Starting with the team you support.

[joshwiggy]

The longest game I've ever played is one I've done with Blackburn who I support and as soon as I left for Napoli I got bored and started a new game again with Blackburn with the transfer updates

 

[Lol_101]

i always start with arsenal and keep the tradition of bringing young prospects in the team. i will sell who i have to, and bring in only players i need.

now in my 11th season, the longest ive played though

 

[Harriers09]

not sure if this counts but i was doing a very very long term save. after winning everything i could with Arsenal, Man City, Juventus, Aston Villa and Barcelona, and a World Cup with Argentina, i found myself in something like year 2030 and getting round to thinking i should maybe start a new game as by this point i was the most successful manager of all time by some way in the hall of fame

But then i noticed that Kidderminster Harriers, who had just been relegated back to League 2, were taken over by a Qatari billionaire and sacked their manager. I quit my post as Barca manager (so Kidderminster wouldnt have to fork out compensation, which they probably couldnt afford) and applied and got the job. I vowed it would be my last managerial appointment before retiring.

First season, won League 2. Second season won League 1, Third season, won the Championship. Forth season, won the Premiership. Fifth season, won the Champions League!!!

Guess that because i was such a successful manager before i joined, that lots of players that wouldnt have dreamed coming to Kiddy Harriers decided it was worth it to work with me. Plus the Qatari money helped but i never expected such success so quickly!!

 

[CJACKO11]

My first game is always with Chelsea without fail. Then its just pot-luck whoes next just normally a random PL club or Pompey.

 

[Giggles]

I always start with Plymouth Argyle.

Its more difficult I think playing a save with the team you support- You become more emotionally attached too it. For example, if a player is doing well irl you'll keep playing him even if he's **** on FM. Or if you like a certain player irl, who's cack on FM. Its difficult to put aside that, and for me I normally end up signing players Argyle buy.

 

[Alexandre 95]

I like to start with teams i don't know.
But i usually go for Benfica Or Ajax

 

[SLYFOXZZ]

I always start with Plymouth Argyle.

Its more difficult I think playing a save with the team you support- You become more emotionally attached too it. For example, if a player is doing well irl you'll keep playing him even if he's **** on FM. Or if you like a certain player irl, who's cack on FM. Its difficult to put aside that, and for me I normally end up signing players Argyle buy.

I do exactly this! Just signed Glenn Murray on my Palace save!

 

[All Blue Supporter]

I generally dont go a team a support for various reasons. I get too easily frustrated if I cant achieve or even win with them and I end up just quitting the game. Thats also one of the reasons I generally dont go big clubs like chelsea, utd etc. I usually stick around mid-table teams no matter the league due to the expectations arnt as high, but recently seen myself picking lower ends of the table teams and trying to keep them up.

 

[nicharit]

I feel that if I pick a team I support, then I would be quite biased on some players. Plus I pretty much know the club from inside out so it wouldn't really be a challenge as you would probably know from the start who's your star player, who you should sell or who is a star in the future.

I always like picking clubs which I don't know about. So as well as I enjoyed playing with it, I can also learn a thing or two from them.

 

[Sludvig]

I always start a new game with everton, bit of challenge at first with the lack of money, but once that is done i'll start a second game with a lower leage club, i have a great Dover athletic game right now, after e few years managing them kinda makes me follow them in the real world.

 

[avfc-ncfc]

I can't get into managing teams other than the ones I support. I find it extremely difficult to built up the motivation to continue managing a team I have no affiliations with.

Same here, can't even be bothered to play unless i'm Norwich. Bored of my save now because i have won every match this season.

 

[Hernanes]

I always start with Barcelona. The problem is that it is too easy and I get bored. So I start with my second favourite club FC Sao Paulo, because it is a more of a challenge

 

[rvallant]

No point. Man U have too many wingers for the crappy central tactics that I rely on since Winger-tactics never seemed to work for me. Plus it'd get boring fast.

Lower leagues is where the fun is at. Until your chairman ruins everything by selling your starlets for peanuts.

 

[clockworkorange]

i haven't had a successful spell with AS Roma since good ole Championship Manager 2000, mostly because i pick a valid-but-not-too-strong team every year to lead to triumph (Palermo in FM11, Stade Rennais in FM10, Fiorentina in FM08 and so on)

i might try a Roma save in FM12, tho, with bojan and some other possible new young players we're going to buy it may really be worth a try

and i'm sure that roma will be a pick for many managers on the next FM

 

[cordenadam]

Im a Fulham fan and normally ALWAYS play as them, first time though I haven't in my network game.

Only thing is with starting with the team you support is that you generally know the players quite well (if you go and watch you team) and if you believe them to be **** IRL you will get rid of them even if their stats aren't half bad.

IN the Update patch for example. Eidur Guddjohnso isn't that bad, but i dont rate him when hes played for us, so off he goes.

Simon Davies, i dont rate off he goes and he generally performs very well.

 

[duckers4]

I always start with the team I support which is Liverpool. It helps me get to grips with the new game and allows me to have a look around. If I'm successful then I continue but 9 times out of 10 I'm not successful as I'm still learning about the new game.

Then I tend to open up a new journeyman save starting with all the lowest leagues from the major European countries. This usually leads to me climbing up the leagues with various clubs but I set myself a rule of never becoming Liverpool manager. I dont know why but if I want to manage the red men then I start with them whereas I see my journeyman save as a way to move to different teams quite quickly. I think that if i take the Liverpool job I'll never leave and this way I also feel its OK to manage a rival of Liverpool's if offered the job as I havent managed them in that save therefore couldnt possible being doing the dirty on them. :$
Then I usually start another Liverpool save whilst keeping the journey save just in case and I'm able to use the skills learnt to make Liverpool a powerhouse of European football. This is where I am currently up to and I have enjoyed this save more than any other in the history of my FM 'career'.

I sometimes start with a club that I have a soft spot for but this changes from year to year. I use this club as the launch point of my career instead of starting from the bottom in my journeyman save but I once again ban myself from managing Liverpool. This sort of club has changed from year to year. I went Newcastle when they were relegated into the Championship. I managed Tranmere as I was using them on my Fifa save. I took charge of Benfica when they had a few decent looking players I knew I could mold into superstars and I also like going Rangers to dominate for a few years before moving onto a better league.

 

[andywilmot]

When i first started it was either Man Utd or Hartlepool Utd

I usually randomize it until a club pops up that interests me, I get bored if its at the big clubs there's no real sense of achievement compared to say if you turn a mid-table club into European champions