Portuguese Men o’ Wolves – Part 39: Thrown to the Lyons | @NTR9798

Bom Dia! and welcome to the penultimate episode with Nick and his Portuguese Wolves, who are doing well in pretty much every competition apart from the league. They’ve already secured the World Club Cup, but can they now add the European Super Cup to the cabinet? Here’s Nick

This is how the table is looking. We were 2nd not so long ago, but after just two wins from our last eight games, we’ve slid all the way down to 7th. The optimist in me says that it’s only the halfway point, so let’s hope better things lie ahead for us this week. Let’s go…

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Portuguese Men o’ Wolves – Part 38: The boys from Brazil | @NTR9798

Bom Dia! and welcome back to the eleventh and final season with Nick and his pack of Portuguese Wolves that he’s assembled over the last decade. They’ve made a decent start in the league and Europe so far, but will they take their chance to become world champions? Here’s Nick to update us…

Here’s how the league table is looking after twelve games. We’d be a lot better off if we could just hold onto a lead, but that said, we’re only a point behind Liverpool, so hopefully they won’t be on their perch for long. Let’s go..

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Turf Roar: Season 5 – part 3 | @Taitanator

Welcome back to the Moor, as we enter the final third of season five the Clarets are still fighting to win their first Premier League and to retain the FA Cup.

The first match of the episode is the FA Cup 5th round tie, away to Wimbledon.  Despite some fine saves from Neil Sullivan we manage to make it to the Quarter Finals thanks to Terry and Dangerous numero deux.

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Portuguese Men o’ Wolves – Part 37: The beginning of the end | @NTR9798

Bom Dia! and welcome to season eleven with Nick and his Portuguese Wolves, who are now champions of Europe! This season will bring them the opportunity to win the remaining three trophies on the list, but first, Nick has some bad news for us…

After much deliberation, I’ve decided that this will be the last season of this adventure. After finally winning the league and then the Champions League, it feels like the right time to call it a day, plus the inconsistent league form of this team is really driving me nuts!

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Turf Roar: Season 5 – part 2 | @Taitanator

It’s a third of the way through season five and the Clarets are currently second in the Premier League and looking to make it through to the quarter finals of the Champions League.

Our first match is at home to West Brom, despite dominating the first half we go into the break all square.  The Baggies scoring from their only shot of the match.  Dangerous 1.0’s match time has been limited due to Dangerous 2.0, Terry and Pistol Petko, however he makes the most of his opportunity, scoring two second half goals.

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A Royale Mess – A Blog Squad Tale | Part Four: Brann Mjelt Under Pressure | @KingOfTheRooks

Hallo, hej, hello! Welcome back to what could be described as the most exciting Championship Manager experience at this exact time of day on this page. And even that is possibly too high praise.

Cup games? Did someone say cup games. Love a cup. Ross gets a really easy draw.

Enough of that, we finally have a league game, and it is myself vs. Matt, FCK vs. AIK.

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Portuguese Men o’ Wolves – Part 36: Would Eu believe it | @NTR9798

Bom Dia! and welcome to the end of the tenth season with Nick and his Portuguese Wolves, who have reached the League Cup final, but first there’s still a Champions League quarter-final to be won. Can they dig deep to get the job done? Over to Nick…

We’re 6th in the league, and as usual, scoring hasn’t been a problem, but conceding very much has. But considering we were 11th, and have games in-hand on most teams above us, it could turn out to be a reasonable season yet.

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Turf Roar: Season 5 – part 1 | @Taitanator

Welcome back, it’s the beginning of season five in this moderately epic adventure with Burnley FC.  Somehow, last year, we managed to win not only the FA Cup but also the Champions League, not bad for a team who a) hadn’t made it past the fourth round of a cup competition before and b) could at best be described as consistently inconsistent.  Thanks to a solid final third of the season, and the fact that all the teams were so close on points we managed to move from thirteen up to third place in the final thirteen matches of the season.

Some big changes needed to be made over the summer, we have committed ourselves to the old faithful, 2-3-1-2-2.  M/FL Damien Duff was so good at wing back (avg 7.00!) I’ve re-signed Bjorn Daelemans for £2.2 million a year after selling him to Antwerp, he’s going to play right wing back.

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Portuguese Men o’ Wolves – Part 35: Cups and downs | @NTR9798

Bom Dia! and welcome back for more Friday fun and frolics with Nick and his Portuguese Wolves. They’re in the quarter finals of the Champions League, and still going strong in both domestic cups, but there’s work to be done in the league. How will it all unravel this week? Here’s Nick…

The league table isn’t the best reading if I’m honest. We were as low as eleventh, but things began to pick up towards the end of last week with 4-1 and 5-1 wins over Barnsley and Villa respectively, so hopefully that’s a sign that things are finally on the up. Let’s rock and roll.

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