Where Eagles Dare – Part 11: Nice Recovery

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Bonjour to you! We had a lovely time this week realising that Wednesday was the date CM9798 officially ends. Thankfully, that is just in game but in real life things are still going strong. The BeefCo trio of Palace, Nice and Go Ahead Eagles are progressing at various rates, some better than others. Go Ahead Eagles have sneakily become a decent Dutch top tier side, Nice are absolutely stinking up France and Crystal Palace are the Champions of England. You heard that right. Look, we’ve got a Champions League group and everything.

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Wednesday 15th July 2026 – The End

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Hello to you. It’s not very often I post a blog on a Wednesday but today is a special day.

Remember when you were a kid, or at least 30 years younger than your current age, and you got really far into CM9798. You’d heard the rumours. The game ends after 30 seasons, that’s 2026! We’ll be so old by then…

Well guess what. Today is the day CM9798 officially ends. So unfortunately, we’re all officially old.

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Where Eagles Dare – Part 10: Nice to See You

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Hello! Back after a break with some BeefCo for your Sunday. Thanks to Andrew for his creativity in bringing us some truly unique World Cup content the last few Sunday’s. I took a small break due to life getting in the way and I didn’t want to rush through a blog or two for the sake of it, especially when interest is at an all time low from the reading public due to the actual World Cup. Anyway, Season 4 is underway and last time out, we got through the summer trading and the first month or so of the new season. Here are our three squads, none of which are complete.

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World Cup Managers – Championship Manager 1997/98 – USA 2026 | @KingOfTheRooks

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Hello and welcome back to the hellscape that is Andrew’s mind. Yes, I am even writing in the third person. That said, you’ll find no water breaks, no sponsored advertisements, no half-time shows to endure 90-year-old Chris Martin from Coldplay trying to be cool. Not even a Diana Ross.

Oh yes, the point of this post! So, as we continue to suffer from World Cup fever, we’ve made Nation entirely made of managers, coaches, scouts or other wild low tier backroom elements from as many nations competing at WC USA 2026 as possible where someone exists in the database.

Which nations have contributed? Well, given there are 39667395937 teams competing this year, I’ll leave it to you the reader to figure that out. Here’s the squad:

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Masters International | One Last Hurrah | @KingOfTheRooks

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Hello there! It’s been hard over the past year to find something to try out that gets me going, something outrageous and stupid enough to be entertaining. So, what better than creating a new nation, and assigning a bunch of retired players from the database, as well as a few who should have been shown as retired, and giving them one last go at the World Cup, way past their prime.

So, what does the squad look like?

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Parma Violets For Christmas | @FMCM_FC

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Hello. It’s been a while. A long long while actually. I’m super excited to be back blogging again. Apologies in advance for any rustiness. As is tradition with the Blog Squad we did our annual secret Santa and Zak got me the absolutely stunning Parma shirt from 97/98. The challenge he has set me is to drop Parma into the Premier League and dethrone Manchester United in the first season. To make it more interesting i’m not going to sign anyone. Original Parma team only.

Barnsley have been relocated to Serie A to make room for Parma.

This is how we will start life in Parma.

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Where Eagles Dare – Part 9: Making a Nest

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Honestly, it’s been a week since it happened and very few people care but I just keep saying to myself – how did we win the league with THIS team?

You’ve all played the game and you know when you have a team that can win the league. I didn’t have that feeling here, I mean there’s a couple of wonderkids in there but they are very young. Emmers is a born winner but at Premier League level? Rarely. Richard Wright is class of course, and the wily Vialli scored 23 goals but is now 35. Ledezma’s 21 in 38 games at the age of 20 gives hope for the future. Bloody hell lads, how did we do it?

Anyway, onto season 3. The dream of course is to get two of these Eagle outfits to meet in the Champions League final. Palace will play in the Champions League, the other two aren’t even in Europe. There’s a long way to go.

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Where Eagles Dare – Part 8: Champions Leagles

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Bonjola and welcome back to multi-club mayhem which, in hindsight, was probably a more apt blog title than the whole Eagles thing. Never the less, our three Eagle themed clubs are living a tolerable top flight experience – some better than others – and if this update goes to plan, they still will be in about 900 words time.

I did receive a comment that Palace were criminally under-represented in last weeks post. Sitting second in the league with fairly mediocre investment should be celebrated more, even if I just can’t get over how good Man Utd have been defensively. Anyway, let’s see how this goes.

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Where Eagles Dare – Part 7: Eagle Down

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Good morning! Or Good whatever time you happen to be reading this. We’re midway through Season 2 of this multi club mayhem, managing Crystal Palace (The Eagles), Nice (Les Aiglons/The Eaglets) and Go Ahead Eagles (no nickname required). Our Eagle Army are having a fight on to make themselves a mainstay of the top flight in France and Holland whilst Palace are leading the way as potential contenders for European qualification? Or maybe more…

Here’s lovely Bjorn so you don’t have to look at that AI Eagle image I created.

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Where Eagles Dare – Part 6: Claw your eyes out

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Bonjour all. If you are new to all of this, where have you been?! Other than enjoying yourself and living a life that doesn’t involve reading 10 minutes of retro nonsense on a Sunday morning. In short, we are managing three clubs under the entirely fictional umbrella of BEEFCO, a gag that has yet to raise a single chuckle amongst the dear readers. Nevertheless, things are going a lot better for one team than the other two. Bring on the winter months, hopefully we can have three happy clubs in ten minutes time.

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