Lower League Manager

What is your Football Manager personality? The game will assign personality descriptions such as ‘media friendly’ or ‘popular’ but how well do they fit with your own self image? I’m a traditionalist. I like to keep my best 11 on the pitch as much as possible. I drop players for poor form or injury, but bye and large we stay the…

In light of the BBC’s grestest series, I felt a twang of desire to look at some of the greatest celebrations I can remember. But this is really just a precursor to the additions generated by you all. So, LET’S BE HAVING YOU! (In no particular order, and avoiding the bloody obvious) 1) Drunken Delia. Every time I see the…

Wrexham, Plymouth, Darlington, Charlton, Bournemouth, Halifax, Portsmouth, Crystal Palace……….. I could continue. What do they all have in common? Administration. Let me start with Darlington. Now, I’m not going to spew forth a huge pile of numbers, but at some point this club had enough money to build the Reynolds Arena, a tidy place that wouldn’t look out of place…

Here at LLM.com we have a raft of kit makers. Here are some from one of our regulars.     The long and the short (sleeved) of it is this; if you would like a kit to be made for your FM game, or you need some help with your graphics visit the graphics forum here at LLM.com.  With over…

Stuart McCall, Wembley 1989. FA Cup Final. The first of his two that day was a great dipper of a volley. I’m sure he shinned it though. Scholes at Bradford was as technically perfect as it gets (is there a ginger volley gene?). That one of Shearer’s against Everton which looked like a cross but you knew it wasn’t. Gullit,…

Shane Warne. Anyone like him? I can recall the 90′s as being a period where the arrogance and indiscipline of this international leg spinner frustrated me no end. He had skill, deception, invention and disguise as parts of his awesome arsenal. He was also a major prick. I say this now having spent some considerable time over the last 12…

The only time I have ever bought a ticket from a ‘tout’ was a pre-season friendly at Wolves in 1998-99. The guy got off the bus and sold around a dozen tickets for face value on some coach park round the corner from Molineux. Bet he was gutted when he walked round the ground to find dozens of Reds wanting a ticket.

Picture the scene; Summer of 2001 and a young McBeard is travelling North America. Heading south from Niagara Falls to NYC he stops over in Buffalo, where the urge to empty his bowels comes along…

In 2003 a Middlesbrough fan was arrested at a game. His crime? Falling asleep at the match. Yes, arrested.

Standing, swearing, not sitting with your own kind, having a top on your bottle. Petty regulations abound in football…

I have used this update for a long-term (over 20 years) save on FM 10, and have started a save on FM 11. To date I have discovered no weirdness or oddities—things have worked as advertised in terms of playability. The accuracy appears dead-on; fixture lists are appropriate and finances look good.