FM-Britain’s community roundup takes a look at the recent happenings around the Football Manager scene - informing our readers of the latest and greatest FM2010 content posted on the web. We’re committed in promoting the highest quality material, even if it’s not here at FM-Britain!

We may have cornered the market on the most in-depth tactical information, but definitely support our friends in the community who provide you with great downloads, guides, articles, graphics and more. We’ll try to give a shout out to as many of our scene partners as possible, but don’t feel bad if something wasn’t included this time… there’s always next week!

FM Pundit: Insightful Commentary About The Game We Love

Headlining this week’s community roundup is the launch of FM Pundit - a unique and well thought-out blog that aims to keep up-to-date with the current trends within the community, discussing the way we play Football Manager and general opinions about a game that breeds such passion and devotion in all of us.

Spawned from his recent contributions on FM-View, Thomas Levin (aka Levo) is one of the most respected writers in the FM community (contributing to a slew of sites over his 10 years in the scene) and a regular participant on the FM-Britain forums. The FM Pundit blog is quite a new model in comparison to the run-of-the-mill forum-based sites that are so prevalent already. Levo aims instead to build a site upon its content, breeding discussion from that, getting involved with the Football Manager community and doing this via any medium that he possibly can, in order to build a strong and relevant FM-related website.

FM Pundit has most definitely started out strongly with approximately 2-3 original articles released per week since launch - all of which are quite insightful and often covering issues many FM gamers have not even considered. Check out some of Levo’s recent posts: (and while you’re at it, subscribe to his RSS feed)

• Killing the Rot: Getting Your Team Back On Form
• What is Football Manager’s Toughest Challenge?
• Football Manager 2010: Is It Set To Difficult?
• Can An iPhone Football Manager Work?
• Levo’s Lower League Management Debut

Levo has been a good friend of ours at FM-Britain for quite some time, so we urge all of our readers will support his new endeavor - we guarantee it will be worth it! We wish him the best and hope to see even bigger and brighter things on the horizon for his blog. You can also find Levo on Twitter @FMPundit helping out all those with Football Manager related questions, sharing links from around the community and cultivating discussion 140 characters at a time!

The Popular FM Scout Utility Returns

Although you’ll constantly see me urging people that doing their own scouting is much more fulfilling, I must admit that the brand new version of FM Genie Scout is quite a work of programming. Eugene Tarabanovsky has really outdone himself this year with the added support of compressed saved games, new ratings calculations and progress rate representations. Download FM Genie Scout 10 and you’ll never have to ask advice on player purchases ever again - just open up your current FM database and get highly detailed profiles including hidden attributes never shown in-game. Maybe I’ll get some slack from my fellow FM-Britain members for checking a 3rd party app out once, but I’ll risk the name-calling and make sure those who don’t necessarily live up to our “ethics” of play get a chance at valuable help to their FM2010 career.

Country Specific Ad Boards For Football Manager 2010

I wasn’t even aware that this graphical enhancement was even possible, but FM-Base has recently released a customized ad boards pack for use in FM2010. This pack adds generic league and country specific ad boards to competitions in England, Scotland, Spain, Italy, France, Portugal, Holland, Belgium and Turkey. Including rotators as well, if you’re looking to have the most in-depth FM experience down to the last detail then I’d suggest to take a look at this graphics pack.

Hire The Ultimate Staff Team In FM2010

Over at The Away Stand is an excellent guide for assembling the best possible staff team in this year’s version of Football Manager. Steve and Littlefoxo break down each staff position in great detail with the highest quality potential candidate for the job weighing their pros and cons. With over 30 assistant managers, coaches and physios highlighted by screenshot, it’s definitely a useful guide for those FM gamers having trouble finding the perfect mix to get most amount of coaching stars in their training program.

FM-Britain’s Follow Friday

This is our chance to give a “shout out” to some of our friends in the Football Manager community across the social media landscape. If you aren’t on Twitter or Facebook… have you been hiding under a rock the past few years?!?! Sign up and get with the times!

I’m on both platforms all the time chatting about FM2010 and FMLive, sharing links from around the scene and helping users out with their Football Manager related problems. I humbly suggest you follow us on Twitter @FMBritain or become a fan of ours on Facebook and join in the conversation! In addition, here’s a few more quality members to check out:

@fmstory - John Karp from Football Manager Story with his adventures in FM2010 with Notts County.

@jgordo1 - James Gordon from Last Tackle. Runs a rugby league website, but it a very avid fan of Football Manager and tweets about it often!

@fmdownloads - the special feed from SortItOutSI that updates you on every newly available download on their website.

Do you run a blog/website? Did you write a good FM-related article or uploaded an entertaining video? Have you created an awesome graphics pack? Let me know! E-mail me! Maybe next week your content will be featured here in the FM-Britain community roundup!