retired_Kemp

Course: Football Management 101

Place: University of Grey Haven

Semester: Spring

Teacher: Professor Gandalf

Student Elegibility: Everybody who has completed Football 101

Tuition Fee: N/A, but bring your own lembas

Course Description: This course will guide you into the secrets of managing a football team (see Football 101). This will prove helpful once we figure out how to travel to the recently discovered alternate universe known as Lower Earth, as the inhabitants here seems to have very high opinions about this game. The course will use a simulator to take you through some different phases designed to give you a broad yet thorough introduction to football management. The phases are:
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<LI>Phase 1. Basic football management: Squad analysis, tactics, transfers, staff. This will take place in a topflight club in the area known as Scotland.

<LI>Phase 2. Lower league management: Promotions. Use your honed skills to take a lowly placed team in Scotland up to the top flight.

<LI>Phase 3. Stabilizing: Avoiding relegations. Dealing with low reputation. Once on the top you need to avoid the drop.

<LI>Phase 4. Managing in other countries. Different cultures. Different rules. Different languages. Now it's time to go to the mainland and take a lowly placed team from the area known as Italy to the top flight.

<LI>Phase 5. Setting goals for yourself. Beating rivals. Planning ahead. Now it's time to pick a team in Southern Scotland (aka. England), where the professor will give you a goal and show you how to reach it.

<LI>Phase 6. Budget crisis. Motivation. Using what you've got. Staying with the team and surviving.

<LI>Phase 7. Youth academy and free transfers. Growing yough players. Spotting the forgotten gold. Droping to a low-division team in England you must take them to the top.

<LI>Phase 8. International competitions. Champions Cup. UEFA Cup. How to bring European glory to your club.

<LI>Phase 9. Summary. Return to Scotland and apply the lessons learned.
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Authors notes:

There will be little if any LOTR references in this story, but I have a diffent idea in mind:

As this is a course, I would like some students present to make the story interactive. If you're ready for that, please sign in on your first visit by posting a "Present" e.g "Doctor Who is present, Professor Gandalf. Sorry for being late." Once you've enrolled, feel free to ask questions to the professor or throw pencils at you fellow students, or whatever students do these days.

If you would like to post something outside the story, please do so in Italics.

retired_destiny1124

Faramir here, Professor.

I will sit in the back of the room

retired_MikeMcC

CMS186 here, sir.

I will sit at the front of the room, I have also left an apple on your desk!

BarryLFC

I like this

HD here, Professor Gandalf, but you may call me Halbarad.

I will sit beside Faramir and make snidey comments about the other class members as they arrive

retired_bbcarr

Terk here, Sir.

i'll probably give up halfway through

retired_confal2

I'll just look in through the window now and again as I get stoned on the lawn outside...And until I get kicked off campus...

retired_embartl

BoN here Prof,

sorry I'm late, suffering Explosive Diarhoea problems at the mo. Takes seat, returns funny stare from HD and sits back in chair, a little too relaxed

retired_hardtrucker18

Carrplos here, Mr Wizard

I'll sit in one of the back corners, as I don't like having people both in front and back of me, nor left and right of me.

Can we leave class early?

retired_pahuja_satish

*Throws a pencil at Terk*

SoS here sir, suits you sir.

retired_bbcarr

*nibbles on some lembas whilst thinking of a suitable way to extract revenge on sos*