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

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

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

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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Basque Boys Deux – Part 18: Super Calle | @NTR9798

Bonjour, and a very happy Vendredi to you! You join us in a familiar position at the halfway stage of season eight. We’re out of Europe and the League Cup, and have drawn PSG in the main cup, so that’ll probably be short-lived, but at least that way we’ll have no distractions from trying to finish strongly in the league. Let’s f*cking go…

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Basque Boys Deux – Part 18: Mestalla misery | @NTR9798

Bonjour! If you’ve followed this adventure for all eight seasons so far, I salute you! I’m sure you’re just as frustrated as me that we still haven’t won anything, but we’re fresh off the back of a third-place finish, so let’s see if we can go at least one better this season. Let the summer recruitment commence…

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