Rob Tait is back with the end of Season 4 of his Uniao Madeira adventure. The all Brazil team has taken a bit of a detour but can they finish the season with a flourish? Catch up with part 11 here.

We finished part 2 second in the league and with a real possibility of achieving champions league qualification. This however is not enough for captain Peu who picks now to drop this bomb shell.

I really though we might be over all this nonsense, apparently not, obviously my answer is no. This doesn’t go down well and Eddy P makes his feelings known against Sporting when he gives up defending. Cup run over. Don’t be fooled by his 29th minute goal he was trying to deflect Laelson’s shot wide.

We then lose loanee signing baby Bebeto when Santos buy him, he didn’t want to come to us!

Our next league game is a repeat of the Sporting cup tie. The keepers don’t turn up for this game, it felt like every shot on target went in. We also lose our left back Adriano (Branco) for six weeks. I don’t need these injuries at this stage.

It’s another tough game next, away to Braga. Laelson’s former strike partner Nene now plays for them and like Savio did in a previous update he gets a brace and we lose 1-3.

With 10 games left we are third with 46 points three points behind Porto. Benfica are runaway leaders and the league will surely be theirs soon. Up next 12th place Belenenses visit the Barreiros and we finally get a result. Bugi comes back from injury and celebrates with a sending off which won’t be helpful. I feel like this challenge is hard enough without all this internal sabotage.

To add to our woes AC goes down in training the next day. Come on.

We have another home game next against Vit. Set. They take an early lead but we aren’t phased and power through to a good victory. Josa even gets a goal, in for the injured AC. I would play Josa more but he is a centre back with a strength of 6 so I just can’t bring myself to do it.

Bugi’s two game suspension begins so baby Lukic is in. Young keepers are the worst, they play like they don’t have any hands. A ghost also gets one of our goals but it doesn’t scare Academica and we throw away 3-1 lead at half time.

To make matters worse makeshift wingback Helcinho gets suspended and Leonidas gets injured.

I feel like the game knows I’m exploiting some glitch and is trying to stop me building a champions league winning Brazilian team.

We are at home to Varzim, they are bad, we are good. It’s another ghost goal too.

Bugi is back for our visit to Chaves, it’s by no means a classic but Vieira gets the winner in the 65th minute. He hasn’t been too bad a support act for Laelson.

With 5 games left we are in 2nd place, Porto have been stumbling all season, we are level in 59 points but we have a better goal difference. Can we hold on? The next game is against Porto, a classic six pointer!

A bit of an anti-climax but we are still ahead with only four left to play and guess who finally recovers from his knee injury.

I can’t start Henry SdC but he will be on the bench for sure, especially since we have the small challenge of Benfica away. It’s not a great start as Peu goes off after 9 minutes but with 30 minutes left we take the lead only to concede 6 minutes later. It finishes level which is a good result but not what we needed. Peu is out for 2 weeks, he also asks to leave again, his timing is impeccable.

It’s the other Vit next, Vit. G, we make heavy work of weak opposition but get the win. Henry SdC shows us what we have missed.

The penultimate game of the season is away to Farense, they have someone sent off after 24 minutes, I’m really not sure why all these names are going missing. Laelson and Vieira both bag a brace and we run out easy winners.

With one game left the league looks like this.

That draw against Benfica means we just have to wait and see. The final match is our local derby. We finish the season on song and it’s now just fingers crossed.

Oh shit, well actually double shit. Shit one is that we finished third Porto also won their final game. Shit two is the fact I haven’t got any pictures of the league. I’m not sure what happened, I think in my frustration I forgot and then just played through till the start of Season 5, sorry. Anyway it is UEFA Cup football for us again and a close season of the inevitable rejections. This save has become a proper war of attrition. I will achieve my goal it might just take all 30 seasons to do it. Here are the awards for the year, Laelson pipped to the post by Leandro. If I could get him up top, Laelson and Leandro oh that would be something.

Join me for season 5 part one where I will take you through our summer transfers. We will also mount a fresh UEFA cup challenge hopefully with a keeper in goal this time around.

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