Finally, an idea has arrived. Something has awoken and it’s all Nath’s fault. I’ve got an entirely fictional story for you to set the scene. I should point out, multi club ownersh…

Finally, an idea has arrived. Something has awoken and it’s all Nath’s fault. I’ve got an entirely fictional story for you to set the scene. I should point out, multi club ownersh…

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Welcome back one and all! Here we are again in the Scottish Division Three, also known as the Blog Squad League. We’re approaching the end of September, so the gents have been pondering their transfer targets. Can anyone improve their position before the window? We have three sets of league fixtures this week to bring us to the end of September.

Welcome back to Cologne where I am attempting to create a decent side to compete in Germany by only signing a limited number of players from countries that border Germany, simple huh? A reminder of our blistering start to the season left us a point of the pace setters with a third of the games done.

I’ve always had a bit of a fascination with the Scottish Highlands — maybe it’s the endless hills, the sense of isolation, or perhaps it’s just the sheer madness of running a football club hundreds of miles from anywhere. Those long journeys to away games, the hardy handful of fans who make the trip, and the eternal optimism of men in woolly hats watching a team that’s probably just drawn 0–0 again… there’s something beautifully tragic about it.

NEW from @NTR9798: After much success with his Portuguese Wolves, Nick is back to resurrect an old favourite thanks to Andrew, but where is he headed next?

Welcome back everyone. We’re taking a break from the action of the blog league to take a look at what tactics are being employed by each of the teams and have a closer look at some of the key performers in each team. AIK – Matt Matt has probably pulled a decent side from the hat, but not a lot of depth on the face of what we have seen so far.

Hello and greetings from Germany. After my Leeds adventure I’ve now turned my attention to my Blog Squad Secret Santa shirt, where the excellent Mr Ross Bell sent me a FC Koln away shirt. I mean, isn’t that amazing. Reminds me of Cameroon for some reason, but anyway, FC Koln – or simply Cologne as they are known in the game, didn’t have the best of seasons in 1997/98.

Hello everybody, it's Dave here just borrowing Dean's post. Today marks 28 years since the release of CM9798, no doubt a day you all have circled on the calendar. We have of course celebrated this game every year for at least the last 10, who knows how many more I've lost track of when we started this. What I do know though is that I have a great set of writers here who started out as fellow nerds I know on the internet to being good friends who I'm lucky to have stumbled across one day.

Bonjola and welcome back to Gijon for one final episode. We're going to finish season 8 today and then put this save in the freezer. I've enjoyed it very much but it has ran it's course, especially if we achieve our aims today. As a reminder, that is for Gijon to win the Champions League and the B Team (henceforth, The Bees) to win the Cup Winners Cup.

Bonjola and welcome back to Gijon for the 22nd and likely penultimate time. Season 8 is upon us and it will be a season like no other. Why you ask? Well, Gijon have won the league several times now and retained the Champions League, so that's less important. The B Team won the Copa del Rey, which means they're in the Cup Winners Cup.

Bonjola and welcome to February 2004. Sporting Gijon have been reeling Real Madrid in, and the once 10 point gap is down to 4. More importantly, the dream of the Bees winning the Copa Del Rey is alive and well, can they make it happen and take us one season closer to world domination?

Bonjola! Welcome back to Gijon, where Real Madrid have awoken and once again we have our work cut out to retain our La Liga crown. In this episode we'll also have our first attempts at winning the World Club Cup and the European Super Cup, and if that doesn't get your pulse racing then we'll continue our mission to get the B Team into Europe and complete world domination.

Bonjola and welcome back to Gijon for season 7. Sporting Gijon are now the European Champions, a surprisingly one sided final against Juventus securing our place in history. Our La Liga title defence was somewhat more problematic but we got away with it really, losing 8 games on the way to a narrow success. Now we need to get the B Team good enough to win the Copa del Rey.

Bonjola! Welcome back to Gijon, where the once worst team in La Liga history are now relative giants. The current La Liga champions are being made to work hard in their attempts to retain the title alongside trying to win the Champions League for the first time. Let's get to it as we reach the finale of season 6.

Bonjola! Here we go again then, Gijon looking to retain their La Liga crown whilst competing in the Champions League and to a much lesser extent, the Copa del Rey. Here's where we pick up:

Bonjola! Six weeks have come and gone and it's time to get back to civilisation. I haven't even loaded the game since we last spoke, but I have seen two kids through the summer holidays, which summarises how my life has changed over the past 10 years since starting this blog. Anyway, this save. Sporting Gijon were rubbish in 1997 but 5 seasons later we are champions of Spain.

Guten Bonjola and welcome back to Spain for the final update of season 5, and in fact our final for a few weeks. Father duties are calling and I don't have the time or energy to play 3 or 4 nights a week at the moment. See you in September. Meanwhile, Gijon are top of the pile with a 5 point lead, with Barcelona lurking with a game in hand.

Guten bonjola and welcome back to the always-a-little-too-long middle section of the season. It is season 5 here in Gijon, Spain, and we're playing Champions League football for the first time. Can we capitalise on a decent start? Our one blot came against Atletico, with Real fading away a little. Let's football.

Bonjola once more and welcome back to Gijon for a new season. Season 5 promises much as we take our first steps into Europe's Elite with those famous Champions League nights, provided we can see off hopefully a minnow in the qualifiers. More on that later. A reminder though of how we got here...

Bonjola mes amigos and welcome back to Spain, or Gijon to be more precise. It's part 3 of season 4 which means we've got loads of games to get through. There's a very real possibility of us qualifying for the Champions League and, whisper it quietly, we're only 2 points off the top. Real Madrid's insistence on simply turning up for games and keeping the ball for 90 minutes has proven to be a shoddy experiment.

Bonjola and welcome back to Gijon, where we're just into the last swathes of Autumn in season 4. Or, late October, if you're not bound by the four seasons. The Summer rebuild didn't really materialise, mainly because all of those players who wanted out and were running out of contract were all mouth and no trousers. They stayed, we topped up with some regens and we prepared to go again.

Guten Bonjola and welcome back to Gijon, where the third season didn't really see the progress we craved. 5th place is fine, it's a bit like when Stu's father-in-law to be is describing him in the Hangover and basically says he's a crap type of rice. 5th, UEFA Cup runners up and another crack at the same trophy is all fine, but we're 30 points off the big two.

Welcome to the final episode of this series, the Turf Roar boys are still fighting on three fronts, we lead the Premier League by seven points and are still in both the FA Cup and Champions League. Our first match of the episode sees us travel to London to face Crystal Palace. They have his royal highness Edwin Turkington in goal.

Guten Bonjola and welcome back to Gijon, where we are still in two cups and occupy the all important "best of the rest" spot in the table. It's the run in, which is a hefty 17 league games plus however far we get in the cups, so let's get to it.

Bom Dia! and welcome to the final episode with Nick and his Portuguese Wolves, who are struggling in the league, but can still win the League Cup and Champions League for a second time. Will they end this story in style? For the last time, here’s Nick… You wouldn’t believe we started the season brilliantly and were 2nd after 12 games, but things have gone horribly wrong since.

During the first third of my final season with the Clarets we had made a positive start on all fronts. We were top of the league with 28 points from a possible 36 and joint top of Champions League Group E, with seven points from a possible nine. The first match of episode two is a Clarets Clash, in the League Cup 3rd round.

Hallo, hej, hello! Welcome back. Last time out Zak and his Malmo side had managed to break into the top 2 positions. Which has been quite the shock given Malmo were probably not one of the pre-draw favourites. But they have proved reliable and consistent so far. First up, thankfully, it’s the league.

Bonjola and welcome back to Spain, where Sporting Gijon are accelerating my descent to grey hair. Or maybe that should be ascent, it could be a positive. I'll let you know. Anyway, the once-worst-team-in-Spain are coming off the back of a third place finish, so now we have the small task of hunting down El Clasico competitors. It's early day yet, I suppose.

Bom Dia! and welcome to the penultimate episode with Nick and his Portuguese Wolves, who are doing well in pretty much every competition apart from the league. They’ve already secured the World Club Cup, but can they now add the European Super Cup to the cabinet? Here’s Nick… This is how the table is looking. We were 2nd not so long ago, but after just two wins from our last eight games, we’ve slid all the way down to 7th.

After the disappointment of finishing second to Wiki rivals Leeds we are back for one final season (unless it all goes wrong) to see if we can win the league and maybe some other stuff. I make two signings over the summer, Martin finally agrees to a bit of Bene and Brazilian Glaucio has been tearing up the Dutch league with Feyenoord.

Hola, Bonjour, Greetings. Welcome back to Spain where Gijon are having a wonderful time in La Liga, establishing themselves as the best of the rest in season 2 and hopefully setting their sights on disrupting the El Clasico duo next. How on earth are we going to do that?

Bom Dia! and welcome back to the eleventh and final season with Nick and his pack of Portuguese Wolves that he’s assembled over the last decade. They’ve made a decent start in the league and Europe so far, but will they take their chance to become world champions? Here’s Nick to update us… Here’s how the league table is looking after twelve games.

Welcome back to the Moor, as we enter the final third of season five the Clarets are still fighting to win their first Premier League and to retain the FA Cup. The first match of the episode is the FA Cup 5th round tie, away to Wimbledon. Despite some fine saves from Neil Sullivan we manage to make it to the Quarter Finals thanks to Terry and Dangerous numero deux.

Hola and happy Sunday to you. I hope you've been enjoying this save so far, I find it hard to believe we are now at the end of season two. There are 21 games to get through in this episode, so we best get straight to it. I'll work on the pacing, this is a bit lopsided. Anyway, we're well placed to get back into Europe via our league position, but I can't see it being too likely we'll break the Clasico dominance.

Hola and happy Sunday to you. I hope you've been enjoying this save so far, I find it hard to believe we are now at the end of season two. There are 21 games to get through in this episode, so we best get straight to it. I'll work on the pacing, this is a bit lopsided. Anyway, we're well placed to get back into Europe via our league position, but I can't see it being too likely we'll break the Clasico dominance.

Bom Dia! and welcome to season eleven with Nick and his Portuguese Wolves, who are now champions of Europe! This season will bring them the opportunity to win the remaining three trophies on the list, but first, Nick has some bad news for us… After much deliberation, I’ve decided that this will be the last season of this adventure. After finally winning the league and then the Champions League, it feels like the right time to call it a day, plus the inconsistent league form of this team is really driving me nuts!

It’s a third of the way through season five and the Clarets are currently second in the Premier League and looking to make it through to the quarter finals of the Champions League. Our first match is at home to West Brom, despite dominating the first half we go into the break all square. The Baggies scoring from their only shot of the match.

Hello! Welcome back to season 2 of Sporting Gijon, which started as trying to get a tune out of the worst performing team in La Liga history but is now a European adventure. Let's see how long that adventure lasts and if we can try and trouble the top 7 or so in the table again.

Hallo, hej, hello! Welcome back to what could be described as the most exciting Championship Manager experience at this exact time of day on this page. And even that is possibly too high praise. Cup games? Did someone say cup games. Love a cup. Ross gets a really easy draw. Enough of that, we finally have a league game, and it is myself vs.

Hello! Welcome back to season 2 of Sporting Gijon, which started as trying to get a tune out of the worst performing team in La Liga history but is now a European adventure. Let's see how long that adventure lasts and if we can try and trouble the top 7 or so in the table again.

Hola and welcome back to Gijon, which I have learned is a North-Western City in Spain. This save was started just to explore just how this Gijon team managed to be the worst in history with a paltr…

Bom Dia! and welcome along to another Friday at Molineux, where Nick’s defending Premiership champions haven’t had the best start to season ten domestically, but they’ve been taking full advantage of a favourable Champions League group, so there is hope. Let the fun resume… The title of champions is certainly weighing heavy on our shoulders at the minute. We’ve had no problem scoring goals as usual, but just can’t seem to hold onto a lead to save our lives, and have drawn almost half our games so far.

Welcome to the middle third of season four. We ended the first part of the season in eighth place, with a -4 goal difference and as many wins as losses, suffice to say our second season in the Premier League is not going as well as the first. To add to our misery Ali De Souza injures himself and will me missing for the next six weeks, he’s been one of the few positives this season so it’s a serious blow.