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Welcome all to my personal big five challenge thread, Normally I prefer the anonymity of lower league management, working on a shoestring budget with players who can barely kick a ball straight in competitions most people have never heard of. However right now I fancy something all together more glamorous and lucrative and thus have set myself this challenge;

• Win the English Premiership, French Ligue 1, German Bundesliga, Spanish La Liga and Italian Serie A in one career. Easy enough right?
• The Catch is I must do it whilst starting with the club predicted to finish bottom of each league for that season and turn them into conquerors over time.
• Should I take over a club mid-way through a season I will take the side who is bottom at the time.

As per normal for one of my saves I am playing as an ex-professional;





I have decided to take up this challenge as one of my former Villa favourites Thomas Hitzlsperger, Der Hammer lived on the next road down from me in the early 00's and I bumped into him on occasion, he seemed a very nice guy, a quality footballer and his German/Brummie accent was hilarious.

Hitzlsperger started his career at Bayern Munich but never made the first team, he was then signed up by John Gregory at Villa where he spent five years, scoring eight goals in 99 league appearances in Birmingham before falling out of favour under David O'Leary. Hitzlsperger left Aston Villa as a fan favourite, and stated that he might return to the club when the opportunity comes. He gained the nickname Der Hammer during his time at Villa Park, due to his powerful left-foot shot from long-range.

He returned to Germany in order to further his cause for inclusion in Germany's 2006 World cup squad, joining Stuttgart where he became a regular, particularly in his second season in which the team won the Bundesliga title. Hitzlsperger made a large contribution to their success, playing in 30 of the team's 34 league matches and scoring seven times. He scored a crucial equaliser in the 27th minute of Stuttgart's final match of the season against Cottbus, had Stuttgart lost that match, Schalke would have won the title. In the end, a 63rd minute goal by Sami Khadera secured the title for Stuttgart.

Short spells with Lazio, Wolfsberg as well as a return to England with West Ham and Everton followed but injury plagued the midfielder, eventually forcing him to retire at the relatively young age of 31 in order to peruse a coaching career.

At this point we leave reality behind and delve into the world of FM, I have used the in game editor to set all my attributes the same as the real life Hitzlsperger in the default database who I have now overwritten with a fake name and all his attributes set to one.

Apparently Marc Albrighton's mother-in-law was amongst those murdered in Tunisia the other day.

Bournemouth away on the opening day. Always tricky going to a newly promoted side in the first few games.

Melisandre will resurrect him probably.

Albania beating France was a bigger shock.

Shit is going down in Georgia

Apparently we have signed Micah Richards. Decent signing if true, though the club has yet to confirm it.

Fuck, just seen a spoiler on my FB feed that is going to make tonight's episode hard to watch.

As you will have no doubt deduced from the title and previous post, I am taking my first steps into management with Conference North side Boston United. The Pilgrims rose quickly in the early 00's from the Southern Premier League all the way to Division Three with three consecutive promotions. Their stay in the Football league lasted five years before they sank right back to where they started in the Southern Premiership in the blink of an eye, a result of the club chairman having to agree to a league demotion to save the club to bankruptcy after relegation in 2007.

After a season of struggle in 2007/08 the club won promotion to the Northern Conference where they have remained ever since. My mission will be to help the Pilgrims to regain their League status.

I take up the reigns at the Jakeman's stadium from Dennis Greene who was sacked after eighteen months in charge due to the club's horrific start to 2014/15;

Just one win in eleven games obviously isn't good enough for any team, especially one that is expected to finish comfortably mid-table if not higher. I'm confident of avoiding the drop this season and climbing the table. That is the extent of my aspirations for this season and I shall look to build a squad of my own design for 2015/16 to push for promotion with.

The squad is fraught with injuries which may well explain why the club's poor league position, I'll have to manage training carefully in order to get player back to fitness and avoid adding to the physio's problems.

Career Progress

Clubs Managed
June 2014 - Present Boston United

Trophies Won
Cabinet is on order from Ikea

Other Accolades & Accomplishments
CV looks a bit bare.

British Steel

Hello everyone and welcome to my attempt at the British Steel challenge, this has been attempted by many over the years, to my knowledge only two have actually completed it, one over on the SI forum and our very own Gendo a couple of years ago.
The premise of the challenge is simple, at least in theory, starting off unemployed and with a Sunday league reputation I must win every league and cup that is playable in the default database within the British isles and the Republic of Ireland whilst using only British and Irish players.

England
Fa Trophy, Vanarama North/South, Vanarama Premiership, Johnson's Paint trophy, nPower League Two, nPower League One, nPower Championship, League Cup, Community Shield, FA Cup, Premiership

Scotland
Challenge Cup, League Two, League One, Championship, League Cup, Scottish Cup, Premiership

Ireland
Munster Senior cup, Division 1, League cup, Senior Challenge Cup, Premiership

Northern Ireland
Mid-Ulster Cup, Steel & Son's cup, Interim cup, County Antrim Shield, Division two, First division, League Cup, FA cup, Setanta Cup, Premiership

Wales
League Cup, FAW cup, Premiership

It's a hell of a challenge, I don't get a great deal of time to play FM nowadays as I work full time and have my wife and one month old daughter to look after when I get home so my progress will be slow, but I intend to stick with it and hopefully complete the challenge in time for FM16 in October/November time.

Good luck Gendo, One hell of a challenge, nigh on impossible I would say unless you can muster some serious cash to invest in youth facilities and get some high class kids come through.

Yeah that was it.

Wern't Leicester at the centre of something very similar in the late 90's/early 00's? There was some sort of sex scandal in Spain involving them IIRC.

I've not been on Susie much recently but I've just had a catch up on your career mate, albeit with the help of your career summery on the first page rather than reading all fifty odd pages! Amazing stuff, well done.

Best update around the FM scene. I never start a game without it.

I've not done a career in a long while now, seeing this thread again has planted the urge to try this challenge again.

I'm enjoying this season of GoT, I've read all the books but the show has veered away from them considerably in this season so I have little idea of what to expect.

Today is the day, so gutted I couldn't get a ticket.

Still we're going to win, I have my lucky boxers with the hole in on. Never fail.

Tough going but at least there is a bit of breething space between yourselves and Montrose.

Hi can I have this metallic please?

Hereford United's new badge after being reformed.

Feeling rather envious right now.

If memory severs me correctly, East Sterlingshire was were Sir Alex Ferguson began his managerial career?

Good luck anyway mate.

I was thinking the same.

Bye bye Burnley.

Newcastle in the bottom three if results stay the same.

Cleaverly has done it again.

Their up to 14th at the moment, amazing turn around.

Started pretty well, Benteke once again looks deadly.

This Sunderland win puts the pressure right on us today against West Ham.