Not being too into the game, I bought FM05. Lots of numbers. Firstw ith a guide picked the most important player numbers and with time getting a little bit of wisdom. Several abandonments of the game.
So first I start well and soon begin to lose everything. Why every game I start I'm first then go down?.
So first sweet moment is when having learned a bit more I managed to have a consistant season, with the logical up and downs but not the faint. Then due to not enough good knowledge of tactics and transfers... the second season is a failure.
So the next sweet moments came in my last game in FM05 (just when it starts going so sweet I go and get FM09):
1st - Second season after getting Rushden promoted to League One, the team still works well and get a 7th place, one point from promotion playoff. Granted only two players were new, so most were the same high quality from the last season.
2nd - Then next season half the team has been bought and have to do major transfer market work. Still not worrying for the not-fundamental-marked stats from a tactic thread, I make players that have great tackling and jumping or passing or finishing or whatever... but invariably ****** (even some below 5) decisions. Team drops to relegation and penultimate position. At near half season they're 21st six points below salvation. I look through thread about attributes and then start to review players, spot terrible problem. I get a new DC, DR, AML and AMC with decent decisions (and AML and AMC tremendous dribbling, balance, acceleration and pace, right now only remember AML who was N'Zogbia), start to win matches, easily, even a 8-1 against a mid-low table team. And make a come back to end eleventh at something like 7 points from promotion playoffs (was 21 away when the comeback began).
3rd - After the season again lots of players gone and renew better the team, though this time I don't find replacements to my liking. Then, Wigan accepts my job petition and get to lead a Championship team... and get it second tied with first in points (and one ahead third): 87 pts.
The 3rd was the biggest. Then bought FM09 and am now first season with Wigan, chose as background prof. footballer to keep the national reputation I got (btw I got to find some editor to fill in the rest stats to be alike what I got in FM05 to make it as a continuation). Now I'm in preseason, won 4-1 to Tubize (complete domination, Tubize scored their only approach to goal) and 4-1 to Mons (own goal by Cattermole, though Mons had a few other chances). Then lost a 0-1 hard fought match against AC Milan, because Kapo headed a clearance from my defender back into a Milan player's foot who was alone. But I had more near chances to score than Milan (Milan had 2 or 3 counting the goal, I had 4 or 5), and I think that defeat was sweet as well, since I hoped a heavy defeat with my players performing like schoolgirls.