Galway Utd - Irish First Division
Finances – Packet of Crisps and a Pint of Lager.
Everything else – Decent training facilities, 2,000 seater stadium, 6,000 capacity.
The team is a mix of young, no-hopers and beer-bellied 30 somethings. Or so you would think. Turns out the elders have some experience as to the shape of a football pitch and the young fellas might have a future. We win a few friendlies, and six months later we’re promoted. HOORAY! I guess the board did me an indirect favour not letting me buy anyone.
Season two: We win a few friendlies, and battle bravely to avoid relegation. Along the way my top scorer’s loan runs out. Drawing seems to be the height of the teams ambitions, and one of my central defenders regulary confuses the penalty area as a kickboxing ring. I sell my Spaniard back to Spain for a hefty €26,000 and go on to ease my woes, I take up shopping, but due to my depressed(read drunken) state I fail to realise the next transfer window only opens at the end of the current season, after I’m relegated.. HOORAY!
Season three: My purchases arrive in shiny wrapping paper, my top buy a laid back Jamaican goal getter. However, to my horror they expect to be paid. €1,000 over my €4,000pw wage budget and I get a sinking feeling. My misery is compounded when my laid back Jamaican gets called up to some eastern European team. Turns out some Soviet country has stolen the Jamaican flag. :eek: Realising he’s only here to rape my women and steal my job I put him on the transfer list and sent him to the nightmare of the reserves. With the rest of my buys, half of them turn out to be decent players, and one is getting a goal a game, inspiring the team to win more games than they lose. With two games to go in the First Division, we’re promoted. HOORAY.
Season four: Get far enough in the cups to pay off the wage bill(worked for me last season, might work again) and battle bravely against relegation…