Career "Goal a Mile" challenge - what the world looks like in 2048!

[George Traistă]

Yuhuu!! 

[geordiekrispy]

Congrats! Finally! Well done.

[Paul186]

Well Done mate, a great achievement and a couple of seasons to spare, perhaps see if you can get to Ipswich before season 30 ends, the most easternly team unless Lowestoft have been promoted.

[broodje kip]

Finally! Well done!

[Aortic]

Just sat and read through all this thread.

 

Very well done Mr Tree.

[Mr Tree]

Many thanks @Rich @George Traistă @geordiekrispy @broodje kip @Paul186 and @Aortic - much appreciated! 

To finish the challenge you have to play a season at the last club - might be worth amending in future @Ashezcos it's pointless really, I'd say the deed is done when you get that final job...

Anyway, sugar daddy didn't follow me this time but i did sell a winger for 200k to give me some wiggle room. I played a few games before realising i still had plenty more budget available - i was only spending 7k of the 11k weekly wage allowance. So i filled out the squad well with the balance, and we're crushing it. Normally I've been adding a screenshot showing the halfway stage, but this one actually shows the state of play after my first league loss:

So it looks like we'll end on a high

I'll come back to confirm, with a summary and final map included hopefully! 

[Mr Tree]

It's over! Season 28 is in the books, with some critics calling it "the greatest Vanarama National South season ever seen"...

My last game was a 6-2 win at Exeter, a satisfactory way to end! I know I'm close to 30 seasons here, but as there's not much to actually achieve from here, i simply can't be arsed

I will be back tomorrow (probably) with a summary of the career and the journey, and then a look at the state of the footballing world in 2048 later in the week...

For now, here's a look at my final Manager Profile:

Loyalty and Youth Policy were at 20 earlier in the season!! Plus my reputation was National - so i guess that VNS season really did make people sit up and take notice... Also worth noting my total income and outgoings

The final trophy cabinet:

No continental or global success this time - didn't even manage a single game in the EPL!

And for the sake of it, here's my All-Time XI, according to the game:

Dominated by the Rose, which probably was my best spell at a club. Cannot for the life of me recall who the original Elgin dude was now

Thanks to everyone for reading and commenting - like i say, I'll be back later in the week with a full career summary. Let me know if you have any requests! 

[Albionic]

What a career! btw love the name of the left back, Lee Dee.

Well done mate, fantastic work, even with the patience of the Truro board.

Which Striker scored the most for you?

[George Traistă]

28 years and only 32M spent.... crazy!

Congrats, the third go was with luck 😁

[Mr Tree]

11 minutes ago, Albionic said:

What a career! btw love the name of the left back, Lee Dee.

Well done mate, fantastic work, even with the patience of the Truro board.

Which Striker scored the most for you?

Thanks! Think it'll be McFadzean from Bonnyrigg, legend, although Rick Turner-Cooke at Northampton did superbly too. I'll knock it up and post it tomorrow 👍

Thanks to you too @George Traistă, much appreciated

[Mr Tree]

So here we are, the route taken, and the overall summary...

Edited February 15, 2021 by Mr Tree

[George Traistă]

Straight from Elgin FC to Truro FC are 666 miles so you only have done 107 longer trip... super efficient! 

Now that you finally done it, the question is: would you do it again next year?

[broodje kip]

Great career Tree. Well done at completing another goal to miles.

[Mr Tree]

6 minutes ago, George Traistă said:

Straight from Elgin FC to Truro FC are 666 miles so you only have done 107 longer trip... super efficient! 

Now that you finally done it, the question is: would you do it again next year?

Just checked, it took nearly 246 hours of gameplay 😮 so maybe not...

As it stands I'd probably give it a rest, but i wouldn't rule it out. Depends on family, work, and other options within the game. I'm energised by my next career, but I'm going to focus any freetime for now into putting together all the good video clips of my little girl from the last year - it's long overdue and should be good fun, but it'll definitely take a couple of weeks, so it'll be a while until the new career is revealed

Edited February 15, 2021 by Mr Tree

[Mr Tree]

4 minutes ago, broodje kip said:

Great career Tree. Well done at completing another goal to miles.

Many thanks Sandwich! 

[Kanegan]

Great career again Tree. You have definitely mastered the art of road trip.

[Rich]

Well done Mr Tree. What I want to know is, where had the best night life?

[Mr Tree]

Many thanks @Kaneganand @Rich - what can i say mate, we had some great years in Bonnyrigg Rose, Scotland's a lovely place...

Many thanks to everyone else too - as it stands this career has more than double the views of any other career so far this season, which hopefully isn't largely influenced by me pressing Refresh to juice the numbers...

As a last hurrah, let's see how the world of football looks 28yrs down the line... Starting with a little look at my exes:

It was great to see the three Scottish clubs stay in the top echelon after my departure

Turned those three English clubs around pretty well, and as for the fourth? Er...

Bit of a presentation bug there. Anyway, midtable in the Championship without me, not bad at all! 

 

Elsewhere in UK

SPL - Rangers won 17 of the 28 titles, despite a barren spell of 5 winless years in the early 2030's... Celtic next of course with 8, while Aberdeen nipped 2 and Hearts grabbed one. Dundee Utd and wee Bonnyrigg Rose the only other clubs to break into the top two. 

 

EPL - Man City with the best record, 10x 1st, 6x 2nd... Leicester 5x 1st, 9x 2nd... Liverpool 5 titles, 3x runners-up... Chelsea 4 titles, 6x runners-up... Man Utd one fluke, 2x silver medals... and you can see, the world is crumbling a bit by the end, with four different winners in the last four seasons, including Villa, Brighton and Wolves. Spurs even almost won one 😮

 

FA Cup - Leicester 7, Man City 6, Chelsea 5, Arsenal 2, Man Utd 2, Liverpool 2, Palace 1, Everton 1, Huddersfield 1, Stoke 1

 

Risers and Fallers

Tier 4 to Tier 1 - Bolton

Tier 7 to Tier 3 - Margate

Tier 6 to Tier 3 - Chester, Alfreton and Guiseley, who are even on their way up to Tier 2 😮

Obviously i could've counted Northampton and Weston-super-Mare here too, but they had my assistance

The fallers are more interesting though, of course! 

Tier 1 to Tier 4 - West Brom @Albionic, Newcastle @Rich

Tier 2 to Tier 5 - Middlesbrough, Millwall, Preston (who've just got relegated down to the VNN too!)

Tier 4 to Tier 7 - Grimsby, Crawley, Harrogate, Oldham

Tier 2 to Tier 6 - Sheff Wed

But first prize goes to one of my opponents last season, who were 3pts away from completing the entire Tier 1 to Tier 7 slide...

 

European Trophies

Champs League - no dominant force, no back-to-back successes! RB Leipzig most successful with 4, then Chelsea 3, Man City 3, Inter 3, Benfica 2, P$G 2, Juventus Zebras 2, Barcelona 2, Real Madrid 2, Bayern 1, Leicester 1,  Liverpool 1, Sevilla 1, AC Milan 1

 

Europa League - Juventus 4, Man City 3, P$G 2, Sevilla 2, Inter 2, Leicester 2, Bayer Leverkusen 2, Valencia 2, Chelsea 1, AC Milan 1, Man Utd 1, Hoffenheim 1, Atletico 1, Zenit 1, Barcelona 1, Fiorentina 1, Dortmund 1

 

Euro Cup II - The Whatever The Hell This Is Cup - Man Utd, Fiorentina, Zenit, Eintracht Frankfurt and Schalke the only two-time winners, plus a whole load of one-hit wonders...

 

Club World Champions - Europe dominant

 

Internationals

World Cup - the Argies are on the rise! 

Euros - a generation of hurt awaits Belgium! 

Copa America - USA planning to take over South America, it seems...

African Nations - Egypt 4, Tunisia 3, Ivory Coast 3, Cameroon 2, Ghana 1, Algeria 1

And finally Asia, where Japan dominate:

 

I think that's everything?!?! But i can take requests and show you how your favourite club will get on, if you want...

Thanks again to everyone for joining me on the journey! As mentioned above, i have a plan for an interesting new career, hopefully, but it'll be a couple of weeks until it starts - i have to do some family stuff in the meantime All the best! 

[Albionic]

West Brom are well on the way to do that in real life as well, but at least we weren't the worst "west"!

And fair play to Bolton for turning things around, thats not going not happen in real life most likely.

 

[Chelseaplchamps2022]

Geez! West Ham fell heavy! From challenging for the UCL to Challenging for survival in the VNS! 😄😄

[geordiekrispy]

Depressing to see Newcastle still trophy-less after nearly 80 years!

[Mr Tree]

8 hours ago, geordiekrispy said:

Depressing to see Newcastle still trophy-less after nearly 80 years!

it's not all bad, i forgot to mention that you did reach the League Two Playoff Final, although sadly you lost to Hartlepool

thanks for the comments, @Albionicand @Chelseaplchamps2021!

[broodje kip]

World looks so different. Same thing happened in my Augusta save.

[Paul186]

Great journey and I enjoyed it all the way. Not surprised about Newcastle they seem to be bad in this edition of FMM, just took over Newcastle in the lower regions of the Championship. Looking forwatd to your next career.

[Rich]

8 minutes ago, Paul186 said:

Great journey and I enjoyed it all the way. Not surprised about Newcastle they seem to be bad in this edition of FMM, just took over Newcastle in the lower regions of the Championship. Looking forwatd to your next career.

Yeah every game I’ve done, there currently in league 2 in mine and only 5 seasons in 😂