retired_pmetzger1

Two weeks to play a season - I'm slacking

2013/14 end of season update...

Chester City retained the league title in slightly more stylish fashion. Won it with two games to go - finishing 6 points ahead of Man U, with us both about 20 points clear of the chasing pack.

I can't even remember our league cup campaign. Our defence of the FA cup floundered at the first hurdle.

The Champions League is a longer story. Started both group stages with a defeat and a draw before rallying and grabbing the second qualification spot each time. Drew Bayern in the 1/4 finals. Nicked a 1-0 lead in the home leg, which was quickly turned around in Germany when Bayern went 2-0 up inside the first twenty minutes. However, on the stroke of half time they conceded a penalty (and had a player sent off in the process) which was duly tucked away. Chester ran out 4-2 (5-2 aggregate) winners.

Barcelona in the semis. Just under 10,000 of Chester's 22,000 seats were left empty for this obviously not very glamorous match :o. Barcelona came to defend and snatch a goal on the break. It seems the fans had the right idea - only 4 shots in the whole game (0 for Chester) and a 1-0 Barcelona victory. Managed to return the complement at the Nou Camp, and so after 210 minutes of football it came down to penalties. Which we won \o/.

So the home of Scottish Division 3 side Queens Park was the venue for Chester City V Roma, for the title of 2014 European Champions. A routine 2-0 Chester win meant that the European Cup was on it's way to the Deva Stadium.

So, time to move on to pastures new? Well it needs to be the right job. As Iajafer has said elsewhere on this forum, would it be realistic for me to move straight back down to the conference? Currently I'm ranked #1 in England and #12 in the world. I couldn't justify taking a job at a new team with 5 players and no coaches on the back of the season that I've just had. Got offered the Arsenal job, but I'm not moving to another EPL team. Quite fancied West Ham (Div 2) as their manager was "very insecure" over the summer, but they've had a good start to the season and his job is now safe. I'll be keeping my eyes peeled and will change clubs when a suitably interesting (and justifiable) job comes up.

Applied for Italy and Brazil after the World Cup (won by the Argies), but got neither.

retired_pmetzger1

Forgot to add, my 35 year old Brazilian FLC who played only about 20 games in total in the season (including sub apps) and averaged about 6.9 came second in the FIFA World Player of the year

retired_jsammut

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by mkus:
Two weeks to play a season - I'm slacking
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

2 weeks? I dream of finishing a season in two weeks!

retired_pmetzger1

As promised/threatened I have swapped this

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">********************************************* ************************************************** * English Premier Division - Tuesday 18th November 2014********************************************** ************************************************** ================================================== ============================================== 2014/5 Table============================================= ================================================== =Pos Team Pld Won Drn Lst For Ag Won Drn Lst For Ag Pts--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1st Chester 13 4 3 0 7 3 5 0 1 9 3 30 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2nd Reading 14 5 0 2 6 3 2 3 2 4 4 24 3rd Crystal Palace 13 4 2 1 9 5 2 2 2 9 7 22 4th Newcastle 14 3 3 1 6 4 2 4 1 9 7 22 5th Portsmouth 14 4 2 1 10 5 2 2 3 13 15 22 6th Leeds 14 1 3 3 7 8 5 1 1 8 4 22 7th Wolves 14 1 2 4 4 6 5 0 2 10 6 20 8th Watford 14 3 2 2 10 10 2 3 2 6 6 20 9th Sheff Utd 14 3 1 3 5 7 2 4 1 4 3 20 10th Aston Villa 13 3 2 1 9 5 2 2 3 4 7 19 11th Bradford 14 4 3 0 10 4 1 1 5 6 12 19 12th Man Utd 13 2 5 0 6 4 2 1 3 4 5 18 13th Arsenal 14 4 2 1 10 3 0 3 4 6 11 17 14th Liverpool 14 2 2 3 3 5 2 2 3 3 8 16 15th Fulham 13 3 2 1 5 3 0 4 3 2 5 15 16th Blackpool 14 2 3 2 5 5 1 3 3 4 6 15 17th Charlton 14 0 4 3 3 6 1 4 2 4 6 11 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------18th Chelsea 14 2 1 4 10 10 1 1 5 6 14 11 19th Sunderland 13 0 3 3 7 10 1 4 2 1 2 10 20th Coventry 14 0 4 3 4 8 0 5 2 2 5 9 </pre>

for this

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">********************************************* ************************************************** * English Second Division - Tuesday 18th November 2014********************************************** ************************************************** ================================================== ============================================== 2014/5 Table============================================= ================================================== =Pos Team Pld Won Drn Lst For Ag Won Drn Lst For Ag Pts--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1st Burnley 18 5 3 1 16 9 5 2 2 10 5 35 2nd Gravesend 18 5 3 1 14 7 5 2 2 9 6 35 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3rd Hull 18 4 2 3 14 10 6 1 2 11 9 33 4th Preston 18 3 1 5 13 14 7 1 1 16 5 32 5th Tranmere 18 5 4 0 14 5 4 1 4 13 16 32 6th Rochdale 18 5 1 3 14 10 4 3 2 12 10 31 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------7th Carlisle 18 6 1 2 18 7 3 1 5 8 9 29 8th Stockport 18 4 2 3 8 6 3 4 2 9 7 27 9th Bristol Rovers 18 4 3 2 12 6 2 5 2 11 12 26 10th Barnet 18 5 3 1 15 5 2 2 5 9 16 26 11th Port Vale 18 5 2 2 13 10 2 3 4 9 12 26 12th Bury 18 3 3 3 17 14 3 4 2 13 13 25 13th Mansfield 18 5 1 3 11 7 1 5 3 11 13 24 14th Northwich Vics 18 4 3 2 17 13 2 3 4 11 17 24 15th Wycombe 18 5 1 3 16 7 2 1 6 12 17 23 16th **West Ham** 18 5 2 2 13 9 1 3 5 4 8 23 17th Ipswich 18 5 1 3 14 8 2 1 6 5 16 23 18th Walsall 18 3 3 3 7 7 2 3 4 10 11 21 19th Chesterfield 18 4 3 2 10 8 1 2 6 7 19 20 20th Oldham 18 3 4 2 5 5 2 0 7 5 14 19 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------21st Macclesfield 18 1 5 3 6 12 2 3 4 4 8 17 22nd Yeovil 18 3 2 4 10 15 1 3 5 8 14 17 23rd Cardiff 18 1 3 5 5 10 2 3 4 9 14 15 24th Peterborough 18 0 2 7 6 15 1 2 6 3 17 7 </pre>

And the team is shÃ*t!

retired_pmetzger1

It aint going to be long term, it's a stepping stone to the somewhere lower that I couldn't justify before.

retired_pmetzger1

Conference teams couldn't manage the necessary financial inducments

Reawakening the sleeping "giant", blah blah blah.

retired_pmetzger1

Despite arriving to find a team with only two defenders worthy of the title, and only two strikers in total (both poo) my record for the remaining 28 league games in charge of West Ham was

W16 D11 L1

This was good enough for second place. The only defeat was to Port Vale who won the league by 4 points .

Only other defeat of the season was to Chelsea in the FA cup (a dodgy 1-0 home defeat). I guided West Ham to the Vans Trophy.

This was all a little too easy and unsatisfactory. So with West Ham back (IMO) where they belong I quit at the end of May, still ranked no1 in England and no7 in the world.

Who should get to promoted to the conference but have lost their manager on route?

Moor Green of course! No scouts & "Battle Bravely against Relegation"

retired_pmetzger1

Thought you weren't going to read anymore .

retired_pmetzger1

Chester have just won the World Club Championship (without me damn them).

retired_mdibrell

He He good stuff mkus.

I've not tuned in for ages but you've been fargin busy havn't you. Btw I just took over a 2nd div West Ham in my save too. But it's only the 2005/6 season for me.