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So after contemplating this challenge for the past few years, I finally decided to give it a proper crack for the first time. Burgess Hill Town FC used to be geographically the closest eligable team to me for these types of challenges, just 3 miles, so I'd always wanted to do this with them, however they are not in this year's edition due to being relegated last year. Instead, I've opted for the extra bonus of trying to restore a team to its 'former glory', so here I am, based in the Sicily, as the new manager of Palermo! Here's my profile. I really hope I can give this a good go, even if the speed of my updates becomes inconsistent.

So after a long time teasing with various different careers, I finally decided to give this a proper shot after gaining more experience in recent editions in various lower leagues, which had been my previous undoing as I was completely stuck. I went in with the intention of getting either Burgess Hill, Lewes or Whitehawk, as all three are local to me and I have a connection with in some way. However looking at the reputation list, I knew it'd be quite unlikely to get Burgess Hill and to a lesser extent Lewes, so I somewhat settled on Whitehawk, my place of birth and where I lived for the first couple of years of my life. And so here we go, the new manager of Whitehawk. With a media prediction of 15th, I expected us to be safe, although the bookies gave us almost zero chance of going up, so I was determined to prove them wrong and go up first time of asking. Hopefully this could be accomplished with some astute signings. Here's my profile. As I wasn't expecting our finances to remain positive for too long, I also went ahead and requested a coaching badge immediately before they could decline due to our finances, luckily they accepted and this was a good start to my career already. I have actually already completed the first season, as I wanted to complete a season before posting in here and comitting to anything, so I will write up how the first season went a bit later on.

Great work @Sons FC thanks It's been good fun!

Third Place England 0-2 Belgium Final France 2-0 Croatia

I thought Croatia were meant to tire, England are the ones who look absolutely knackered.

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/world-cup-2018/fairnesstabelle/pokalwettbewerb/WM18/saison_id/2017/plus/1 Croatia top of the cards table now, getting 4 cards in the game against Russia.

I'm alive! I'd prefer to bottle it in my own fashion instead of by forgetting to post Semi-Finals France 2-1 Belgium Croatia 1-2 England

Good goal, great ball from Coutinho.

Belgium have a great squad but if Roberto Martinez ends up a World Cup winning manager then wow Obviously all Thierry's work

Oooft, shocker from me. Uruguay v France 2-1 Brazil v Belgium 2-1 Russia v Croatia 1-2 (aet) Sweden v England 0-1

Djourou!

@Readingfanman Thanks mate Might do the lottery next!

I've edited my post with my predictions for this round.

I'll edit this post with my score predictions once I've done them but someone can use this as a template if they want, only copied the OP style. Round of Sixteen Saturday 30th June 3pm France 2-1 Argentina 7pm Uruguay 1-0 Portugal Sunday 1st July 3pm Spain 3-0 Russia 7pm Croatia 3-1 Denmark Monday 2nd July 3pm Brazil 2-1 Mexico 7pm Belgium 3-0 Japan Tuesday 3rd July 3pm Sweden 0-1 Switzerland 7pm Colombia 1-2 England

Wasn't expecting to be a round winner after the awful start Brilliant work as always @Sons FC Will do my predictions for the next round probably some time today.