Recent content by maxy67

Its a new season, so thought I'd create a new thread for Serie A. Post rumours, results, transfers (and the general insanity of Italian football) Websites: Football Italia - Serie A news, fixtures, results, and all the latest Italian football information SPORT - La Gazzetta dello Sport

Welcome to my small guide on Italian words and phrases which make up a large part of footballing vocabulary, when explaining tactics and many small aspects of the game. I hope it's helpful as I've seen a few people on the forums, asking what certain terms mean. I will keep the guide small...

I'm eagerly anticipating the new Premier League season, and was wondering who everyone was most excited to see next season?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPRxmTtbnWg&feature=channel_video_title This is catenaccio - the sweeper system in full effect. The brainchild of the great Herrera, it might not have been pretty but it was effective. This defence was like a locked door. The team was not without creativity...

The English Job | Football Italia Thought this was an interesting blog. Writer: Susy Campanale The English Job When Italy were paired with England in Euro 2012, Susy Campanale’s heart sank, but it had precious little to do with the football. I am, like many of our regular readers on this...

BBC Sport - Barcelona's Pep Guardiola 'on brink of leaving club' Massive news. Any thoughts on what he'll do next, and who the next manager will be?

Can only hope that the players I picked people agree with, or at least to a certain extent. Any suggestions for who I should've picked instead are always welcome. I tried to be unbiased about the country of origin of the players, but I couldn't really help having numerous brazilian players.

Hi :) European Cup & Champions League History 1955-2012 I thought I'd add this challenge because it's something that I'm beginning to try with (an undecided club at this time) and the challenge is to repeat what the Real Madrid did in the first 5 years of the trophy between the years...

I thought it'd be a good idea to set up a thread so people could put up advice about man management on FM. I think its a part of FM thats not discussed enough and could probably help people get much better at the game. So for instance how do you do your: Team Talks Team Meetings How often and...

NOTE: THIS IS NOT MY DATABASE- ALL CREDIT GOES TO: Yury Solomatin Found this awsome database on the SI forums, and thought everyone deserves to see it, definitly would go perfectly with the http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/challenges-scenarios/91783-eastern-bloc-challenge.html The guy has put a...

I've decided to create a poll to decide who people think is the best manager ever. In my selection of the shortlist (of which I hope everyone agrees with?) I've taken into account both success in trophies and medals as well as tactical innovations, and have tried to take into account both...

Hi sorry to sound stupid but how do you do it? I've clicked post a poll and put in the number of options, but how do i add the words to go along with the options? Thanks

Rangers owner Craig Whyte admits he sold four years' worth of season tickets to keep Ibrox club running - The Daily Record So it turns out most of the evidence produced by BBC Scotland could well be true and it looks like Rangers Football club could owe even more than the HMRC bill. I don't...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxsRt2yG8Es http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqAZsoF-ghw&feature=related Nicknamed Big head and seen as the best manager England never had. Brian Clough was Charismatic, outspoken and often controversial. I fully recommend reading about him was an amazing manager...

This is my first tactic that is not based on a previous formation by a famous team, part of my recreation series of tactics, it's my own idea. It is sort of like the old style catenaccio tactics in Italian football in the 1960's and 1970's in that it uses a sweeper behind two central defenders...