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Originally posted by domwepster:
As a slight twist, I decided to play out my managerial career as Etienne Verveer - a moderatly succesful dutchman who lit up the Den in his oh-too-short-career in England.
You don't have to tell me anything about Mr Verveer: a legend at Bradford City
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After a brief stay in Essex I was sacked after an ultimatum.
Highlights included a 4-0 win over 10-man leaders Billericy.
Lowlight included an 8-0 drubbing aftre going down to 9 men against Gravesend, when I went for an all or nothing all-out-attack with 2 guys at the back. Sadly it was to be nothing.
After that game I decided to demand more wages form the board as they were blocking all my free transfer signings. We had a "disagreement", and so it is mid June now and I find myself on Holiday.
Oops. Sorry to cause any controversy. In my defense i think he has retired from football. I just picked it to add a bit of "interest" to my game, but if the mods want to delete it thats fine with me.
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Anyway I have finly been offered a job - about 9 long months after my outburst at the Canvey Island board - and that job is with...
Paganese in Serie C2/C on a rolling contract - lathough Im determind to repay thier faith in me with a good few years (if I last that long).
My first ever foray into the Italian leagues apart form half a season as Parma in 01/02, before I saw the light and became a LLaMa.
Paganese spent 2 years in teh wilderness before geining promotion to Serie C2. They then had two years losing in the playoffs (4th and 5th),and a season of midtable mediocraty but are now in danger of sinking back down again.
I took over with them in 15th (out of 18 - with bottom club going own and 2 of next four going down via playoffs - for those who are similarly inexperienced with the game in Italy).
P16 W3 D6 L7 F19 A26 Pts15 (pos15)
We were amongst the relegation favorites deeply in the red and about 5k over our 11k/wk budget with not a penny to spend.
It has started out suprisingly well - and I think I have the basis of a decent squad - but we shall see come the end of the season. My only goal is to at least stay up via the playoffs, if not avoid them all together.
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