retired_tresor

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retired_marcias

Good stuff

I actually started a game similar to this, using FC Kobenhavn as my team to gather Faroese players because I liked the fact they had a 'B' side lower down the league structure, but I didn't get past pre-season :p

shannon2007

The Scandal of It All

It could be supposed that there is nothing intrinsically wrong with what happened. Yet it left a bad taste in the mouths of many Danish fans and even in Iceland. There is nothing unusual about a manager taking some of his former players with him of course, and so when with £10M to spend - an incredibly large sum of moneys in relative terms - Olaf snapped up Christian Holst, Simun Joensen, Einar Petersen, Gunnar Nielsen and a £1M deal for Mortan I Horg you could well understand this. But perhaps it was starting to take the pish a bit when Johan V Gunnarsson, Pauli Nielsen, Thomas Overgaard, Jan Poulsen, Morten Larson, Bardur Jensen and Allan Danielsen all followed suit and promising young striker Petur Hojgaard was also signed on.

The rape of the IBV squad was bad enough, but was at least understandable. Olaf knew these players, they had delivered him nine domestic trophies in Iceland and he felt confident enough that they would so a job for him in Denmark either right now, or in the future. What followed though was utterly obscene. £1.5M was paid to Fremad Amager for teenage striker Anders Berg, much to the dismay of the Amager support. Worse was to follow for them Peter Damgaard, Aki Joensen and eleven other Faroese players were all sold on to Kobenhavn for varying degrees of cash reward. The fury though of the Fremad fans was soon to turn to utter disbelief. In the wake of selling virtually all his squad to his brother, manager Ingi Danielsen promptly handed in his resignation and walked out on the club.

The Danish press had a field day, with Fremad Amager officials demanding an inquiry and all sort of sanctions to be imposed. There were even calls for the Faroes FA to sack Ingi over what was alleged to be gross proffessional misconduct. The Faroes FA told the Danish to go f*ck themselves.

The Danish FA and UEFA both concluded that nothing had been done that was wrong. The players had been legaly transfered, and the clubs sufficently compensated. After all it was argued, if the compensation was not felt to be enough, why hadn't the Fremad Amager board stopped the deals? And if a manager wanted to resign his post, well that was a private matter between employer and employee.

And so in the end, amongst the most vociferous of controversies, virtually all of the Faroes national side moved to FC Kobenhavn, the only player missing being Kristian Hojgaard for whom Crystal Palace were asking too much. It would be more than interesting to see what effect this would have on club and country.

retired_aurie

A brilliant way of making the Danes go nuts PM

A brilliant story so far and I'm really enjoying your scandalous ways of promoting my cousins in the Atlantic :thup:

shannon2007

Thanks

If I'd been able to bring all the Faroese to IBV I would have stayed, but it proved impossible and I felt it was time to try something different. Problem is, I signed a couple of Faroese youngster and someone whom I thought was my assistant manager at the time told me to rethink and I ignored them. Turns out it was actually my chairman and now after all that Olaf is on the verge of the sack!

Anyway, I'm enjoying this game a lot and its rising up there beside my Park Avenue and Forfar Baby story games so that means it will have a long way to go. Don't despair though, it was my goal to take an Icelandic side to the Champions League and I might well continue with that - IBV have a lot of money now - but in another thread. Thanks for all the positive comments, much appreciated!

retired_bootcamp_nat

Nice one PM! Don't worry about the chairman mate. As soon as you win a couple of trophies he'll forget about it

shannon2007

Faroe Islands v San Marino
2010 World Cup Qualifying - Matchday 4
Saturday 21st March 2009

With all the furore surrounding the transfer dealings of the Danielsen brothers just about starting to die down, the match with San Marino was a welcome relief from such carry on. On paper this should be a very easy win for the ever improving Faroes side, yet in November they had been given a reminder of just how tough football can be as they were held to a 0-0 draw in Liechtenstein.

In there three games so far, San Marino had failed to find the back of the net. 2-0 defeats from Slovakia and the Czech Republic, followed by a 5-0 thrashing from Belgium. San Marino were the whipping boys and if the Faroes wanted to be seen as a serious side they would have to do some whipping of their own. It was an interesting Faroes squad, although totally unchanged from last time despite Mortan I Horgs suspensions. He was still included in the squad, although his place in the starting line up would be taken by one of only four players who did not play for FC Kobenhavn, Kristian Hojgaard - the others being Johann Davidsen whom the FC Kobenhavn chairman told Olaf that if he signed yet another pish Faroes player he'd be sacked, David Privas who still played his football in the Faroes and Fremad Amager goalkeeper Berint Andreasson.

Confidence was unsurprisingly high as the team took to the pitch, but just five minutes had gone when the home support was stunned into silence. San Marino won a free kick about 22 yards from goal, which Davide Simoncini curled round the wall and past Gunnar Nielsen in superb style. It was a goal fitting of a World Cup Final itself, and suddenly all the doubts were back. The next 12 minutes were a real struggle, as San Marino threatened to add another goal and start to really make this embarrasing. Then Johan V Gunnarsson picked up the ball 30 yards from goal and unleashed a sensational drive that totally flummoxed the San Marino keeper and the match was level. These may well be two crap sides, but they had produced two goals as good as you will ever see.

With confidence renewed the Faroes surged forward. On 24 minutes Peter Damgaard forced the opposition keeper into a double save, but that mans efforts were in vain as Christian Holst pounced on the loose ball from six yards and the Faroes were finally ahead. Twelve minutes later Holst added a third and just before the break Anders Berg killed off the match with an excellent fourth goal. The scoreline in many ways was decieving, as San Marino had made chances of their own but had failed to convert them.

The second half was much of a non event as San Marino ran out of steam and the Faroes players were content to just run out the clock and in the end a fairly comfortable and deserved win to extend their unbeaten run in competitive games to an incredible FIVE! And after four matches in this group, the Faroes sat in third place with six points, behind the Czech Republic on eight and Slovenia who also had six. Belgium had six points as well in 4th whilst Slovakia had five in fifth and bottom were the hopeless San Marinese with nil point. The Faroes were only a whisker away from ...... but theres way too long to go to even think about that!



How they played:

Gunnar Nielsen 7; Kristian Hojgaard 8, Uni Kjaerbo 8, Morten Larsen 7 , Simun Joensen 8; Einar Petersen 8; Aki Joensen 8, Johan V Gunnarsson (1) 8; Christian Holst (2) 9, Anders Berg (1) 8, Peter Damgaard 8 Subs: Morten Clausen (For Einar Petersen, 68) 7, Thomas Overgaard (For Johan V Gunnarsson, 68) 6, Bardur Jensen (For Anders Berg, 68) 6

retired_marcias

It's certainly a tantalising dream - I've always had a fascination with Iceland and Faroese football.

The only reason my Grindavik story died was because I bought FM 06 and however much I tell myself I will return I always know that I won't go back to an FM 05 game for any length of time. We basically did the same as your IBV (but with fewer domestic trophies) in managing to make the 3rd qualifying round, but then failing, and also failing in the following UEFA Cup match to get into group stages.

Keep up the good work

BarryLFC

amazing progress :thup:

shannon2007

Won't be happy till we win the World Cup