Cheer Up Gordon Strachan: Celtic in The EPL

By: Thommo | February 20th, 2009

   

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Managing: Celtic

Date: July 17, 2008

Status: Pre-Season Jitters

So farewell Gordon Strachan, moany-faced wee ginger genius. Farewell Rugby Park, Tannadice and the windswept Tulloch Cally Stadium in Inverness.

It’s hello to the bright lights of the EPL and the megabucks that go with it.

Dermot Desmond convinced the SKY money gods to let Celtic into the Premier League, and as everybody knows, we’ve been saying it for years, give us a chance with that TV money and you’ll see who the biggest club in Britain really is.

So sadly, it’s back to the Championship with Stoke and off to the SPL with Swansea. The English have been telling us for years that the SPL is the Euro-Disney League, let’s see how the Taffies get on up north.

Whats new? Celtic supporters will be paying an extra 4 quid a week to watch them get humped off Liverpool, but all existing players come with the team. I’ll be keeping a light touch on the managerial tiller to see if the current crop are good enough to compete in the EPL, no Pog or other “wonderkids” like Daryl on FM09, just the same old blokes who won 3 SPL titles on the trot and two last 16s in the CL. The thing is, there’ll be no CL money this year, or magic nights at Paradise to keep the punters happy.

I’m assuming Pendrey and the rest of the coaching staff will stick around, will be interesting to see where wee Gordon pops up during the season won’t it?

More than that, wonder if I’ll make it past Christmas…

Next Up: Return of the Prodigal

Category: Celtic, FM09

   

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• Daryl |  February 20th, 2009 at 7:50 pm

  
  
  

  This is going to be really interesting. Will you be reaching for the checkbook in January if it’s all going a bit wrong?

  

• Weston |  February 20th, 2009 at 8:45 pm

  
  
  

  man utd in 12th, too bad we wont ever see that in real life…

  

• Mat |  February 20th, 2009 at 9:02 pm

  
  
  

  that’s the status of ManUnited before each season starts too bad they’re not called just United

  

• melzi |  February 20th, 2009 at 9:07 pm

  
  
  

  How did you managed to change the league of the team like that?

  

• Dhaw |  February 20th, 2009 at 9:43 pm

  
  
  

  Good Luck !!!

  

• Thommo |  February 21st, 2009 at 3:48 am

  
  
  

  Fellas, this was harder work on the database side. The Hoops will battle this year, I’ll make the game available for those who want it on a download.

  PS I do not respond to ManU questions.

  Thommo

  

• BMatthews |  February 24th, 2009 at 8:18 am

  
  
  

  Question: How did you play with the settings to allow this to happen??

  

• Mike |  March 3rd, 2009 at 9:32 am

  
  
  

  So ManU…

  kidding.

  I’ve tried to fiddle with the editor before, but how do I apply the changes to a game? Would it be possible for you to do a little write-up on using the data editor?

  

• Thommo |  March 8th, 2009 at 10:30 pm

  
  
  

  Mike, I’ll do a guide to editing in the next week or so.