The Keegan-Burger P09: The Beginning of The Last Burger @KingOfTheRooks

Happy Monday! Here’s Andrew and his burger to kick off another week.

Willkommen! We’re here for our third and final season in the Keegan-Burger where we’ve taken a Hamburg team and moulded it around David Brown, a young English export. Season one was fantastic as we won the Bundesliga and qualified for the Champions League. Season two saw Brown injured for long periods as we scrapped into 2nd place to again qualify for elite European competition. Our cup performances have been less than satisfactory and ideally, I’d like to turn that around this season.

We start by bolstering our ‘keeping ranks:

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1998 World Cup All Stars XI – P02: Groupies | @KingOfTheRooks

Everybody loves an experiment and a CM9798 experiment only sweetens the deal. Here’s Andrew with the second instalment of the World Cup All Stars XI as a nation. Yes, you read that right.

Welcome back to our latest CM9798 experiment. A reminder: we created our own nation, plonked them into the 1998 World Cup and set sail. If you missed the warm-up for the real deal, you can catch up here. So, as we approach the groups, here’s what we’re contending with:

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The Keegan-Burger P08: The Mainz Event | @KingOfTheRooks

Happy Monday! No it’s not Bez and Shaun Ryder but rather Andrew and David Brown. Can they get themselves back up the Bundesliga table?

Willkommen! Back for the run in to this season’s Keegan-Burger experiment. We’ve had a pretty tough season this time out as Dortmund and Bayern have thrown millions at overturning my title. You can catch-up here.

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1998 World Cup All Stars XI – P01: Getting to Know All About You | @KingOfTheRooks

It’s the International break in real life and whilst that is so much fun, it won’t be as good as what KOTR has brainstormed here…

Hello, and welcome! Well, you’ll be pleased to know I’ve been messing around with the editor again and well, what have we cooked up. From the 1990 World Cup, FIFA decided it would be a great idea to name an all-star team of the tournament after previously receiving complaints in early tournaments. It started with 11 players and by 1998 would become a ‘squad’ of 16. So, I’ll get to the question: how would the FIFA All-Stars of the 1998 World Cup actually perform as a squad in the 1998 World Cup? Well, thank God we have CM9798 to help us find out!

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The Keegan-Burger P04: When the Brown Mist Descends | @KingOfTheRooks

It’s the last day of February and it’s barely a coincidence but it’s the last update of season one here for Andrew. Can he secure the title?

Willkommen! Thanks to me forgetting the reduced size of the Bundesliga, this will be a relatively short close to the season. If you missed the last part, you can catch up here. We remain top by the slimmest of margins:

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The Keegan-Burger P03: Unger Strike | @KingOfTheRooks

Merry Monday to you! he David Brown experiment rolls on…

Willkommen! Das ist das neueste folge von ‘Das Keegan-Burger’. You can catch up on last week here. So far so good in the city of burgers. David Brown has generally taken to life in the Bundesliga like a duck to water, and we’re slowly building a foil of solid German players around him.

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The Keegan-Burger P02: Butt of the Jokes | @KingOfTheRooks

Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s a homage to the man who sang Head over Heels from our own sex symbol Andrew…

Welcome back to my latest ‘normal’ save, The Keegan-Burger…not sure what it is? You can catch-up here. Last time out we had a rip-roaring start to life in the Bundesliga with David Brown:

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