Ron Wandle Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 The first Assistant Manager I hired for my club, AFC Wimbledon, lasted a year. Another club came in for him and, in my newbiness, I didn't counter with my own new offer to my Ass Man. So he left. I went to the Staff Search and found the next outstanding candidate for the job - a Mr Wally Downes. Great name, I thought, and it rang a vague bell in my mind. So I looked him up on Wikipedia and then remembered who he was. Wally Downes played for Wimbledon FC, the precursor to AFC Wimbledon, back in the '80s, the time of the legendary Crazy Gang. Not only that, he is, according to Wikipedia, "often cited as being the main instigator of the Crazy Gang spirit at the club". So he was the perfect man to carry across the spirit of the old Wimbledon FC to the new AFC Wimbledon (if you know the history of the two clubs). He is, if you will, the club's shaman, and there probably could not have been a more perfect Ass Man fall into my lap, from a symbolic point of view. Have you ever experienced any moments of serendipity while playing Football Manager? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neotropolis Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 My moment was when I created my own team and got a newgen called Jack Sparrow who had the personality, traits and stats to be a perfect captain. He became club captain and as such, was Captain Jack Sparrow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Blinkhorn Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 I really like when I bring in players/staff who then turn up in real life. In FM16 I bought Stefan Kutschke for Dynamo Dresden, an absolutely massive striker who fired me up the leagues. (He scored THIS in the season just gone btw) By January he had signed on 1.5 years loan for Dresden IRL. As usually happens with FM, I grew attached to Dresden because of my epic save and everything I learnt about them in the mean time. So on 28th October 2016 me and a few friends flew out to watch Dresden take on Braunschweig. Dresden went down 0-2 just after half time, but Kutschke took charge. in 12 minutes, he got the scores back to 2-2, and then in the 81st minute, right in front of me in K-block for my first ever visit, did THIS !!!! Limbs, bodies, & beer flying everywhere. What a man Stefan Kutschke is. Seems i'm now Dresden for life Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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