CM, CM 01/02, Season, Football Management, Football, Championship Manager, Forums. Fancy playing with all the original players but in the 3.9.68 Database. Im wondering if theres a mod out there that changes the 2011 DB with that of the 2001-2002 season?
I’m not one of those football fans who spends his whole time looking back. Material dlya stengazeti po matematike 3 klass 1. Oh who am I kidding, of course I am, that’s why you’re here. Updates on the patch will resume shortly, but meanwhile I’ve given my wistfulness a different outlet, on Denis Hurley’s brilliant site (Denis writes about a lot of subjects I find interesting – I wrote a on his ).
I’m a Liverpool fan, and that’s why I wish every season could be 1989/90 – not just because that was the last league title, but because they had great adidas kits, as I believe the club always should. That particular spell with adidas ended in 1996, so I imagined – with the help of Denis’s brilliant illustrations – what the kits would have been like had that hiatus not happened.
Read to see what I came up with. I’m planning. Thanks to the brilliant work of Twitter user, you can now play CM 89/90 with a set of background images from the era. Gaz has worked on the top two four divisions of English football, with the promise of more to come. This is a huge enhancement to CM 89/90, and something I’ve wanted to do for a while, but wouldn’t know where to start.
Gaz has made the files. To install, extract the files to the Pictures folder in your CM 01/02 installation (you will need to download to open the file).
To get a taster, here’s a set of screenshots from the second season of a campaign I’m currently playing. Update: This now includes all four divisions of the English League. Martyn Green, from the excellent football blog, has begun a challenge using the CM 89/90 database. He’s attempting to get Newcastle back up to the top flight, and is chronicling his exploits month-by-month. You can read about and – keep checking his site for regular updates. It’s great to see the update brought to life like this – the names bring about the sort of nostalgic feelings that drove me to do all this, and Martyn summarises his exploits very entertainingly.
Do take a look – and if you want to chronicle a season of your own, don’t hesitate to get in touch. A new beta is available for download – I’ve made significant progress in the past few months, particularly in English football – I’ve checked through most players in the English league, and gave them more realistic player attributes. In addition, there are large numbers of updated squads in Belgium, France, Japan, Portugal, Spain and Sweden, among others. Also included is the legendary – almost mythical – Croatian midfielder See previous posts for details of what else has been completed, and for regular screenshots. I’d like to break from the normal patternof this blog, and focus on a particular player who’ll feature in the next release of Championship Manager 89/90.
Jovica Strok is a veteran Croatian attacking midfielder at NK Zagreb, a middling club in that was then Yugoslavia. So what, you may be wondering, makes Jovica Strok notable? Well, it’s the fact that he isn’t real – and not just that, he’s the grandfather of Ivica Strok, one of the most famous fictional footballers of all time. Having battled with mental health issues – and Football Manager – myself, I was moved by about how Ivica’s Football Manager exploits helped him through am extremely difficult time in his life, and decided to break my 100% accuracy rule in this patch and include Ivica’s Granddad, Jovica (his Dad,, is somehow a real player).