Managing

So since my last proper post, I’ve managed to bag myself a job, and I’ll be honest, it’s not the greatest job for a cornucopia of reasons but it’s only temporary to get us through the holiday period which is fast approaching.

So other than the job, my time has been taken up with Football Manager 2007, only a couple of hours here and there and my old Championship Manager/Football Manager fix is in full effect, so much so that Robyn chastised me for talking tactics with my brother last weekend. I’ll be honest, I’m now on my second game after a brash resignation and auto save managed to screw me first time round.

So for obvious reasons I go Rangers, and art imitates life too much, poor inherited team, no money, no luck.

I spent the entire £2M transfer fund on Steven Naismith from Kilmarnock (prolly the best £135K I’ve ever spent in my Championship Manager/Football Manager career), David Clarkson from Motherwell (though he’s not as good as he was in previous games so he’s on loan to my feeder club Stoke City), Hakan Yakin from Young Boys of Bern (he was the majority, and worth every penny) and Clint Mathis from the MLS for free. As it says I’m currently 2nd in the SPL (ha!) 3 points behind Hearts and just ahead of Celtic. I’m also facing a mutiny as I sold Thomas Buffel to Liverpool during the January transfer window (mainly for the money) and Karl Svensson got pissed and after I said we have more than enough cover he handed in a transfer request and the rest of the squad want me to keep him…

I have to say, this is a very involving game, especially compared to older versions, the Svensson incident is a great example. I keep finding new things all the time, like getting older players to tutor younger ones so they improve quicker, complaining about bad refereeing decisions, praising other players so they become unsettled and allowing you to swoop in and buy them…

So I love it, though Robyn probably hates it