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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Turf Roar: Season 4 – part 3 | @Taitanator

Welcome back to the third part of season four.  Last episode we couldn’t buy a win in the league and had slumped to 13th in the table, however there was a small glimmer, well, that might be too generous, we were still in the FA Cup and Champions League, let’s leave it at that.

A new episode, but not new beginnings, we draw 0-0 at home to Sheffield United in the FA Cup 5th round, what the hell, cups are our specialism.  The players ratings highlighting how dismal of a game it was, at least we get a replay.

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Sporting Eeyore – Part 3: Running up that Hill

Hola and welcome back to Gijon, which I have learned is a North-Western City in Spain. This save was started just to explore just how this Gijon team managed to be the worst in history with a paltry 13 points. Some days, I can fully understand it. We have however scrapped our way to 10th, scoring an average of 2 goals a game. That’s good. We have the worst defence in the top half though – that’s bad. Let’s see what the final 15 games bring.

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