[[FM24] - Holm is where the heart is!]

Having toyed with the idea of blogging a save for a number of years I've always stopped short from doing so but I figured it's time to give it a bash so I give you, "Holm is where the heart is" - Clydebank FC (the current iteration) were founded by fans following the previous club being placed into administration, bought over and moved to Airdrie. The club previously were a mainstay of the Scottish Professional Pyramid until their financial woes and collapse.

 

A perennial Junior side since their creation, the club have since been granted the history of the former Clydebank and following the restructure of the Scottish system find themselves sitting in the 6th tier of Scottish football they have turned to former Clyde hard-man, Harry 'Chopper' McLaren to once again bring a level of professional prestige back to the town.

The squad Chopper has inherited is not in a particularly bad way, with some very useful players for this level.

Nicky Low, looks a real gem for this level; if he can keep himself match fit... that injury proneness is a concern.

Facilities... well the less said about them at the moment the better xD

This season's objectives is a mid-table finish and to be competitive in all other competitions now I'm a firm believer that if you're gonna do it, you're going to do in style, so this season's kits are these made by myself, there's just something about the old Umbro fitted look that I just love. 

 

Now you're probably wondering why the blog is called Holm is where the heart is, well Clydebank play at a stadium called Holm Park. Rebuilt in 2019 to accomodate the club joining the West of Scotland set up, felt it fit the narrative of the save, with the fan based ethos of the club.

Goals for the save are as follows:-

• Get Clydebank back to the Professional Leagues
• Develop a crop of Scottish Talent
• All signings must have UK and ROI nationality (or Second nationality)
• Bring trophies back to the club
• Become the Best side in Scotland and Europe

One last thing... Let's get right behind the Bankies!

 

[The Journeyman - FM22]

Great read this, can’t believe you didn’t showcase those sexy kits you got made 

[[FM22] The Road to Redemption - A Wally Atwood Story]

Meet Wally Atwood 

Former Welsh international Winger earning 40 Caps and scoring 15 goals for his country, widely known for his Premier League winning spell under Claudio Ranieri at Chelsea, Once touted as the “The Best Thing to come out of Wales since Sir Tom Jones”
 

Now finds himself a shadow of the man he once was…

Let us set the scene It was April 2012, fresh off the announcement of the birth of his second daughter Sophia with on and off again girlfriend Lori. When Wally’s world as he knew it imploded, following yet another drunken escapade, something that was becoming all too familiar for the 31-year-old at the time, this time the glassing of a young man following a brawl in a City Centre nightclub, Aberdeen the side Wally was playing for at the time had finally had enough and terminated his contract.

No longer could they condone this sort of behaviour from someone they deemed to be a senior player in their squad, without a club and nobody prepared to take a chance on the former Chelsea man, depression set in.

Years of menial jobs, alcoholism and general devious behaviour have seen everyone that Wally held close abandon him, now through the help of former manager Claudio Ranieri, Wally who is 2 years sober looks to make a return to football and to redemption; trying to mend the bridges he burnt along the way.

But is there anyone out there willing to take a risk on this mercurial hothead, Without coaching badges and living off his former reputation, sending applications into football clubs along the length and breadth of the British Isles, One can only hope that Wally’s road to footballing redemption can start some 9 years after his last professional football match.