Monday Night Football – The One with Swedish Teams

Hello and welcome to the final episode of Monday Night Football where we, yet again, ruin some perfectly good fixtures through the lens of CM9798. As what would have been the season draws to a close, we bring an end to the Monday Night Football series.

Last week we utilised our playable Norwegian League to see how the week’s Norwegian fixtures might have panned out in 1997. Given it was one of the most read episodes of MNF to date we thought we’d continue the treat…this week we’ll look at some fixtures from the Swedish Allsvenskan.

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The Wonderkids – Part 16: Sweeping Up Appearances

Hello and welcome back to The Wonderkids! We’re back for the run in to our inaugural season in the Premier League, you can catch up on last week here. It is a real battle this season, with no team standing out, we’ve lost some key players and we’ve been on a bit of a bad run of late. Here is a reminder of where we sat in the table:

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Monday Night Football – The One with Norwegian Teams: What’s Your Tipple?

Hello and welcome to another episode of Monday Night Football where we will continue to ruin some perfectly good fixtures through the lens of CM9798. Last week we looked across Europe for an upset finding the German league to be the place if you’re looking for an edge of your seat kind of season, but for this week’s episode, we are going to revisit the Norwegian League we created in 2019! We’ll take a look at some fixtures from the up and coming weekend that would have been in the Eliteserien:

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The Wonderkids – Part 15: Flying (By The Seat of Our Pants)

Hello and welcome back to The Wonderkids where we are taking a bunch of players on the knife edge between Ronal-do and Ronal-don’t from the complete unknown to, hopefully, the pinnacle of CM9798 (although, I’m yet to decide what that pinnacle is!). If you’ve been keeping up with us, you’ll know that the demands of just 10 games of football can be a precarious path to follow for these tin soldiers, from crisp packet hands to broom handle spines…we’ve got it all. You can catch up with last week here where we continued on our Premier League path. Here is a reminder of the table where we left off:

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Monday Night Football – Back to the Continent

Hello and welcome to another episode of Monday Night Football where we will continue to ruin some perfectly good fixtures through the lens of CM9798. Last week we looked across the Football League for an upset, but for this week’s episode, we are going continental! We’ll take a look at some fixtures from the up and coming weekend that would have been:

La Liga: Villareal vs. Barcelona

Ligue 1: Monaco vs. Metz

Bundesliga: Frankfurt vs. Schalke

Serie A: Sampdoria vs. Genoa

Eredivisie: Twente vs. Feyenoord

Premeira Divisao: Porto vs. Sporting Lisbon

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The Wonderkids – Part 14: Praying for Rain

Hello and welcome back to the latest part of our adventure with The Wonderkids. From Division Three to the Premier League; from anonymity to International recognition; released after one week and never snapped up by another club (hellooo Nicoletti). You can catch up with the start of our assault on the Premier League here.

So far, we’ve made a solid start to life at the top of the dinner table, and despite losing two games we’re seven points clear at the top with Yuri Rose and Ulrik ‘Ulrika’ Balling on fire. The only crushing blow so far has been Leonidas effectively ruled out until the start of next season. Here’s a reminder of our lofty perch:

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Monday Night Football – Back in Time: Match Week 35

Hello! It’s Monday again and that can only mean one thing, another episode of Monday Night Football as we go back in time with CM9798. We’ve done a number of variations of MNF and with not many to go we going to take a look at one fixture from each tier of the football league, played out in CM9798.

We’re going to take a peek through the looking glass at;

Premier League: Bournemouth vs. Leicester

Championship: Fulham vs. Sheffield Wednesday

League One: Doncaster vs. Ipswich

League Two: Cambridge vs. Crewe

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The Wonderkids – Part 13: Break a leg

Hello and welcome to season four of The Wonderkids. We’ve been on a journey from Division Three and have finally taken our men with the minus touch to the promised land…we have arrived in the Premier League. You can catch up from the start here.

We saw our usual injection of funds into the club the clear the debt of the B Team:

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Monday Night Football – Back In Time: Match Week 34

Welcome back to our regular feature Monday Night Football where this week we’re going to take a trip down memory lane to 18th of April 1998 for match week 34 of the 6th Premier League Season. That weekend included 4 one-all draws and a 5-0 thumping by soon to be Champions Arsenal. But what could have happened that weekend if the CM9798 match engine was in charge? Let’s find out!

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The Wonderkids – Part 12: Letting It Slip

Hello and welcome back to The Wonderkids where we continue to attempt to take a rag-tag bunch of players with unlimited potential from Division Three all the way to the top. Most of them may never have a hope in hell of becoming the next Nii Lamptey, John Curtis or David Beckham (yes he’s got unlimited potential whilst Michael Owen…does not) but we’ll see if we can drag the last ounce of potential out of them. You can catch-up with last week here.

Last time out the backbone of Dean ‘Bing’ Chandler had helped carry us to within sniffing distance of the promised land with 13 games to go. Our strikers not quite on fire as before but the goals continue and we’re defensively ‘okay’. Here’s a reminder of the table;

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