In the last two versions of Football Manager, we've run experiments with Big Sam Allardyce stepping in to try and rescue teams sitting bottom of their leagues at Christmas time. We weren't planning to run it on FM24 but, with the delay to FM25, this Christmas period seemed like a good time to revive the series.
The final part of this experiment series will see Lionel Messi placed at last season’s relegated sides and the clubs that were newly promoted to the Premier League.
Our Sir Alex Ferguson Challenge went well beyond what I expected as we ended up staying at Nottingham Forest for 26 years to play out the career of the great Luís Pereira to its conclusion. In that time, we firmly established Forest as the best team in the world, lifting an absolute armoury of trophies.
After 15 Premier League titles in 16 seasons, the end was very much nigh in this successful Sir Alex Ferguson Challenge. However, I felt we had to conclude the career of arguably the greatest player in Football Manager history, Luís Pereira.
Sir Alex Ferguson's impressive tally of 13 Premier League titles had been broken as we led Nottingham Forest to our 14th championship success in the 2041/42 campaign. I'd also racked up 5 Champions Leagues, 6 FA Cups and 4 Carabao Cups among my 47 trophies as a Football Manager.
Approaching our 20th season at Nottingham Forest, we were now tied with the great man Sir Alex Ferguson's 13 Premier League successes having won the last nine titles in succession.
Sir Alex Ferguson's haul of 38 trophies at Man UFC may have seemed insurmountable when we took control of struggling Nottingham Forest 16 years ago. However, it was suddenly just two successes away after a period of absolute dominance at the Brian Clough Arena.
After 16 seasons at Nottingham Forest, we'd racked up an impressive haul of 33 trophies, leaving us just five short of the tally amassed by Sir Alex Ferguson at Man UFC.
Victory over Bayern München in the Champions League Final saw Nottingham Forest wrap up a league, cup and European treble in our 13th season at the club. That moved us onto 22 trophies in charge at Forest, moving us 16 behind Sir Alex Ferguson's tally at Man UFC.
Back-to-back Premier League titles and six in the last seven seasons and seen us well and truly establish Nottingham Forest as the dominant force in English football. But this season's big challenge was to complete the cup, league and European treble that Sir Alex Ferguson managed in his 13th season at Man UFC in our 13th season at Forest.
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