The Football Manager Football Show

We've hit double figures for The Football Manager Football Show as our stay in the Championship is officially underway.

For 50% of the podcast's hosts, it's going swimmingly.

The other 50%? Well, let's just say it's a race to the transfer window.

Wolves and Leicester are on a quest to return to the Premier League, having both been relegated in spectacular fashion on the last day of our first season.

At that stage, we were in control of River Plate and Boca Juniors, living the high life in Buenos Aires. This week, the heat is on.

We going through the first month of fixtures for the Championship, now seven games into our season. Plus, the Carabao Cup gets going with Leicester in action in the first round.

How does it all pan out? Who's in and who's out with the transfer window shutting in just two days time? Listen on!

Our time in Argentina has come to a close.

While we may return to right some wrongs, we're heading for pastures new for our second season in-game and as Leicester and Wolves were both relegated from the Premier League to a once-familiar life in the Championship, we're bound for England to rescue some Foxes and, well, Wolves.

Premier League wages in a Championship world will not suffice, there's a fire-sale at Leicester, some dodgy transfer dealings in pre-season, a scramble for friendlies, trial players, slim transfer budgets, record signings and missed opportunities.

We pick things up in June and July of 2021 as we cover our pre-season journey from the minute we sign on the dotted line to the eve of our first game in the Championship.

The real question is, who will come out on top in the newly-minted Forest Cup and can we get a league 1-2 that was missed out on in Argentina?

It's only taken us two months, but we're finally at the end of our first season in Argentina, some 50-odd games later.

For this episode of The Football Manager Football Show we're recapping the last of the season's actions before we get stuck into season 2.

It's squeaky bum time in both the Copa Libertadores and Copa Superliga Argentina, the crazy amount of games over the season is taking its toll on both River Plate and Boca, the Garbage Man looks like he's making a return from the rubbish heap and we've got another Superclásico in store.

From finishing up at 1.30 am to a next-morning recording, there's a lot to get through as we see how the end of the first leg of our Football Manager journey pans out.

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This week on a somewhat-sweary episode of The Football Manager Football Show we're hitting the business end of the season.

There's a crazy amount of games to get through for March and April as the Copa Superliga and Copa Libertadores takes off, injuries are mounting up as contract demands creep back in to play, Boca's form is falling off, River are leaking goals and on top of it all, we get a lovely history lesson in the build-up to the real-life Superclásico for 2021 which all began with an Irishman in the middle.

We've got new international call-ups, a bit of pre-season transfer business and a new-found love of Avocados to take care of. 

It's The Football Manager Football Show, tackling life in the world of Football Manager one country at a time.

This week, we've reached the end of our first regular-season campaign in Argentina.

While league honours are at stake, the biggest concern of this year's gaming has been who would come out on top in our Super Classico, the Supercopa Argentina, pitting River and Boca against each other for the second time this season.

Last time out, Ken came out on top with River finding form early in the season. Off the back of a 12-game unbeaten run, can Boca draw blood and spoil River's run-in to their first title-ish since 2014? We say ish because Argentina's just been a minefield of crazy football structures for some time now.

We dive into the dressing room atmospheres, some tactical nuances, have a look at what's happening in the Copa Libertadores as we go post-league and discover we've actually got a lot more football to play than we initially thought.

This episode contains mild swearing.

Christmas has been and gone. No turkey, no trimmings, no wage budget, no transfers.

Times are tight in Argentina this week as we burn through a string of issues

• Boca's run of form is gathering steam
• The winter break is long and sucks
• Money is running out, players are walking out and someone is losing the room
• The Copa Libertadores groups stages are drawn - will the season ever end?
• How do you deal with 34 days without games in the middle of your season?
• Are mid-season friendlies worth it?

When we finish, the gauntlet is thrown down for what could be the biggest game of the season could have a huge impact on how things finish.

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Note, this episode contains coarse language and some terrible gangster impressions.

It's episode 4 of The Football Manager Football Show and we've got another two months under our belts in Argentina, meaning we're past the half way point in the season. 

On this week's podcast

• Are Boca bouncing back and finding form at the right time?
• There's silverware on the way to one of the clubs, with more on the horizon
• Players demanding what the board can't provide
• Man marking making the difference
• Fredy Guarin still knocking them in 16 years later
• To delegate or plot your own training path
• And more besides

It's a little ranty, it's a little sweary, but that's the life of Football Manager.

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The Football Manager Football Show is presented by Ken McGuire (currently River Plate) and Shane O'Keeffe (currently Boca Juniors) as they tackle the world of Football Manager 2021 one nation at a time.

We're into the third part of our Argentinian adventure as Ken and Shane attempt to lead River and Boca to the promised land, or at least try to outdo each other as it's host v host for possibly the only time this season.

There's late goals, VAR moans, dodgy penalties, tactical disasters, losing and winning runs and that's only in two months.

With August and September now in the bag, here's how we're getting on.

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Episode contains strong language at times.

This is episode two of The Football Manager Football Show where we talk all things Football Manager and, well, football.

Our well-planned out European adventure took a detour in episode one and we've ended up in Argentina. While Ken is installed at River, Shane missed the flight but eventually landed at Boca to get our South American journey started.

In this week's episode, we're looking at the financial ins and outs of life in Argentina, squad assembly, ageing players, foreign rules, the cautious approach to play, cup knockouts, board pressure and more.

We've got a full month's worth of games under our belts so there's plenty to digest over the course of an hour.

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Meet Scoreline.ie's Ken McGuire and Shane O'Keeffe - one is a real-life football manager, but both have played their years away roaring at numbers and dots on screens.

Now, they're about to embark on an epic journey that will take them across footballing continents, from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows, from front-page transfers to back-alley dealings, five-star hotels to couch-surfing in the great beyond, all for the love of the greatest football game known to mankind - Football Manager.

In this first episode, the boys discuss their common love for a football management simulator that stretches back to the 90s and they explain why they're bringing the game to radio, to the podcast and continuing to chase FM glory.

The competition is heating up, and it's not even started yet.