Why are we here?

A recap…

I grew up in the 90s/00s and being a football fan, I disliked Sir Alex Ferguson. He won everything at Man United and everyone seemed to be a fan. Now I’ve matured I appreciate that he was the greatest manager there might ever have been. Certainly in the top 5. Looking back it was pure jealousy.

The Sir Alex Ferguson challenge is something that exists in the world of Management Simulation Challenges, more popular in the series that begins with F, than C but it’s certainly something that’s possible within the confines of C.

Sir Alex was in charge of Man United from 1986 to 2013 – a grand total of 27 years, within CM9798 you get until the end of 2025/26 – a very similar time frame.

So far it’s a see of Red – very apt for Man United but lousy for Bolton. The only thing we’ve done is set a managerial transfer record. Not quite what we need…

Why are we here?

A recap…

I grew up in the 90s/00s and being a football fan, I disliked Sir Alex Ferguson. He won everything at Man United and everyone seemed to be a fan. Now I’ve matured I appreciate that he was the greatest manager there might ever have been. Certainly in the top 5. Looking back it was pure jealousy.

The Sir Alex Ferguson challenge is something that exists in the world of Management Simulation Challenges, more popular in the series that begins with F, than C but it’s certainly something that’s possible within the confines of C.

Sir Alex was in charge of Man United from 1986 to 2013 – a grand total of 27 years, within CM9798 you get until the end of 2025/26 – a very similar time frame.

For the record he got:

• 13 * Premier League
• 10 * FA Charity Shield
• 5 * FA Cup
• 4 * League Cup
• 2 * Champions League
• 1 * UEFA Cup or Cup Winners Cup
• 1 * European Super Cup
• 2 * World Club Cup         
• Make full use of the “Academy” – which on this version of the game means signing Schoolboys so every season there must be Schoolboys signed.
• Break the Club’s transfer record – at Bolton, currently that was £4.87m for Dean Holdsworth from Wimbledon
• Break the English Transfer Record Fee – £29.1m for Rio Ferdinand from Leeds in 2002

We’ll kick things off with an FA Cup trip down to Devon and a new signing.

Ian Bishop joins from West Ham United and scores early as our second string see out the game. Some of the fans are disappointed with the signing, but I will accept none of their talk. In fact, there will be no bashing of the bishop when I’m around thank you…