Category Archives: FM20

We’ve reached an exciting point in this save as I’ve managed to qualify for European competition, courtesy of my Irish Cup win over Portadown. There is added intrigue as we’ll be competing in the brand new third tier of europe – the UEFA European Conference League (branded as EURO Cup II in FM). Why isContinue reading “European Adventures”

As I left it last we only had the five post-split league games to tackle and an Irish Cup Semi-Final (and potentially final) in my second season run-in. We’d face top of the Premiership Glenavon in the Irish Cup but my hopes were higher for securing European football from a 3rd place league finish asContinue reading “If we don’t win the league, the Irish Cup will do”

Spirits high after securing a place in our first cup final, we roll into a busy Winter schedule which sees 12 league games in the months of December and January alone. Antonio Djuric does a lot of the donkey work up top without grabbing many of the headlines but he decided to steal the showContinue reading “You’ve Got To Pick a Pocket Or Two”

Our first season ended with us meeting the board’s expectation of a top half finish, in the end a bit of consistency might actually have secured us European football. This season, the board are simply asking again for another top half finish but they’ll no doubt expect to see some progression on our 5th placeContinue reading “Fortune Favours The Glens”

To quote every old woman from East Belfast ever “it’s never long running in!” Of course, they’re usually talking about the run up to Christmas as opposed to the back end of the Irish League season but the idiom fits. We needed to improve upon a poor run in December despite the solitary win notContinue reading “The Mourne(view) Ultimatum”

A lot can change in a few months in the world of football. In the world of FM, EVERYTHING can change within a few in-game months. This was certainly the case for me as there were ME updates just following my opening update of the first season with Glentoran which seemed to derail me everContinue reading “New Year, New ME”

Database Decisions As I discussed in my introductory post, there were a number of data related issues that prevented me from starting the game at the Beta stage. These have mostly been fixed upon release date but the biggest change has still not been sorted – the investment amount from Ali Pour. SI’s Irish researcherContinue reading “Hard Work Bears Fruit”

FM20 has been a long time coming around, for me anyway. My FM20 save has been decided since around May time and it was an easy choice. My local club, Glentoran, has been through the ringer in the past decade and a half. Well documented financial issues were compounded by a serious of questionable managerialContinue reading “There’s A Green Sward Called The Oval”