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Whether you’re looking for a challenge or just a bit of fun, below you’ll find some of the best teams to start with on Championship Manager 01/02. It’s a golden opportunity to rewrite football history and change the landscape of the past 19 years but, with such an endless stream of glorious possibilities, where exactly should you start?
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This is insane, explosive and beautifully simple fun, and it feels a lifetime away from the time-consuming realism of Football Manager. After all, if we’re gonna be stuck inside for the foreseeable future, we might as well get through it with Cherno Samba, Maxim Tsigalko and Mark Kerr. Now almost 19 years later, this classic management simulation is coming back with a nostalgic vengeance, with thousands of people across the country loading up their old game as they deal with self-isolation.
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For me, it sits right up there with Sensible Soccer, Pro Evo 6 and the Road to World Cup ‘98, and I dread to think how many hours of my childhood were consumed by this fun, addictive beast. Teams play weakened sides to forfeit and concentrate on the league and, most horrifically, we’d seen the end of the FA Cup finalists’ songs! Long gone were the collaborations with Sting or Status Quo and the Anfield Rap was never to be heard again.The 2001/02 edition of Championship Manager is one of the greatest football games of all-time. The Final is no longer the season ending showpiece it had so gloriously once been and in recent years we’ve even seen 5:30pm finals on the same day as Premier League fixtures. The FA Cup was a thing of marvel but sadly, it’s lately lost a bit of it's pizzazz. The black and whites had also been on the end of a few famous losses, uttering the words “Ronnie Radford” on Tyneside would almost certainly earn you a trip to the RVI. Despite not winning the trophy since 1955, In 2001 Newcastle were joint 4th on the all-time winners list, having lifted the cup 6 times in 13 final appearances.
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It has an undeniable magic, a magic Newcastle know all too well about. Since The Wanderers first beat the Royal Engineers 1-0 in 1872, the competition has had a special significance on the footballing calendar. The FA Cup – the world’s oldest football competition. A fantastic win against a difficult side and one that made it 18 goals for December. Barsom again the provider as Kennedy Bakircioglu beat the offside trap and put the game to bed with just seconds left on the clock. On the 82nd Minute, Barsom whipped in a lovely cross from out wide to Shearer who smashed home the ball to make it 3-2 to the Toon and we weren’t done there. Kallstrom, Queresma and Barsom emerged onto the field and it was Barsom who made the most immediate of impacts. I decided to roll the dice, making a 3-man wonder sub. As we approached the 79th minute it was still level, but our possession for the last 5 minutes was at 80%. Ibrahim Said smashing home a bullet header from a free-kick to make it 2-2. The skipper’s persistence had the desired effect and I was watching ratings rise in real time as everyone stepped up their game. Within seconds of the restart we’d pegged one back, Shearer capitalising on a poor back pass and knocking the ball past keeper Kasey Keller. There was a late consolation from Freddie Kanoute, but nothing could take the shine off this glossy performance from a rampant Magpies side – seemingly fearing no-one. Selakovic bagging a perfect hat-trick (with his left foot, right foot and his head) before Madeira got in on the act, lobbing him from distance and leaving the poor keeper on the floor, licking his wounds. Rather than skip him forward to the next level, he instead conceded another 4 goals. First, he took one step forward, then one step back, he turned around three times and jumped forward. James looked all lost at sea and appeared like he was trying to put in the Tomb Raider cheat codes. James dropping a virtual-clanger here seemed fitting and it soon got a lot worse for the West Ham keeper. It was influencing his footballing-form and after too many late nights spent with Lara on the PlayStation, he’d found himself making high-profile mistakes in important games. The custodian, like FBT and I, was a massive gamer and had become addicted to Tomb Raider. In 1997, while on the books of Liverpool, James was checked into a facility to treat an addiction… It wasn’t for drugs, alcohol or gambling – in fact, it was for something quite obscure.
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Now, the irony of David James making a mistake and gifting me a goal in this virtual game wasn’t lost on me.