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Strategies to Tackle Pre-Season

0 by / on August 9, 2010, 10:00 am / in Strategy

Every Football Manager player will use their pre-season friendlies for a slightly different core purpose but you should approach this important part of the season with as much care as you do other parts of the year. This means selecting your matches carefully, your team selection and your tactics with the bigger picture in mind. From the first match of […]

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The Biggest Reason To Play Football Manager Live

0 by / on April 5, 2010, 9:30 am / in General

Are you thoroughly an addict of the Football Manager series and can’t get enough of the multi-faceted game play? Bigger clubs, lower leagues, different nations - maybe you’ve even explored so many options and challenges that you feel there’s nothing left to accomplish. Well, you don’t have to wait for Football Manager 2011 to come out in order to get […]

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Lessons From Hinckley: Training Schedules

Lessons From Hinckley: Training Schedules

0 by / on February 24, 2010, 9:00 am / in Training

Recent discussions on the forums about training have got me thinking. There seem to be, broadly speaking, two camps. One that likes to sort their training by position alone, creating schedules based on roles, duties and the types of players they want to mould. The other looks at a more fluid system, tailored to individual need at different stages of […]

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Building Your Defence: From The Forwards

Building Your Defence: From The Forwards

0 by / on February 15, 2010, 4:41 pm / in Strategy

Traditional thinking of forwards are those of goal threats. When you think of great players, you think of Ronaldo who scored in his last two seasons 30 to 40 goals as an inside forward. When he is scoring goals it is easy to forget about the defensive duties performed by the likes of Rooney, Park and Tevez that allowed Ronaldo that were just […]

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Lessons From Hinckley: Experienced Players Win Promotions

Lessons From Hinckley: Experienced Players Win Promotions

0 by / on February 1, 2010, 9:30 am / in Players

Thomas Levin wrote about aging playmakers on his site FM Pundit last month. Can older players really make the difference? Well, in the case of my career save, it was certainly the experience of one player that helped gain promotion from the Blue Square North league. At the lower levels, technical and mental skills can be at a premium. In […]

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Football Manager Community Roundup: FM Punditry

Football Manager Community Roundup: FM Punditry

0 by / on December 4, 2009, 3:00 am / in General

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 […]

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How To Recreate Real Life Tactics in FM Using ESPN Soccernet

How To Recreate Real Life Tactics in FM Using ESPN Soccernet

0 by / on November 18, 2009, 8:00 am / in Formations

A lot of Football Manager players come onto the forums asking “how do I play like (insert team name here)”. And in a lot of cases, it’s difficult to tell. How do Juventus play? Or Ajax? Or Coventry? More importantly, how does the person asking the question think they play? Most of the time, I admit to shrugging my shoulders. […]

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