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Telford Promoted!
As the title says, Telford United promoted to the 6th league (Conference North/South) in England. You can use this link to get the quick facts about them, if for any reason you’re interested.
Why am I interested in them? Simply because Telford United (the old club, now bankrupt) was the team I managed every time while playing Championship Manager. When I first played CM ’98, I simply picked a team from the lowest league available in the game at the time. Since it had a 5th league (Conference) available for the English championship, that was it, and Telford happened to be the team. When the CM team split and the actual coders moved on to Footbal Manager, I meant to switch as well, so I did.
That didn’t go well, as I noticed I couldn’t choose to manage Telford anymore and was very disappointed. But I saw that FM had the team listed, even knew all there was to know about it, staff, players, everything in order, but it was listed as being in a lower division than the game supported. Since FM supported up to league 6, I was confused, since I knew they were in 5th the year before and I didn’t see how they could relegate twice. Then I looked up the info and found out that the club went bankrupt and this was a new club born out of it’s ashes, being enlisted in a lower division.
That explained things, but it didn’t make me feel any better. Tried managing another club, but I just got bored quickly, so I said I won’t get another CM or FM game until they promote to a division that it supports, to be able to play them again. Now they finally did, took them only three seasons to promote twice.
So, when the next FM will appear, if I’ll still be alive, sighted and with a better computer, I’ll probably try my hand at managing them all over again.



