Hello there! I hope you’ve been enjoying the content from Deano, Tom and Andrew so far this year. Every now and again we have a meeting at cm9798.co.uk towers and we think of new things to do. Sometimes, we just re-hash old ones. Zak had the great idea to lift those January blues of bringing back a challenge, with points available for achieving various milestones we set out.

We did this during Lockdown, when admittedly there was quite literally nothing else to do. Obviously (and thankfully) we aren’t in that place anymore, but from posting the idea of Twitter (X) and Facebook, it seems enough people are interested in giving this a go. You might have to bear with us whilst we get the timings right. Some of the feedback was that a week isn’t enough time to do a full season, which is understandable. I appreciate to some of you, it might be more than enough time, so like I say, we’ll try and find the sweet spot.

Challenge 1: Bjorn Again

It was Bjorn Heidenstrom’s birthday last week and to celebrate, we’re asking you to take over at third division Leyton Orient to manage the wonderful Norwegian maestro. You’ll need to start a new game loading England, Italy and Spain. I can’t guarantee we have a plan for the other two nations yet but let’s pretend we do.

Here’s how you can earn points from this challenge:

The screenshots we will need are:

• Transfers In screen
• Bjorn Heidenstrom career history page in January
• Division 3 table at end date
• Screenshot of fixtures screen showing cup victories (if any)

You can send me your screenshots the following ways:

• On X/Twitter @CM9798 either as a normal post or a DM
• By email to davetin9@gmail.com
• By replying to my post in the CM9798 Facebook group

You have one week to next Saturday night to get your scores in but we can accept late entrants, just your points might be added to the next update. A league table will be posted once a week.

Big thanks to Zak and Nick for taking on scoring and graphics duties and good luck to you all!