retired_gohilharshajit

Great! Is there some awards for the best story? if there is enter this! its brilliant

retired_gohilharshajit

can i just ask.... when is the next installment due?

retired_lovelyminoo

Possibly tonight, possibly wednesday depending how I get on tonight. Got to tidy my flat up a bit.

BarryLFC

No offence or anything, but htf can someone who's been registered for about 3 weeks possibly feel they've read enough to nominate anything as best story?

Good read though, even if the whole 'gay chairman' thing is a bit of a cliche.


What do you mean you've never heard of the 'gay chairman cliche'?

retired_007bondgirl

haha hilarious mate had me laffin neway, well done keep it up, at sure nomination for best story

retired_gohilharshajit

no offence taken HD just that out of about the 30 stories i have read this is the best and most enjoyable.

retired_lovelyminoo

13th May 2007
Got an email this morning. From River! My application to become their new manager has been unsuccessful it says. Well I never! If it took any longer to send me a reply I would have been on my pension.

I'm a bit gutted they didn't call me in for an interview though. Perhaps I'm just not ready to take on a higher profile job, and if truth be told I quite like Norway.

Our last 5 league games have seen us go unbeaten, and we've been unlucky not to win 2 out of the 3 we've drawn, conceding late goals in both games. I'm not sure if it's a case of us punching above our weight or if it's actually us playing well under my management.

What was it that they say? "Judge a manager over a course of a season and not over a few games." I'm beginning to see where they are coming from.

Read on the internet that the Rangers board may be getting a bit unhappy with their manager at the moment, not producing the results I think. Was really tempted to throw my hat into the rung, but on paper I don't think I've got enough experience yet.


20th May 2007
Well diary, our fine run has come to an end. Our first defeat in 12 games, which has gone some way to confound the critics that said we'd be a side struggling at the bottom of the league. We're 6th right now, sitting in the top half.

Earlier today I made contact with Dwight Yorkes agent. We really need someone to come in and give the team some extra oomph, as I said in a previous entry that the games we were losing were just by a nat's pube and if we got someone with an added edge then results could swing our way.

I'm not sure if we can afford the lads wages but it's worth a shot. And perhaps announcing that we are in talks with such a player might just raise the morale a bit to stop us getting a wee bit down after having a run like that end.

The best thing to do in such situations is to pick yourself up immediately.


23rd May 2007
The bastard rejected the contract.


16th June 2007
My Norwegian is certainly not the best. I can get the basics out. You know, "hello" and "goodbye", but other than that it's a real struggle. I'm lucky that most of the town speak at least a broken version of English, so I'm able to get by.

Over the last 2 months I've been taking Norwegian classes. Now, there aren't actually any schools/colleges/courses out here that teach such a language as it's already spoken fluently by all the natives. So I had two choices, either spend two years in an infancts school grasping the basics, or get a private tutor. I took the tutor option.

"et øyeblikk" – that means one moment please.
"Jeg har gått meg bort" - meaning I'm Lost. I tend to use this phrase quite often.

"En, To, Tre" - that means 1,2,3.

Those three phrases took about 4 hours to master. Glad I've got a 3 year contract at this club. Might learn something useful in that time!

On my way back from my class (yeah, great private tutor eh, I have to go and see HIM!) I stopped off at the club to check my emails. I didn't intend on staying on, just a quick glance over my inbox to see if there was anything that needed my immediate attention.

There was one from a mate of mine back home. Just asking how things were.. blah, blah, blah... Rangers won the league again (I already knew this), blah, blah, blah... Jeff in hospital... blah, blah, blah... tumor....

It didn't hit me straight away. I was still in my own wee world trying to work out the correct translation of “Where can I find a healthy mule” that I brushed over it and carried on to the end of the email.

I blinked, a kind of an instinct reaction to flush my mind and get my brain to prioritise again. “Jeff... hospital.. tumor”. Those 3 words together didn't exactly fill me with joy. I made a note of the contact number and headed off home.

Edit: “Hvor kan jeg finner en sunn muldyr?” is the answer by the way.


24th June 2007
Jeff has a brain tumor.

I called Margaret earlier last week to find out what was going on and she filled me in on the details. He had gone to watch the under-12's at the school as normal and collapsed suddenly. It's fairly well developed now, and they are saying surgery is highly unlikely.

Steve has been really cut up about it, and he's been given leave for a few days so he can take some time out. Both Margaret and Jeff have looked after Steve when I left to Farnborough and they're like family to him now. Lenny's offered to fly us out back to Scotland as we can't afford to do it alone on the wages we're on but I've declined the offer as I feel I need to stay on here and carry on my work as I believe it's what Jeff would have wanted . Steve's still considering flying back home.

The doctors haven't given a rough date on when we can expect any developments but we've been told to prepare for the worst. Poor Margaret, she's such a fragile wee soul, and there's really no-one else around the area that she speaks to. Jeff was always the one that chatted to the neighbours and got involved with the community. Margaret on the other hand just kept herself to herself, quite content to let her husband of 40 years have enough fun for the both of them.

Our thoughts are with you Margaret, let's hope Jeff pulls through this.

Vi tror

retired_lovelyminoo

Shorter entry than normal tonight. Had planned for a longer one but scouring Google for stuff to do with Norway took it's time

retired_007bondgirl

crackin story this mate, jus wondered hu wud ya say is the best team to go on footy manager

retired_lovelyminoo

Not really the place to ask, and to be honest it all depends on what you are looking for. I like the challenges of the game so I tend to start unemployed and just see where the game takes me, much like this story.

Each league has it's own challenges, you're best asking this question in the General Discussion for Football Manager 2006 forum.