[retired_mvpmckee]

A plea from a forgotton man.

Leave at this time last year cost Fred Patten his job with brummie, now it has cost him a job with City, yep Man City. There waere many rumours going about, maybe that he was trying to posion the West Ham players sandwiches before Mondays drab game with Preston. He replied to this accusation don't need to, their gonna lose anyway (i hope).

He is returning to club management in the next few days after turning his hand to cricket over the past few weeks, (and work) he has proved himself at that he says he is coming back to try and break the egg that he has never quite moulded, (sonuds philoscphoical, wish i knew what i was on about) . Football management, will Patten do it Who will it be with? Will it require hiring out half of middlesborough reserves in order to do it? Who knows?

[retired_bmun2001]

Im sure your club will love to have you back fred .

Very sorry i havent got round to sorting the website out and fully updating it with all data this weekend (as much as i have wanted to) its just i been tied up with work doing double shifts . However i am hoping to do it sometime in the week after one of the session nights as i will be more relaxed then

Report to come....

[retired_bmun2001]

Everton appoint Lee Owens as manager

After finally getting sacked from plymouth i seen that everton had just fired david moyes. This was my perfect opportunity to get my reputation back up and with a pretty nice budget and just over 2 million transfer budget i had big plans.

Some of the players i brought in for the new season are:

Jan gadjos - (dont know why on earth i actually brought him as the first game i put him in and he dont absolutely *****)

Paul Freier - A young promising looking defender yet to get a start due to a few injuries.

Petr Maly - A very talented young goalkeeper started off well but has recently faded so has been put into the reserves.

Maciej Korzym - A bit of a gamble on this player costing me 1 million. Certainly worth it so far has proved to be one of my best players if not my best and his valued has incresed to 6 million.

Rossi - Looked very nice and puts a lot of effort in. Not scored many yet but has set up a fair few.

Paul Collins - Another youngster very promising for the future if im still at the club.

and finally Lucas Drosek signed on a free a very talented player came from a decent side before hand.

With all these siginings and my own training schedule created i meant business this was only the start.

The start of the season didnt go well at all for us and opening game we got beat 2-0 by ipswich away. I thought of this as just a one off but the next game was worse as we had to face coventry and lost 3-0 to them.

After those 2 miserable first 2 games we started to play like a proper championship side and beat crewe 3-0 away with beattie grabbing a hat trick.

A great game for beattie and it could well of been a few more. First game for the new keeper who kept his first clean sheet. Korzym also played well.

An entertaining game next where we should of won but 2 late goals held us to a 2-2 draw with doncaster.

Newly promoted doncaster didnt play too bad and were pressuring us for a bit of the game but overall my side played much better.

With beattie going off on the 6th minute with an injury i was a little ****ed off. But on came youngster Neil Knight.

Nothing much else happened in the first half and the half time whistle was blown.

A few minutes later neil knight scores on 54 mins to take us into the lead.

A couple more minutes later knight adds a 2nd and puts us in what looked like a comfortable position.

then 71 minutes approached and they clawed one back and if it wasnt for my keeper saving a penalty on the 78th minute we could of lost.

Next game i could of easily predicted the result as it was against fulham who had won every single one of their games at this time.

We got beat 3-0 and totally outplayed.

That signalled the end to last mondays session and with use drifting near the relegation area early on we couldnt of got off to a worser start.

Wednesday session and First game was against torqauy at home.

This was a spectacular game in which 4 goals were scored but could of gone into double figures if it wasnt for torquays keeper.

Still 4 was very good korzym taking his new role very well and grabbing a hat trick and diamond scoring off a corner.

I decided to keep korzym in the same position for the next load of games and boy did he start to shine.

A 2nd league win on the trot next as we seen off derby beating them 2-0 with Beattie and korzym scoring. Them going down to 10 men helped a lot aswell.

The wins were pooring in now as we beat walsall 4-0 away with korzym, beattie, diamond scoring aswell as rossi grabbing his first goal for the club since he joined.

A rather quiet game next as we was held to a goaless draw against sheff weds. With korzym coming off with a minor knock my side didnt seem as attack minded as the past 3 games. But still all points will do.

The next lot of games just started to bring us down the wrong end of the table again with another 3 league defeats in a row. First we got beat 2-1 by cardiff with commons scoring. 2nd game got beat 3-0 by preston and the 3rd lost 1-0 to reading.

Not to mention getting beat by newcastle in the fa cup also after leading 1-0 for a while they came back and grabbed 2 goals to knock us out.

Final game of wednesday session and after the last few defeats i wanted something good to end on. With yet another new formation for the players to adjust to i knew it was gonna be a challenge.

Opponents were notts forest and standing just outside of the playoff's and we beat them 2-0 chaill scoring both goals and even having a 3rd disallowed.

After how we ended its hard to see how my side is going to do. Im hoping they will do great but will they? or will my side fall down into relegation and my job become under threat yet again? find out in my next couple of reports for now thats it.

[retired_bmun2001]

Session as usual now tonight now as i finished work early

[retired_meowmeow21]

Blue Blue Blue

Once upon a time you could leave your doors open and leave the house without fear of it being burgled. You could trust your neighbours to keep a eye out for you, cans of coke were 20p. Grannies could walk the streets after 8pm and road rage was non existant. Well, them days are gone grandad so get with the times, the times were Birmingham ride high in the footballing world.

As you may have guessed things are going well at St Andrews. After thirteen games we are sitting fourth in the league, we are top of our Uefa Cup group and stil in both cups. Here are my results for the season so far,


Middlesbrough 2 - 0 Birmingham

Birmingham 2 - 0 Portsmouth

Crystal Palace 1 - 3 Birmingham

Birmingham 3 - 3 Tottenham

Birmingham 3 - 0 West Brom

Newcastle 1 - 2 Birmingham

Birmingham 4 - 0 Brondby (Uefa Cup, first round Leg one)

Man Utd 0 - 2 Birmingham

Brondby 0 - 1 Birmingham (Uefa Cup, first round Leg two)

Birmingham 1 - 3 Chelsea

Liverpool 0 - 2 Birmingham

Birmingham 2 - 0 West Ham

Pasching 0 - 4 Birmingham (Uefa Cup group stage)

Charlton 3 - 1 Birmingham (Bogey team, hate em)

Birmingham 2 - 0 Watford (League Cup)

Birmingham 0 - 1 Arsenal (Robbed again by arsenal)

Birmingham 5 - 0 Monaco (Uefa group stage)

Aston Villa 2 - 4 Birmingham



So apart from a couple of hick ups along the way things are looking good. It is still early days so anything could happen but if we can keep players fit and get the that bit of luck it could be a great season.

WORD

[retired_bmun2001]

Nice report stevey . Just to let all know mainly razor the manager points and a few other sections on the clan website have now been updated with last seasons data on and we have a change to who is now first in the manager points

All other pages to be finished updated sometime over the week speak to you all in session tonight usual times.

[retired_nkthomas123]

I was wondering if it was possible to join your clan I used to be a member until I had pc problems and had to leave I know have a new pc and would love to join again

[retired_bmun2001]

Sorry currently full at the moment and have been for a while so you will have to go on our waiting list if interested in joining again :thup:

[retired_nkthomas123]

How big is your waiting list ? and how do I do this ?

[retired_bmun2001]

The waiting list has around 20 at least on and you do it by sticking your details in our application on our clan website http://www.fmelc.pfl-net.com which i see you have already signed upto