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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 […]

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 […]

Having taken you through my first two games in detail (those against Barcelona and Almería), I will broaden my analysis to include a few games and discuss some general trends. In this article we will take a look at the first three matches of the Champions League campaign. The draw set us up with AC Milan, Bordeaux and Rubin Kazan. […]

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 […]

On the heels of last month’s highly successful release of our latest Football Manager eBook, we’ve just begun to ramp up our schedule with even more top quality content for the community. It may be a relatively slow period for the game as FM2010 was released over 5 months ago, but that won’t stop us! We already have some podcasts […]

Our ultimate man-management guide Communication & Psychological Warfare ’10 is being released on March 16th, 2010. To celebrate we will be broadcasting a LIVE WEBCAST for 10 hours on the same day! We want to give a massive thank you to our readers - the members of the Tactical Think Tank and the administrators at FM-Britain will be on-line to […]

The concepts here are taken from our Communication & Psychological Warfare ‘10 eBook. A lot of Football Manager players have complained in recent years of the repetitiveness of press conferences. They argue that in most cases they can tell the answer they want to give without even reading the question, mindlessly clicking through. A number of them leave all this […]