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Premier League won!

It's going to be a shame to resign from the club with the Champions League on offer... I'll keep a copy of the save on the side though.

Maybe Wales next?

Edit: Guess not... Instead, Ross County it is.

Scratch the above.

I started up my Rangers game and spent time doing the usual assessment of my squad...trying to find transfer targets etc. etc. Eventually I'd progressed a few weeks through the pre-season, brought in 3 or 4 new players and was just about to gear up for my first friendly match against Dynamo Kyiv when BOOM, crash dump.

I could hardly believe this so began to wonder if there were potential compatibility issues between FM13 and my new Windows 8 laptop. Googling such things elicited no obvious pitfalls for Windows 8 but I did come across the concept of Steam's "Verify integrity of game cache" button, which was new to me.

It took a few minutes to run and it came up with 6 unverifiable files, which were reintegrated (or something). Curious, I loaded up my previous Notts County BSC game and tried once again to run past December 31st.

...January 1st, here I am.

On the one hand, yay. On the other hand, I was just getting into the Rangers deal. :/

Reset my trophy tally back down to zero please. Am starting up a new BSC, and am even bothering to try and log a career this time. Link

Very sad face.

As I tried to pass from 31st December 2017 to 1st January 2018, the game crashed. Like this:



Tried the save game again. The same thing happened.

Loaded up my backup save. Played through two matches again to reach the same point. The same thing happened.

Seems my British Steel Challenge is dead.

The British players rule really come into its own in terms of difficulty when you reach the Premier League gap. Not the gap between the PL and Championship, but rather the gap between being a mid-table team consisting largely of Liverpool/Newcastle rejects and being, well...good.

Maybe Stewart Downing, James Perch et al can make a Champions League push...

Or, er, maybe not.

Took a few weeks break from this over the New Year but am back on it now...

Quit Athlone Town and started looking for any old job. Became manager of Scottish 2nd Div side Dumbarton for...er...almost exactly 2 hours (game time) before thinking "No, this was a Bad Plan" and immediately resigned. Hah.

Somehow amongst my catch-all job applications I managed to get an offer from Notts County, who had just sunk back down to League 1 after a season in the Championship.

The 'ethnic cleansing' was fairly tricky since it left me with no goalkeepers, strikers or wingers - but at least I had pre-season to feverishly work with and managed to get a squad out of it. Although in my transfer frenzy I had ended up signing both GK Rob Elliot (one T) and ST Stephen Elliott (two Ts). For some reason having both an Elliot and an Elliott on the same teamsheet has been annoying me ever since. ¬_¬

Currently mid-December in the 2014/15 season and trying to win the league, but four straight 0-0 draws is not helping at all. The January window can't come soon enough!

Add me in to this one!

Started unemployed and joined Athlone Town in the Irish First Division...as seems to be a pretty common starter, I suppose. Unfortunately I loaded up the game in June so was already halfway through the Irish season when I joined. Finished 3rd in the table then but am now well on my way to winning the First Division in 2013.

Seem to do pretty well in cup runs until I inevitably end up facing Shamrock Rovers, damn them. ¬_¬