Best of British... Making A Mark In South East England!
For all of you that have followed me on here, I've not been writing stories for long. I did a journeyman story towards the end of FM17 and I have a running journeyman save on FM18, to which there is an accompanying story. Now I've not updated that for a few days and there's a reason for that....unfortunately my laptop was dropped and has broken (not football manager related I promise). So my previous game has been lost....But I am back in the game with a new PC and before I kick off a new save on FM18 I got to thinking about my previous save - that story had me jumping from one meaningless job to another around Europe with no real end goal...obviously yes to win things, but I never actually set out to achieve anything specific at the start....
I follow a number of other people's stories on here and a lot of them are on a quest.... from DerbyJack's where he aims to become the highest earning manager in the world, to StoneCold's aim of going through a career only managing teams he has managed/written stories about from previous games in the series.
So I asked myself, what challenge can I set myself and that's when I came up with it - a double challenge story...
Challenge Number 1
I want to become the best British manager in the game's history. Using FM's points system for winning trophies, they have ranked the best managers throughout history based on the competitions they've won! I am going to attempt to emulate and surpass them all during this save, and we'll be specifically looking to beat the top managers from England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland (although at present Wales and N.Ireland don't have anyone in the top 10 on the game).
Challenge Number 2
I was recently presented with an opportunity to relocate for work and decided not to take it as I wanted to stay living where I am, being settled and pretty happy with a Mrs and a couple of kids. I thought about implementing this into my football manager save, and based on that, I will only manage teams throughout my career that are commutable from my current home address in Tunbridge Wells, Kent....that's predominantly going to be focused on London and the South East (story title explained). Now me personally, I class commutable as anything within 40 miles....Anything beyond that and I'm not interested.
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The Manager
There is a common theme in the top 10 British managers that they are all ex professional footballers...therefore I will be starting my career with professional football experience at a regional level, and mid way through the professional qualifications with a Continental C License to my name. This should give me a pretty accurate start to my management career as the legends whose footsteps I will hopefully be following in!
Next Update.....We will have a look at the top 10 British managers I'm chasing down and trying to overtake in the record books
For all of you that have followed me on here, I've not been writing stories for long. I did a journeyman story towards the end of FM17 and I have a running journeyman save on FM18, to which there is an accompanying story. Now I've not updated that for a few days and there's a reason for that....unfortunately my laptop was dropped and has broken (not football manager related I promise). So my previous game has been lost....But I am back in the game with a new PC and before I kick off a new save on FM18 I got to thinking about my previous save - that story had me jumping from one meaningless job to another around Europe with no real end goal...obviously yes to win things, but I never actually set out to achieve anything specific at the start....
I follow a number of other people's stories on here and a lot of them are on a quest.... from DerbyJack's where he aims to become the highest earning manager in the world, to StoneCold's aim of going through a career only managing teams he has managed/written stories about from previous games in the series.
So I asked myself, what challenge can I set myself and that's when I came up with it - a double challenge story...
Challenge Number 1
I want to become the best British manager in the game's history. Using FM's points system for winning trophies, they have ranked the best managers throughout history based on the competitions they've won! I am going to attempt to emulate and surpass them all during this save, and we'll be specifically looking to beat the top managers from England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland (although at present Wales and N.Ireland don't have anyone in the top 10 on the game).
Challenge Number 2
I was recently presented with an opportunity to relocate for work and decided not to take it as I wanted to stay living where I am, being settled and pretty happy with a Mrs and a couple of kids. I thought about implementing this into my football manager save, and based on that, I will only manage teams throughout my career that are commutable from my current home address in Tunbridge Wells, Kent....that's predominantly going to be focused on London and the South East (story title explained). Now me personally, I class commutable as anything within 40 miles....Anything beyond that and I'm not interested.
View attachment 75390
The Manager
There is a common theme in the top 10 British managers that they are all ex professional footballers...therefore I will be starting my career with professional football experience at a regional level, and mid way through the professional qualifications with a Continental C License to my name. This should give me a pretty accurate start to my management career as the legends whose footsteps I will hopefully be following in!
Next Update.....We will have a look at the top 10 British managers I'm chasing down and trying to overtake in the record books
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