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New UEFA Champions League logo (very minor change), with alternative colors:

Exclusive: UEFA Champions League 2021 Logo Leaked - Footy Headlines

And a "collectors item", the league that only “existed” for a few days:

If you are referring to my screenshot that was taken during the match:

In your “match in between highlights panel” or an xml panel it is diverting to (in my case match touchline tablet panel.xml) there should be a reference to an xml file that controls this section.

In my skin this file is called “ match team stats ibh bottom3.xml” but it can be called differently in your skin of course.

In that file I have input the following code to make it look like this in the screenshot:

          <record id="PcOI" width="15" alignment="centre,can_scale" auto_hide_priority="1600"/>

If you input the following code, it should like like this:

          <record id="PRCF" width="70" auto_hide_priority="1600"/>

Could be, I have tested only with Windows. Maybe try the other download for commentary here (it causes crashes and VAR doesn't work, but if that also only gives commentary than you know it's not these files, it would have to be related to the Mac) 

Try it:

SOUND MATCH COMENTARY MATCH FM 21 (sortitoutsi.net)

Thanks for venting multiple times you don't like this download, always good to get some feedback! ;-)

It all depends on how your settings are, I play in extended with slower speed and hardly any duplication nor two commentators at the same time.

It's a free world, you don't like it, that's fine, don't use it……

But it's not as bad as you say it is, only if you put highlights in “key” with higher speeds its' not good at all, and I explained that (as the commentary can't keep up with the speed of the game).

Proper version with no VAR issues and edited sound and commentary is now available and posted here:

Football Manager 2021 (PROPER) Audio Commentary patch (sortitoutsi.net)

Good to know, I imagined as it was all packaged into .fmf files you would need to have that done. That makes making changes a lot easier. Thanks for sharing!

You will need the Resource Archiver to extract simatchviewer-pc.fmf.

When done you can edit the sounds folder, after that you create the archive again with the same tool.

Yes, it’s possible. The commentary files in the sounds folder is in CAPITAL letters while the crowd sounds are in small letters.

So you will need to delete all sound files in CAPITAL letters from the folder to keep just the ambient sounds

All requests from the last days:

Thanks a lot, it's not perfect and sometimes repetitive but there are plenty of alternative commentary lines so always fun to hear something completely new too.

It does make it a lot nicer though, prior to this I usually turned the sound off completely as the standard sound sucks (but that's just my opinion) 

OP updated with new full download link

No idea, the crowd sounds are included together with the commentary. Likely you didn't clear the cache completely and reloaded the skin/cache or you didn't exit the game while replacing files.

I have played many matches with this new version and it is very rare that it duplicates the exact same phrase at the same time. Sometimes the two commentators overlap but that even happens in real life sometimes ;-)

Corrected upload with new full download link

The Spanish logo is for the National Team, not the Spanish Football Federation.

This is the new logo:

San Diego Loyal:

Yes it does, same procedure as described, only 

in FM 2020 and FM 2021 the sound files are in “simatchviewer-pc.fmf”.

I'm working on a version for FM2021, but it needs manual recoding of the xml files, so will take a week or two to get that fixed.

For FM 2019 and FM 2020 follow the instructions in the OP to get this working.

(It could be that the file for the sounds changed in FM2019 too to “simatchviewer-pc.fmf”, instead of “simatchviewer.fmf“, I don’t have that version installed anymore, but the overall description with using the Resource Archive tool is the same. )

The reason the VAR got all “messed up” and crashes occurred is because “simatch.fmf” which contains the “matchevents.xml" and  matchcfg.xml" files, will need to be edited for the live commentary to work instead of replaced with an “older version”.

In previous versions they could be just replaced with the “commentary files” from previous versions and it would work, now they need to be manually edited (which is a lot of work)…………….

When I reviewed, I noticed there is a portion with “VAR related code” and some other added code throughout the new file. So I'm now (slowly but surely) manually restoring the commentary code into the new files, without touching the newly added code and VAR code. This should add the commentary and prevent VAR issues and/or crashes.

As I'm still working on this I haven't been able to test it, but pretty sure this is the actual issue.  

Accrington Stanley

Hi, thanks for the feedback, the frequency of updates really depends on the amount of updated/added logo's in a certain period of time. Could well be when there are many changes that I will release updates more often.

Having said this, I think it is the right time for an update as of today, and I have included the update to 1.0.2 below (I will also update the OP).

As mentioned before, don't overwrite the config files unless you are only using this logo pack (some people overwrite their other logo pack with this one, so if my logo isn't there it will show the logo from the other pack (not the default one). If the config overwrites it will only show the ESSv5 logo's available here.

Alternative logo included:

Looks like teams from Filipino competition, some no longer exist, some active.

As I explained in several posts I am not following up on individual requests for competitions that aren't already included in the Megapack. Also no lower league/amateur teams. 

Reason for this is that every logo needs to be created individually and it is time consuming. My intention has been to create a quality logo pack, not the biggest logo pack out there. I have posted in this thread the Photoshop action file so you can create them yourself if you want to.
I would never encounter any Filipino teams, as in this example and as requested, in my game and see no need to spend a few hours on creating these logos, hope you understand. This also applies to other nations not already included in the download.

Updated the Nimes Olympique logo to a better looking one

The logo's you are showing have already been updated prior, please review the postings (Hellas Verona (which is the image of the new logo you posted) actually has a different ID# 2201, Chievo Verona is #1122 and has updated their logo to a new one which I created now and attached here.