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On today’s show: Are you a serial Football Manager failure? This show is for you. `We're going to strip it all down and tell you exactly what you need to know so that you've already had your last rage quit. Plus we answer the question of how to manage an amateur team, we delve into stats in the Community Centre and we bring back Alex Stewart to the Bundesliga Challenge.

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This week we're heading into the abyss, into the unknown, into season 371 of Football Manager where it's newgens and floating stadia (that last part may not be true). But it is filled with newgens so we find out about them. We hear the story of the legend that is Ivica Strok with Jonny Sharples, we put our feet up with Latte Quarterly, and as ever we answer your questions.

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Iain Macintosh is here to share in the joy that is the FM21 Update, and more importantly get those at SI to tell you all about it. There's also all your letters answered, well some of them at least, the book club is back, and there's a very important community centre too. Plus Alex Stewart returns for the Bundesliga challenge.

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This week: what do you do when it all goes wrong? Tom Davidson from SI is here to answer those burning questions and help you keep your head up, and importantly, your job.

There's that plus Terry Venables stars... in book club, we have the community centre open, and the latest in the FM Bundesliga Challenge.

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This week the gegenpresse. How does it work in FM? How do you work on it in training? And where are you possibly going wrong with it? SI's Jack Joyce is here to answer those questions, and more about the much utilised tactic. Plus we open up the Football Manager Community Centre, the book club returns, and we answer your letters. And there's the FM Bundesliga Challenge as Iain takes on Tifo's Alex Stewart

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We've talked plenty about first seasons on this show, but what about second seasons? What do you do in the summer? Do you frantically slap the continue button until the games start again? Or do you go and watch international tournaments? We're joined by Alex Stewart from TIFO for the final show of the first series.

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Is FM21 too big for you? Do you look on from the sidelines as everyone else piles in; too scared to let it back into your life? Perhaps FM Touch or FM Mobile are for you. Iain Macintosh chats to Alex Pitt from Sports Interactive about the compact, less time-consuming versions of the game. 

PLUS, Ben Mouncer from the Norwich City flavoured 'On The Ball' podcast talks about the six player online game he started in March 2020. 

PLUS, Your letters and a Big Sam Special Book Club. 

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