Hello again. This is the third and final chapter of my Championship Manager 00/01 mini-series. Starting in the year 2000, I’ve set out to lead Millwall from Division 2 to the top of world football.
Having first made it into the Premiership, and then won every major domestic trophy, it’s now time for the endgame. I have just three seasons left in which I want to win the Champions League… and a world championship.
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Welcome back to this retro Championship Manager mini-series. For the past seven months or so, I have been managing Millwall on Championship Manager 00/01, with the challenge of leading them to English, European and world domination within just 10 seasons.
This is the second part of the trilogy. After celebrating two promotions in three seasons, can the Lions now establish themselves in the Premiership? And how long will it take for them to add some major silverware to the trophy cabinet?
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On 8 February 2001, when I was 10 years old, I bought my copy of Championship Manager: Season 00/01 from my local Woolworths in Romford. These days, it’s now a post office that doubles up as a pound shop, but I digress.
I’d already been playing Champ Man for a couple of years, but it was CM00/01 which firmly cemented my addiction to the series. It was also on CM00/01 that I played my first of MANY save games as Millwall manager. As a tactical novice with a habit for recklessly chopping and changing my squad, I somehow fluked a promotion through the Division 2 play-offs in my first season – but once we made it to Division 1, it all came crashing down.
Now two-and-a-half decades older, and a little bit wiser, I decided it was time to shine some new light through old windows. I was ready to go back to The Den once again.
On 8 February 2026, I booted up CM00/01 and began a brand new career with Millwall. My challenge was simple, but not easy. With 25 years’ worth of Championship Manager knowledge and experience under my belt, could I lead this third-tier club all the way to the top of English, European AND world football… in just TEN in-game seasons?
This is the first part of a trilogy, in which I will tell the story of my decade at The Den.
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Is this thing still on?
Hey, folks. It’s been a while. Anyway, here’s another Fuller FM ‘Retro Review’ – and this one is kind of a special request.
Today, we shall be going back to the innocent heady days of 2007, when a war-mongering Republican was in the White House, a team from the Midlands was hopelessly stinking out the Premier League, and Football Manager was an unplayable mess. Good times.
So sit back and enjoy this retrospective review of Championship Manager 2008…
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Here we go again with another Retro Review on Fuller FM – and it’s time for something a bit different.
In the past, I’ve tended to focus strictly on football management games. Nowadays, however, I’m much happier to broaden my horizons and cover any football-related PC game that catches my eye. (This does not include action games where you control the players, so no FIFA or Pro Evolution Soccer reviews. Sorry.)
The game I’m going to discuss today is the reason why I’ve decided to relax the rules the little bit. It’s not really a management game, but its unique card-based gameplay had me hooked for weeks when I was a teenager. And while it was a fairly popular freeware game when it was originally released in the mid-2000s, it now seems to have been largely forgotten.
Well… it’s time to change that! It’s time to (re)introduce you to the pleasure of SoccerCards!
I moved into my new home one year ago today… and what better way to celebrate my first anniversary at New Fuller FM HQ, than with another of my Retro Reviews?
As a computer nerd with a particular fondness for the 90s, I enjoy revisiting old football management games and seeing if they can still hold up today. The game I’ll be looking at today has been on my shortlist of a very long time, so I’m excited to finally tick it off.
I’ll tell you, honestly, I will LOVE IT if we play Premier Manager: Ninety Nine… LOVE IT.
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It’s time for another retro review of a football management game from years gone by. This one’s a bit obscure… but if you know it, you KNOW it.
The late 1990s was a golden age for independent shareware or freeware games – titles often made by nerdy (and usually amateur) programmers in their homes rather than by big studios. They might not have had as much substance or polish as those expensive major releases, but they could still be enjoyed by early online gamers for little or no cost.
Today, I’m looking at a freeware Windows game that I would describe as “an entry-level Championship Manager”. If you want a less intense experience than CM or Football Manager, with a healthy dose of nostalgia, this might be just what you’re after.
So, without further ado, let’s check out Simsoc 6.
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We might have to wait until next season for a new Football Manager, but that doesn’t mean there’s a shortage of football games on the Steam storefront.
A few weeks ago, I looked at a bare-bones Championship Manager clone that didn’t stray too far from the standard formula. The game I’ll be reviewing today is… well, let’s just say it’s VERY different.
For this Retro Review, I’m going back to the year 2013 (i.e. the last time Manchester United were any good) to find out what happened when some Italians decided to make their own FM… with blackjack, and hookers. Literally.
This is Lords of Football.
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It’s time for another of my Fuller FM retro reviews… and today’s review is particularly poignant.
Sven-Göran Eriksson passed away in August last year at the age of 76, after an illustrious managerial career with the likes of Benfica, Sampdoria, Lazio and (ahem) Leicester City. He was also the first – and, to date, best – foreign-born manager of the England men’s national team, leading the Three Lions to three consecutive tournament Quarter Finals.
I’m publishing this post on what would have been the ice-cool Swede’s 77th birthday. To mark the occasion, I’ll be playing a somewhat obscure football management game from 2002 which bears his name.
This is Sven-Göran Eriksson’s World Manager.
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As the 2024 men’s European Championship gets ready for kick-off, the final whistle is about to blow on my CM3 Revisited mini-series.
Over the last few months, I have been looking back at Championship Manager 3, which marked the start of a real golden era for the series. I’ve just finished an epic five-season series where I rebuilt Napoli from Serie B, but now it’s time to do something a bit more topical before I bring this nostalgia trip to a close.
I’ve opened up the CM3 database and looked for the managers and head coaches of EVERY team who will be competing at Euro 2024 this summer. If I can’t find any managers (e.g. because they’re too young for CM3), I’ll instead look for their assistants or other staff members. If I’m still out of luck, then I’ll try to find anyone else related to the current squad.
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