The Football Manager Football Show

After three years and 12 seasons, crossing from South America to England, Spain, Turkey, Italy, Scotland, France, South Africa, Portugal, Germany and back to England once again, it's time to bid farewell to The Football Manager Football Show. Like Arsenal's bid to become Premier League champions and Jurgen Klopp's reign at perennial contenders Liverpool, all good things must come to an end and hav...

Our English Premier League journey, for the second time, finished last week with Manchester City crowned league champions, denying Liverpool what would have been an incredible three-in-a-row following a close-fought season. While City (and Shane) can celebrate a league title, there's the small matter of a Champions League final for Liverpool (and Ken) with this week seeing the Reds in action again...

It's finally over.  Four months on since the release of Football Manager 2024, our Premier League adventures come to a close this week.  The two-season arc is finished and the race for the title came all the way down to the final episode of the season. With a game in hand, can City make the extra points a possibility or will their poor run of form continue to haunt them with Liverpool - mathematic...

For the second, third and final times in this Football Manager journey of ours, it's back to the Etihad we go this week as Ken's Liverpool make the trip to Shane's 'The Manchester' to settle the trilogy and close out the season. With a 5-1 aggregate lead from last week's Champions League semi-final, Ken reckons he has this one in the bag, until he realises that the Liverpool prodigy-in-the-making,...

On paper, this might be the biggest clash of our Football Manager journey to date. While the race for the Premier League title has Man City clear of Liverpool by 6 points, the sides have been paired once again in Europe and this week we’ve got the first of our Champions League semi-finals along with some league action. Between this week and next, we’ll play each other on three occasions, twice in...

This week on The Football Manager Show, we're going back in time.  You see, there may have been a mishap after last week's episode in that, well, when it was supposed to save, it didn't save. Or maybe Ken didn't save the game. Or maybe the laptop died, or something happened, but the save wasn't there and the backup wasn't there, so where we took off and played our Champions League quarter-finals a...

It's finally April. We're into single figures remaining in the Premier League, while the Champions League hits the quarter-final stages. Can Ken's old boys Leicester cause an upset at Man City? Will Haaland have the edge over Real Madrid? Will Benfica come back to haunt Ken at Anfield and dent hopes of European success in our final season in England? So many questions, so many concerns! Let's get...

It's Friday. It's podcast day. We almost didn't make it, but we did. For the first time in 3 years, through a myriad of real-world events, it's taken us until late on release day to find 30 minutes together to unwind with some Football Manager. The gas thing, Shane's still hurting after last week's League Cup Final collapse. But it doesn't matter too much as Ken's Liverpool are just hurting full s...

The Caribbean God versus the pretender to the throne. The current FA Cup holders versus the current Premier League holders. Good versus evil? For the first time ever in 161 episodes, we're going all-in on one game. Yes, this season has been a slog, but it's also been methodical to a point and as results mounted up, the path was paved to send Man City and Liverpool to this year's Carabao Cup final....

We're mixing things up a little this week. For the first time in a while, we've managed to get some games under our respective belts this week before we actually press record. Remember when we used to do this before season 12? Recognising that last week segued into all manner of discussion, we're getting into the action early this week as we navigate the last sixteen of the UEFA Champions League b...

It's been a busy week at FMFShow towers, and a crazy week in the world of Football Manager. Before it gets patched (presuming it gets patched anyway), we put the latest 'no money down' transfer moves into play to see if you really can lure some of the biggest players in the game to greener shores for little to no cash.  We've got two must-win games in the Premier League, Ken's off to the Amex to t...

This week seeks the January transfer window slam shut, Liverpool continue their FA Cup journey and February's league games start with trips to Sheffield United and Chelsea. With 13 games left in the league, every point counts and with our next league destination pretty much in the bag, it's time to throw caution to the wind at all costs meaning there's a bit of shuffling for our last Premier Leagu...

With three years of weekly Football Manager podcasts behind us, year four begins with Liverpool and Man City arriving at the end of January, a crunch time for any Premier League duo. There's the small matter of needing to win in the last game in the Champions League new table stage to seal automatic progress to the knockouts. There's also the small matter of the January transfer window looming onl...

Happy birthday to us. Three years on, working our way towards a million podcast streams, two Irish lads who love Football Manager are celebrating three years talking about just that... Football Manager. Sure, Covid has been and gone, work life has stepped up, live comedy is on the rise, we've had the launch of The Wrestling Fan Wrestling Show and Ken On Food, but there's still important business t...

It's episode 155 of The Football Manager Football Show and this week we've got a mix of FA Cup, League Cup and Premier League drama to unfold while the January transfer window is very much open for business in 2026. So much so, that some of the Saudi Arabian heavy hitters are coming in strong for key names for both City and Liverpool, causing ructions in one dressing room in particular as the crac...

There are three things certain in this life. Death. Taxes. And if you play FM, getting properly Football Managered. If you've experienced it, you'll know exactly what we mean. Last-minute highlights, out of nowhere, breaking your heart, no chance to bounce back. It's a win that turns to a draw. It's a draw that turns into a hopeless defeat. It's taken a while, but it finally happens. This week on...

Happy New Year, Happy New Year, may we all have our hopes, our will to try, if we don't we might as well lay down and die. So say Abba, but there's no sense of laying down and dying this weather as we finally get to close out another calendar year of fixtures and brace ourselves for the ridiculous onslaught of January. This week, with the last of the Christmas holiday days upon us, we're recording...

On this week's podcast, we're winding out 2023 with a return to the Champions League, Premier League and the Carabao Cup as the January transfer window beckons. Shane's on air, Ken's still remote and on holiday and plans for the post-Premier League era begin to take shape as we wonder if there's a potential Football Manager challenge to be had by following the career paths of Ian Holloway, Dennis...

It's tiiiiiiiiime. Recorded on release day (22 December), we're squeezing in an episode just in time for Christmas, that lovely time of year that we hope sees everyone get a proper rattle at FM24, or you get to drag your FM23 season kicking and screaming into the New Year. We've still got another episode to go this year but this week we've the important bit of business in Liverpool's hosting of Ma...

One minute you're cruising, the next you're running into obstacles at the most inopportune time. On this week's helping of The Football Manager Football Show we're back for some lunchtime FM action, rolling tape as Liverpool and Man City jet off to Europe to take on the mighty giants that are Real Madrid and Bayern Munich. Before that we've got some league action with Leicester, Bournemouth, Brent...

Another week rolls around in our weird, wild and wonderful world of Football Manager 2024 and this week we're in Premier League, League Cup and Champions League action. A few things are starting to happen. Haaland's misfiring. Liverpool may be hitting an injury crisis, not helped by the lack of suitable cover registered for Europe with a whole bunch of games still to play in the new format Champio...

Hello December! We're into the final month of the year and it's a fast-paced episode of The Football Manager Football Show this week as we continue to get to grips with Football Manager 2024. The upgrade is done, the next big update is out and between Man City and Liverpool, the battle for the top spot in the Premier League is well underway with Champions League football also on the cards this wee...

Finally. While Ken's got a month of Football Manager 2024 under his belt, Shane's finally ponied up and bought his upgrade. Farewell Football Manager 2023, you were class, but we're all in on FM24. Not only that, but thanks to one of the best features to hit Football Manager in its history, you can finally port games from the previous year's version into this version meaning our Football Manager 2...

Football Manager 2024 is in the wild, wonderkids are on the move and it turns out Shane's already got one or two on his bench. While our Champions League journey got underway last week, we've got some league and League Cup action this week. While Shane's Man City side get a plum draw against Walsall, Ken's bringing Liverpool to London to take on Chelsea in the third round. It turns out Shane's als...

E145: Football Manager 2024 is out, David Ginola's hair, Ken's Liverpool meltdown and other FM stories [Live Episode] In what's one of our most whirlwind episodes to date, we're back for our last game in Football Manager 2023 thanks to the official release of Football Manager 2024 this past Monday. Yes, it's out now, if you haven't gotten a copy already, grab links from FootballManager.com. So wha...