Bonjour! Here we go again for the final stint of a Mulhouse season. We arrive full of hope. The month is March, we’re top of the table, we’re in all the cups, this could be our time. No really, it could! I’ve also got the 2004 European Championships with England to look forward to. But first, let’s see how many of the four we can win with Mulhouse.
Bonjour! Welcome back to Mulhouse, where we’ve decided to have a crack at the Champions League. We’ve been handed a group so poor we’ve already qualified for the knockouts and our attempts to retain Ligue 1 have got off to a good start. Can we turn the screw in the all important middle update? Let’s find out after reminding ourselves of where we pick up:
I just couldn’t walk away. The Mulhouse adventure was the background to those quiet summer months where football watching was replaced with festival sets. We got promoted to Ligue 1 to the tune of Fatboy Slim’s set at Download festival, whilst it was Reading or Leeds when we sealed the Ligue 1 crown. The out-pour of love at the end of the series (which you can read here) meant I owed it to the loyal fans of Mulhouse to load the game up again and try and build on this. After all, I want Pennyfather to play in the Champions League.
Hello! Bonjour! Areeeeet. Welcome to the final update of season 6 here in Mulhouse, where this set of no hopers have grown to have some hope even if many of them don’t want to be here. We’ve got a multitude of quarter finals to come and we’re well placed to finally win the league. I would enjoy that.
If we’re on the up, Monaco are definitely on the slide. That’s where we head next, looking to avoid the distraction of the casino to take three points.
Hello! Welcome back to the Mulhouse project, where we’re about to enter the crucial middle section of season 6. Everything is actually quite close to come up Mulhouse. We’re top of the table and still in every cup we entered. There’s still 23 long games to go though, annoyingly.
Bonjour! Welcome back to France for *checks notes* season 6 of the Mulhouse save, where I’ve taken the bottom club from the French league ladder and taken them to near the top of Ligue 1. Nobody really wants to play for us and we’re shopping in the bargain bin, but finished season five in incredible form to take 3rd place. With another UEFA Cup campaign to come, can we bolster the squad and hit the ground running?
Good day to you and welcome back to France, where season 5 of the Mulhouse save is about to reach a conclusion. There was a real mixed bag of fortunes last time out, as some key players departed and some decent but elderly replacements arrived. Arch rivals Strasbourg knocked us out of the cup on penalties but we’ll get a chance for two legged revenge in the UEFA Cup. Here’s how the table sits after a rocky start:
Bonjour to you mes amis. See, I’m learning the language. All is not well in the house of Mul, as our best players keep leaving and nobody of any great reputation wants to join us. I’m therefore left trying to pick out the next gem who is ready to go now, a task that was much easier in Ligue 2. Expectations are relatively high now with us playing European football two seasons in a row but we’re not going to be able to compete if we keep losing players. Here’s where we pick up today’s action:
New season, new hope. Except instead of hope it’s an endless stream of players asking to leave. Welcome back to Mulhouse, where nobody wants to join or stay. Everything is most definitely NOT coming up Mulhouse.
Here’s a reminder of how last season finished before we move on to season five:
Well good day to you. Welcome to the end of season 4 here in France, where my time as Mulhouse manager has been largely seamless. Once we got out of Ligue 2, we made our debut in European football this season and whilst that treat is over, we’ve now got to set about doing it again. I will warn you now, this episode is the closest I have come to having a CM related breakdown.
Here’s where we resume:
