Career 1759: The Amateur Challenge; Queen’s Park; Season 11

[Ian]

1 hour ago, mcandrew003 said:

Looks like it’s going smashing mate, very enjoyable read

Thanks, I’m really enjoying it.😀

[samhardy]

Proper career this I'm really enjoying it. Keep up the good work

[Ian]

53 minutes ago, samhardy said:

Proper career this I'm really enjoying it. Keep up the good work

Thank you! Champions league next season for the boys! (If we get through qualifiers).😀

[Ian]

Season 6

If you take a look around vibe you will notice that the winter update came out last week and shall we just say that it hasn’t been well received! Users seem to be having difficulty keeping their players condition up but I wasn’t going to let that stop me here. I got the update and decided I would just continue straight on with this career.

So for this season I’m going to be ‘The Tinkerman’, yes that’s right but not only am I going to rotate my players heavily I’m also going to resort to all sorts of tactical shinnaigans to try and get the job done.

I’ll start by going through the European Championship qualifiers with Switzerland.

European Championship Qualification

The highlight of the qualifying games was a 6-0 drubbing of Finland but was it enough to see us qualify?

Well we had an average campaign and an away defeat against Austria in the final game saw us finish second in our group.

We did however qualify as one of the best performing second placed teams.

Fixtures

Couldn’t get any consistency going but I feel like I’m starting to get used to the players and hopefully we will not be disgraced in the Euro’s.

I will do a second update at some point to go through our European Championship campaign.

For now though we are back to our Queen’s Park season.

Transfers

We didn’t do a great deal of business in the window as I decided to mainly go with what we had. Judd is a young English centre back, Benteke is a decent looking goalie and Watt and Breadner came threw the academy. We did however have to do three emergency loans in January to bolster the squad as I felt we were going to come a cropper if we didn’t strengthen.

Champions League Qualifiers

We sailed through the first and second qualifying rounds beating both Gzira Utd and Maribor 5-0 on aggregate. They were both poor teams but I was impressed with how we dispatched them.

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We were then drawn against Legia in the third qualifying round and didn’t get off to the best of starts as we drew the first leg 0-0 at home to make qualifying a bit tricky. Only four shots and none on target didn’t fill me with much confidence going into the second leg. Oh and there’s another bug with an injury to 71. 😂

We got the job done with a fantastic away performance drawing 1-1 to win on away goals. We were much the better team but they got a goal towards the end to make for an interesting last few minutes. 

So we finally made the real playoff round where we would play KRC Genk. We won the first leg 1-0 away to give us a great chance of qualifying for our first ever Champions League.

We dominated the second leg at home but couldn’t find a goal that would ease the nerves. It would be enough for the victory and we qualified!

Champions League Group Stage

We were drawn in Group G with Chelsea, Dortmund and Red Star.

We the beat Red Star in both games, managed a draw away to Chelsea and beat Dortmund 3-0 at home which left us with 10 points going into the last two games. We lost to Chelsea at home and took a 4-1 hammering away in Dortmund which means we finished with a rather respectable 10 points.

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It was enough to finish second in the group which we were rather happy with!

Champions League First Knockout Round

We were drawn against Bayern in the first knockout round and gave a fantastic account of ourselves in the first leg drawing 0-0. So whilst that result would make winning the tie difficult I couldn’t fault our effort against a great side.

We lost the away leg 2-1 to end our Champions League hopes for this season. We were 1-0 up and Robinho missed a penalty that would prove to be costly as we conceded two horrible late goals. I thought we were going to do it but could have no complaints as they are a much better side than us.

Betfred Cup

A hammering against Celtic in the semi final put pay to our Betfred Cup campaign and this remains the only domestic competition we haven’t won. It was around this time that I decided we would need to do a little bit of business in January to bolster the squad.

Scottish Cup

We made it all the way to the final where we played old rivals Partick Thistle. They were only a Chanpionship side and it showed as we steamrollered them in a 4-0 victory with youngster Iain Watt bagging a hat trick.

League

Only Celtic offered any kind of resistance as we won our second league title and managed to get 100 points.

 

Some notable matches include:

Fixtures

A great run of fixtures with just a few hiccups and no real poor runs. 

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Appearances, Goals & Assists

I certainly used the squad this season! 

Tactic

I went back to my Ultimate Domination tactic but with the DLP changed to a BWM and the P changed to AF. The main thing you need to make this tactic work is a pacey forward. If your striker isn’t quick then I don’t think this will work at all and I wouldn’t even try it.

I did a lot of tweaks during games this season but I’ll put the settings I generally used for both home and away games below.

Home Instructions

I generally used these settings at home but would switch to the away ones to see out games and would often lose the overlap and switch on shoot on site and through balls in the final third.

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Away Instructions

I used these settings for most away games but would tweak things during games.

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Manager

I kept well within budget this season but I think it’ll take a while to see my financial control rise.

Conclusion

What a season this was as we performed well above what I was expecting. It was brutal in a way with having to rotate and tweak so much to keep the players condition up but was also quite enjoyable. I still don’t think my squad is that great so we still have a lot of work to do in this career!

I’ll put another update out at some point so we can see how Switzerland got on in their European Championship campaign.

Thanks for reading!

Edited March 12, 2019 by 1759

[FuddledFox]

I fallen way behind on this so sorry for that mate but...

What a great job you have done so far with the amateurs. Hopefully a few more signings will help you push further in Europe as well.

Good luck at the Euros with the Swiss.

[Ian]

1 hour ago, Foxy said:

I fallen way behind on this so sorry for that mate but...

What a great job you have done so far with the amateurs. Hopefully a few more signings will help you push further in Europe as well.

Good luck at the Euros with the Swiss.

Thanks, it’s a really nice save for me this! I really want to win the Betfred Cup as that’s all we haven’t won domestically and do more in Europe next season. I have no idea how the Euro’s with the Swiss are going to go but I’ll give it my best! 😀

[Ian]

Season 6: Switzerland’s Euro’s

Last time out saw us qualify for the European Championships to be held in 2024.

We had two friendlies in March that saw us win both. Firstly we beat Albania 1-0 and then we managed a 2-1 victory over Algeria.

European Championship 2024

Group Stage

We were drawn in Group B with Croatia, France and Iceland so quite a tricky group. 

Going into a new season has made it impossible to get the screenshots from the first two group games (amateur mistake).

Anyway we drew 1-1 with both Croatia and France. We weren’t exactly great but we got the job done and that left us in a position where I win against Iceland would put us through to the knockout stage.

We got off to a horrible start as Mbabu managed to get himself sent off in the 25th minute but I still had confidence that we could get a result as my tactic usually seems to do well when we go down to ten men. I just put Embolo back to right inside forward and went strikerless. It worked well as Embolo scored the opening goal just a couple of minutes later and Zakaria would add a second with a nice shot from the edge of the box from a rebound after a corner. The got one back early in the second half but they never looked like scoring a second and we got the all important win to put us through.

The won against Iceland put us on 5 points which was enough to finish second in the group. It was a decent achievement to finish ahead of Croatia so can’t complain at all.

Second Round

We would play Scotland in the second round and we were by far the better team but just couldn’t score so the game went to extra time. It didn’t take us long to get the all important winning goal as Xhaka scored in the 3rd minute of extra time and that was enough to break plenty of Scottish hearts.

Quarter Final

In the quarter final we played Italy and I thought this might be a bridge too far but we played fantastic and an early goal from Embolo turned out to be enough to win us the game. 

Semi Final

Holland hammered us in the semi final but at least we kept the score down. We could have no complaints as we offered relatively no threat all game.

Germany went on to beat Holland 3-0 in the final to wrap up the tournament as the often do.

Embolo was our highest scorer with 4 goals but it wasn’t enough to win the Golden Boot.

Fixtures

I resigned as Switzerland manager after the tournament finished as I wanted to put all of my concentration into Queen’s Park.

Conclusion

I’m happy with our performances and getting to the semi final is fine by me. We just struggled to score enough goals and if Embolo wasn’t on the pitch then it was hard to see how we would ever score especially against the better teams.

I’ll be back next time with Season 7.

Thanks for reading.

Edited March 12, 2019 by 1759

[Rob]

That’s a really decent European championship run there

[FuddledFox]

Shame about the semi finals but that was a good run with the Swiss.

[Ian]

2 hours ago, Rob said:

That’s a really decent European championship run there

Cheers, Yeah I’m happy with it. Couldn’t quite get my tactic to work with them so had to grind it out.

1 hour ago, Foxy said:

Shame about the semi finals but that was a good run with the Swiss.

Thanks, I should’ve probably tried a different system with them but tbh all the injuries and stuff didn’t help. 

I only added international into this as I was thinking of adding another challenge to this but since the update I’ve decided to not bother and just continue on as is as any goal scoring challenge will probably be horrible atm.

Still enjoying this as it is and have a lot of work still to do so I’ll hopefully get next update out in a few days.😀

[Paul186]

Bad luck on not winning the Euros but this a great career and an enjoyable read

[smoggy90]

Great career mate, just caught up and enjoyed reading it. Well done with the Swiss!

[Ian]

13 hours ago, Paul186 said:

Bad luck on not winning the Euros but this a great career and an enjoyable read

Thanks, back to just Queen’s Park now and hopefully we can push for the Champions League in the next few years.

3 hours ago, smoggy90 said:

Great career mate, just caught up and enjoyed reading it. Well done with the Swiss!

Thanks, it a decent save for me, think I’m done with international on this save but the Scotland job is still a temptation so you never know.

[Ian]

Season 7

Hello vibe,

So we arrive at season 7 of this Amateur Challenge with Queen’s Park. We’ve made great progress so far achieving three successive promotions and then two SPL titles in our first three years in the top flight. We have won all domestic cups except the Betfred Cup and we have made the First Knockout stage of the Champions League.

Based on all that this seasons target has to be to win the Betfred Cup, hopefully the SPL and to push on in the Champions League.

Transfers

I decided to bolster the squad as best as I could after last seasons required tinkery. A lot of the players are of similar quality so early season will be interesting as I get used to the players.

Incomings

Defenders: Stefanik and Travis (January window)

Midfielders: Baptiste, Barjonas, Slater, Barnum-Bobb and McKenzie.

Forwards: Freestone, Adams, Atsu, Costa, 

Outgoings

A good few of the outgoings are players who left at the end of the seasons and some are in the above list so I won’t go into much detail on these. The most significant sale was Scullion for £5m; he was a fantastic player but became an outcast after expressing interest in leaving so I had no choice but to get rid.

Betfred Cup

We sailed through the competition and found ourselves in the final against Falkirk. A nice 6-0 drubbing gave us our first Betfred Cup and the first piece of silverware for the season.

Scottish Cup

We arrived at the Quarter Final to face old rivals Rangers. We battled out an absolutely classic 4-4 draw which would mean we’d need to win the replay at Ibrox to go through.

We left our shooting boots at home in the replay and succumbed to a 2-1 defeat to end our Scottish Cup hopes for this season.

League

We spent most of the season neck and neck with Celtic and this was the table after 33 games before the league split. 

We held them off to eventually win the league but it was far from easy as Celtic just wouldn’t go away all season. Our home form was exceptional but away from home we struggled at times particularly in the first half of the season when I was getting used to our new players.

Champions League

Group Stage

We had some mixed form in the group stages this season and we went into the last game against Sevilla away with the table looking like this.

It was a straight shootout where the winner would be through to the Knockout stage and the loser would fall into the Europa League. I was aware a draw would be enough but I couldn’t risk setting up too negatively.

I wasn’t too confident going into this as our away form had been mixed in the first half of the season as I couldn’t seem to figure out what our best team was. We got the job done with a famous away win to actually top the group. They were the better team but they never really looked like scoring. Still it was a bit of a shithouse victory but we take it and move on.

First Knockout Round

We faced off against Anderlecht and I had no idea how we’d get on. The first leg was all rather comfortable as we picked up a lovely 1-0 away win to really put us in the driving seat.

The second leg turned out to be a formality as we scored three first half goals to kill the tie before half time. It was largely just ’Olay Olay Olay’ football in the second half as we marched on to the Quarter Final.

Quarter Final

If you recall it was Bayern Munich who knocked us out in last years Champions League so once the draw was made I was determined to get revenge. We did just that as we hammered them into submission in the first leg at Hampden with a 4-0 victory.

The second leg was very even and although they scored a late goal to win the match there were never any doubts who the victors over two legs would be.

Semi Final

Monaco were next and quite honestly at this stage these European matches were a bit of a hindrance as we had Celtic breathing down our neck domestically and juggling the two competitions was a good challenge. We won the first leg and it was a whole lot easier than I though it would be in a 3-1 victory. They did have an away goal so the target in the second leg would be to just score.

We did just that and won the match 0-1 to sail through to an unexpected final.

Final

We were up against Milan in the final and I didn’t fancy it as I just felt we weren’t ready for this yet but the boys had other ideas as they steamrollered through them to win the match 4-0 and bring ‘old big ears!’ home to Glasgow.

Fixtures

Full fixtures to those interested.

Spoiler

Appearances, Goals and Assists

I’ve took this shot from before June as some of these players were going to be sold and it would make this incomplete.

New Stadium

We’ll be playing our home games at the Queen’s Park stadium as of next season.

New stadium @Foxy for the stadium challenge when you next get a chance to update.

Manager

My financial control is rising all the time and I’m not too bothered about the domestic player bias on this save.

Conclusion

Great season for the team in winning the League, Betfred Cup and to my surprise the Champions League.

Still have lots of work to do here though as Celtic don’t seem to be going anywhere so next season will be interesting.

I’m going to post another update later to show you the key players in my squad and the tactic I used in the final of the Champions League.

Thanks for reading.

Edited March 15, 2019 by 1759

[Paul186]

Great season well done on ole big ears

[Ian]

36 minutes ago, Paul186 said:

Great season well done on ole big ears

Thanks, it was a fun season to play as we spent nearly all of the second half of the season just 3 points above Celtic and I never thought we’d win the Champions League so it could’ve all been different.

[Rob]

Boom! And there it is: the Champions Cup. Brilliant. Well done! 

[FuddledFox]

Best club in Glasgow, best club in Scotland and best club in Europe!!!

Nice going mate.

[Ian]

29 minutes ago, Rob said:

Boom! And there it is: the Champions Cup. Brilliant. Well done! 

Thanks, Champions League turned out to be a lot easier than I expected! 😀

14 minutes ago, Foxy said:

Best club in Glasgow, best club in Scotland and best club in Europe!!!

Nice going mate.

Cheers, I’ll keep going for another couple of season as there’s still a bit to do before I get the domination stage I’d say! 😀

[Ian]

Season 7 - Squad

At the end of the last update I mentioned that I would put an update out to go through my squad. So here it is.

Tactic

I used this line up and tactic in the Champions League final where we beat Milan 4-0. I went with control mentality which is the only difference to how I set up during the season as I usually went attacking at home and balanced or counter away.

Team

I’ll go through my line up and a few other key players.

GK - Robby McCrorie

Not a fantastic keeper and an area where I’d like to improve for next season.

DC - Matty Judd

A decent defender who will always do a decent job in the SPL.

DC - Luka Racic

We’ve had Racic for four seasons, we picked him up on a free after he was released by Brentford. He’s a steady player but hasn’t really improved much over the years.

WBR - Lewis Travis

A very good all round player who can play in multiple positions. We signed him in January from Blackburn for £1.8m and he quickly became our first choice right wing back. He actually played for Liverpool in his youth but was released in the 2014/15 season and then Blackburn picked him up.

WBL - Daniel Harvie

Bought from Ayr for just 40k and has been a great player for us over the years.

CM - Barry McIntosh

He came through the academy and is turning into a beastly ball winner. Can’t seem to get his technique to rise but we can live with that.

CM - Robbie McKenzie

Another free transfer and a good player who had spent his whole career at Hull apart from a few seasons on loan. He has made the box to box position his own this season.

CM - Sean Clare

A decent playmaker at this level. We bought him from Hearts a few seasons ago for 300k. He had spent a few years there but before that he mainly played in the lower leagues in England. Not sure if he’ll still be with us next season but he’s been a vital player during the last few seasons.

AML - Bruno Costa

A classy Portuguese player who can play as an inside forward or in the middle as a playmaker. We picked him up on a free after Porto released him. He had played for Porto his whole career but largely for the B team. 

FR - Che Adams

Probably our best player who should probably be playing up front but he does a job for the team as an inside forward albeit pushed up. Signed for 325k from Birmingham which has turned out to be a bargain. I think we may have trouble keeping him next season.

CF - Henri Freestone

We signed him from Crystal Palace for £1m and he’s got fantastic physical attributes. He came through after the first in game season so not sure if he’s a regen of some English player but can’t think of anyone with similar attributes. Anyway he’s decent but hasn’t improved much and isn’t rated too highly by the coaches. He does a decent job but it’s a shame his arial ability doesn’t seem to want to increase.

Other Important Players

CF - Iain Watt

We brought him in from the academy a few seasons ago and he’s a terrific prospect. I’m hopeful that he’ll play a bigger part in the first team next season.

AML/R - Jodi Jones

He’s been a great player for us over the last few years. We payed Coventry 225k for his services and he’s never let us down.

AML/R - Robinho

Another Portuguese player who we signed on a free a few seasons ago. He’s a good player at this level.

Well that’s it for now, I’m currently playing the next season so hope to have another update out in the next couple of days.

Thanks for reading

[Rob]

Iain Watt ❤️ He could be a beast!

[Ian]

32 minutes ago, Rob said:

Iain Watt ❤️ He could be a beast!

He’s fantastic but since the update it’s hard to get younger players on the pitch a lot so will take a while to get the best out of him. I think it’ll make the 1k challenge a lot harder as apparently older players are the same.

[Ian]

Season 8

Hello vibe and here I am with another update. Winning the Champions League last season was a big shock and with it may bring high expectations for this season so can the boys cope with the added pressure?

I’ll start with the transfer.

Transfers

The main transfers arriving in the summer were left wing back John Earl, centre back Nikola Katic and midfielder Matheus Jesus. 

I mentioned previously that we’d have trouble keeping Che Adams and that proved to be the case as Chelsea bid £21m for him in the first half of the season. He had a buy out clause and once the bid came in I tried to offer him a new contract but he wouldn’t accept and eventually left in January. I also lost Racic as he expressed a desire to leave and became an outcast so I had little option but to just let him go. So that was two important players gone in January and I tried my best to replace them. Sivakov was the chosen defender and Leberl an inside forward was loaned in as I wanted to use the money from the Adams transfer to improve our Goalkeeper. David Luiz Fiel Sampaio was the keeper who came in from Roma, he’s not brilliant but he’s better than what we had.

Full transfers below.

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European Super Cup

We got the win against SLB in the Super Cup but we made hard work of it as we clearly left our shooting boots at home.

Club World Championship

The semi final was a touch one sided as Iain Watt bagged a hat trick to send us through to the final.

The final was a lot closer as we beat GRE 2-1 to win the trophy. I had a look at their players and they actually had a decent squad so more than happy with the result.

Betfred Cup

St Johnstone were our opponents in the final. We generally defended well for most of this season but this game just got out of control. We won 6-4 in the end but we were by far the better team but did our best to try and mess it up.

Scottish Cup

We suffered a horrible defeat against Rangers in the fourth round. At this stage I was beginning to think we were going to really miss Adams and Racic who had both just left.

League

The league campaign was much more comfortable this year as we were well ahead all season but it was Rangers this time who offered the bigger threat out of the ‘Old Firm’.

Champions League

We fought our way to the semi final where we played Milan who were looking for revenge after last years final defeat. We battled out a 2-2 draw at the Queen’s Park stadium to set up a tricky away second leg.

Disaster in the second leg as Leberl managed to get himself sent off early on which made our job much more difficult. Rashford scored a jammy hat trick to send us back to Glasgow with our tails between our legs.

Fixtures

Full fixture list below for those interested. You can see we dished out a good few hidings but had the odd poor performance especially in the second half of the season and the run in.

Spoiler

Manager

Not much change here but my financial control is on the up.😀

Appearances, Goals and Assists

Iain Watt was the main man with 41 goals. Hopefully we’ll be able to get him on the pitch a bit more next season.

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Conclusion

We missed Adams and Racic during the second half of the season and now we’ll need to replace them properly in the summer to go again for the Champions League next year.

Thanks for reading.

[Ian]

Season 9

I’m back with another update of this Amateur Challenge. How did we get on in season 9?

Transfers

We made a few transfers in a bid to improve our chances of competing on all fronts. We brought in James Bree who is a decent right wing back. Braz was bought to play as centre back and Doyle-Hayes and Meade were bought to bolster our midfield options. Sterwart who we had on loan a few seasons back was available on a free so we got him in to play as inside forward. Valero was bought in January to give us more options as he can play either in midfield or inside forward.

We had a good few outgoings but the main two were Judd and Harvie who have been great players for the club but I was looking to improve upon Judd at centre back and Harvie who has been a great left wing back was getting on a bit and thought I’d let him go as he wasn’t going to be playing as much.

Full list below but again some transfers were made in June after the season had finished. 

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Betfred Cup

No problems here as we put Aberdeen to the sword in a one sided 3-0 victory in the final to win yet another Betred Cup.

League

We flexed our muscles here as we only lost one game all season. Looking like we are at the domestic domination stage now.

Scottish Cup

We ploughed through Livingston in the final as we won 3-0 to win our first domestic treble. Iain Watt was the main man as he bagged a nice brace.

Champions League

We were less than convincing in this competition this year but we battled our way to the final where Atletico Madrid awaited us. We played ok in the final but I’m afraid our forwards fired blanks and we lost 1-0 to end our hopes of a quadruple.

Fixtures

No problems domestically but the Champions League was a different story as our form was sketchy at best as we struggled particularly during the group stages where we really missed our best midfielder Jesus who missed the first seven months of the season through injury. Full fixture list below.

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Manager

My financial control is rising big style now as we continue to spend within our means.

Nice looking history page with only the one league defeat and the Champions League final taking some of the shine off it.

Conclusion

We are now formidable domestically but the Champions League is proving difficult to win again. If we’d won the final against Atletico Madrid then I’d have ended this career now but I can’t end it like this so we continue.

Thanks for reading

[Ian]

Season 10

Here we are in season ten and we are at the stage now where we are pretty dominating domestically but have suffered frustration in the last couple of seasons in the Champions League. Can we win it this season?

I’ll start with the transfers.

Transfers

The board gave us a decent budget so we were able to make a few bigger signings. Lloyd Kelly and Gareth McMaster both centre backs were brought in. Lloyd was brought in to go straight into the first team whilst Gareth was purchased as a prospect for future seasons. We also went big on Augusto Filipe who is a pacey centre forward who I thought would do well in this league. Kyle Atkinson was bought from Swansea to bolster our options in the final third as he can play on either flank.

Jay Meade got a bit big for his boots and wanted to leave and became an outcast so he was sold whilst Nikola Katic went on a bosman which I was ok with as he was hitting thirty so I was looking to replace him anyway. Most of the others are just youngsters and a few older players that actually left after the season had finished.

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Betfred Cup

We went all the way to the final again and beat Aberdeen 3-0 in a very one sided affair.

Scottish Cup

We played Rangers in the final and were never in much danger as we played out a 3-1 victory.

League

Not as good a campaign as last season but still rather comfortable. Not a lot of competition coming from the Old Firm now.

Champions League

We fought our way to the final where we met Real Madrid. They took the lead midway through the first half and I was beginning to think it wasn’t going to be our year again. The boys came out in the second half and totally dominated them and went in to win 3-1 with a couple of nice own goals thrown in for good measure.

Fixtures

We dished out a few beatings but also had a few poor performances. I changed my system slightly at the end of last season and started this season with those changes. Basically I was using an Anchor Man instead of a Ball Winning Midfielder in midfield and I’m not sure if it suited us so towards the end I reverted back to the original system and finished the season strongly. 

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Manager

My profile isn’t looking too bad now.

Can’t complain at all as we won everything we entered this season.

Conclusion

A great season for the team in winning their first quadruple. We have come a long way from when we were battling it out in League Two as an amateur club.

There isn’t really anything else we can target now apart from maybe going for unbeaten seasons so this may be the end of this career. I say maybe as I may do another couple of seasons but I can’t promise anything.

Thank you to everyone who’s followed this, I’ve really enjoyed it and now I can look forward to my next career whatever that may be.

[BigAl]

Excellent work mate, completed the challenge 😁 

Queens Park are now the top boys! 

[Ian]

1 hour ago, BigAl said:

Excellent work mate, completed the challenge 😁 

Queens Park are now the top boys! 

Cheers Big Al, I’m going to continue on for at least another season anyway. Started it last night after I got the new update.😀

[Gunners Rishi]

Legendary career Ian, queens Park, the amateurs are now the best team in the world. 

[Ian]

56 minutes ago, Gunners Rishi said:

Legendary career Ian, queens Park, the amateurs are now the best team in the world. 

Thanks mate, I’m glad I’m continuing this on as there’s still a good challenge left in it as shall we just say the new season is not quite going to plan!

[Ian]

Season 11

Here I am with another update to this Amateur challenge. It’s been a long journey for the club and last season we managed to win the quadruple and I had thought about calling it a day but the new update came out and I decided to keep going so here we are.

I’ll go through the transfers first.

Transfers

We are quite a fair way into this now and I felt I needed to try and get some younger players in. The four main incomings are actually all regens and I’m not sure of who so I’ve put a screenshot of them all under the spoiler below the transfers list and if anybody recognises any of them you can let me know.

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Super Cup

We played Inter in the Super Cup and made easy work of it with a 4-0 victory.

Champions League

We put on an absolute shit show in this competition and we crashed out finishing third in our group. Was a strange feeling playing these games and I just didn’t feel like I had any control over any of the games. I was rotating a lot and I think some of the players that I had as first choice were actually worse than my so called second string and I think that contributed to it but the only good thing to come out of this is that at least we did drop into the Europa League.

I failed to get a shot of the league table but here are the results below the spoiler.

Spoiler

First up we got beat by Porto and although it was a last minute winner we could have no complaints as we just couldn’t get into the game.

Next up we faced Man Utd at the Queen’s Park stadium and played a wee bit better but just couldn’t score and paid the price as they went on to win 0-1 and now I’m thinking we are bang in trouble here.

We then faced off against Real Madrid at home in a must win match. Well we won 5-0 in a rather strange game as it was rather close but I guess our boys must have brought their shooting boots.

The next game was the return game against Real and they got revenge and won 5-0 and honestly at this stage I was wondering what was going on with this competition this year.

We managed to pick up our second group win against Porto at home but it was kind of looking like we were going to have to make do with dropping into the Europa League.

We ended the shit show with a rather pedictable defeat at Old Trafford to confirm we’d be playing in the Europa League after New Year.

A horrible Champions League campaign but as I said earlier at least we can have a bash at the Europa against some lesser sides.

Club World Championship

We made hard work of this but did get a 2-0 win in the end against San Lorenzo in the Final.

Betfred Cup

Back to domestic affairs now and the Betfred Cup. We sailed through the competition and beat Rangers 3-1 in a fairly comfortable final.

Scottish Cup

We played Celtic in the Scottish Cup Final and hammered them in a 4-0 victory.

League

We had an easy time of things in the League only drawing two games all season and conceding just ten goals. It all felt strange and really easy which is the opposite of how the Champions League went. I did get the update at the beginning of the season and I’m thinking it may have messed this season up but guess we’ll never know.

Europa League

We fought through the knockout stages to find ourselves in the Final and Leicester were our opponents. We won 3-0 to win the Europa League and could celebrate the fact that we’d now won every cup competition we could ever enter.

Fixtures

Spoiler

Manager

Conclusion

Funny season that ended on a high in winning the Europa League to go with all of our domestic success. It’s seemed like a really long career this and I’ve played a season on the original winter update which included the need to sub subs, a season on first hot fix and then another on the new hot fix and I feel like I’ve been put through the wringer if I’m honest.

This is a good time to end this career for now. I’ll keep the save though and if I play anymore seasons I’ll put them up but for now it’s finished.

Thank you to all who’ve followed and it’s been a blast for the most part.