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Last time around I showed you the gaping holes in my tactical plan. Against smaller teams, my players were not imposing themselves enough on the game, nor were they able to break through more disciplined defences. What was the solution? Pressure – and lots of it. Tactical Plan v. 3.0 I wanted to stick to the “4-3-3” principal of my […]

Over the past couple of weeks we’ve seen both Barcelona and Arsenal, arguably the best sides in Europe right now at “possession football”, have been beaten by two hard-working defensive sides. But they didn’t do it by kicking their more technical opponents off the park. Indeed, they did it without tackling very much at all. In both of the matches […]

Motivate your team to play their very best every game in FM 2010! Are you having problems maintaining your team’s consistency from one match to the next? Do you feel that sometimes your star players are not performing at their peak and don’t know why? Then this eBook is for you! Explore the man management side of the game like […]

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 […]

The tactical philosophy of the most successful football nation on earth has captured the hearts and minds of football fans all over the world for generations. Brazil’s breathtaking attacking flair has won them 5 World Cups making it not just beautiful football but also effective and can be perfectly described by the term ‘Joga Bonito’ meaning ‘play beautifully’ in Portuguese […]

The 24-page Tactical Theorems ’10 appendix has been updated, and is available for download. Thank you to all those who downloaded TT10 this year (around 40,000 of you so far!). Some of you have not only supported us by downloading the guide, but you’ve also been on the forums contributing to its appendix. What’s new in the appendix 1.1? The […]

No sooner had I written this article than I saw Fantastic’s post on his experiments with a libero in Football Manager 2010. Great minds think alike, as they say. So I would urge all of you to join in the debate on Fantastic’s thread. This week’s download is about the libero, or “free” defender. This article comes at the problem […]