A big hello to all you avid CMS readers and writers. This string is an ideal opportunity for me to introduce myself ahead of plunging myself head-first into your world.
I'm Andy and I'm one of your more senior CMers/FMers and contributors to these forums. I'm into my 40s and have been into CM since CM3. I always manage little clubs - I started with my hometown Plymouth Argyle when they were struggling in the lower reaches of the Third Division (IRL and with me at the helm).
But as I'm half Scottish (and a Highlander to boot) I progressed on to my home team Inverness Caledonian Thistle - when they were in the Scottish Third and later Elgin City.
With CM03/04 I've been managing in India (for reasons which will soon become apparent) and now Accrington Stanley for which I'm writing my magnum opus.
I've had a long and typically mundane life - I was a high school teacher for many years, wrote school books and was (still am) a Senior Examiner of GCSE and A Levels [yeh I know - instant hate
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I got bored with the rat race and buggered off to a Buddhist monastry, as you do, but found that too normal (I have a low boredom threshold) and took myself off to Nepal - country of Mount Everest, civil war with Maoist insurgents and some of the most grinding poverty in the world. In Kathmandu I built a school for street children and had a wonderful time for the better part of two years. In a nation where barely 15% of people have access to electricity I was one of a handful to own a PC and almost certainly the only person to possess CM. With the lack of nightlife I had lots of time to play it too. I spent a little while in Calcutta, the home of Indian football before coming back to the UK (less than two weeks ago where I am now gainfully unemployed and looking forward to CM 24/7, including my first online game when I get broadband.
I had to leave Nepal because i sort of married a beggar in Calcutta who turned out to be very crazy and was convinced all the mothers of my students were putting voodoo curses on me to make me love them - she kept starting big fights with them and due to this i lost my job, home, friends and everything, and the only place she couldn't follow me and make my life hell was back in the UK. But we've all been there, huh.
As well as writing books on the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu I got into the creative writing habit by keeping a journal while in Nepal and India. I put it all on a weblog site and the more scrapes I got into (bombs, women, the lot) the more my readership increased until I had a following of a few hundred. If anyone's interested my story is on
http://andyinkat1.blogspot.com and
http://andyinkat2.blogspot.com as I filled the internet up with the first half of my story.
Now I've turned my energies to writing a story of my Accrington Stanley campaign, entitled 'Cometh The Hour, Cometh The Stan' - as soon as I upload this post I'll upload my first chapter - be warned: it's currently over 50,000 words and I've just started the second season!
I write for my own pleasure but I do hope some of you enjoy it - those of you with sufficient patience and time that is.
As you can see I don't half bloody go on! I look forward to a long and enjoyable relationship with you guys (and one gal). Cheers!
. The idea of CM and crazy Calcutta voodoo women going hand in hand brings a smile. 
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