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The Dartboard Journeyman – Part 4
The one thing nobody tells you about becoming a manager is how little downtime you have. With memories of the last day of the season still fresh, two weeks later I was once again under the scorching sun of the full-blown Indonesian summer. Out on the training pitch, I watched over the trialists’ work. We’ve…
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Guide to the 92/93 DB – Quiet People and Fine Wine
We continue in our search for the best saves on The MadScientist’s 1992/93 Database for Football Manager 2022, diving into the story of some of the most interesting teams and players of the era and making the case for a save with them. We leave England behind and sail through the Channel and around Finistère…
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Guide to the 92/93 DB – I love you, Irishman
The Guide to The MadScientist’s 1992/93 Database for Football Manager 2022 lands in England, as we continue to dive into the story of some of the most interesting teams and players of the era looking for the best saves to enjoy that piece of artwork of a database. For our third episode, we zero into…
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The Dartboard Journeyman – Part 3
My office at Brawijaya Stadium was a comfortable and refurbished room, with wide, tall windows overlooking the training pitch and letting in a lot of sunlight inside. It had been part of my contract renegotiation, with Mr Susilo Tri Indrajaya making a much more concerted effort in my interests now that he was looking into…
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Guide to the 92/93 DB – Indomitable Warrior
We continue in our search for the best saves on The MadScientist’s 1992/93 Database for Football Manager 2022. diving into the story of some of the most interesting teams and players of the era and making the case for a save with them. For our second episode, we travel some 2,000km east, from Seville to…
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Guide to the 92/93 DB – Diego in Sevilla
The MadScientist’s 1992/93 Database for Football Manager 2022 is a truly astonishing piece of work, with hours of work researching and editing the game. It allows us to go back in time and enjoy a different era of football in the game, with the greatest heroes of the past. However, after a long and well-spent…
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The Dartboard Journeyman – Part 2
It was my first day. I was bending over the bathroom sink. Not one of the three taps could work, which was probably the reason the whole thing was out of order. That made it a perfect hiding place. “What the f*ck am I going to do?”, I said to myself. I checked my watch.…
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Spirit of ’86 – Vindication
Vindication Dreamers will often fall short. We must always shoot for the stars, but never lose track of the fact that, usually, we’ll never reach them. Michaël Asau’s tenure at Vejle ends in much the same way. All along this season, I could catch glimpses of it when we met, or during matches. A tiredness,…
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The Dartboard Journeyman – Part 1
“You want what?”, said the tourist agent, visibly confused.“An open ticket to any of these countries”, the young man sitting in front of her replied.“But… well, for starters, that’s not how an open ticket works. And secondly, you can’t just fly away to any given country. We’re in a pandemic, there are controls to pass,…
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Spirit of ’86 – Parken
Parken The Parken Stadion sits in the Indre Østerbro district, Copenhague, just a tad under 200 kilometres from Vejle’s ground. It was inaugurated in 1992, after two years of construction and it replaces, of course, the original Parken, the Københavns Idrætspark. The original stadium was the theatre for the Danish Dynamite’s most iconic moment, at…
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