Portuguese Men o’ Wolves – Part 15: Cort in a Gayle | @NTR9798

Bom Dia! and welcome to the finale of Nick’s first season in the Premiership with his entirely-Portuguese Wolves squad. They’re in a great position, but have some tough games coming up. Can they hold it together until the end? Here’s Nick…

Whatever happens over the next 15 games, I’m proud of the boys. I’d have bitten your hand off if you’d offered me relegation survival, but we now find ourselves in contention for European football, so let’s see what we can do.

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Nowhere I’d Radebe – Part 11: Daio I not like that… | @Matt_C_Wills

Good morning and welcome to the sticky middle of season 4 with my all African Leeds United team. We’re playing our first season in Europe and despite a tough group, we’re still in with a chance of qualifying. In the league however, midweek Champions League hangovers are a very real thing, stunting our progress

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Portuguese Men o’ Wolves – Part 14: Coelho K-O | @NTR9798

Bom Dia! and welcome along to another Friday of fun and games with Nick and his Portuguese Wolves, who have made a good start to life in the Premiership so far, including a win at Old Trafford. Can they keep up the good work? Here’s Nick with the latest from the Estadio Molineux…

After taking three attempts to get into this division, my aim before a ball was kicked was to merely stay up, so you can imagine my pure delight at sitting 8th in the table after 12 games. Let us see what this week has in store…

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Nowhere I’d Radebe – Part 10: Africa Enters Europe | @Matt_C_Wills

Hello to you – I’ve named the first part of Season 4 as ‘Africa Enters Europe’ as last season we won the FA Cup, which would allow Leeds to compete in the Cup Winners Cup, but we managed to pull a second place finish in the league out of the hat, giving us a shot at the Champions League. It is not about cans of Xmas favourite aerosols being inserted into the orifices of 80’s power ballad rockers, Europe. If you were expecting the latter, this is not the blog for you.

Anyway, Season 4 is about to start and we find out who stands between us and at least 6 games against Europe’s finest. It could have been worse with Monaco, Inter and Dortmund lurking.

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Portuguese Men o’ Wolves – Part 13: Bye bye Bully | @NTR9798

Bom Dia! and welcome along to season four, where Nick and his men have finally made it to the Premiership at the third attempt! They’ll need to step it up a gear to survive though, so what can Nick do with his squad to make it capable of staying up?

I’m straight to work after losing the FA Cup final, releasing Carlos (one of my keepers), and Eduardo’s contract was almost up, but at least I manage to get something for him…

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Portuguese Men o’ Wolves – Part 12: Third time lucky? | @NTR9798

Bom Dia! and welcome to the finale of season three with Nick and his Portuguese imports (plus Steve Bull). They’re in the automatic promotion spots with eleven games left, and still going strong in the FA Cup, so how will it all unravel? here’s Nick..

Here’s the situation. As much as I’d like to finish top, City show no signs of losing (unlike in real life at the minute), so it looks like it’ll be a fight for second with The Brum, although we should probably keep one eye on Coventry…

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Nowhere I’d Radebe – Part 8: The Secret Diary of Adimole | @Matt_C_Wills

Welcome back to another part of the saga that is my journey to glory with my Leeds team made up from players across the African continent. So far, we’ve been fair to middling. We can score, but we also can’t defend.

Here’s how we left things last week, reaching for the top, but can we keep it up?

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Where the current Premier League Managers can be found in CM9798 and is anybody still playing? 2024 Edition

Hello! It must be winter as it is time for our annual visit to what has become a much trickier article to write in recent times. Managers are getting younger, one of these years we will have a manager not born in 1997. Anyway, let’s take a look where the current Premier League managers can be found in CM9798 and see just how small the list of players still playing is.

Also, Bluesky is taking off. I can be found on there under cm9798dave.bluesky.social – I still plan to post on X/Twitter (CM9798) too but I do fear one day I will wake up and it just won’t be there anymore…

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Portuguese Men o’ Wolves – Part 11: Trafford trip | @NTR9798

Bom Dia! and welcome back for another week with Nick and his Portu-Wolves, who after a mini blip at the start of the season are now flying high at the halfway point. Can they keep it up for a run of games that will make or break their season?…

Here’s how the table’s looking. The important thing is the 6-point gap to 3rd place because I couldn’t give a sh*t whether we finish 1st or 2nd really, I just want to get out of this god-forsaken division once and for all! Let’s go…

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