After my epic flounce out of Leeds to kick off the 05/06 season, my quest to get Liverpool back in the big time at the first opportunity is not going to be as easy as I thought. In fact, it’s an epic struggle. There was also a boat load of manager changes – and that’s what we’ll kick off with

Roy Evans pre-dates the footsteps of Chris Coleman and David Moyes and takes on the Sociedad job, poor old Roy was on top of the world 6 years ago and now his reputation is in tatters. Speaking of which, France qualify for the World Cup and decide the best solution is this:

I’ll have that thank you kindly

This make the Liverpool manager a blue, or at least les blues gaffer. Wahey.

Anyway, back at Liverpool we’re all about the seriousness

The season is taking a bit of an upturn, with results like this

Good old Nevland. That’s sadly as good as it gets and a lot of thrown away wins into draws means our promotion hopes are in balance.

It could be worse though, poor old Riccy

Destined to never recover that boy. Incidentally, the France squad is amazing and I’m delighted to be their manager for the World Cup. Decent start too

However, my enthusiasm is soon dampened by this stinker of a World Cup draw

For those wondering, here’s England (the hosts!) draw

Easy! Lucky Glenn. However what should be one of England’s great hopes is on the move

For £1.6m, Forest have a bargain. He never really got a good shot of things at Villa. The first final of the season is set up, as Colin Todd’s omni present Bolton will go up against Tony Adams’ Chelsea

I’m sure it’ll be a thriller. In the FA Cup, we had a brief flurry to the 5th round which included beating Premier League Wolves

Bit of extrat time drama at Molineux. That’s as good as it gets though as we lose to Kinnear’s Spurs. The semi finals see the familiar appearance of Chelsea, blast from the past Villa and resurgent Ron Atkinson’s Birmingham.

Birmingham sit comfortably top of Division 1, putting me to shame

Might have to be the playoffs, which is a bit embarassing but it’s a difficult league to get out of. Yes?

Meanwhile the Premier League looks like this:

Man Utd up there again, but Chelsea’s games in hand could give them the momentum. Villa and Leeds are a mile back really.

Meanwhile at the bottom, Coventry are slipping away with WBA but the last spot could be tight. Look at Arsenal failing again.

Anyway, in the next update we’ll find out if I can get the biggest club ever to play in Division 1 promoted and whether the French can win in England, if we get out the group I think we could do it. Spare a thought for Scimmy though