retired_marisangelina2

Thought it well worth to mention for you a somewhat peculiar update which was made
by a certain "Eric Young" on the Norwegian FM website http://www.fmnorge.com:
http://www.roisland.net/FMNorge/manager84.zip
(this link will start the download immediately)

This person has rewritten the database for CM 0304 so as to take it back in time to the 1984-85 season, which means that the English league with its players and staff and other general conditions have been tried recreated for the sake of playing with them on CM 0304 (you need version 4.1.5, I think).

The details in this database are rich, so I can only recommend people to take a look at it themselves, if you - like me - take delight in players like Hoddle, Ratcliffe, Rush, Mariner et.c. and those fair, old times of English football.

borat123

But without actually changing the cm4.exe file, then the date will remain the same.

retired_marisangelina2

Correct indeed. Technically the date is still 2003, but the inventory (players, managers, stadia) of the game are set nineteen years back in time, to 1984.

My_Evo

He should have set it back to 1983/84 instead for the York City 1984 Division Four championship-winning side that was the first to pass the 100 point barrier!

borat123

Can you tell he's a York City fan?!

Fitness Matt

Presumably the League structure will still be that of today (ie 20-24-24-24) rather than that of 84-85 (ie 22-22-24-24), so that two teams that were in Division One, um, aren't in Division One...

And the Backpass Law is in operation, as well as the new Offside Law, etc. etc....

retired_marisangelina2

You are quite right, Glyn, in your suspicions. In fact, the two teams that actually finished in place 21 and 22 in 84-85 have taken place in Division Two instead - Sunderland and Stoke City turn out to be these two wretched ones.

Division Two consisted of just 22 teams anyway in 84, compared to 24 in the game, so Sunderland and Stoke make up for what otherwise would have been a shortage of clubs in that division.

Here is a screenshot (posted at the Norwegian forum) by the way which pretty much gives an idea of what the game is about:
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b3...Y/chelsea2.jpg

retired_owenou

And it's called the Premier Division...