Tag: FM24

The Cracovian Chronicles: Prologue

Published on by Chris Fuller

“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” →

CM3 Revisited: Like Father, Like Son

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Championship Manager 3 was released in March 1999 – almost 25 years ago – and marked the start of a new generation for the CM series.

CM3 was also the first football management game I ever played, when I was about 8 or 9 years old. Over the coming months, I will revisit this game in various articles, along with a new career story that will begin very soon.

For the first installment, I have found 17 players who are currently playing for Premier League clubs, and whose fathers were themselves players on the CM3 database a quarter-century ago. I’ve taken screenshots of the dads on CM3 – and their lads on Football Manager 2024 – and written a little bit about their careers.

I’ve already done something like this before, when I revisited Championship Manager 99/00 about four years ago. Expect to see a few familiar faces from the past, along with some contemporary stars who’ve already outstripped their fathers’ achievements. Continue reading “CM3 Revisited: Like Father, Like Son” →

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

Published on by Chris Fuller

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” →

Millwall Firewall: Part 6

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It’s time to wrap up the second season of my Millwall save on Football Manager 2024 – and once again, we have the Championship play-offs in our sights.

In the previous chapter, my Lions recovered from a rough start to the 2024/2025 season and clawed themselves back into contention for the top six. And having made two new signings in January, we believe we’re in good shape to sustain a play-off challenge.

Today’s post will take us through the final four months of the campaign. Will it be yet another season of heartache for Millwall fans, or is this finally our time to shine? If nothing else, at least we know our goalkeeper can save penalties with his back turned! Continue reading “Millwall Firewall: Part 6” →

Millwall Firewall: Part 5

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Welcome back to my Football Manager 2024 series with Millwall, where I can assure you that everything is going perfectly to plan!

The Millwall firewall has held pretty firm so far in the 2024/2025 season, conceding just the 21 goals in 10 Championship matches! You can read all about that in Part 4, in case you missed it.

We now pick things up in October 2024, where my Lions are fighting to stay clear of the relegation zone – and I’m battling to save my job. No, I’m definitely not panicking at all! Continue reading “Millwall Firewall: Part 5” →

Millwall Firewall: Part 4

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Here we go, folks! It’s time for the second season of my Football Manager 2024 series with Millwall.

In case you missed the previous chapter, the Lions came 11th in the Championship in my first season, falling short of the play-offs once again. I’ve been hard at work in the transfer market over the summer, looking to assemble a team that can take that elusive step into the top six.

In today’s chapter, I will take you through all our summer transfer business, along with our first 10 league games in the 2024/2025 Championship season. Can we make a strong start, or will it all come crashing down? Continue reading “Millwall Firewall: Part 4” →