Champo Manager - Finest Hour?

[Jackass]

I was just wondering what peoples proudest moment ever was as a champo manager? The type of moment that just brought a tear to your eye?

The reason i ask is cause im currently Barnet in champo 03/04, after running away with the conference last season (wow! big achievement!) , im now in a title race for the third, but when my heap of poo goalkeeper goes way out of position, and all four of my defenders chase the guy on the wing, midfielders wont track back no matter what i do, and six dag&redbridge players stand un-marked in the box, what makes it all worth while is the prospect of some day getting barnet to lift the champo league trophy!

What was your finest hour against the odds? proudest moment of making your minnows into champions? Or even when things went horribly wrong...like from wining champions league 1 season, being relegated the next or somethin??

fitzcarraldo

Champ 99/00 leading Monaco to the Treble,winning League Cup and champ league in a landslide 3-1 defeat of Real Madrid,two goals from unknown Argentinian Saviola and a great dribbling run from Giuly

My Celtic team in champo 00/01 was ridiculous and went unbeaten in the league for two seasons,picking up Champ league twice

radiospan

Winning the Champions League with Peterborough in 01/02. I wish I still had that savegame!

Big Ears

I supose it was the season where I started off winning all domestic competitions with Bohs(except the League Cup I lost in the final) and reaching the quarter finals of the Champs League , where I left for Cardiff before I played the quarters .(they got stuffed without me) , I moved on to Cardiff , who had 2 points from 11 games , way adrift of staying up , not only did I stay up , but I managed to come 16 , only missing out on 14th on goals scored(if only Villa and Wolves didn't score those late goals) , I also brought in some tremendous players on a shoestring budget .

This was 03/04 I think .(the Cradiff board were resiigned to relegation when I joined too , making it even more memorable .)

and the fact I wasn't technically safe until the final whistle of the last game .

GadgetFiend

probably scarborough winning the european cup in championship manager 95

more recently though, there was one game which particularly stood out during my time at shels in cm 4

Boro

Fluking my way to winning the champions league with Shels in cm 03/04. You have never seen so many lucky draws, last minute goals and away goal wins! Scraped into the 2nd phase with a last minute win in my last game. I didnt win after that - got through with 6 draws in the 2nd phase, then away goal wins in qtr/semi final (0-0's at home, 1-1's away) and then finally a penalty shoot-out win in the final after 0-0 draw and extra time !

Next season took a job with Leeds (start of december) as i was sick of the shels board not giving allowing me to pay decent wages (over £1000) - they were bottom and deep in debt (prophetic really), won the league with them going unbeaten from when i took over! Unfortunately during the close season i suffered a save game corruption which pissed me off no end....

j22

In Championship Manager 03/04. started off with Brighton. First season got promotion from the 2nd division via the playoffs. In my second season won the first straightout. Struggled in the Premiership for a few years, all the time building my squad and eventually got through to the Uefa cup getting knocked in the quarters but finished in a Champions League position. The next I won the Premiership and Champions League beating Chelsea in the final.

[Jackass]

well, since this has been up i've added the 3rd and 2nd divisons title to my conference title in 3 seasons...starting 1st division now...got to the leage cup final last year, losing 1 - 0 to united!! Not bad for Barnet! my end of year aprasail last year fans said i performed miracles and are erecting a statue of me outside theground!!

Cactus Col

After coming 2nd in the premiership 2 years in a row with Bradford City (and in the progress winning the Champions league!), finally won the premiership on my 4th year in charge. Winning it on the last day by beating West Ham 2-0.(can't remember if it was home or away).

Going into the final match West Ham were on the same points as us, and Middlesborugh were one point behind.

That season started off very badly, knocked out of domestic and european competitions early.

So quit Bradford a few weeks after the win, and went to 1st division Southampton.

besty

gadget fiend, fair play on beating barca 4-0 with shels. its not like you even have big name players. fair ****s. i won 11 major trophies with man utd in 4 yrs. including 4 premierships, 3 champs leagues and 3 FA cups. I was quite pleased with that.
In cm 01-02 i had a ridiculously good celtic team too. i remember my starting strikeforce was owen and shevchenko. won the champions league with them twice too. ive never really managed any real success with a lower league team. might just try that....

GadgetFiend

cheers- i actually lost the away leg 3-0 playing an 8-1-1 formation. still got through

PiE

http://www.clanadn.com/piehole/rofl.jpg

besty

that is so annoying when you completly piss on a team, have around 50 shots and you cant seem to score despite having 2 17+ finishing strikers, aaaaghhhhh

[Jackass]

PiE wrote:

http://www.clanadn.com/piehole/rofl.jpg

That's how my last computer got broken! lol

cashback

Think my proudest moment would have to be taking St Pats on an epic journey to the Champions league semi-finals in CM4, beating Arsenal in the quarters, before losing to Chelsea. Charles Mbabazi Livingstone scored 47 goals in 50 games that season. We walked the league for years after cos of the prize money. Happy Days....

Zaph

Best moment is definitely in CM 03/04. Was offered the Fiorentina job about 5 games into the season when they were in the bottom 3 of Serie B. Finished second in the division and in the first season up in Serie A won the league and cup double. Went on to win the league for the next two seasons and another 4 times with Roma, but that first double was the best.

Fanny Cradock

going back a while here to cm 97/98 - brought exeter city to the dizzy heights of european cup victory along with the trebble (in the domestic league) and won the world cup all in the same year.

job well done i think!

p.s. i cheated, but finest moment none the less!

Dempsey

Took Shamrock Rovers to 8 consecutive league titles and quarter finals of the champions league then took over at chelsea. league, league cup, fa cup, champions league and world cup with ireland in the same season

Seaneh

in 00-01 bringng athlone town to the champions league semi's, signing Weah, leonardo and batistuita on free's on the way (the were all 33+). I went on to take charge of Swansea who were in the english 2nd division, i got them to the premiership, after a few seasons mid table i signed Zlatan and Kaka, won the league, signed sonk, frey and ambrosini, won champions league, left them in october the following year and took over A.C. Milan who were sitting 14th in the league, finished in champions league posistion, got to simis next season and won league, managed ireland to a world cup, managed millwall to an fa cup and got sunderland into the champions league (Piper was worht 24million?!?!).

That was the best I'd ever done in a game.

Villain

Try this :

[Jackass]

Fair play Irish!!

My Barnet team went from mid-table in conference to finishing second in the premier leauge....losing out by 2 points to united
All done in 5 seasons, winning conference, third, second, and first in consecutive seasons...if i got the premiership..i would have won all the leagues in the shortest possible time...in champions leauge Q/F this season.
I've never done well at international level though....i've only ever got the Irish job...think the furthest i ever got was WC quater final

Villain

I got offered the Argentina and Portugal jobs but turned them down with the hope of leading Ireland to the final. I have won 4 Champions league and 3 League titles with Villa and on course for 5 and 4th.

ishnid

In a "slightly older" version, I once won 20 consecutive league championships with Blackpool. Having said that, that was in the days when the best Defender/Midfielder/Forward in the game were Kevin Moran, Ray Wilkins and Nigel Clough (93/94) and Champ Man was that little bit easier!

In a later version, it was pretty cool when the French national team manager picked all of the first 11 from my Lyon team for an international.

REDZ

In champ manager Italia 95 on the Amiga.beating AC in the milan derby 9-0 with Inter.

DapperGent

Took the mighty Brentford to eventual Champions League glory in 00-01. I think I got up via the playoffs at the first attempt, then first divsion midtable obscurity, then up to the big time via the playoffs again, after a relegation threatened season eventually came a comfortable 15 or 16th with the freescoring Wiltord (on a free from Arsenal) my hero.

Champs League qualification the next season. League title the following season. Premiership and Champs League double glory the next season, with a golden goal from a 38? year old Dennis Bergkamp (on a free from the Arse) sealing the win. Bergkamp was great that season averaged 8.8 or something, never played more than 60 minutes and was usually a super sub.

abccormac

I got to the world cup final with ireland in CM4... and then lost to France.
And i got Figo to come to Celtic in the x-box version of 02-03 for about 1 million, (he demanded a transfer from Real, and nobody else wanted him!). He scored about 80 goals in his one season in Glasgow, took Celtic to the Champions League semi final almost single handed, and then asked to move again, I got something like 15 million for him!

Wanton

taking millwall to 4 league and champions league titles in a row(nver mind all the other wins, this was like 2012 - 2016 or something), with $$$ in the bank, a bunch of unknown home growns cause no one else worth buying and the boards constanty being turned down panning for extensions to The Den.

all the while being led by a then unknown am.... ronaldinho (till retirement at the age of 38)

IamtheKing

I lost 4-0 to Roma in the semi-finale of the champions league. They had the lead on away goals too. But in the second leg... I won 5-0! Oh yeah, best comeback EVER!

Big Ears

IamtheKing wrote:

I lost 4-0 to Roma in the semi-finale of the champions league. They had the lead on away goals too. But in the second leg... I won 5-0! Oh yeah, best comeback EVER!

I think a lot of us have had better comebacks .

Sand

Managing United in the Champ League group stages against Juventus in Turin, back with Champ Man 4. They were playing my guys off the park - literally might as well not have showed up at all - and unsurprisingly went behind but managed to equalise early on through an extremely rare adventure into their half.

They went back ahead not long after and laid seige to the goal. Between Wright and the woodwork somehow managed to keep it 1-2 for the rest of the game until in the very last minute of extra time Gerrard ventures up the pitch and slots one home to equalise. 2 chances, 2 goals. 2-2 in the most undeserved fashion you could conceive.

I laughed for the best part of 5 minutes. After all the games where the PC ****ed me over with super-keepers and nonsensical wonder goals from subs who never scored before it was sweet, sweet justice to be on the other side of that particular equation for once.

[Jackass]

Sand wrote:

I laughed for the best part of 5 minutes. After all the games where the PC ****ed me over with super-keepers and nonsensical wonder goals from subs who never scored before it was sweet, sweet justice to be on the other side of that particular equation for once.

I know exactly how you feel...there is nothing better than when the most stupid, unrealistic and down right impossible result goes your way!!!

It may be Computer 4,587 - You 1, when it comes to those kind of games...but that 1 almost makes it all worth while!

I'd imagine that to be the closest any of us will ever get to expierienceing how Alex Fergosun felt that night in Barcelona back in '99 against B.Munich!!

lol, cheers for that post...gave me a good chuckle!!

Villain

DubGuy22 wrote:

I know exactly how you feel...there is nothing better than when the most stupid, unrealistic and down right impossible result goes your way!!!

It may be Computer 4,587 - You 1, when it comes to those kind of games...but that 1 almost makes it all worth while!

I'd imagine that to be the closest any of us will ever get to expierienceing how Alex Fergosun felt that night in Barcelona back in '99 against B.Munich!!

lol, cheers for that post...gave me a good chuckle!!

I won the world cup with Ireland after bet Brazil in the final, so I think it's time to start again, this time I'll make it a little harder and start with the pool!! :-)

Boro

In FM2005 I went away to Inter in the semis (managing man utd) and beat them 5-3. Great i said, easy game in the secont leg. Well they came storming out at old trafford and were 3-0 up in the first 10 mins. I managed to struggle back and the game finished 5-3 to them - 8-8 on agg! Went into extra time and precisely 10 seconds before the end of extra time and the start of penalties, Rooney picked up the ball on the center circle, dribbled past two players and smacked it top corner from 40 yards! Winning 9-8 on aggragate against Inter in the semis... not something you expect to happen, but oh so sweet.

Bowser

My two greatest moments were in Champ 97/98

I had Hibs winning the Champions league and St Johnstone (who are the worst team in the Scotish Premier) win the league after 4 seasons!

Oh and getting bohemians into the champions league in Champ 00/01 (i think)

watman

Winning the Champions League with Viking and Forest Green Rovers back in 01/02 or my current game , the clean sweep with CSKA Moscow , winning the quadruple , League 30-0-0 record , premier cup , russian cup and champions league

Tiny Tim

First i'd like to say how i hate the new versions of champ manager
and the last decent one was 01-02

But the best was 00-01

My proudest moment was when i was in charge Wrexham in Division 2
during my first season Martin Rowlands captained my team to conquer
divsion 2, then in Division 1 i brought the likes of Kallstrom, Barickoguloi
and Aguinaga to the club and during my first attempt with absolutely NO
cheating i won division 1 I had one season in the premiership where
i finished in the top 4 :eek: and qualified for the champions league,
meanwhile i brought cracking youngsters from Scandanavia to harden up
my team! Then the next season i bring Wrexham, yes Wrexham to the
champions league final and loose on penalties :eek: Meanwhile i cruise
to victory in the premierhship

Never will i forget that game and sadly 1 year following that
the game crashed :eek: and cannot be brought any further :mad:

Best game of champ man ever!! Spend around 8 hours a day
playing that

case n basket

Not really my finest hour, but considering Arsenal needed to beat Munich 2-0 tonight -

Playing as Arsenal in FM2005, in my first season, I got Munich in the 2nd round of the CL.

Last night I beat them 2-0 at home in the first game.
Tonight, I beat them 2-0 away in the second leg.

Tonight, Arsenal couldn't muster a 2-0 win in real life.

kaimera

Beating Dortmund 10-0 with my Charlton team in the CL quaters first leg at home in CM4.
lost the second leg and lost the Premiership by 2 points after loosing only winning 3 of 8 games remaining :mad:

still, 10-0 tho

Boro

How in all the hells did you manage to throw away a 10-0 lead!!!?!

Keyzer

Won the champs league and supercup thing 5 years in a row with utd, a statue of me was erected outside the stadium as a result..

kaimera

ehh...lost 2-0 second leg. didn't say I lost the tie ::

kaimera wrote:

lost the second leg...

Boro

doh
Obviously the sensationalist in me trying to break out again.

ehh...lost 2-0 second leg. didn't say I lost the tie ::

well dont do it again!

uberwolf

Rushden and Diamonds to champions league glory with only one blip on the way (3rd division took two seasons to get out of). Won final playing 2 players that had been in my team in conference

Only spent 3mill in transfers in this time.

Zola on a free in 3rd division,
Gascoigne on a free in 2nd
Zidane on a free in 1st division.

CM3 99/00

Dubhthamlacht

in Champ man 01/02
I took St Pats to UEFA cup final and won it against Parma. took about 10 seasons to do it.

almost as good as that was winning the Champions League with what started out as a lower league begain team called Tubize and winning english treble and champions league with Cardiff with a team comprised entirely off ex eircom league players who all became superstars. ah the days of taking unknown young players from eircom league clubs and turn into the next zidane. this is way more difficult to do in later Champ man games

Brian017

Won the World Cup with Ireland and the No. 1 spot in the FIFA rankings.

Space Coyote

I've had so many with various teams in all versions of CM. Obviously it was far easier back in the cm2, cm3 days. The most recent one that stands out from the rest would be taking Kildare Town to the 1/4 Finals of the Champo League in 3 years (might have been 4). CM 01/02. I gave that one up because the board wouldnt throw any cash into expanding the stadium. Greedy bástards spent it all on drink!

Zaph

Speaking of problems expanding your stadium, does anyone know a way to get around it when the local council keeps blocking planning applications? I really need a bigger stadium and it's really frustrating that it keeps getting turned down.

Space Coyote

The best way around it in that case would be to fiddle with your team's current ground capacity and max ground capacity in the game editor. It's cheating a bit but as you said it's very very annoying when your board agree to expand the stadium only for the bloody council to turn it down at the last minute! :mad:

[Jackass]

Well i'm finished my Barnet game now (the reason i started the thread....to give me hope!) ...and i'm well chuffed with how it went:

03/04 Won English Conference
04/05 Won English 3rd Division
05/06 Won English 2nd Divison (leauge cup runners up)
06/07 Won English 1st Division
07/08 2nd in English Premier Leauge
08/09 Won English Premier Leauge, Won Charity Shield, Won European Champions Leauge.

I won everything (with the exception of the premier leauge) in the shortest possible time, including the champions leauge in the shortest possible time for a conference side (6 years), and with the exception of a little hic-up in 07/08 it all went to plan. It would have been nice to pick up a FA cup and a Leauge cup along the way (not to mention a Vans trophy ).
What makes it even more satisfying is that i never spent more than 3 or 4 million on a player (or even in a season), and my squad was mostly made up of youth players who came at a low level as youth players from premier leauge and grew into PL standard...or some great buys!!

I may play on to try and win Premier Leauge, Champions Leauge, FA cup, Leauge cup, Charity Shield, European Super Cup and World club cup all in the same season (don't think i've ever done that, would be a special achievement with Barnet!! :eek:)...but that'll be pretty hard as my ground is still under 8 or 9 thousand, i cant get wages over 14k per week (which is 70k p/w over budget at the mo.) despite having a respectable 9 million transfer budget!

But my main goal has been achieved. Even though Champ Leauge draw was kind to me, with celtic, betis, inter and feyenord my opposition after the group (semi v inter was tough). I'll let you know if i manage to pull off the perfect season with them (in less than 10 seasons from start that gives me 4 more!!)

Ardent

Sand wrote:

Managing United....Gerrard ventures up....

Any semblance of reality in your game is long gone. I haven't played CM in a looooong time but how did you get Gerrard to join United? Surely there must be something hardcoded in the game to make Gerrard/Liverpool flip the bird at United's offers.

the fnj

In 01-02 or 00-01 not certain but it was one of the good versions.

I took Yeovil town from Conference obscurity to the Champions League Final only to be smashed 5-3 by Madrid I was 5-0 down at half time. After the Champions League O was finally able to buy in some big players and I was confident I'd win it the following year of course the computer crashed during a save and my game was lost about eight or nine seasons down the drain.

It was a game I used to play while in work and it took me weeks to start playing again after losing the Yeovil game, on a side note Yeovil are looking good to get promoted again they are only four or five seasons away from the champions league.