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Well, definitely not great but was fun to do none the less.



There is my profile



2017 WC Qualifying



WC Qualifying Table. First place! (Only good part to this story)



African Championship of 2018...out after the group stage



WC Group Stage..started off good, then de-railed completely as expected.



WC Group...was drawn into a pretty tough group. Was really happy after the 4-0 win over Peru, but then came the England game..

Overall...I did pretty terrible as the boss of Egypt. Hope to do better with England next time around.

SCORE
20 points for automatic qualification
-15 for group exit in African Championship
0 for WC Group Stage exit

Overall 5 points

Manged to win my WC Qualifying group on GD after beating Uganda on the final match day 6-2. Will update further in a little bit.

Wish I would have discovered this tour thing earlier! This is fantastic, getting my game set up now and will see how I do!

Pretty terrible pre-season. At least it ended on a positive note.

2016/2017 Awards and Competition Results!

Individual Awards

World Player of the Year -- L. Messi
Ballon d'Or -- L. Messi

Competitions

Premiere League -- Arsenal by 7 points
Liga Santander -- Real Madrid by 6 points
Bundesliga -- Bayern Munich by 7 points
Ligue 1 -- PSG by 6 points

Champions League -- Bayern Munich (def. Real Madrid 2-0)
Europa League -- Inter Milan (def. Mainz 3-0)

Confederations Cup -- Portugal (def. Mexico 1-0 after Extra Time)

Next post will be a 2017/18 Pre-season recap

First season is in the books! We won the league on the final day of the season and also added the Intermediate Cup to complete the season double!





Overall the season went really well. I was disappointed to be knocked out of the other Cups though. Definitely should have won the Toals Steel & Sons Cup but was knocked out in the Semis by a reserve side..same side I beat to reach the final of the Intermediate Cup so its all good, got them back!

Definitely looking forward to my next season in the Championship!

Next post will be an overview of other competitions around the world for the season.

and trophy number two! The league title is ours!

First trophy for me!

In this career I attempt to complete the British Steel Challenge, a challenge where you have to win all the trophies in England, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Wales using only British players. Its an extrememly difficult challenge but one I'm hoping to complete.



I started as un-employed and quickly got offered the job at Dundela in the Northern Ireland Premiere Intermediate League which is the third tier in Northern Ireland. I took over just after the first pre-season game of the year.



Dundela have a pretty good set-up and I only brought in a few players, listed below



Next post will be the first season review.

Attempted this a few years back, will be trying it again! Will post once I've won anything here and once I get my career page going

- Update: I started un-employed and have now taken over Dundela in the Northern Ireland Premier Intermediate League. I've taken over during the pre-season so I've got some time to get my team and staff set.

Are you playing it with the original database? Not the updated 17.3 one?

Sorry for the lack of updates. Got busy and then got into playing the game forgetting to update the story. Anyways, the first season is now finished and managed to win promotion into Liga Adelante by winning the Segunda B1 division and then winning the promotion playoffs as well. Some screenshots to come later once I get them.

26/08/2014 -- Oviedo finished off its pre-season this afternoon after defeating Alondras by the score of 4-0 in front of 1,195 fans at O Morrazo in Cangas de Morrazo. Oviedo were up 3-0 at halftime after goals from Hector Font (5th min), Jose Fernandez (12th minute), and Edu Bedia (penalty 45 +3 min). Bedia also scored a second penalty in the match in the 58th minute to finish out the scoring.

Oviedo finished out its first pre-season under Crebs with 5 wins, 2 draws, and 1 loss. Oviedo will kick off the new Segunda B1 season on Sunday at home against Burgos.

15/07/2014 -- It was announced today that an unknown American coach by the name of Casey Crebs has been appointed the new manager of Real Oviedo, S.A.D. Crebs was quoted saying he is "very happy to join the team and can't wait to get started at Oviedo" earlier this afternoon at a press conference that took place at Nuevo Carlos Tartiere, the clubs 30,000 seat stadium in Oviedo. More to come on this breaking news later in the day.

The season has ended, the goal has been achieved to make the board happy. A solid 12th place finish ensures I get to come back next season to try again.

Fixture List:


Table:


Below you will see who I have chosen as my player of the season.


Melligan had a tremendous season for us. Unfortunately, he was injured for around 5 weeks near the end of the season. He might have done even better for us if it weren't for that.

Overall, we had a pretty good year. I'm pretty happy with this team and am looking forward to coming back next season even stronger. Its going to be a busy off-season for us though as all the players currently at the club will see their contracts run out at the end of June. Now I must sit down with my staff and figure out which players will be back next year and which ones wont.

March definitely wasn't a great month. A quick check of the fixture list below will show that



Table:


Its just looking like this wont be our year to move up.

A quiet month all around in February. Two wins and two loses sends us up to 11th in the table, up one spot form last month! Also, we failed to score in a match for only the second time this season, having scored the previous 27 matches in a row before the game against North Ferriby.

Fixtures for the month:


League table:

Thanks! Considering we were predicted to finish in the relegation zone I'm happy with where we are right now.

We move into February and it wasn't a horrible month of January but it wasn't great either. We stayed 12th in the league and saw a few good results go our way.

Fixtures for January


League Table after January:

Thanks for the kind words everyone!

It was two tough months! So far January has been a bit better, not back to what I want from this team though. Looks like we kight just have to ride tis year out and come back better next season.

Happy New Years to everyone from Oxford City! Finally we move into 2014 and it couldn't come at a better time! December was another horrible month for the club but we did end it on a positive by winning the final two games of the month and calendar year!

December also saw a player depart the club, CB Lee Henderson. I was a little shocked when he handed the transfer request to me, but I agreed to let him go. We even acquired some money for him which was tremendous! He never made it into my match day squad so it really wasn't a hard decision to let him go.



Six more league games in the month of December and no cup games which was nice for sure. Still, we had a very congested last week in the league and the teams stamina sure suffered but we overcame that and ended the month nicely!



Also, not from the fixture list that we seem to have a player on fire right now! John Melligan scored eight goals for us over the course of the month, including four in one match! He also at one point scored four consecutive goals for the team over a two game period!



Below is the table. With the nice run at the end of the month we are back up to 12th in the league! The weak point for sure has been the dense, hopefully that will improve soon!



I figured I would take a moment to talk tactics. I used a 3-6-1 in that game I won 6-1 over Gloucester. I had to switch to using 3 CBs because my teams only LB was suspended for the match. Should I try using this tactic more often since it work so well in this game? Or should I continue to stick to my 4-2-3-1?

Just finished reading the whole story so far! Tremendous job with FC United so far! I've always enjoyed playing as this team but am going to try and stay focused on my Oxford City career for now Great job though Dan! Cant wait to read more!

Thanks! Too bad it didnt last long

Thanks, unfortunately it didnt last

A great October lead into a disastrous November. We lost every game we played in the month except for the third round qualifying match for the FA Trophy. Also got knocked out of both cups we were in the running for.

Fixtures:


Table:

We had a very good October! The month saw us go undefeated in the league and win two different FA Cup matches, taking us into the First round proper of the FA Cup!

October matches:


League Table:

Will do!

Thanks! Definitely a challenge but I think its one that I can pull off, hopefully haha

Quick update, here is the league table heading into October!



Match