for close to two months now, and this game cycle is well and truly in full swing.

Regular Fuller FM readers may remember back in April that I wrote a pretty brutal review of Football Manager 2023 – canning its lack of innovation, chaotic match engine, and pretty much everything else. It was clear that a lot more would be expected from FM24, especially when Sports Interactive labelled it “a love letter to football” and “the last of its kind”.

This will be the final version of Football Manager before the series enters an exciting new chapter, but how is it looking right now? After over 100 hours of playing the game, I feel that now’s a good time to deliver my thoughts on FM24… Continue reading “My thoughts on Football Manager 2024” →

Millwall Firewall: Part 9

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Here we go, this is it. It’s the season 3 finale – and potentially the final episode – of “Millwall Firewall”.

With three months to go in the 2025/2026 season, Millwall are right in the Championship play-off mix – and big Jake Cooper’s constant threat from set-pieces has made us a real force to be reckoned with. (Now might be a good time to catch up on the previous chapter if you haven’t already.)

Now we have 16 games left to consolidate a top-six place and make a final push for promotion to the Premier League.

This is my last chance to lead the Lions into the promised land. Failure is not an option. Continue reading “Millwall Firewall: Part 9” →

Millwall Firewall: Part 8

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It’s time for the next chapter of my Millwall story – and for once, things are actually going quite well for us!

In Part 7, we kicked off the 2025/2026 season by bringing in several new signings, which have breathed new life into our promotion hopes. We sit in 4th place in the Championship table after 10 games, with the fans and the board now starting to believe that we can finally make it into the play-offs!

Can we carry this good form through the autumn months and into the new year? Read on to find out… Continue reading “Millwall Firewall: Part 8” →

Millwall Firewall: Part 7

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It’s now time to kick off the third – and possibly final – season of my Football Manager 2024 series with Millwall!

It all went horribly wrong in the previous chapter, where a six-game losing streak curtailed our play-off challenge and plunged us into the bottom half of the EFL Championship. The chairman still gave me a new contract, but after two years of disappointment, the fans are losing their patience.

This chapter will open with the summer transfer window, in which I look to add more quality to a mediocre Millwall team. We’ll then see how those changes pan out as we kick off the 2025/2026 season with 10 league games, and the opening rounds of the EFL Cup.

It really is promotion or bust now. At the end of this season, either the Premier League or the scrapheap will beckon. Maybe the third time will be the charm… Continue reading “Millwall Firewall: Part 7” →