CM 97/98 Where Eagles Dare – Part 1: Introducing BEEFCO

Finally, an idea has arrived. Something has awoken and it’s all Nath’s fault. I’ve got an entirely fictional story for you to set the scene. I should point out, multi club ownersh…

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CM 97/98 Where Eagles Dare – Part 1: Introducing BEEFCO

Finally, an idea has arrived. Something has awoken and it’s all Nath’s fault. I’ve got an entirely fictional story for you to set the scene. I should point out, multi club ownersh…

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Durham Cricket Summer 1995 including first game at Riverside

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Les Ferdinand Signs for Newcastle United - News Reports from July 1995

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A Royale Mess – A Blog Squad Tale | Part Seven: Zambianavia | @KingOfTheRooks

Welcome back one and all! Here we are again in the Scottish Division Three, also known as the Blog Squad League. We’re approaching the end of September, so the gents have been pondering their transfer targets. Can anyone improve their position before the window? We have three sets of league fixtures this week to bring us to the end of September.

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I think we’re Cologne now – Part 2 : About Schmidt | @matt_c_wills

Welcome back to Cologne where I am attempting to create a decent side to compete in Germany by only signing a limited number of players from countries that border Germany, simple huh? A reminder of our blistering start to the season left us a point of the pace setters with a third of the games done.

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The Ross County Challenge: A Highland Fling | @TJMitcham1983

I’ve always had a bit of a fascination with the Scottish Highlands — maybe it’s the endless hills, the sense of isolation, or perhaps it’s just the sheer madness of running a football club hundreds of miles from anywhere. Those long journeys to away games, the hardy handful of fans who make the trip, and the eternal optimism of men in woolly hats watching a team that’s probably just drawn 0–0 again… there’s something beautifully tragic about it.

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Basque Boys Deux – Part 1: Building Bayonne | @NTR9798

NEW from @NTR9798: After much success with his Portuguese Wolves, Nick is back to resurrect an old favourite thanks to Andrew, but where is he headed next?

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A Royale Mess – A Blog Squad Tale | Part Six: Talking Tactics | @KingOfTheRooks

Welcome back everyone. We’re taking a break from the action of the blog league to take a look at what tactics are being employed by each of the teams and have a closer look at some of the key performers in each team. AIK – Matt Matt has probably pulled a decent side from the hat, but not a lot of depth on the face of what we have seen so far.

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I think we’re Cologne now – Part 1: Borders | @Matt_C_Wills

Hello and greetings from Germany. After my Leeds adventure I’ve now turned my attention to my Blog Squad Secret Santa shirt, where the excellent Mr Ross Bell sent me a FC Koln away shirt. I mean, isn’t that amazing. Reminds me of Cameroon for some reason, but anyway, FC Koln – or simply Cologne as they are known in the game, didn’t have the best of seasons in 1997/98.

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Harry Houdini & Happy Birthday CM9798! | @Emsonite

Hello everybody, it's Dave here just borrowing Dean's post. Today marks 28 years since the release of CM9798, no doubt a day you all have circled on the calendar. We have of course celebrated this game every year for at least the last 10, who knows how many more I've lost track of when we started this. What I do know though is that I have a great set of writers here who started out as fellow nerds I know on the internet to being good friends who I'm lucky to have stumbled across one day.

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Sporting Eeyore – Part 23: Goodbee

Bonjola and welcome back to Gijon for one final episode. We're going to finish season 8 today and then put this save in the freezer. I've enjoyed it very much but it has ran it's course, especially if we achieve our aims today. As a reminder, that is for Gijon to win the Champions League and the B Team (henceforth, The Bees) to win the Cup Winners Cup.

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Sporting Eeyore – Part 22: Price of Success

Bonjola and welcome back to Gijon for the 22nd and likely penultimate time. Season 8 is upon us and it will be a season like no other. Why you ask? Well, Gijon have won the league several times now and retained the Champions League, so that's less important. The B Team won the Copa del Rey, which means they're in the Cup Winners Cup.

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Sporting Eeyore – Part 21: Trophy Buzz

Bonjola and welcome to February 2004. Sporting Gijon have been reeling Real Madrid in, and the once 10 point gap is down to 4. More importantly, the dream of the Bees winning the Copa Del Rey is alive and well, can they make it happen and take us one season closer to world domination?

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Sporting Eeyore – Part 20: World European Super Bees

Bonjola! Welcome back to Gijon, where Real Madrid have awoken and once again we have our work cut out to retain our La Liga crown. In this episode we'll also have our first attempts at winning the World Club Cup and the European Super Cup, and if that doesn't get your pulse racing then we'll continue our mission to get the B Team into Europe and complete world domination.

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Sporting Eeyore – Part 19: Don’t Worry Bee Happy

Bonjola and welcome back to Gijon for season 7. Sporting Gijon are now the European Champions, a surprisingly one sided final against Juventus securing our place in history. Our La Liga title defence was somewhat more problematic but we got away with it really, losing 8 games on the way to a narrow success. Now we need to get the B Team good enough to win the Copa del Rey.

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Sporting Eeyore – Part 18: To the wire

Bonjola! Welcome back to Gijon, where the once worst team in La Liga history are now relative giants. The current La Liga champions are being made to work hard in their attempts to retain the title alongside trying to win the Champions League for the first time. Let's get to it as we reach the finale of season 6.

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Sporting Eeyore – Part 17: Reinforcements

Bonjola! Here we go again then, Gijon looking to retain their La Liga crown whilst competing in the Champions League and to a much lesser extent, the Copa del Rey. Here's where we pick up:

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Sporting Eeyore – Part 16: Heavy is the Head

Bonjola! Six weeks have come and gone and it's time to get back to civilisation. I haven't even loaded the game since we last spoke, but I have seen two kids through the summer holidays, which summarises how my life has changed over the past 10 years since starting this blog. Anyway, this save. Sporting Gijon were rubbish in 1997 but 5 seasons later we are champions of Spain.

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Sporting Eeyore – Part 15: Triple Threat

Guten Bonjola and welcome back to Spain for the final update of season 5, and in fact our final for a few weeks. Father duties are calling and I don't have the time or energy to play 3 or 4 nights a week at the moment. See you in September. Meanwhile, Gijon are top of the pile with a 5 point lead, with Barcelona lurking with a game in hand.

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Sporting Eeyore – Part 14: Record Smashed

Guten bonjola and welcome back to the always-a-little-too-long middle section of the season. It is season 5 here in Gijon, Spain, and we're playing Champions League football for the first time. Can we capitalise on a decent start? Our one blot came against Atletico, with Real fading away a little. Let's football.

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Sporting Eeyore – Part 13: Breaking Ground

Bonjola once more and welcome back to Gijon for a new season. Season 5 promises much as we take our first steps into Europe's Elite with those famous Champions League nights, provided we can see off hopefully a minnow in the qualifiers. More on that later. A reminder though of how we got here...

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Sporting Eeyore – Part 12: Breakthrough

Bonjola mes amigos and welcome back to Spain, or Gijon to be more precise. It's part 3 of season 4 which means we've got loads of games to get through. There's a very real possibility of us qualifying for the Champions League and, whisper it quietly, we're only 2 points off the top. Real Madrid's insistence on simply turning up for games and keeping the ball for 90 minutes has proven to be a shoddy experiment.

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Sporting Eeyore – Part 11: Men on a Mission

Bonjola and welcome back to Gijon, where we're just into the last swathes of Autumn in season 4. Or, late October, if you're not bound by the four seasons. The Summer rebuild didn't really materialise, mainly because all of those players who wanted out and were running out of contract were all mouth and no trousers. They stayed, we topped up with some regens and we prepared to go again.

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Sporting Eeyore – Part 10: Building Regulations

Guten Bonjola and welcome back to Gijon, where the third season didn't really see the progress we craved. 5th place is fine, it's a bit like when Stu's father-in-law to be is describing him in the Hangover and basically says he's a crap type of rice. 5th, UEFA Cup runners up and another crack at the same trophy is all fine, but we're 30 points off the big two.

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Turf Roar: Season 6 – part 3

Welcome to the final episode of this series, the Turf Roar boys are still fighting on three fronts, we lead the Premier League by seven points and are still in both the FA Cup and Champions League. Our first match of the episode sees us travel to London to face Crystal Palace. They have his royal highness Edwin Turkington in goal.

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Sporting Eeyore – Part 9: Going Backwards

Guten Bonjola and welcome back to Gijon, where we are still in two cups and occupy the all important "best of the rest" spot in the table. It's the run in, which is a hefty 17 league games plus however far we get in the cups, so let's get to it.

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