Is this the best we can do? : A Balanced Opinion of the Scene – Part One

Hello, I’m here with another article for you, so here it comes. The whole thing is basically a balanced look at the Football Manager ‘community’, split into three parts. The first, this article piece, is a critical look at it. Then, we’ll move on to a positive overview, before summing up the good points and bad points concerning this hub of our gaming cabal, in our third, reviewing post. So, let’s begin.

Rose of the Rovers : Chapter One

Following the resignation of Mark Hughes to go to Manchester City, and left with preciously few options aside from Mike Newell and an overhyped League Two coach, the Blackburn Rovers board turned to me, a loyal coach at Ewood Park, to replace Thaksin’s new performing monkey. With a top half finish in my sights, I have been awarded a transfer budget of thirteen million pounds, enough to bring in established players alongside promising youngsters.

Never Mind The Bierofkas

Hello, and welcome to Never Mind The Bierofkas, a Football Manager weblog written by me, John Rose. The site is a look over the broad spectrum of Football Manager, be it the game itself, tactics, shortlists or the FM community. It also offers a look at what an average Football Manager gamer gets up to throughout my tenures trying to emulate the great overcoat wearers of the world, surrounding life, the Internet and beer. So, who is your author?

Well, the name’s John ‘Rosey’ Rose, and I come from a small town in the West Midlands. The place itself is quite nice, plagued by pensioners and feral youths but with plenty of scenery. However, what the teenagers hanging around outside the Clifton, which is our scummy local pub, or the senior citizens gathering in the Spencer’s indoor market, is that a special one is in their midst. A man with a proven managerial track record. A man who took Norwich City to seventh place in the Coca-Cola Championship. A man who won the Welsh Premier League. A man named John ‘Rosey’ Rose.

I declare this journey to have started. Fasten your seatbelts, and think of any other automotive related motivation.