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Taste The Feeling : Episode 4 : Talent ID + Coaching
Talent ID We’ve established that we want to play entertaining and attacking football, in order to maintain our ethos, so what are we looking to nurture in our youth teams to promote that? Luckily in FM, players are defined by their attributes, and we can look for some key attributes – (dependent on the player’s […]
CLASSIC CHAMPIONSHIP MANAGER: Euro 2004 Qualifiers Part II
Welcome back! It’s Autumn 2002 and the mood in Scotland is positive. Just a few months after a heroic run to the World Cup final, Euro 2004 qualifying has got off to the perfect start with wins over Azerbaijan and, more impressively, Poland. The Poles were dispatched 4-0 in their own back yard which is […]
The Higher Tempo Press FM17
Alright folks. It seems to be in the “in thing” at the moment to announce what your plans are for FM17, in the vague hope anyone cares less and might sit there for the next three weeks or so looking forward to your first post about it. As ever, I am a sheeple, so I […]
Taste The Feeling – Episode 3 – Scouting
Scouting + Transfer model A large part of our success will be down to the players we’ll be bringing into the clubs, and since one of our goals is to be as profitable as possible we need to get the talent in as young as possible and therefore as cheap as possible – adopting parts […]
Taste The Feeling – FC Coca Cola – Episode 2
Episode 2 – The Vision So we’ve established what club I’ll be taking over. But what’s our final aim? How will we achieve it? What changes will we make to Antwerp now it’s been chosen as the first club in our empire? The aim simply is to dominate football, with at least one team in each […]
Taste the Feeling : FC Coca Cola : 1.0
Introduction This is my first attempt at a FM series, despite playing FM and writing many articles on football down the years. I will be going in-depth on how a company can set-up a footballing empire to rival the likes of Red Bull, using aspects from a number of different clubs around the world. Whilst […]
CLASSIC CHAMPIONSHIP MANAGER: Scotland on the Road to Euro 2004
Hello! It’s been just 2 months since Scotland lost the World Cup final to Italy, and so you are probably quite rightly wondering what I’m doing back again. Well, I enjoyed that run with Scotland so much, that I’m going to take on the Euro 2004 qualifying campaign. Every time there’s a real life International […]
#FM16 : Going back to Uni : Part VII (end of season two)
Yeah, the £55k I brought in for letting Boboc go early didn’t really equate to value for money. Since our skipper moved to Israel our form dramatically nosedived, meaning we went from dreaming of Europe to missing out on the last day. It was a bitter pill to swallow and a big lesson learned. It’s […]
FM16 : Going back to Uni : VI (end of regular season two)
That’s right folks, I’ve played on until the end of the regular season two without you. What a season it has been, and there is more to come. In Romania each team plays each other twice, then the top six go into the “Champions Play Off” and play each other a further two times. You […]
#FM16 : Going back to Uni : V (September 2016)
So we slip into September here in Romania. Do they have an Indian summer in Romania? I have no idea. All I am interested in is whether we can maintain our fine start to the Liga I season and keep ourselves in the European spots come the winter break. That would be marvelous, as would […]
#FM16 : Going back to Uni : IV (August 2016)
So what would August hold for the U’s? Following our unbeaten start to the season, including a 4-0 destruction of last season’s runners up Dinamo on the opening day, a lot of promise I would say. The surprise of the season has been the kid up front scoring three in three. Remember the name of […]
#FM16 : Going back to Uni : III (July 2016)
Welcome to Part III of “Going back to Uni” – rather apt what with all the exam results and all that in the air. Not that I can even remember being at uni now, it was rather a long time ago. For those of you wondering that the hell I am rambling about already, I […]
#FM16 : Going back to Uni : II
I’m actually excited about this pre-season. Normally I hate them, especially straight after a promotion. Due to my thrifty nature, I invariably believe my squad won’t be good enough to survive at a higher level. Sometimes I am right, most of the time we do ok though. But this is different, I have a young […]
FM16 : Going Back to Uni : I
The silence is over. Apologies for my recent absence from the totally resurgent FM blogging scene. Jesus, there’s some decent stuff being written, isn’t there? Allow me to drag that standard down immediately!
#FM16 : The #ArgSt is back baby…
Just another little teaser for those interested in the #ArgSt16…
#FM16 : The #ArgSt is back baby…
Fans of my FM15 tactic, The Argentine Strikerless, might enjoy these couple of videos….
#FM16 : Foggia dei Miracoli VI : StS v3.0 RWB
No, not right wing back. Real wage budget. I need to bring players in for next season, but I don’t trust my board to set me a sensible wage budget. What do I do?
#FM16 : Foggia dei Miracoli V : StS v3.0 (c)
Right then, no time for chit chat – we have a lot to get through.
#FM16 : Foggia dei Miracoli IV : StS v3.0 (c)
Right then, as promised let us have a look at my slightly updated StS v3.0 (c) methodology.
#FM16 : Foggia dei Miracoli III
Welcome back folks, and sorry for the delay in updating you. You join me at the end of my first season as Foggia manager and if you need reminding why I am here, read this.
#FM16 : Foggia dei Miracoli II
Foggia, you are doing funny things to me and we barely even know each other.
#FM16 : Foggia dei Miracoli I
So this is the new save folks, and boy am I excited by it.
FM16 : How to Build a Club (the final part)
I’m sure we have all been here at some point in our FM saves folks.
#FM16 : How to Build a Club (part XVII)
If this your first time reading this series, you might want to click here and get the back story! I’ve been fortunate enough to have a fair bit of playing time in the last three days, so have accelerated through the 2019 season with Urawa Red Diamonds. What a season it has been. I am […]
#FM16 : How to Build a Club (Part XVI)
I guess the biggest question of the day is, “is that the correct Roman Numeral for 16?” Thanks for joining me again, I have news much sooner than I expected hence this unexpected post. But before I give you the news, I want to thank people for some of the feedback I have been receiving […]
#FM16 : How to Build a Club (part XV)
Wow, part 15. Welcome back folks, and thanks for sticking with me through this series. What am I going to give you today? I’ve moved on apace and it is now May 2019, so it is a good time to let you know how my attempts at squad rotation have gone.
Classic Championship Manager: 2002 World Cup Final – Italy vs Scotland (not) Live text
Who is the FIFA equivalent of Noddy Holder? Because today is Football Christmas, or as it has come to be known, THE WORLD CUP FINAL. Welcome to The National Stadium in Tokyo for our sports show piece event. In one corner we have three time World Cup winners Italy, heavy favourites to make it four. […]
#FM16 : How to Build a Club (Part Fourteen)
Relax, I am in a better mood today. The pre-season of 2019 is treating me well so far and I finally feel like Urawa is becoming my club.
#FM16 : How to Build a Club (Part Thirteen)
I’ve really been dragging my heels on finishing this season and writing the next part of this series. I mean, the title has become a little irrelevant in many ways – I built a club and then moved on to trying to put life into a bigger club used to failure. Maybe I should change […]
CLASSIC CHAMPIONSHIP MANAGER: World Cup 2002 Semi final (not) Live Text: Czech Republic vs Scotland
British success has been hard to come by – especially when it comes to football. With England’s 1966 World Cup win still the one and only, Scotland have lived in the shadow of that for many years. Despite the odd false dawn, they are now 90 minutes away from a World Cup final. Och aye!
CLASSIC CHAMPIONSHIP MANAGER: World Cup 2002 Quarter Final (not) Live Text – Scotland vs Denmark
Scotland are breaking new ground. Before this tournament, they’d never made it past the group stage of any major tournament. 3 weeks later, they are about to kick off their quarter final tie with Denmark, having seen off Portugal in the round of 16. With expectations exceeded, is the handbrake off for Scotland? We’re not […]
#FM16 : How to Build a Club (part twelve)
Welcome back folks. I hope the majority of you are still talking to me after the curve ball I threw in in the last update. For those of you that missed it, I am now manager of Urawa Red Diamonds and I have got one hell of a job on my hands.
FM16 : How to Build a Club (part eleven)
What can I say? They play in front of the biggest crowds in Japan…
CLASSIC CHAMPIONSHIP MANAGER: Portugal vs Scotland – (not) Live Text
This is not a drill. Scotland are about to play in a knockout game at a major tournament. Standing in their way are Portugal – Figo, Paulo Sousa, Nuno Gomes…to name just three. It’s a mighty task facing the Scots but you know fine well the Tartan Army will do everything they can to keep […]
#FM16 : How to Build a Club (part ten)
It’s been a while, hey? Apologies for the lack of updates for the last ten days or so, there’s been a few things going on…
CLASSIC CHAMPIONSHIP MANAGER: Scotland vs India – (not) Live Text
Scotland stand on the brink of history, having never made it past the group stage at a major championships. India stand on the brink of history, here at their first finals a win will put them in the last 16. Something has to give. Welcome to Tokyo. It’s Scotland vs India. AS IT STANDS So […]
CLASSIC CHAMPIONSHIP MANAGER: Scotland vs Senegal – (not) Live Text
Welcome back to What About Scotland? One stat has plagued Scotland for many years – they’ve never made it out of the group stage of a major tournament. If they’re going to manage that here in the 2002 World Cup, they need to beat Senegal. Can they do it? Let’s find out with this (not) […]
#FM16 : How to Build a Club (part nine)
It’s been a while since I have posted on this, so it’s good to bring you this update…
CLASSIC CHAMPIONSHIP MANAGER: Italy vs Scotland – (not) Live Text
Welcome to Japan! We’re going to bring you Italy vs Scotland as it happens (work with me here) but before we get to that, if you’re new to this you’re probably wondering just what the heck is going on. Well, in Part 1 I set about turning the qualification campaign around and was pretty successful […]
CLASSIC CHAMPIONSHIP MANAGER: What about Scotland? Part II
Welcome to Part 2 of What About Scotland? If you’re new to this, I’m trying to take Scotland to World Cup 2002, and part 1 went rather well as we scored wins over Croatia and away in Belgium. It leaves us needing just a point at home to Latvia to secure our place in the […]
#FM16 : How to Build a Club (part eight)
As Alex Ferguson might have said once, “football in Japan, eh? Bloody hell.”
CLASSIC CHAMPIONSHIP MANAGER: WHAT ABOUT SCOTLAND? PART I
With Euro 2016 now just days rather than weeks away, it’s fair to say excitement is at a tepid level. Maybe that’s just me having witnessed England’s less than convincing recent displays, but this is the biggest Euros ever!
CLASSIC CHAMPIONSHIP MANAGER : CAN CM01/02 END FIFTY YEARS OF HURT?
So, who’s excited for Euro 2016? As the tournament is expanded to 24 teams we’ve essentially got a mini-World Cup on our hands, with rare tournament appearances for the likes of Wales, Northern Ireland and Albania, there’s the added underdog ingredient to add making it a fairly unique tournament.
#FM16 : How to Build a Club (part six)
Back again, this series seems to have some legs and thanks to everyone who has followed it and supported it so far. Today we look at a fundamental part of the longer term structure of building a club – the youth intake.
#FM16 : How to Build a Club (part five)
What do they say about the best laid plans? I can never remember. Yet fear not, this is not the beginning of a long winded post about how everything is falling apart, more an honest appraisal of how not everything goes to plan!
#FM16 : How to Build a Club (part four)
Right then, we are back with the next update. 90 days, or thereabouts have passed and it is time to check in with what we have done so far.
#FM16 : How to Build a Club (part three)
Greetings folks. As my good friend @fm_samo said on Twitter, I wonder if the likes of Brendan Rodgers are following this series? Probably not. Anyway I’m back with part three. You can find part one here and part two here.
#FM16 @www.thehighertempopress.com How to Build a Club (part two)
Welcome back. So in the first post I talked you through the 1/7/30/50 plan for how I am going to build Yokohama FC. Today I am going to give you an update on Day One of the plan.
#FM16 : How to Build a Club
Following the interest in my “How to Win Promotion” piece, I’ve been encouraged to take things a little further and look into how I build a club.