Cup Winners Cup9798 – Week 2: The Irn-Bru Cola Cup | @RossBell__

The Blog Squad are in action again with another white hot week of Cup Winners Cup 9798 action. Here’s Ross with the breakdown.

Week 2 is here, I’m suffering with Covid so hopefully Parma can cheer me up this week, we will see.

We start this week with some cup action and as last week I’ll just bring you the human on human action…….

We start with Dean’s Man U ‘91 taking on Philip’s Arsenal ‘94 in the 1st round of the league challenge cup. 2-0 at ht quickly becomes 3 and it’s a comfortable victory for Dean. My Parma team takes on Rob’s Zaragoza boys. It finishes 2-2 at FT and then 2-2 at the end of extra time and I take a 4-3 victory on pens.

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The Keegan-Burger P04: When the Brown Mist Descends | @KingOfTheRooks

It’s the last day of February and it’s barely a coincidence but it’s the last update of season one here for Andrew. Can he secure the title?

Willkommen! Thanks to me forgetting the reduced size of the Bundesliga, this will be a relatively short close to the season. If you missed the last part, you can catch up here. We remain top by the slimmest of margins:

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The Keegan-Burger P03: Unger Strike | @KingOfTheRooks

Merry Monday to you! he David Brown experiment rolls on…

Willkommen! Das ist das neueste folge von ‘Das Keegan-Burger’. You can catch up on last week here. So far so good in the city of burgers. David Brown has generally taken to life in the Bundesliga like a duck to water, and we’re slowly building a foil of solid German players around him.

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The Keegan-Burger P02: Butt of the Jokes | @KingOfTheRooks

Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s a homage to the man who sang Head over Heels from our own sex symbol Andrew…

Welcome back to my latest ‘normal’ save, The Keegan-Burger…not sure what it is? You can catch-up here. Last time out we had a rip-roaring start to life in the Bundesliga with David Brown:

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The Keegan-Burger P01: The One & Only | @KingOfTheRooks

It’s been a little while since I’ve done anything remotely normal in CM9798. I had an idea a long time ago (idea no. 19 of 34 I have on the boil) when re-reading about the late 70’s and Keegan’s export to the Bundesliga and then the recent wave of UK based footballers exploring German football again. So, The Keegan-Burger; what is it?

We will look to bring a young talented Englishman over to Hamburg and build a team of largely German talent around this player who will be our star and leading light.

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Battle of the Tactics: The Ultimate Formation | @KingOfTheRooks

Philip is out of action for a few weeks – get well soon my friend. We’ll be back with Lierse to see the finale later in the year but we have a treat of an Andrew experiment in his absence. What’s the best tactic in CM9798? An impossible question you may think but Andrew has been editing…

Following the Blog Squad’s Champions League Manager escapades and the frequent CM Cup the question always lingers…which non-AI formation is the best? Well, here we’ve taken the 10 most popular formations (and some guests) and pitted them against each other in the Scottish Premier League. Feels the best template given they’ll face off with each other more frequently due to the size of the league. So which formations have we chosen?

The Tactics:

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Cheering Up Peter Reid – Part Five: Murder Mystery | @KingoftheRooks

Welcome back marra’s! We’re here, in the Premier League a season early so we’re already cheering up some. It may well all implode soon, as this will be a big step up. We’re aiming to at least finish 7th as per Sunderland’s Premier League second coming under Reid. You can catch up from the beginning here. The best of the new recruits in wonderboy Carsten.

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