Recent content by phil_stretton

I've recently been wanting to get back into watching Serie A - I remember Channel 4 used to do Football Italia on a sunday afternoon, with Peter Brackely commentating and that bald chap, James something, hosting the show. When was this - mid 90's? Ahhh... my pre-teen years. Before women and beer...

Hi all, My girlfriend is over in America and has offered to get me a copy of FM11 on her way back in a few weeks time. If she picks up a US copy will it be the same as a UK copy? It sounds a bit daft now that I've types the question, but I would be pretty frustrated if the disc was for a...

After considerable success using Mr Hough's wonderful wingers tactic I have made a wizard conversion for FM2010. All I've done is copy the settings in Mr Hough's original to replicate it and so far my successful results have continued. As for player roles I've set most positions as fairly...

Is it just me being a b@stard, or does anyone else do this? In my save I'm Man U/Spain manager, and I intentionally played a half-fit Torres just to injure him more. He was then injured for Liverpool's next game which they lost 1-0 to West Ham! I doubt you'd ever get away with that one in real...

Does anyone take any notice of your coach's advice about when the opposition score/concede most of their goals? Is it worth pushing forward that bit more when they're most likely to concede, or dropping a little deeper when they're most likely to score? Any evidence to suggest either tactic works?