Where Eagles Dare – Part 6: Claw your eyes out

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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Where Eagles Dare – Part 4: The Run-In

Hello! Bonjour! Dutch words meaning hello! We’re back with our trio of Eagles hoping to earn ourselves a couple of promotions. We’re into the run in now, with 2 promotions to play for if we’re lucky and whatever Palace are up to. Strap yourselves in, it’s a big episode today.

One of the surprises of the season so far is Paul McVeigh, bagging nearly a goal a game in French Ligue 2. Surely that Northern Ireland cap is just around the corner…

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Where Eagles Dare – Part 3: Signs of Life

Bonjour and welcome back to this multi club mayhem. I’m managing three sides, each one more eagled related than the last, with the sole aim of having two of them meet in the Champions League final some day.

That day will not be soon but progress is very reasonable in some places. Erik Tammer is my hero so far, 25 in 21 in the Dutch second tier is a more than fitting return (even though as a league, and in fact as a country, the percentage of goalkeepers with working arms is alarmingly low)

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Where Eagles Dare – Part 2: Anything but Nice

Hello! Welcome back to England, France and the Netherlands. If you are reading for the first time, you’ll probably be thinking there’s an awful lot going on there. You might be right. I’d catch up with Part 1 if I were you and then get back over here for this latest instalment.

That eagle does look mad, no matter how you feel about it. You don’t get many friendly eagles, really, do you?

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Where Eagles Dare – Part 1: Introducing BEEFCO

Finally, an idea has arrived. Something has awoken and it’s all Nath’s fault.

I’ve got an entirely fictional story for you to set the scene. I should point out, multi club ownership is rubbish and a blight on modern day football but I do hope it’ll make for an interesting blog.

Big Eagle Entertainment Football Club Opportunities – BeefCo for short (also BEEFCO) are a set of mysterious investors who have purchased three football clubs across Europe. Their plan is for European domination which will inevitably lead to World Domination, as let’s face it, clubs outside of Europe aren’t up to much on CM9798. The dream is to see two of the BeefCo play out a Champions League final, but let me tell you this – these clubs are nowhere near Champions League at this point in time.

Let’s see who the BeefCo have signed up…

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Win the FA Cup with Torquay

Greetings to you. It’s nice to be back, even if it is just a one off blog. I’ve been in a creative hole for a while now, for the first time since I started this site and all the other stuff I write about, I have nothing. No ideas, no spark, no appetite to open the laptop lid. Maybe it’s age catching me up – so many late nights sacrificing the odd hour of sleep here or there have stood me in good stead for being a parent of 2 – but those extra hours are hard to come by. I’m tired, boss.

Anyway, enough about my internal monologue. We’re back with a new-old idea. From the brain that brought you Win the FA Cup with Doncaster, here’s Win the FA Cup with Torquay. What a squad it is.

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Where the current Premier League Managers can be found in CM9798 and is anybody still playing? 2025 Edition

Hello! It must be winter as it is time for our annual visit to what has become a much trickier article to write in recent times. Managers are getting younger, one of these years we will have a manager not born in 1997. Anyway, let’s take a look where the current Premier League managers can be found in CM9798 and see just how small the list of players still playing is.

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The 2025 CM Cup: The Results Show

Hello and welcome to the 2025 CM Cup! As ever, I’m not certain how much interest there is to anybody outside of the 22 participants so we’re sticking with the presentation from last year. Thank you to everybody who took part, the format was similar to last year which is quicker but probably not as immersive as the good old days.

2025 CM Cup

The 2025 CM Cup is the 9th edition of the Championship Manager Cup, more commonly known as the CM Cup. Matches were played out on Zoom in December 2025 because Dave remains an unorganised fool and left it too late. Many thanks to Rob “Taitanator” Tait for doing the database for this year.

The 2025 edition saw us retain the “winner stays on” format of 2024. All 22 players were randomly assigned an entrance number and a team. The players drawing one and two would play each other, with the winner staying on and playing participant 3, so on and so forth.

The last surviving team will play a one off final against the team that clocked up the most eliminations to determine the 2025 champions.

The tournament was played out under 5 a side rules, with Masters Football being the theme. That meant all 22 Teams were made up of players aged 35 and over. Only 5 players were on the pitch for each team, with up to 5 subs. A goalkeeper had to be named and wasn’t allowed to play outfield.

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Sporting Eeyore – Part 23: Goodbee

Bonjola and welcome back to Gijon for one final episode. We’re going to finish season 8 today and then put this save in the freezer. I’ve enjoyed it very much but it has ran it’s course, especially if we achieve our aims today. As a reminder, that is for Gijon to win the Champions League and the B Team (henceforth, The Bees) to win the Cup Winners Cup. Let’s get to it.

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