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The land of ABBA, fit blondes and the Second Division South Gotaland with Helsingborg Sodra.
Season 1 - 2005
A team of ****-poor scouts means that no-one is signed before the close of the transfer window. There appear to be one or two talented youngsters in my squad, in particular an AML, but I wasn't sure what to expect.
I really shouldn't have worried. My first match in charge sees us win 5-0 away to Bunkeflo. I wondered if that was just a fluke. Nope, my second match was a 6-0 home win against VMA IK. The team continue in a similarly destructive vein, and the title is secured at a canter, with both strikers scoring for fun - one scoring 31 goals, the other 28. The team was disrupted slightly in July, when my talented AMR was sold to Kopenhagen for £240k, a move which balanced the books for the season.
With the Swedish League going through restructuring at the end of the 2005 season, I faced a play-off with Second Division West Gotaland winners FC Trollhatten - with a place in the First Division Elite going to the winners, with the losers taking their place in the new regional First Divisions. We secured our place in the First Division Elite with an emphatic 8-1 aggregate victory - 4-0 away, 4-1 at home.
The First Division Elite would prove an interesting challenge - there were a few bigger teams such as AIK Stockholm and Hacken to contend with, but also a few teams of similar standard to those I'd blown away the previous season. Hacken prized away one of my DC's for £1.5m, forcing me to replace him with one of my talented U18 players. A talented 16 year old DC was added for £16k, as well as a couple of back up players.
My strikers continued in much the same vein as the previous season, and the team started strongly, going unbeaten in the first 13 league games. After a defeat to Trelleborg, the team embarked on a 9 game winning streak that all but sealed the title by a landslide. We were only to drop 8 points all season, as my strikers continued in much the same vein as the previous season - scoring 35 and 25 league goals previously. A succession of kind draws saw us progress to the cup semi-finals, where we lost to Halmstad, the first top division club we faced on our run.
Summary
League P30 W27 D1 L2 F83 A22 Pts 82 Pos 1st
Cup: Semi Final
My first move was to promote a very talented DL and DM that had come through my youth system to the first team, giving me one of the youngest back 4s in the history of the game - from right back to left back aged 19, 17,21 and 16 at the start of the season!
This lack of experience told in the first part of the season (my CMs were 18 and 19) - we were winning a few games, but not convincingly. However, at the halfway point, we were on the coat-tails of leaders IFK Gothenburg. However, a 2-0 defeat to IFK in the next game left us 4 points off the pace. At this point, it was decided to re-introduce the previous season's captain to the team to provide a bit of experience and steel in the middle of the park. It paid off immediately - a 5-1 thrashing of AIK started a run of 7 wins in 8 games. This, coupled with a dip in form from IFK left us unexpectedly sitting top of the pile by 4 points with 5 games to play.
However, 2 or 3 of my youngsters started showing signs of cracking under the weight of public expectation. Morale started to slip, and the team started to lose their way, losing 3 of the next 4 games to slip back to level pegging with IFK with a game to go. Had we blown it? The last day of the season proved to be my most dramatic in FM/CM history.
We went into the last game level on points, but a comfortable 4 goals better off in the goal difference department. We also had a vastly superior goals scored record. We rushed into a 2-0 half time lead, and the job appeared done. What I hadn't reckoned with was IFK going 6-0 ahead at home to Kalmar. We were ahead, but only just. Then came the blow - we lost a sloppy early second half goal. Time began slipping away, and it looked like we were going to lose the league in heartbreaking circumstances, when in the 94th minute, my top scorer of the previous 2 seasons stepped up to score a memorable long range effort to win the game 3-1 and seal the title on goals scored.
We went 1 better in the cup, reaching the final against rivals Helsingborg. And despite an entertaining 3-3 game, there was to be no fairytale double - Helsingborgs winning 4-3 on penalties.
I've been playing in Sweden for 12 seasons with 1 club. Took four seasons to get out of d2, then 4 more to get up to allsvenskan. 4 seasons in the top flight has seen me finish 3rd, 9th, 2nd, 4th. Royal league 3 times, eufa cup twice, CL once. 2 semi finals in the royal league but haven't even won a leg in the proper european comps and 1 svenska cupen final runner up...
Hope you've decided to shelve GPTG and T&T once and for all.
In such a notoriously tough league with three successive titles and a history of posting in the dark places, you might expect a little reluctance to accept your career as a true LLM one.
Originally posted by Wizzle_O_Sizzle:
Hope you've decided to shelve GPTG and T&T once and for all.
Between the 2 forums, I've made 1 post this year - and that was at the start of January. It's not like I have a constant history of posting, asking for the best players in X, Y and Z situation/league.
My posting in the dark places predates my Swedish save anyway - here. I'd already mentioned how suprisingly easy I found Division 2 - something that continued into Division 1.
It's been an immensely enjoyable save so far, with a dramatic final day in my last season. Just because I've had a lot of success does not mean that I've been cheating - far from it. I've found the LLaMa way to be an immensely enjoyable way of playing the game, and I've started a second challenge in Belgium because of it.
So Frank's sent me to Sweden... 
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