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#538164 Scarborough Athletic FC
bigmattb28
#538162 A magical mystery tour - a journeyman save
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#537500 [FM20] Earth Trip
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Sometimes you get that where no matter what you do the game has it in for you. No doubt China will prove a safe haven for you to rebuild your rep, but those Super League teams have some mad budgets.
#537499 Lets go on a European journey, man!
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#537497 Nordic nights & Scandinavian days
bigmattb28
Thanks, I'd not actually clicked on we've been unbeaten until we'd won the league, I'd just blasted through this season.
#537379 Nordic nights & Scandinavian days
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Goalkeeper Alberto Acuna, signed before I got here from the MLS, has played in every game this season
Right full back Tim Bjorkstrom
Mr versatile Magnus Rasmussen, he has been our starting left full back for most of the games, whilst slotting into midfield here and there
Center halves Marjan Jovanovic, who has agreed a free transfer back to Serbia, and Christopher Routis who is a natural CM but has played DF all season
Center mids Vito Mistrati and Viktor Einarsson
Player of the year and all round great guy, AMC Paul Willis who joined me from Huginn. He can play anywhere in midfield, but his stats this season, 10 goals and 5 assists in 20 games from AMC have been great
Right winger Mads Vang who had rotated with Vignir Bjarnsson before he left for Belguim.
Left winger Axel Prohouly who played as an inside forward for most of title run
Deep lying forward Adrai Lopez, signed from IBK. We do have Simonsen that is a natural CF, but Lopez just seemed to play better every time he was on the pitch
End of season stuff now
Told you in an earlier post that Willis was good, despite the fans not liking this signing.
Manager of the year was never going to be in doubt was it
Don’t know why this is showing 4-4-2, maybe because that’s my favoured formation? Either way, we definitely set up 4-2-3-1 all season and Simonsen came off the bench in every appearance he made and Buzuku hardly started many games either.
Now I was torn on what to do from here. Do I stay and play the Champions League games, and try to repeat winning the league?
After some deliberation, I decide to leave on a high, and let the next manager come in and try and see what they can do with this squad.
Ungmennafelagio Fjolnir, it’s been an absolute pleasure. Whilst this is a challenge, I think at some point down the road in this career I’ll be back in Iceland.
Until we meet again.
#537368 Nordic nights & Scandinavian days
bigmattb28
I'm not on the game at the minute, but I'm sure it's the second qualifying round Icelandic teams go in at.
#537335 Starting at the bottom
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#537331 Nordic nights & Scandinavian days
bigmattb28
We’re playing KR in the final of the FA Cup.
Our good form continued on as we beat my former team again 1-0, as well as beating IV 3-2 leading up to the cup final which takes place during the league season.
It’s cup final day, and I’m confident of a win here.
We set up to attack, and attack we did. 5 minutes in the ball is in the back of the net
Our positive approach came back to us as we went down from a very well executed counter attack.
Our heads didn’t drop though, and after some encouraging shouts we’re back in the game, with Lopez grabbing the equaliser. Game on!
38 minutes in and we’re in the lead, Einarsson getting the goal to give us a 2-1 advantage
Half time team talk was all positive. We go out in the second looking to take the game, and we do get the lead in the 74th minute through Simonsen
We certainly deserved to win this, as we were the better team in this game. Another trophy for me now as I make it 3 cup wins in 3 seasons.
Back to league action now, as we continued winning points with a 2-0 away win over FH, which set a team record of 47 points in a season which set up a game against IR. A game if we win, we’re Pepsi-deidin winners
Going into the game, we’re top of the league with 47 points, 17 in front of second placed FH.
Attack is the name of the game. 53 seconds in.
No looking back.
23 minutes in.
It’s happening.
Full time.
There was absolutely no doubt in my mind we were going to win this game. This season has been all about us, and now with 4 games left to go, the only thing left to do is try and go the full season unbeaten.
Before we crack on with those games though, KRC Genk have made an offer for Bjarnason, and I reluctantly accept as he wants to speak to them.
He’s off no doubt about it. We only think of ourselves now however as we record a 6-0 away win over KA, a 1 all draw at home to BU, a 4-0 win over KR and a final day draw with Valur, to record not only a league and cup double, but an unbeaten season to boot!! My former team Huginn also found themselves relegated this season.
Closing out this update is confirmation I am now an icon at UF and rightly so I think.
Next update will be me sharing my title winning squad, the off season and any other business.
Thanks for reading.
Career progress:
2016 | FC Hollviken (Sweden) Finished 10th Division 1 Sodra
2017 | FC Hollviken (Sweden) Sacked whilst 12th Division 1 Sodra
2018 | IK Oddevold (Sweden) Lost in play off final Division 1 Sodra
2019 | IK Oddevold (Sweden) Sacked whilst 12th in Division 1 Sodra
2020 | IF Huginn (Iceland) Finished 3rd in1 deild karla
2021 | IF Huginn (Iceland) Finished 1st in 1 deild karla
2022 | IF Huginn (Iceland) Finished 7th in Pepsi-deildin
2023 | IF Huginn (Iceland) Sacked whilst 8th in Pepsi-deildin
2024 | UF (Iceland) Winners Pepsi-deildin & FA Cup winners
#537330 Nordic nights & Scandinavian days
bigmattb28
Could be the next step after Iceland....
#537329 Nordic nights & Scandinavian days
bigmattb28
It was always going to happen eventually wasn't it!
#537140 Nordic nights & Scandinavian days
bigmattb28
So we kicked off the next chapter of the career at UF, and in the Upper League Cup, which I have won the last 2 times
The first 5 games of the cup were against lower league Vestri (3-0), a loss to BU(0-2), a win over Vikingur (1-0), before my 200th game of the career against KF (1-0) before a 0-0 with Sindri preceded a pretty important game for me
I come face to face with the club that has given me the best success I have had in the career so far IF Huginn. I loved my time there but I've moved on so have they.
It takes until the 45th minute of the game before a goal is scored, and this time lat season I would’ve been happy, Huginn take the lead through a new signing for them Bjorgolfsson.
My team talk is aggressive, route one style and take more chances. We were poor in the second half, it’s almost like UF don’t want to help their new manager get on over
his former club. We do get a stroke of luck however as we’re given a penalty in the 80th. This is it, I can feel it. Up steps Prohouly…
Keeper is beaten
Piss off. Just piss off.
We round out the group stage with a 2 all draw Leiknir to qualify for the next round in 2nd place
3 of Huginn’s 5 points came against me
We’ve got Fylkir in the next round, and if you read 1 of my last posts, I said I've never lost to them
@r96Skinner will be happy. 2 goals in the last minute. We were on to a hiding after 24 minutes with the score 3-1 to them. Gutted. A third in a row Upper League Cup isn’t coming my way
Before we kick off in our league campaign, Liverpool righted last seasons wrong by winning the Championship. Will be interesting to see how they get on in the Premier League next season.
A third place finish is expected of us, which makes a massive change from me and Huginn expected to finish bottom the last 2 seasons.
We had 4 games in May, and we won all 4. 2-0 over Vikingyur, 2-1 over Stjarnan and 5-1 over IBK in the league, and a 2-0 win over lower league side Komakur in the FA Cup.
We’re also drawn against Huginn of all teams in the cup. Let’s hope we win this one.
We got a massive 6-2 win over FH in the league, before our first league game with Huginn,.
We followed that draw up with a win over IV & IR in the league, before getting some redemption by beating Huginn 1-0 in the cup. We got a 120th minute winner, better late than never.
We’ve been draw against KF in the quarter final of the cup.
2 hard fought wins over KA (3-2) & KR (3-1) rounded out June 2024 with us sitting proudly atop the league.
July saw us win again in the cup, 3-0 over KE and drawn against my favoured team Leiknir.
The good league form continued with a 2-0 win over VR, 1-0 over KV, a 1 all draw away to BU, an end to end game with IK finished 4-2 in our favour, and a 1-0 away win over Stjarnan.
That brings us to the start of August 2024, and the eagle eyed among you will noticed we’ve so far gone unbeaten since getting knocked out of the Upper League Cup. We’ve got Leiknir in the FA Cup next.
Before we get there though, and to round out this update, the 2024 Euro’s happened and the winners were France, beating England in the final.
I said to myself I would load the nation up as playable whoever won the Euro’s, so if / when I conquer the 5 Nordic leagues, France is now playable so I may end up there.
That’s it for this update. Next update will the second half of our league season and any other business. Thanks for reading.
#537119 Nordic nights & Scandinavian days
bigmattb28
Well in the incoming update we play Huginn early on....
#537118 Nordic nights & Scandinavian days
bigmattb28
Yep
#537053 Nordic nights & Scandinavian days
bigmattb28
Bugger
Firstly I didn’t declare my interest in those other jobs, I was asked about them and I said it’s nice to get noticed it means we’re doing well. Secondly, I am a club f*cking legend!
Piss off Argyris
I’m sure I'm going to get 1 of those 2 jobs I was asked about and went to the interview.
Well I didn’t want to go to Inter Turku anyway
I didn’t even want to go to KUPS either!
With the remaining 7 games of the Icelandic season going to an end, it was my favoured team Leiknir that went down, and my former team Huginn managed to stay up, winning 1 of their last 7 games to survive by the skin of their teeth.
My assistant manager losing his 3 games in interim charge, and the new manager winning 1 and losing his other 3.
It’s at this time that the manager of Fjolnir in Iceland leaves his post. They finished 4th in the Pepsideildin. I apply.
They come back quickly and interview me, which I accept the offer without hesitation.
Decent sized club in this league, decent facilities to boot, runners up in the league 3 seasons ago, they won the FA Cup in 2022 and the champions cup (Icelands version of the Charity / Community Shield) last season. As well as that a top 5 finish in each of the last 2 seasons.
A quick look at the squad and this guy is the best RM they have. Look at that pace and acceleration
A little bit of squad building here, the squad is clearly good enough for a top 4 at worst finish, but we sign midfielder Mistrati, my main man Willis from Hugginn, not really sure why the fans at my new club aren’t happy with Willis signing, player of the year for me 2 of the last 3 seasons, am sure he will prove an inspired signing.
Complementing those 2 is midfielder Routis.
Just like that I'm at the start of a new season, this time with Ungmennafelagio Fjolnir, from here on I'm just going to refer to my new team as UF!
Thanks for reading, next update will be the start of the new season which is the Upper League Cup, a cup I’ve won twice in a row now.
*** Also this is my 1,000th post on Sortitoutsi***
#537045 Lets go on a European journey, man!
bigmattb28
#537041 [FM20] Earth Trip
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#537036 Nordic nights & Scandinavian days
bigmattb28
If I had an in game editor I would make him a Man U legend
Next update is on it's way too
#536857 Nordic nights & Scandinavian days
bigmattb28
Only silver lining is this deal goes through when his contract ends in November.
Season preview has us finishing bottom again. Again despite winning the cup for a second time
We kicked off our season with another win over my favoured team Leikinir, Pukki grabbing the winner on the stroke of half time.
Our next game was a home tie against Vikingur, and we had a man sent off on 50 minutes, with left back (and all around drainer) Gunnarson getting himself sent off. Before this game he was moaning for a new contract, despite playing second fiddle and coming off the bench. Anyway it didn’t matter as we got a goal on the break through Guldbrandsen. We then went defensive and somehow, remarkably held on for an impressive 1-0 win!
We managed a 0-0 draw with IR before beating KF in the cup to round out the first month of the new season and siting in 4th place
Before we continued our own season, in England the Championship play off happened, and Liverpool got beat by Hull
Judging by the shots on goal and possession, 1-0 flattered Liverpool, nothing better then seeing an 89th minute going in. Lol.
Once again we beat Fylkir ( sorry @r96Skinner ) I don’t think I've lost to them yet, with Pukki grabbing a hat trick and showing that we’re probably, most definitely going to miss him come November.
During the off season in England, Bury (RIP IRL) offered me an interview as they sacked their manager
Bottom of league 1, this would be a great move to make, but as I can only go to Scandinavian clubs for now, it’s a no.
A win over Stjarnan confirmed we’ve gone 18 games unbeaten stretching back to September, a nice little record to have made.
Of course after getting a notification of an unbeaten run, we lose our next game to FH, but redeemed ourselves in the cup with a win over lower league side IF
A 2-0 win over IV and a 1 all draw with KA saw out June
3 poor results followed, as we went down to UF, a 2 all draw away to IK and a 3-0 loss to IV in the cup to knock us out in the quarters.
The downfall continued, as we went down 4-0 at home to KR and 1-0 away to Vikingur.
More losses now, as we lost to my favourite team Lekinir 2-1, and 5-0 to IR which then brought criticism for my tactics.
A slight tactical tweak now as we got 4-1-2-3 in our next game
Which pays off as we win 1-0 away to Stjarnan
Here comes the end of this update, as I am invited to an interview with Finnish side KUPS.
10th in the league, and in a higher rep league, I don’t hesitate to attend
The media asked me about it, and I just side it’s nice to see my name linked to big jobs.
Then the next day, in the same division, FC Inter Turku offered me an interview.
So I attend. Either of these jobs is a step in the right direction, and again the media ask me about it and I say the same thing.
Then the board at my current club want a word.
They’re saying I declared my interest in those jobs, but I didn’t really, I just answered the questions posed to me, I definitely didn't press the declare interest option on either club. But we'll see what comes of the meeting.
That’s it for this update. Next update will be the outcome of my meeting with the board, the next set of games and any other business.
Thanks for reading.
#536846 [FM20] Earth Trip
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#536845 Homegrown Hoops
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#536525 Nordic nights & Scandinavian days
bigmattb28
Cheers man, I am surprised we won the cup again, just hope that form carries over into the league
#535906 Nordic nights & Scandinavian days
bigmattb28
We drew 1 all in the opener against BU, with a Pukki goal for us before we conceded in the second
A 2-0 win over Fram Reykjavik preceded my 100th game for Huginn
The 100th game of my time here ended in a 2 all draw with UF, before back to back wins over Grindavkiur and IK
A 3-1 win over Fylkir sorry @r96Skinner and a 3-0 win over Valur confirmed our passage into the quarters
We’re drawn against IR in the quarters
Just before that however I'm offered an interview, and this is 1 don’t hesitate to attend. Danish NordicBet Liga side Silkeborg want to speak, and I attend.
4th in the league and within a shout of finishing in the play offs, it’s a no brainer
The quarters were easier than I thought they would be, as we dominated IR 3-0 to set up a semi final clash against my favoured side Leikinir Reykjavik
That game was also cut and dry, 2-0 and we didn’t even break a sweat.
We’ve got a second final in a row! This time we’ve got FH in the final.
Not going to lie, a second final was not on the cards, but the eagle eyed among you will notice Pukki has got 9 goals in 9 cup games so far, without him we certainly wouldn’t be here
How did it go?
Didn’t even break a sweat! I just let the games play out, I didn’t really try and win them we just went out, did our thing and came back with another trophy!
So another cup win to set us off in the league. We’re still favorites to finish bottom, but just like last year I;m confident we’ll stay up.
Oh, and Silkeborg don’t want me either. No bother.
Next update will be the first few months of the new season. Thanks for reading.
#535899 Nordic nights & Scandinavian days
bigmattb28
Yeah for sure, onward and upward
#535359 Nordic nights & Scandinavian days
bigmattb28
My message to the players, go out there and win, I will accept nothing less.
Exactly 70 seconds into the game. The ball is already in the back of the net.
Game on.
The score stays like this until half time. We’re keeping up our end of the deal here, as VR are also winning their game 3-2 at home to KR, but at the minute we’re sitting in 7th place in the table, and staying up.
Its end to end stuff in our game, both teams are going for the win, we are holding on really but we’ve got something they don’t have, a top striker.
Center half Sarr plays a long looping ball over the top
1 touch to steady himself, another to take it away from the defender
Just what we needed.
Good job we got that late goal, because KR won their game 5-3 and survived. We would’ve gone down had we lost as well as IP have a better goal difference, so this was probably the biggest win of our season.
So survival on the last day of the season, very good feeling for us. We finish in 7th place, and 3 points safe.
End of season stuff now, the usual things
But I’m still in demand, as 1 of Iceland's top clubs want to interview me, Knattspyrnufelg Reykjavik.
I sit and ponder this for a while, one the 1 hand they’re easily going to challenge for the top of the league with a couple of signings despite them finishing 1 place below us in 8th this season, and that away kit is sexy AF not gonna lie, but on the other hand I’m actually enjoying being at Huginn, and they’ve given me a decent enough wage budget this season, we’ve got Pukki, so I decide to say no.
It’s at this time I also sign a contract extension, and I have identified the players we’re going to sign to really make sure we’re not dragged into another relegation battle.
First in is full back Hattab from France to replace the retiring Sarr.
Next in are Danish players, winger Hoist and central midfielder Guldbrandsen.
We also signed center half Matt Olosunde who started at Man United. A definite improvement on our current center halves
We’re also given the overachievers award for the season that’s just finished, and that makes it 3 seasons in a row we’ve claimed that tag
As is the case, the Upper League Cup is the prelude to the new season, and we’re drawn in Group C this time, and we’re going to hope for a strong showing and hope we can reclaim the cup.
Before then however we’re greeted with the news that the new manager at KR, the team I turned down, is after a new striker, 1 of ours
Griti has 1 year left on his contract, and is valued at 15k. I won’t be accepting any bids for him and the player even says he wants to stay.
They do bid 35K for him, and before I even get a chance to look at it, the board have kindly accepted on my behalf
I make my feelings known and protest it to the board
Thanks Mr Director. Now we can move on with the season.
Our first game of the Upper League Cup is against BU. We’ve got some quality players in, Pukki’s got a goal in him in any game, so we can be hopeful of a good season.
#535337 Nordic nights & Scandinavian days
bigmattb28
Cheers mate. That final day update is on it's way
#535336 Nordic nights & Scandinavian days
bigmattb28
I genuinley could not believe that he was willing to talk, and the opening squad status was back up, and he took a low wage! Needless to say he's the first name on the team sheet!
#535291 Nordic nights & Scandinavian days
bigmattb28
If there’s any game to prove we’ve got what it takes to stay up, it’s this one.
Not long into the game, we’ve found the ball out wide, it’s played along the floor in the box, and you already know what happens next
Hopefully they do actually think he’s worth it now
Would you believe it, 26 minutes in we’re 3 goals to the good, Pukki again tapping home to really prove my point that this is a signing that’s going to prove pivotal
Second half and 3-0 we’re cruising, so much so that we’re playing with confidence and bang in not only a 4th goal, but Pukki’s hat trick goal!
The icing on the cake was a 5th goal, not for Pukki but Willis buries it on 58 minutes to give us the 3 points
It’s amazing what 1 signing can do, 5-0 and we looked good, surely this is the start of us securing our place in this division next season?
Maybe not. Terrible. Move on.
With Pukki signing and Persson wanting to leave after being given a leave of absence due to being home sick, he’s said he wants to leave permanent. No hard feelings Andreas, maybe we’ll meet again sometime, thanks for the last 2 seasons and helping us get in to this division. Good luck.
Back to the games now, we got a good win over Valur, but no goals from Pukki but a win is still a win, and we need all the points we can get
That sees us finish July 2022 in 7th place on 16 points, currently 5 points off relegation with 8 games to go.
Before heading into those final 8 games, there was the small matter of the World Cup, held in China. This year saw Canada and South Africa surprisingly get out of the groups, Sweden getting to the semi before getting knocked out by the Winners France. Certainly can’t deny France deserved to win it after beating Portugal and Spain on the way to beating Belgium in the final.
In our ongoing league campaign we then went down 1-0 at home to KA before a Pukki goal gave us all 3 points at home to IK
Valur Rykjavik offered me an interview after this game, as do KV, both in the same division as me, Valur are currently bottom whilst KV are sat 8th a place below us.
I’m not interested in the Valur job, but the KV job is something I’d be tempted with, so I attend the interview with them.
I didn’t even realise who we play next, turns out it’s the team I just had an interview with Vikingur and we won 3-1.
A day after that win, the Vikingur board were obviously not happy with me and turned me down for the job, oh well I just beat your team so…
Oh dear, another piss poor showing. Not even going to discuss this one. Move on
End of August and we’re still very much in the survival picture with 22 points and 7 points from the relegation places with 4 games to go
The first of our 4 games turned out to be yet another loss, this one at home to FH, an own goal in the first 90 seconds pretty much summed up our afternoon in this one
Persistence can be a good thing in life, and that is the case with Ranheim as they again offer me an interview. This time they’re actually bottom of the league, last season they survived and this time time around they’re struggling.
Bottom of the league and 8 points off the relegation play off place, a definite challenge. I decline this interview, not a chance they’d make up the 8 points and hope the other teams drop points in the final 8 games of their season.
As for ourselves, we need some points badly, but those points didn’t come in our next game against Stjarnan.
They score a last minute winner despite being down to 10 men, hopefully this isn’t a sign of things to come
We’re now at the penultimate game of our season, an away game with IA, and Pukki is doing his part
If we win we should be safe.
But we laboured to a 1 all draw.
So this brings us to our final game of the season, a home time with 4th placed UF.
A win here would be great, but we only need to match VR’s result as we have a better goal difference to be safe, however I really don’t want to rely on other results.
We’re 9th now, 23 points, with the sides in 10th and 11th having 22 and 21 points respectively.
We can go down, but we just have to do as well as we can to stay up.
Thanks for reading, next update will be the final game of the season, if we stay up or go down.
#535281 Nordic nights & Scandinavian days
bigmattb28
For sure, any points gained are going to be crucial
#535261 [FM20] Earth Trip
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