A tale of cigarettes, grappa, time travel and hopefully goals
Season 4 – 2000/01
The new season begins a little bit backwards, as we cover Mini Dazza’s involvement in the Euros. He is called up to the squad a gets his first cap in a 2-0 friendly victory over Denmark. A few days later he makes another friendly appearance, bagging a brace against Saudi Arabia. Big Dazza tells little Dazza the Saudis won’t always be push over, there is some big money investment coming their way in the future.
Hello friends and admirers of Wayne Biggins! We are back for another week celebrating the most underrated gem of CM9798. This time he’s back in Europe and has decided that Belgium is the place to be, but who will pick him up:
A tale of cigarettes, grappa, time travel and hopefully goals
Season 3 – 1998/99
Dario Jnr and Dario Snr have agreed that, based on the fact no other clubs made an approach for the little Bisonte’s services, he will stay at Venezia for the time being. Unfortunately, Venezia’s managerial team have run the club into the ground and therefore can only afford to recruit from the free transfer market. Gio Stroppa has a few Italian caps to his name, but the rest are all young lads, with hopefully a bit of potential.
Venezia draw Swiss side FC Sion in the UEFA Cup first round and the season gets off to a fine start for Dario and chums.
Hello weary readers! Welcome back to the next part of our journey with Wayne McBiggins. This time out Wayne has returned to Scotland. That said, having had a torrid time at Celtic previously, he has decided to cross the divide and sign for rivals Rangers.
It doesn’t take Wayne anytime to find his shooting boots in Scotland. And by Scotland, I mean in the Champions League.
A tale of cigarettes, grappa, time travel and hopefully goals
Season 2 – 1998/99
We finished season one with Dario Jnr having helped Venezia secure promotion to the top flight of Italian football, meaning the little Bisonte will be playing in Serie A 13 years earlier than D Snr, or depending on how you try and explain time travel, a season later. I can’t figure out if we are ahead of schedule or behind. Does the future that the Old Tatanka lived even exist anymore? Let’s not worry about it.
Venezia made a fair bit of money last year selling players and they know they will need to strengthen their squad if they are to compete. Fortunately, there are some quality bargains in the transfer market.
Hello! Welcome back to the next chapter in the travels of Bignacious B, Waynao Bigginsao, Big B. Wayne suitably demolished the Premier League, and it probably would have been more spectacular were it not for a month out injured and a million bans.
So, we find ourselves in sunny Portugal, and what better home for Mr Biggins than Porto.
A tale of cigarettes, grappa, time travel and hopefully goals
Season 1 – 1997/98
The idea behind this save is a simple one, Dario Hubner has travelled back in time to see if his professional career would have been different if he had been, well, a bit more professional. The man lovingly nicknamed Tatanka or Bisonte didn’t sign a professional contact until he was 22 years old, and he didn’t play in Serie A until he was 30.
What he did manage, in the 2001/02 season, despite his fondness for smoking cigarettes and drinking grappa, was to become, at the age of 35, the joint top scorer in Serie A, scoring 24 goals for Piacenza. He missed out on the opportunity to play for Italy in the 2002 World Cup, despite the Italian public being keen to see him in an Azzurri shirt, Trapattoni didn’t select him. He also went on a tour of the USA in the summer of 2002 with Milan, however Ancelotti was put off by his smoking. Who would have thought?
As I understand it Dario is quite happy with his career and doesn’t regret anything. Fortunately for CM9798 blog readers I’m not of the same option, after all I’ve witnessed him score 16 goals in 9 games for Real Madrid as part of a side of uncapped superstars.
We join the story at the start of the 1997/98 season, Dario Snr has travelled back in time (it’s not really important how this was possible) and convinced 16 year old Dario Jnr to travel to Venice in the year 1997 to begin his career a new, at Venezia. Why Venezia, why not? After all they have a pretty groovy orange and green home kit in the game.
Continue readingToday, Andrew is back to bring you the first part in a tale of bigglical proportions. Can you win trophies with an ancient old man of Division Three quality playing up front? Is Wayne Biggins the messiah?
Hello there! Welcome back to the home of CM9798, and thanks to Dave for letting me write some more bizarre clap trap to keep us all entertained. So, what is the premise? Well, have you ever heard of Wayne Biggins? During the Blog Squad’s time (well spent time) playing our season of ‘Football League Trophy Manager’, Rob Tait had the joy of finding out he is an absolute underrated gem in CM9798, even at the grand old age of 35.
Ah yes, the premise! So, old Wayne had a rather barren 3 months playing for Lou Macari’s Celtic, however, would you believe it, he’s getting another chance to go on his travels.
We’ll take Wayne to each of the top divisions on offer in CM9798 where we will look to build a team of Galactico’s, in the hope Wayne can lead them to glory.
Part 1: Manchester United & The English Premier League
We needed a hole in the ground to call home. And that home was Manchester United.
Welcome to the series finale. I’ll try and make it better than the end of LOST. And less weird.
If you’ve followed this blog from the beginning, you might be thinking that we must have won the lot then? What’s the point of reading? Well we did and we didn’t. Have a nosey…
Kicking off with a run of league games & a FA Cup replay with Chelsea before the League Cup Final. We’re 4 points off Man Utd, which is not great but not insurmountable.
Despite last weeks loss to Celtic, Wallace’s Thistle have started off well in the PL. 2nd.
The main goal is to win the treble. Tough ask but at the very least we need to beat Celtic. It’s looking good so far.
Forest are taken care of in the League Cup.
