Eric Portapotty Activity

Definitely miss the European nights, and especially having enough games for everyone to play and to justify having a large senior squad. --------------------------------------- April 2042 Another game, another couple of penalty decisions, one of which...

March 2042 We were controlling the game, had quite a bit of possession and were playing it out from the back when Curri's pass out was intercepted by Abikanlou, who showed why he's the current La Liga top scorer by speeding through half the p...

February 2042 It did look like we were trying our best to lose - 24 fouls, Zhong cautioned for diving in the box, Szeman missing a penalty and Di Meo getting another early bath, this time for a horrific lunge. But we still managed to win, Nikolaou with...

January 2042 Dire 1st half here, 2 drilled crosses and both times we were caught out by runners in behind to stab home. 3 goals conceded from 4 shots said it all, though we were able to reply with 2 our our own. 2nd half was far less exciting (which is...

December 2041 What an abomination of a game - there was a 30-minute spell in the 1st half where nothing of note happened at all and the rest of the game wasn't any better. Panagiotou opened the scoring early into the 2nd half, but we weren't...

November 2041 Yeah... Though I'd really put this down to individual issues this time, with Donato Conte - bless his heart, coming back from double broken legs to develop into a pretty solid defender - playing at the back for the day and having...

Merry Christmas guys

Bit of a bummer crashing out of both cups in the same month, but it does mean you can now go full on for the league

The thing is we've also had that season after the CdR final, where we did have EL football and still finished in a European place (albeit 7th and reliant on both finalists having qualified for European football themselves) so I want to hope that we c...

September 2041 Oo, a surprisingly comfortable win against a very good Espanyol side, and Nikolaou looks like getting back to top form, the top form that got us into the CL. But here was another dodgy penalty (but it was probably right, probably), and S...

August 2041 An opening day win, if a slightly dodgy one since our penalty was a dodgy one, but I'll take 3 points on Matchday 1 over any other result. Again, we were outplayed by Sevilla here, with Boutouba absolutely tearing us to shreds here...

Honestly if I did get sacked I'd have taken a break from this, won't be able to deal with being sacked (and not even because of the horrible underperformance, but shitty new owners). But I didn't, so onwards and forwards it is. ----------...

May/June 2041 A very professional job here, Depor had more than their fair share of chances we it was us who took ours and with a clean sheet on tow, it was a good win indeed. Zhong was real class here, with a goal and an assist. But Moran the Moron...

terriersmad on suicide watch

April 2041 I'll start with the EL 1st since it was the 1st match of the month: 19 seconds, NINETEEN SECONDS, and our EL hopes are up in flames already. Admittedly it was my fault for tactically preparing the team too late, but it's not like...

"YOU'RE JUST A SHIT LEICESTER~" Board and media both expected a top half finish at least, so our struggles this season clearly have not made certain powerful people happy. -------------------------------------- March 2041 DM Jose Ramo...

February 2041 Why do I even bother. A back 3, playing regularly for at least the past month or so, can't mark a single striker and leaves him free for a one-on-one - well done. Though we did show good form to get back into the game after going beh...

January 2041 Depor played like pure scum here, contriving to injure 3 of my players and not even incurring a caution. Nikolaou's winner was no less than they deserved, the orcs. And that's a 2nd straight win, we might well be having signs of...

January 2041 Depor played like pure scum here, contriving to injure 3 of my players and not even incurring a caution. Nikolaou's winner was no less than they deserved, the orcs. And that's a 2nd straight win, we might well be having signs of...

He's much, much more than just a destroyer. If you think that he's just a "dirty" player then well, you're just wrong tbh.

I'm sure we'll have a lot of discussion involving refs when Huddersfield are promoted

December 2040 Before the match I was encouraging the players to give their best and strive for a result (however unlikely it was) against Espanyol, but as was the case more most of this season we weren't up for it once we went behind. Blagojevic w...

November 2040 Zhong again with the supersub role, but we weren't able to convert this game into a win (par for the course this season) and we see our winless run extended. We were by no means an improvement over previous outings, but we did put...

---------------- October 2040 So much for my prediction of Bilbao's plight this season, as they've since had a resurgence and we looked far more suspect at the back. But it was business as usual for the home side - Bilbao's style was alw...

September 2040 Hell of a way to bring us back down to earth after our good 1st 2 games - Nikolaou was nigh on hopeless on the day, in stark contrast to his 3 goals in the previous 2 games. We had to rotate in preparation for our debut in the CL agai...

August 2040 A great start to the season, Las Palmas were swept away with relative ease. Fun fact, 2 of the starting back 4 for Las Palmas were in the Olympic team that won the Gold medal - they've got pedigree in that team. A significantly ster...

I'm not really liking the fact that I'm still on this save, I'd wanted to get 16 (which I didn't) and then 17 (which I didn't) but this save kept me going with 14 anyway. Though there is that huge plus in that I've saved a pr...

It ain't dead, it's just the likes of you and Bian aren't here. And TS, but he's too busy on Reddit.

Season Review/Off-season 2040 Players of the Season Takis Nikolaou I've been giving him grief on multiple occasions throughout the season, but it's undeniable that he's had a huge impact on our season. Our top scorer, hit double figure...

End of Season 2039/40 We went for Atleti's throats this game, trying to show them that we weren't that side that had to play on the counter to grind out a result, and it so damn nearly worked. Dincel had combined well with Nikolaou to score a...

April 2040 We were on absolute fire in the 1st half, and it looked like we had the game wrapped up by the interval, even more so if we continued in the same manner after the break. We didn't, in part because we seemed to become complacent after th...

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I do hope it's a new European competition though... ----------------------------- March 2040 Some way to burst our bubble eh. Celta's 1st corner, a mashup inside the penalty box and Curri found himself deflecting the ball into his own net -...

February 2040 Welp, certainly didn't expect this scoreline. We had a good start with Diallo going on one of his rampages forward to head in superbly at the end of a cross, before we had our customary backs-to-the-wall defending time for the rest o...

January 2040 I'll start with the Copa del Rey first, for reasons that you'll see: Decent win with a slightly rotated squad, Zhang with a match-winning performance to add to another setpiece header from Addo. Incredibly annoying that we still...

December 2039 Only the one league game this month: A battling draw against Valencia, and even though we didn't win is was heartening to see that we actually dominated proceeding, when in previous encounters they'd just steamroll all over us...

Shola's just KM's Newcastle-supporting alt. isn't it?

October 2039 LB Artur Silva put in one of the worst performances in our time in La Liga, getting tortured by their right winger, having both of Espanyol's goals from from his flank, and getting hauled off on the hour with a 4.4. But while Dincel s...

I get the feeling that for SI international management has always taken a back seat, after all football fans nowadays have more of an allegiance towards their club than to their national side, so it kind of makes sense to get the major stuff right first?...

Which leagues are you starting with?

I think we still had a bit of attacking threat against Spurs? We had and did fuck all this game.

Sure hope so, for a Pentagon challenge this save has no continental success yet, which isn't great. Maybe I should give in and rename this to a more realistic 'Journeyman's save' or something to that effect... September 2039 Promis...

August 2039 What a way to start the season, having a prolific team is a big positive going forward. Nikolaou made his comeback from his torn hamstring suffered from last season, and while he didn't score he did get 2 assists. Ok real talk, I sh...

Ehhh, I'd take another shot at Europe next (this?) season over a deep cup run. What I've found is that I now kind of understand why IRL managers like to focus on the league over say the Europa League - pragmatically (financially) it is better th...

A shame is right, I'm mad at myself that we couldn't pull out of that rut. End of Season 2038/39[/b][/center] WOW we actually beat Valencia! We couldn't beat them in what seemed to be years and we suddenly give them a trouncing? Oh wait...

Oh you're here as well - yeah wrong Piatti mate.

I haven't bought FM17, and those eyes make me feel like I've made the right choice. But I digress - good luck with this.

Ooohh, that's a very good option then, if you're not planning to stay for the PL campaign.

It was becoming a bit hard to keep track of your current club tbh I'd say take the Notts County job, but above all I'd avoid Watford, developing youths as a newly promoted side in the PL? I wouldn't last 20 games tbh.

April 2039 The 3-5-2 was given yet another go, and again it didn't turn out so well. Cristobal eventually got us the win, but our attack was so disjointed throughout, it wasn't a pretty sight. Different games, same shit. For the life of me...