Articles tagged with "worldwide-soccer-manager-2009"
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 ...
A Cold January on Tyneside
By Daryl | November 28th, 2008Managing: Newcastle Date: January 2nd, 2009 Progress: 6th in Prem, need to make the most of transfer window It's not looking like a happy January. First of all, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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