After three years and 12 seasons, crossing from South America to England, Spain, Turkey, Italy, Scotland, France, South Africa, Portugal, Germany and back to England once again, it’s time to bid farewell to The Football Manager Football Show. Like Arsenal’s bid to become Premier League champions and Jurgen Klopp’s reign at perennial contenders Liverpool, all good things must come to an end and having seen Shane secure a Premier League trophy – his first league title since Galatasary (if you don’t count South Africa) – and Ken being crowned Champions League winner for the first time since his s ..read more

Our English Premier League journey, for the second time, finished last week with Manchester City crowned league champions, denying Liverpool what would have been an incredible three-in-a-row following a close-fought season. While City (and Shane) can celebrate a league title, there’s the small matter of a Champions League final for Liverpool (and Ken) with this week seeing the Reds in action against Bayern in Paris. We’ll get a feel for City’s season, and sow the seeds for where we’re off to next, but for one final time in Football Manager land, we’re hanging with Liverpool in the hope that th ..read more

It’s finally over. Four months on since the release of Football Manager 2024, our Premier League adventures come to a close this week. The two-season arc is finished and the race for the title came all the way down to the final episode of the season. With a game in hand, can City make the extra points a possibility or will their poor run of form continue to haunt them with Liverpool – mathematically at least – still in the league? It’s City v Spurs, Man United and Southampton, while Ken’s Liverpool travel to Goodison Park to meet Everton for the final Merseyside derby of the podcast series bef ..read more

For the second, third and final times in this Football Manager journey of ours, it’s back to the Etihad we go this week as Ken’s Liverpool make the trip to Shane’s ‘The Manchester’ to settle the trilogy and close out the season. With a 5-1 aggregate lead from last week’s Champions League semi-final, Ken reckons he has this one in the bag, until he realises that the Liverpool prodigy-in-the-making, Fred Kalenga, is going to have to make an appearance with Yunus Musah collecting a potential season-ending injury as soon as we click continue this week. He joins a list including Jude Bellingham, Lu ..read more

On paper, this might be the biggest clash of our Football Manager journey to date. While the race for the Premier League title has Man City clear of Liverpool by 6 points, the sides have been paired once again in Europe and this week we’ve got the first of our Champions League semi-finals along with some league action. Between this week and next, we’ll play each other on three occasions, twice in Europe and once in the league in a bid to settle our final English stint once and for all. With Liverpool having already seen off City in the Community Shield and the League Cup final this season, is ..read more

This week on The Football Manager Show, we’re going back in time.  You see, there may have been a mishap after last week’s episode in that, well, when it was supposed to save, it didn’t save. Or maybe Ken didn’t save the game. Or maybe the laptop died, or something happened, but the save wasn’t there and the backup wasn’t there, so where we took off and played our Champions League quarter-finals against Benfica and Real Madrid with Ken winning 2-0 against his old club (while playing with nine men) and Shane going town 2-0 at home against the new age Galacticos, we’ve got to go again.  ..read more

It’s finally April. We’re into single figures remaining in the Premier League, while the Champions League hits the quarter-final stages. Can Ken’s old boys Leicester cause an upset at Man City? Will Haaland have the edge over Real Madrid? Will Benfica come back to haunt Ken at Anfield and dent hopes of European success in our final season in England? So many questions, so many concerns! Let’s get into it and start the countdown to the end of our Premier League stay. Listen: FMFShow #163 Get new episodes of the podcast every Friday on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts or wherever you do yo ..read more

It’s Friday. It’s podcast day. We almost didn’t make it, but we did. For the first time in 3 years, through a myriad of real-world events, it’s taken us until late on release day to find 30 minutes together to unwind with some Football Manager. The gas thing, Shane’s still hurting after last week’s League Cup Final collapse. But it doesn’t matter too much as Ken’s Liverpool are just hurting full stop as injuries mount with the calendar turning into April. Games are shy, cup competition details are revealed and we’re plotting a course for the penultimate month in our Premier League stay. Follow ..read more

The Caribbean God versus the pretender to the throne. The current FA Cup holders versus the current Premier League holders. Good versus evil? For the first time ever, in 161 episodes, we’re going all-in on one game. Yes, this season has been a slog, but it’s also been methodical to a point and as results mounted up, the path was paved to send Man City and Liverpool to this year’s Carabao Cup final. Granted, it took a rub of the green for both along the way, but they made it and now, long acclaimed by Shane to be the only cup that matters, the Carabao Cup is up for grabs. Holders Leicester have ..read more

We’re mixing things up a little this week. For the first time in a while, we’ve managed to get some games under our respective belts this week before we actually press record. Remember when we used to do this before season 12? Recognising that last week segued into all manner of discussion, we’re getting into the action early this week as we navigate the last sixteen of the UEFA Champions League before getting in some Premier League action. We’re wrapping up things up this week with two live games as Liverpool head to the City Ground to take on Nottingham Forest while Man City head to St. Jame ..read more