Articles tagged with "football-manager-2009"
Double Man Marking
By Daryl | December 21st, 2008Managing: Newcastle Date: September 2nd, 2009 Progress: 13th in Prem after three games The upside of getting mangled by Caley Thistle was that all my first teamers (except ...
I Disrespected Inverness Caledonian Thistle, But Think I Got Away With It
By Daryl | December 20th, 2008So you may recall that I sent my full strength team out to face Caley Thistle in a UEFA Cup qualifying round, even though I ...
Arrange Your Own Friendlies?
By Daryl | December 17th, 2008Managing: Newcastle Date: August 25th, 2009 Progress: 12th in Prem after two games (two draws) and through to UEFA Cup group stage (or as good as). When the ...
Reasons To Be Cheerful
By Daryl | December 17th, 2008So my summer shopping wasn't a massive success, but it wasn't bad either. After a couple of games, I'm still confident that Clément Chantôme will ...
Ins and Outs (and Nearly Ins and Nearly Outs)
By Daryl | December 15th, 2008Been doing a lot of wheeling and dealing, Del Boy style. The Newcastle board offered me a paltry £8.5m transfer budget, which felt even more paltry ...
Not For Sale
By Daryl | December 14th, 2008Managing: Newcastle Date: Summer 2009 Progress: Trying to build on last season's 6th place/not lose my best players. Good news is that the Newcastle board like my style ...
Summer Shopping List
By Daryl | December 13th, 2008According to Sex and the City, the only known cure for a massive disappointment is some intensive retail therapy. So let's go summer shopping. Right now ...
I Hate Penalty Kicks
By Daryl | December 13th, 2008Damn it. Let's start from the beginning. The 4-5-1 with Martins on the bench worked nicely. With five in midfield we kept Man City locked up, and ...
Pre-Match Nerves...
By Daryl | December 12th, 2008Big big game coming up - FA Cup final vs Man City - and I've got problems. So please excuse the long post where I ...
European Qualification (Not the Good Kind, But Still...)
By Daryl | December 12th, 2008Managing: Newcastle Date: 24th May, 2009 Progress: Finished sixth in Prem, FA Cup final still to come. At the end of my first season in charge of The ...
Pavel Pogrebnyak vs Roman Pavlyuchenko
By Daryl | December 11th, 2008Managing: Newcastle (Toon Army! Toon Army!) Date: 9th May, 2009 Progress: 6th in Prem with three games to go. Plus FA Cup final still to come. So... the ...
Have I Qualified for Europe or Not?
By Daryl | December 10th, 2008Managing: Newcastle Date: April 26th, 2009 Progress: 5th in Prem after 34 games, off to Wembley for FA Cup Final Is it just me? Or is it really ...
Steve Harper vs Obafemi Martins: Two Men Quarrel, One Man Leaves
By Daryl | December 9th, 2008As mentioned earlier, there's trouble in the Newcastle dressing room. Apparently Steve Harper finds Obafemi Martins "impossible to work with". Basically, the back-up keeper doesn't ...
A New Found Respect for Chris Hughton
By Daryl | December 8th, 2008Time to check in on my fellow Football Manager 2009 bloggers. No progress reports at TTFM so think we can assume they're still bottom of ...
Our Name's On the Cup
By Daryl | December 7th, 2008Managing: Newcastle Date: April 5th, 2009 Progress: 6th in Prem after 31 games (Man City breathing down my neck) and FA Cup semi-final Apologies for the lack of ...
Meet the Second String
By Daryl | December 4th, 2008So Finnish minnows Rovaniemen Palloseura (RoPS for short) challenged me to a friendly. In February. At their place. My first thought was - why? And ...
The Space Between our Defence and Midfield is Far Too Big....
By Daryl | December 3rd, 2008Managing: Newcastle Date: Feb 16th, 2009 Progress: 5th in Prem after 26 games, FA Cup quarter-finals Here's what my ass man Chris Hughton keeps telling me. "The space ...
I'm Not the Only One
By Daryl | December 2nd, 2008So turns out I'm not the only Football Manager 2009 addict who's sharing their progress in public. Brian over at Run of Play (one of ...
Be Careful What You Wish For
By Daryl | December 1st, 2008Managing: Newcastle Date: Feb 1st, 2009 Progress: 6th in Prem after 24 games The January transfer window is now closed. And, if you recall, my goal was to ...
Alan Smith Will Have His Revenge on Newcastle
By Daryl | November 28th, 2008Managing: Newcastle Date: Jan 1st, 2009 (happy pretend new year!) Progress: 6th in Prem after 20 games. Remember I predicted my top four challenge wouldn't last? Well, that's ...
A Day of Thanks
By chris | November 27th, 2008Today is Thanksgiving in the US, and we've decided, like most Americans will do, to go around our Offside round table and list some things ...
Europe Here We Come! (Maybe)
By Daryl | November 26th, 2008Managing: Newcastle Date: December 4th 2008 Progress: 3rd in Prem (no, really) after 16 games. Not really sure how this has happened, but yeah, I'm in a Champions ...
Attack, Attack, Attack-Attack-Attack!
By Daryl | November 25th, 2008Managing: Newcastle Date: October 18th, 2008 Progress: 8th in the Prem after 8 games Today's Magic Number: 8 After beating Wolves in the Carling Cup (no thanks to Jozy ...
Daily Dose: Nov. 24th, 2008
By Daryl | November 24th, 2008Something to read while driving your homemade underwater car... 10 justifications for hating footballers (SoccerLens) Press reaction roundup to Arsenal's new captain (The Gunning Hawk) Obafemi Martins just ...
Obafemi Martins Likes it When I Yell at Him
By Daryl | November 24th, 2008Managing: Newcastle Date: September 20th, 2008 Progress: 8th in Prem after 5 games, King of the North-East (temporarily) Still beaming about my recently purchased Russian duo, I braced ...
The Russian Revolution
By Daryl | November 22nd, 2008So I sacrificed my wage budget to push my transfer budget to the max for transfer deadline day and raised it to a respectable £11m. ...
Transfer Deadline Day
By Daryl | November 21st, 2008Managing: Newcastle Date: August 31st Progress: 12th in Prem after three games. After struggling to a 0-0 draw and a win on spot kicks against Coventry in the ...
Never Underestimate Kevin Kilbane
By Daryl | November 20th, 2008Managing: Newcastle Date: August 24th Progress: 8th in Prem after two games. That's the lesson I learned on my FM2009 Premier League debut against Wigan. Before the game ...
Hallo..
By Daryl | November 17th, 2008...my name's Daryl and I'm a Football Manager addict. I started using in 1998 (back when it was called Champ). I kicked the habit after ...
Christmas for the Fan: Football Manager 2009 Released
By chris | November 13th, 2008Time to close the books, let your boss know your productivity levels will hover somewhere around Dubya's approval rating, buy some Febreze/air freshener as a ...
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