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21st January 2024Our first taste of the Croky Cup this season will be against RWDM. It's the same team we drew last year in the 7th round and played out an incredible 5-4 win against them....the fans might be hoping for just as entertaining a game, but I...
12th December 2023Jupiler Pro LeagueMatchday 11Absolute dog ****! We lose at home to the side at the bottom of the league who came into this game losing all 10 of their prior games! Failure to score again is what costs us after having 20 shots on goal wit...
10th October 2023Champions LeagueChampions Path Playoff 2nd LegWith a 4-0 lead from the first leg, I heavily rotated the side for this one and although we weren't anywhere near full strength, we still won in Romania as well and it will be Champions League...
28th August 2023Transfer News: I don't need to improve multiple areas of the squad now, but I did need a player that can play down the right wing. I've turned to Shakhtar's Marian Shved as the replacement for Calvin Stengs who was here on loan last season...
24th July 2023It wasn't exactly a clearout this Summer as a few players are released from the club, but not many. The most notable name is Koji Miyoshi who played 18 times for me last season, but only managed 2 assists and an average rating of 6.68. ...
End of Season 2022/23 ReviewWell I could only dream of a league title in my first season in charge of the club and we pulled it off! Now we just have to try to defend it and it's worth noting that Antwerp have never won back to back titles. It would...
4th June 2023Jupiler Pro League - Championship GroupMatchday 35We kick off the Championship Group with a comfortable win over the worst team in the group. With all due respect to Leuven, they look well out of their depth alongside us, Genk and Club Brugge...
22nd April 2023League Format: Now with only 18 teams in the league and effectively 4 matches left to play, it might look like we are just 1 win away from winning the title, but that isn't the case! What happens in Belgium is that the top 4 clubs go into a...
14th March 2023Jupiler Pro LeagueMatchday 26It was important to maintain our title challenge by getting straight back to winning ways here. And it was well deserved as well as we dominated the side sitting 17th in the table and staring relegation in the f...
5th February 2023 Transfer News: The January window is now open and the first player to leave is centre back Junior Pius. He hadn't made a single appearance for me all year, so it was only fair to let the lad leave to get some football. He joins OH L...
2nd January 2023Award: I picked up on just how good Calvin Stengs has been for us in the last update, but that has now been backed up further by the fact he has picked up the Player of the Month award for October.Our next fixture would be the big one. 1st...
31st October 2022 Jupiler Pro LeagueMatchday 11An easy win away at Charleroi in which Ricardo Gomes picked up another brace. He now has 6 goals in his opening 4 games for the club! Facilities: With the new board taking over, I decided to test th...
3rd October 2022Jupiler Pro LeagueMatchday 6For the third game in a row, we dominate proceedings but fail to score and this time we are punished by our opponents as we lose for the first time in the league. We've got real issues in terms of our finis...
20th August 2022My first competitive game in charge wouldn't be a domestic one. In fact, it would be a qualifier for the Europa Conference League and if I am to fulfil the board's expectations, it's one I must win to get us into the group stages of the co...
Squad & TacticsI have two goalkeepers in my team and neither of them are fantastic. They're not bad, but not great either. When you compare the two, there really isn't much to split them, but I am probably just about leaning towards Ortin De Wolf as m...
Royal Antwerp F.C So it would seem that my new football club have some history in Belgium. Established around 1880 as Antwerp Cricket Club by English students residing in Antwerp, 15 years before the creation of the Royal Belgium Football Assoc...
The Not So Special One - The Wheel Of FortuneAfter my Swansea save came to an end, I had no idea where to start my new game, so I thought the best people to ask would be the FM community. On the Football Manager Facebook group, I posted the below asking f...
Using the wheel of fortune to decide what club I should take over for a 1 club save, came out with Antwerp in Belgium!
So I have arrived in Toulouse, the capital of France's Southern Occitanie region, to take over the managerial role at the Ligue 1 football club that sits close to the Spanish border and just west of Montpellier. Toulouse is known as La Ville Rose (T...
Join me as I look to take Toulouse to the top of French and then European football!
December 2022 A preview of this season's youth intake suggests is will be a good one. There have been a few teams sniffing around my best player (Hellas Verona and Lille), Joao Teixeira for the past couple of weeks and with the Janauary tr...
October/November 2022 The first match of October saw us make it 3 wins in a row in the league as we beat Estoril. It was also our 3rd clean sheet in a row as well! We then made it 5 games unbeaten as we get a point away at Boavista...another side tha...
August/September 2022Pre Season... Joao Teixeira will be my first ever captain at the club. He's the best player in the team and has decent leadership attributes, so he was the most logical choice. My first and only permanent signing for the clu...
The squad I have available to me isn't the worst in the world, considering we are predicted to 16th of 18 in the league this season. Well not according to my assistant manager's star ratings anyway, which sometimes leave plenty to be desired. &...
New Manager At Chaves I've arrived in Portugal to take over as the new manager of Grupo Desportivo de Chaves, or GD Chaves for short, or just Chaves for even shorter. I will be the club's first ever English manager and only the second manager that is...
I will be taking over the reigns at G.D Chaves in the top tier of Portuguese football, looking to overhaul the sheer dominance of Sporting, Porto, Benfica and Braga as the countries top 4 EVERY season!
Episode 8 The season continues to go strongly for us at Cadiz and is it beyond the realms of possibility that we might just qualify for Europe?!
Episode 7 In this episode, I update you on our recent run of fixtures...which have been really tough, but hopefully the arrival of Moukoko is going to rejuvenize the side!
Episode 6 Our unbeaten start to the season has come to an end, which isn't ideal going into a match with league leaders, Real Madrid!
Episode 5 There's no denying that we have made an absolute flyer of a start to my first season in charge and some of the football we are playing is sensational to watch! But in this episode, we have a tough fixture against Valencia to play!
Thanks mate :-)
Here's the three squad views I set up for my saves on Football Manager 2023. The three views focus on: * Squad selection * Transfers and Contracts * Key attributesYou can download these views here.... https://www.mediafire.com/file/07jwbvkmwp8xh62/Views.r...
Episode 4 It's transfer deadline day in Spain and as one central midfielder leaves the club, another comes in. It's been a good start to the season and Real Betis await us in our next game!
Episode 3 In episode 3, we officially start our first season in charge and we've been handed one of the toughest opening day fixtures as well.
Episode 2 In episode 2 of I'm So Cadizzy, I have a tactic special for you. After careful analysis of the squad, I set up the tactic that I think best suits the players I have available to me and explain my decisions and thinking behind my choices.&nb...
Episode 1 Welcome to episode 1 of I'm So Cadizzy...a one club, long term save where I'm going to look to grow Cadiz into one of Spain's top clubs alongside Barcelona and Real Madrid! Here, we are welcomed to Cadiz, take a look at our new home, stadiu...
This is a one club career mode as I look to build Cadiz from a mediocre La Liga side into one of the best Spain has to offer...
Dulwich Hamlet are one of the bigger clubs in this division and more cash rich than most, with some talented players. So going away to them, I expected a really tough game. What I didn’t expect was to give them a footballing lesson as we cruised to our bi...
The tactic I have come up with that best suits my players and the style I want to play down at this level is a 4-2-4 wide. The aim here is to keep a solid back 4, without leaving ourselves too open, have two solid central mids to win and keep the ball. Ge...
We know we're not going to get the best players to sign for this club. After a few free transfer attempts of what I'd class to be 'good' players at this level, it was clear to see that most don't want to play for me as an inexperienced manager or don't wa...
Great first half of the season there mate! Hopefully you can keep that momentum going
The Iron - A Braintree Town Story 35 year old Chris Ball is hired as the new manager of Braintree Town. It's a statement I am proud to hear as I take over at the Essex club, in what I hope will be a long term career taking them up through the English...
Please follow me as I take over as the new manager of Braintree Town and attempt to take them up through the English football pyramid.
Cullen Joins Yeovil I quickly moved to utilize the affiliation we have with Swansea City...
Ball Promises Fans Long Term Success New Yeovil manager, Chris Ball, faced the media for...
Chris Ball Takes Over At Yeovil Town Yeovil Town chairman, Scott Priestnall, has today announce...
Nice one mate. An unbeaten season and a deserved league title :-)
November/December 2017 Update
Not much to update you on before pre season begins in January. Just a few news items coming out of the club...
The board are looking at building a new stadium back in the club's home town of Tampines. There are no soli...