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I have come up with greatest Football Manager challenge. Ever.

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So years ago on Los Wonderkids I coined the term Pentagon as the name for the challenge where one has to collect all five of the continental trophies. When it was first created it seemed like a daunting task, starting from unemployed and building yourself into that position.

It spread everywhere, and having personally completed it at least three times it's obvious to me: the Pentagon is too easy. If you think completing the Pentagon is hard then you are a baby. That's right, a baby. I'm calling you a baby, baby.

So where to go from there? Where can one go? There are so many vanity challenged:

Winning with home-grown players? Sooooooo 2007
Gaining promotion from the lower leagues in all major nations and winning the league? Pfft, that's a fucking Steam achievement. Some loser already thought of that.
Dafuge's challenge? Get the fuck out of here, that's older than my mum.

No. I have devised the most singularly brilliant challenge that can never, ever be topped. How is that possible? Well, it's really quite simple, because the challenge is this:

Complete Football Manager.

I am going to complete Football Manager. But how can one feasibly complete the supposedly incompletable?

I am going to win every top tier league in vanilla Football Manager.

Years ago this wouldn't have been possible. The amount of processing power required to have all 51 playable nations loaded, along with the burden of 155,000 players, would be crippling. But thanks to the power of the Add/Remove league function you can tailor your game to suit your needs. A player can decide halfway though a career, "fuck it, I want to manage in Hong Kong.".

Using this one powerful tool I will win all 51 nations' top tier leagues, in the same career game.

The rules are simple:

Start unemployed with Sunday League reputation
No in-game editor
Attribute masking on
Can have as many or as few active leagues loaded as possible
No adding/removing managers in order to create vacancies at desirable clubs
Holidaying is allowed

That's it. Very simple, because let's be honest here; the challenge is longevity. If I'm not working on a day I can possibly crank out a season, depending on the number of games. This is a challenge that would take, at the very bare minimum, 51 seasons, but more realistically would take 100 or more. This could easily take over a year to complete.

It is the ultimate Football Manager challenge, and I am going to do it.