(Preston North End in 1888-89, the first Football League Champions)
Main Challenge
The challenge is straight forward, take control of Preston North End & make them the Champions of the top flight of English football again.
Side challenges are:
- Win the top league 3 years in a row beating the club record of 2 consecutive wins set 122 years ago.
- Emulate Preston's famous 1888/89 team by going through an entire season unbeaten in the top flight league & FA Cup (without loosing a goal in the Cup if possible).
- Return Preston North End to the top flight for the first time since 1961 in as few seasons as possible.
- Win the Champions League.
- Become a legend at the club.
- Have one of your players capped for England (only the second player to play for England since the great Sir Thomas Finney, the other being David Nugent).
- If possible beat the home record attendance of 42,684 set in April 1938 in a game against Arsenal.
This will not be a straight forward challenge as the club is in an insecure financial state with a hefty £24.5m loan debt. When you first take over at the club the boards minimum expectation is "win promotion from League 1" (so keeping yourself in the job longer than a year will be a challenge in itself). For this you will be offered £0 transfer funds & £64k p/w wages with the club currently paying £58k p/w.
For continuity if you would like to do this challenge then load only the English leagues Premiership-League 2, on a Large database only & set your reputation as Automatic.
At the End of each Season please upload screen shots of your the final league table, best 11 & any other relevant information (good cup runs/wins, keys players ratings ect).
Bring Them Home!
Make Sir Thomas Finney proud!
Sir Tom Finney
Born 5th April 1922 (aged 89)
Preston North End 1946-1960, 433 appearances, 187 goals.
England 1946-1958, 76 appearances, 30 goals.
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