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"It's sh*#e being Scottish", once uttered Ewan McGregor as Mark Renton in Trainspotting. It certainly has that feel about dealing with contracts, loans, transfer budgets and more as we work our way through pre-season in Scotland. We've got far-flung friendlies against Lens, Morecambe, Albion Rovers, Colchester and more to look forward to this week along with the arrival of more triallists (who doe...

Forget about the Old Firm derby and all the trappings that Celtic and Rangers could bring. This season, it's all about Hibs and Hearts to find a new king of Edinburgh and try break the stranglehold on Scottish football. With Shane already shacked up at Hearts having suffered at the hands of the AC Milan Board with a few months left in our Italian season, Ken's finished up his time at Inter having...

It's the end of the season as we know it and it's time to go out on a high in Scotland and Italy. Kind of. Much like the world of hurling and football, we've ended up with a split season this year. Shane's unceremonious sacking at Milan meant he had to pack his bags mid-season, taking two months to find a job at the heart of Scottish football. While he's been getting to grips with a team who have...

It's the penultimate episode on our Italian journey that has now become a two-country affair. Shane's got his new job and as per league rules, he can't manage again in Serie A in the same season so he's bound for Scotland!  With the potential of silverware on the table before the season is out, he's got his work cut out for him. So too does Ken as Inter hit their run-in with eight games left to pl...

It's looking like the last of our remote-recorded "live play" episodes and would you believe it, there's some job interviews on the table! While we work our way through March and on to April, we've finally got movement on the jobs front for one Shane O'Keeffe as the interviews finally mount up, two months after getting the sack from Milan, while Ken's got some Coppa Italia action and league games...

With filming continuing on Shane's feature film, we're tight on game nights so we're on the second of three 'live play' episodes with Shane job hunting while the gloss starts to fade on Ken's stint at the top of Serie A. Brighton, Southampton, Boavista, Hoffenheim, Bochum, Troyes, Bournemouth, Aberdeen and more all look like they've got availability, but will 'The Don' finally get that phone call...

We're in unchartered territory for a week or so. Covid has struck, after dodging the thing for the bones of two years, leaving Ken at home and the studio off-limits while Shane's in the middle of making his next movie. Oh, and he got fired last week as the AC Milan board finally gave up on his false promises and penchant for wonderkids and flamboyant spending in a league where results matter most....

It's taken us 62 episodes to get to this point, but we've got ourselves a Football Manager Football Show exclusive, maybe even the first time that this has happened in Football Manager. From Argentina to England, Spain to Turkey and now Italy, it's taken us 62 episodes to get to this point with some insane ups and downs along the way. But the news we got 15 minutes before walking into the studio t...

It's January in Italy and it's a cold start to the new year. With the transfer window officially opening, the reinforcements are arriving in Milan including two of our FM21 standouts, Yusuf Demir and Karim Adeyemi. But while the new recruits make themselves at home in Milan, someone's getting hauled over the coals Football Manager style and threatened with their job over a loose comment in a press...

Is "football coming home"? Can the European champions be toppled? We're not really sure to be honest as the winter World Cup comes and goes - with a few surprises to be fair - as we transition from late October to late December in this week's edition of The Football Manager Football Show. We begin by wrapping up October with the last of our league and Champions League fixtures before the winter br...

As the wrestling world mourns the loss of Scott Hall aka Razor Ramon, we've been playing our way through the month of October this week with just a few hours nabbed for game time as we've got ourselves a double bank holiday for the first time ever in Ireland. Yes, with St. Patrick's Day on Thursday, the government have only gone and given us a Covid bank holiday on Friday meaning we've recorded a...

Anything is possible in this life, even making a one hour podcast out of just two hours of game time with Football Manager 2022 this week. But we make it count, to be fair. Real Madrid are coming to town, Liverpool are coming to town as we reach the midpoint of our Champions League group stages.  It's time to start dropping players for substandard performances, but at what stage do you draw the li...

Does the latest Football Manager update have your regular goalscorers missing sitters from six yards? Notice anything about skewed shots when watching extended highlights? And just where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? So many questions, so little time this week as one of us genuinely needs a trip to the doctor but we're closing off the summer transfer window in Italy, wrapping up August and crui...

It's episode 56 of The Football Manager Football Show and we're starting to motor in Serie A. The first month of games is in the bag and the league is starting to move. Parma, Roma, Napoli, Torino and more are providing the opposition and some stern tests as assistant managers are ignored, VAR is wrecking heads and there's an exodus of young prospects from both Inter and AC. Wedged in the middle,...

It's time for the regular season! This week on The Football Manager Football Show we've got save updates and shouts for some of the FM community a lot of transfer business and money woes squad number selection and the weight it carries our final three pre-season fixtures and the opening day of Serie A TIM proper as Inter face Fiorentina while Udinese take on Milan at the San Siro Whiskey plays a p...

Household names. Nostalgic football. Shared stadiums. A rivalry for the ages. Is that enough of a hint to let you know where we're off to? It's a football story as old as the hills and when it came to picking our destination for season six, it was only fair to let Shane decide where we're off to and who gets who. The finish in this league, while we were in Turkey, was super close, but neither side...

Our time in Turkey has come to an end, but there's still the matter of one last piece of silverware. On this week's Football Manager Football Show we're wrapping up our time in Turkey with the final four league games of the campaign including a Galatasaray v Fenerbahce finish to the season. Has anything improved from our last goalless encounter? Is there one final twist in the tale? There is the s...

Our time in Turkey is almost done... will we get a league winner on this episode? Gripes about mis-firing strikers, blown chances, open goals, restarting plays and refereeing decisions aside, we're heading into what should be our penultimate week in Turkey. This week, there's Europa Conference League action for Fenerbahce along with a Turkish Cup semi-final second leg (after about 50 days of waiti...

It's episode 51 of The Football Manager Football Show! As Galatsaray continue to pull away in the league, the focus for Fenerbahce could be shifting to cup competitions in search of some silverware. But is all rosy on the European front? And who the hell puts nearly two months between two legs of a cup competition? Injuries are scarce but so too are goals and as snow impacts play in Russia, the ch...

Well hello there episode 50 of The Football Manager Football Show! We're hitting the end of January and cruising into mid-February in this week's show. There's the frustrating impact of the African Cup of Nations, there are unhappy campers being registered and deregistered for the second half of the league season and the next round of European cup competitions and then there's the looming transfer...

It's a fresh helping of The Football Manager Football Show as we move through the end of December, through the month of January and into transfer-window territory in Turkey. Just when you thought a winter break would serve your players well, it turns out that injuries, the African Cup of Nations, suspensions and a slip in league form are starting to take their tolls. One of our managers has been i...

It's our final episode of 2022, just in time to ring in the new year as we hit the Christmas season in Turkey!

It's Christmas baby, so we're taking a few days off and back with episode 48 in time for New Years! From our houses to yours, happy Christmas and all the very best for 2022!

We've all been there. Unfortunately, some of us have been there more than others. You're one up, two up, you look like you're cruising. They pull one back, but you're grand, there's only five minutes left, they'll never pull things level. Until they do. It's been the story of the week for one of our intrepid managers as our Turkish adventure heads into the winter months. With tactical switches, qu...

There are two things we've learned from this episode. Firstly, substitutions require a whole other level of planning for Turkish league games when injuries mount up and you have to keep an eye on your foreign and domestic player counts before running the risk of dipping into your under 19s pool. Secondly, Shane has no love at all for Gwyneth Paltrow, unless of course there's a Hollywood job offer...