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Chapter 22 – The great Andorran hope. I didn’t want to get relegated. Wait that sounded stupid. What I meant was I really didn’t want to go down because we’d done so well to get here. Obviously anyone would have said they would pr...

Chapter 21 – Come in Number 9 There’s moments in your life that when you think back you just sit, or stand or whatever you’re doing and just smile. I was like a father that had seen his kid just get picked for the school football team,...

Chapter 20 – Lost in battle In the build up to the new season, it was announced that finally the United Kingdom would be leaving the EU. This wouldn’t affect me at that time in Spain, and the details of the new work permit rules would be anno...

Chapter 19 – A blossoming love / hate relationship After becoming 20 thousand euro richer, in the days after the play off win, most of the attention was not on me or the players, but on the owner Gerard Pique. All the reports were saying how he had...

Chapter 18 – I’m not crying, you are! For the first time in a number of weeks, we had a pre match press conference before our return leg against UCAM, and the reporters were certain that in UCAM’s home ground Nueva Condomina, the fans w...

Chapter 17 – There’s no way we’ll do it. I remember having a team meeting in Andorra with only 2 games go, and our top scorer was striker Cifu, who had scored an incredible 38 goals for us at that point. All we needed was to win 1 of ou...

Chapter 16 – The name of the game is inconsistency. I vividly remember Jonathan Forte telling me he was nervous heading in to the game against Athletic Bilboa, he’d been used to playing in England, and as a back to goal center forward. But in...

Part 2 – Heading North?... Chapter 15 – Just a small town guy On my first official day as FC Andorra manager, I spent time with the chairman as well as Gerard. After the formalities were done, I had to find a place to live, and wasn’t...

Chapter 14 – The beginning of the end, or the end of my beginning? As I stood there and watched Liam Walker rifle in a 35 yard thunderbolt with his left foot that 2 keepers wouldn’t have saved, I knew there and then it was time. A fitting way...

Chapter 13 – The heat is on. Before the start of my third season as a manager, Stuart Rodriguez must’ve had too much champagne as he told me he expected the club to win all 3 competitions this season, the league, the Rock cup and as we won th...

Chapter 12 – Oh God, not my nose! That night myself, Javier and the team, all 24 registered players had played a part in our league and cup double, had done the next logical thing – party all night! We had a small celebratory party after the...

Chapter 11 – I’m on a mission for commission 2 games and potentially 2 trophies. I’d been here last season, sort of. We’d finished runners up in the league as well as losing in the cup final. I really didn’t want another run...

Chapter 10 – The end is near We had 5 games left to go in the league by April, and the cup semi was also coming up. Good form was a must, and the boys didn’t disappoint. A 3-0 win over Gibraltar Phoenix preceded a 6-0 win over Lynx FC that di...

Chapter 9 – A familiar face Before the draw for the Rock Cup was made, I received a phone call, it was a number I had saved so I knew who it was, but I was surprised by who was ringing. I answered, and a familiar voice spoke to me. He seemed since...

Chapter 8 – Second season syndrome? It didn’t take long for my initial thoughts of a good campaign, and Liam Walker being integral to them to play out. 15 minutes into our season opener against Mons Calpe (who thumped us 8-0 last season) and...

Chapter 7 – New signings This coming season was all about at the very least replicating our showing from my first season in Gibraltar. New singings were a must as 8 players all left after not renewing their contract. My main players, as in the guys...

Thanks for the positive words man!

Chapter 6 – So close, yet so far. Finishing second in my first season was very much unexpected, but very welcomed. I felt in myself I had come into my own and was really getting into being a football manager. We had, for all intense purposes over a...

Chapter 5 – Almost perfect. Getting to the semi final of the cup would be a great achievement for me in my first year as a manager, and that is exactly what we did, when we beat Mons Calpe 2-1 to get some sort of revenge for that absolutely abysmal...

Cheers man, glad you enjoy so far

Chapter 4 – That unknown manager Chris Irvine I had lived in Gibraltar for coming up to 4 months now. As Saint Jospehs were a semi pro team, we only trained 3 times a week, but my assistant manager Javier Casquero and I spent more time together aft...

Chapter 3 – Don’t be scared, it’s just a kids game. You always remember your first of everything, your first football match, your first day of school, the first girl you kiss and so on. As this was something close to me and I wanted to...

Chapter 2 – An unexpected start Whilst on holiday in Spain we went on a trip to a small country off the south coast of Spain, Gibraltar. On our way there, my father revealed something about him I never know. Before hanging up his boots as a player,...

Chapter one – From humble beginnings To most people, I’m known as Chris Irvine, but my real name is Cristoff Alexander Irvine Junior. My father is a native of Paris, and my mother was born and raised in Quebec, Canada. My father was a profess...

Foreword They said I was the best. If I was narcissistic, I’d agree with them without questioning it, but the numbers don’t lie. FIFA have this hall of fame thing, whereby they calculate your standing based on the competitions you’ve wo...

As always a fantastic write up mate! Pray and hope you beat the drop! Nothing worse than a relegation!

I like your description. I'm still on 17 dude.

Good start, I've always had a soft spot for Wednesday.

Absolutely incredible mate!! Thank you!

Good write up pal

Awesome mate thank you!!

Anyone able to see my request from a few months ago? Links in spoilers to stop clogging up the thread. Thanks in advance!!

Oh My God! They're better than I imagined man! Thanks for third kit too, incredible!!

Can I get home and away kits for FC Goveia? Badge - Kit Style like Real Madrids: Home purple, away white please Shirt manufacturer - Addidas - Sponsor - Fly Emirates - Thank you!

Apologies for the lack of an update on this, I haven't had much time to post updates, but I've played a lot of this challenge and can say I've actually completed it, but as I have got literally hundreds of screen shots, I haven't got t...

Good update mate, keep it up

That's the thing with players 33+, they seem to get injured a bit more frequently. It is what it is though we plod along.

Welcome back man! Can't wait to see how this unfolds from here

We kicked off the next part of our season with bad news as star striker Zidane is out for up to 5 weeks, bad times this as he’s our main scoring outlet. We did however continue playing well and picking up points, as we beat Stabaek in the league...

We kicked off the new season in great style, 5-0 over Fredrikstad, and giving me the first 3 of 11 points I need. Another 5 goal showing followed, as Zidane grabbed a hat trick. 6 points from 11, 3 games to go Another 3 points came next against prom...

I actually didn’t think I’d make it out of the board meeting as Lillestrom manager. I said the run of games we had were hard, the board disagreed, I asked for more time, they said yes, 5 games to get 11 points. So this off season, it&rsq...

Update is on it's way

Looking good man. Hopefully this continues for the rest of the season

A little respite for me and our poor league form as my Australia side took on Bahrain in the World Cup qualifiers. Show Spoiler Frustration was the name of the game in this one. Bahrain set up with 10 men behind the ball and actually had some decent c...

May 2027 saw us win our 2nd round of the cup game agianst Raufoss which set up an away tie against fellow top division side Stromgodset who had beaten us in the league only a couple of weeks earlier. We thumped Asane 4-1 in the league, I’m pret...

The main bit about a pre season is new signings, and we made 2. First in is experienced attacking midfielder Ayoze Perez of Newcastle fame. He signs on a free and has decent stats and for this league, I’m sure he can make an impact. We were sus...

Good going for the most part mate, time to push on next season now then

bigmattb28 just completed the season in the year 2026 managing Äänekosken Huima in the Finnish Premier League in their FM Career Nordic nights & Scandinavian days

So we’re now at ten years in game , 11 seasons done. I'm not going to go through all the ‘big’ leagues and Champions & Europa League winners, I think I will go over that when I clear the first part of this challenge. Since me g...