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With me being forced out of Billericay, I've loaded up a new game on CM3 01/02 with this season's official data update.
Leagues running are England, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Northern Ireland, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Turkey & Wales, all with feeder leagues where appropriate.
For the first time LLaMaing, I've actually picked my team based on a connection I have with the town. A London friend of ours had some two exchange students over from here a couple of years ago, and we've visited them there.
I am manager of Real Ávila of Spain's Second Division B Group 1.
Ávila is a small town (and a lovely little place) around an hours drive from Madrid.
Traitorously, the two Spanish girls are Real Madrid fans.
Ávila play at the Adolfo Suarez ground, with a capacity of 6000 and adequate facilities. All staff is in place and positions are just about covered, but Ávila are a little club and their players and staff reflect this. I do have some money £350,000 to spend though.
I sign an Italian Assistant Manager, a AM/F R from Tenerife, a F C from Real Madrid and a M LC from Deportivo la Coruna for a total of £290,000.
We start with a win over Marino, who turn out to be the worst team in the division. We follow up by conceding four goals away. Twice. My left back gets sent off for a foul (no suggestion of violence) and gets banned. My appeal sees it increase to 9 games! :eek:
The transfer windows opens in December. I sign a veteran keeper who had served years for AC Milan, two centre backs and a striker. They all fit in perfectly as we lose the next game at home by a single goal.
Overall we're struggling, especially when we leave our quaint little town...
I have two games running... and now I don't have a club in either!
We sure put up a fight. We were even riding as high as 13th at one stage, but I knew our run in was tough as we played mostly sides from the top six.
With three games to play we still had a good chance of avoiding relegation. However, a terrible home defeat to Lanzarote, who were below us at this point left us with a mountain to climb.
We needed to beat Real Madrid B in our final game. A 1-1 home draw saw us relegated, though this proved academic anyway when both Lanzarote and Las Palmas won anyway at teams already in the promotion playoffs. I smell a rat...
<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"> ************************************************** ********************************************** Spanish Second Division B - Sunday 12th May 2002********************************************** ************************************************** ================================================== ============================================== 2001/2 Tables============================================ ================================================== ==Group 1Pos Team Pld Won Drn Lst For Ag Won Drn Lst For Ag Pts--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1st Pl Pájara Playas 38 14 3 2 43 17 12 2 5 28 20 83 2nd Pl Cultural 38 10 6 3 36 18 13 3 3 35 15 78 3rd Pl Langreo 38 15 1 3 39 10 5 8 6 28 31 69 4th Pl Atletico Madrid B 38 13 3 3 32 13 7 6 6 34 30 69 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------5th Lugo 38 14 3 2 36 15 4 6 9 25 36 63 14th Corralejo 38 7 5 7 18 17 3 7 9 19 29 42 15th Lanzarote 38 6 9 4 27 21 3 5 11 17 28 41 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------16th Pl Universidad Las Palmas 38 8 6 5 35 25 3 2 14 18 41 41 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------17th R Alcalá 38 7 3 9 25 29 4 4 11 18 30 40 18th R Real Madrid B 38 8 1 10 30 37 4 1 14 23 50 38 19th R Ávila ********* 38 6 5 8 21 22 2 7 10 23 36 36 20th R Ribadesella 38 5 6 8 21 30 1 2 16 12 50 26 </pre>
So now, I have no job. I've selected all the leagues to foreground and applied for jobs in 10 of the 13 countries I am running (there are no vacancies in Wales, Northern Ireland or the Republic).
Three stand out - Hastings Town, newly promoted to the Conference, Brechin City, newly promoted to Division 1 and some Spanish team that I can't remember with a stadium capacity of a mighty 800.
These Spanish relegation dogfights aren't bloody easy I can tell you!
Doesn't matter if Brechin are in a lower league. I started in the lower leagues and as long as I play the LLaMa way it will because I have 'earned' the job.
'Earned' because they would be bloody stupid to offer it me with a record of one season and one relegation.
Keepin It Real, Aiii. 
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