Young English manager Robí di Lathamé had been granted the luxury of a few days off by Raith Rovers chairman Robbie McGinn. He'd taken a quick weekend break to soak up some sun in the south of France and visited a few pals back in London who'd been keeping up with his Scottish management exploits.
Our first full season in Sardinia had seen us nicely improve Cagliari's fortunes to finish in 8th place, just 3 points away from qualifying for Europe. This blog will look back on our key performers in the 2031/32 Serie A season.
The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed a subtle difference to my ongoing Saving Sporting series. That's because I discovered the work of Laura, aka Chilled Moose, with her awesome looking regen faces and a really exciting database she's created.
When I said that the next post in this 24 hours of Football Manager challenge would reveal where we've ended up after holidaying while on a Zoom call, I most definitely did not expect this to be the end result.
After five years sitting on the beach honing my tactical knowledge, the time was finally upon me to begin life as a football manager. And we had a big game to get things started.
An hour into the game and we were already stepping into club management for the first time in 2024. Eight-time Spanish champions Athletic Bilbao had entrusted us with our first role as manager and I'm excited by the prospect.
Joining the job hunt in 2024 there were several roles available and I appeared to be in with a chance of getting them - despite having been on holiday for 5 years.
Today (14 May) is my birthday and, seeing as there's nothing to do I thought I'd just play Football Manager all day. Then I thought, 'can I just play Football Manager ALL DAY?' So I decided to try and play Football Manager for 24 hours straight.
The Premier League may be going through all manner of problems with its 'Project Restart' plan but we here at Sporting Lisbon are having a lovely old time with our 'Project Rebuild.'
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