Hello! Welcome to season 4 of the CM9798 Retirement Home. The old boys have done me proud so far, securing successive promotions to Division 1 and then just about holding their own in the second tier. The First Division is difficult to get out of, it hasn’t got any easier over the years either. With a set of 35+ year old veterans it is going to be a huge challenge. With a number of retirements last season it’s time to try and plug some gaps and hopefully find some quality – however, we have a huge debt and once again will be restricted to freebies…

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Good day to you, fans of the past. Here in the Retirement Home, we’re about to enter the final stretch of season 3. Consecutive promotions were as unlikely as they were impressive, but the ageing bones of this lot have struggled with life in Division 1. I’ve had to abandon the cavalier style so that Alan Knill plays as part of a back three. I sicken me. Still, it’s all about staying up. We have a 7 point cushion.

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Hello! Welcome back to the Retirement Home, where our team of over 35s are struggling to adjust to life in the second tier of English football. Back to back promotions felt like an enormous achievement – keeping this lot up would eclipse that.

Here’s how the table looks as we rejoin the action:

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Greetings! Welcome to season 3 of the Retirement Home. We’re two for two on the promotion front, having started in Division 3 with no players. With a squad made up from players aged 35 and above, we stormed Division 3 then stole a promotion from Division 2 thanks to a very late playoff push and a memorable Wembley win. As usual, a host of retirements has left us with a job on our hands to be promoted again. I’ll go on record right now and say survival is my only aim.

Let’s see who we’ve managed to tempt for one last shot at glory:

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Hello! It’s the end of season two for the Retirement Home and whilst this will be the end of the adventure for some of these veterans of the game, others have one more chapter to write. Can we mount a promotion challenge from this midtable position? Our form has improved since I moved the wingbacks back to full back and Ian Rush remembered a time when he used to be on of Europe’s best forwards.

17 games to go then, starting with a trip to York…

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Hello and welcome back to the Retirement Home! Last time out our old boys struggled to get to grips with Division 2 and the arrival of Ian Rush did little to help. We look like relegation material already as we sit one point above the drop zone, albeit 15th.

Can we turn that frown upside down? I really hope so…

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Hello! Welcome back to the Retirement Home, where I’m attempting to manage a team of over 35’s up the football league. Things have started well, as we romped to the Third Division title securing over 100 points in the process. But with five calling it quits last week we need to replenish the golden oldies with new blood. Well, old blood…some blood. You get the idea. We need to find players capable of playing in Division 2 as well, as let’s face it, the current crop aren’t going to improve much. We have £2m to help us out.

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Hello and welcome back to the CM9798 Retirement Home. It’s the end of the first season of this little experiment and so far, the old timers have more than held their own. Mick Quinn and Kerry Dixon are smashing the goals in and Dave Beasant is doing an admirable job of keeping them out. Here’s where we are with basically half a season to play:

Buckle in as this might end up being quite a long update!

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Greetings and welcome back to the Retirement Home. We’ve started a new club, purely set up to give professional footballers one more shot at glory. With a strict recruitment policy of players aged 35 and over, we’re out to prove speed isn’t everything. So far, things are going quite well, but a spiralling wage bill looks like it could be an issue. Here’s how the table looks as we rejoin the action (or you can view part 1 here):

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Welcome along to another new idea. I’m enjoying the Mulhouse save but it hasn’t quite hit the heights of The Academy save, so it has been re-homed to Thursday. The Academy went as far as it could, so after some good chat with my friend Andrew (King of the Rooks), he showed me the light.

Introducing: The CM9798 Retirement Home

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