Dave Black
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Write about football, podcast about football, I like football.
Creator of www.cm9798.co.uk - author of Championship Manager books
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Dave Black
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· Sep 7
Sporting Eeyore – Part 16: Heavy is the Head
Bonjola! Six weeks have come and gone and it's time to get back to civilisation. I haven't even loaded the game since we last spoke, but I have seen two kids through the summer holidays, which summarises how my life has changed over the past 10 years since starting this blog. Anyway, this save. Sporting Gijon were rubbish in 1997 but 5 seasons later we are champions of Spain.
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Dave Black
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· Jul 27
Sporting Eeyore – Part 15: Triple Threat
Guten Bonjola and welcome back to Spain for the final update of season 5, and in fact our final for a few weeks. Father duties are calling and I don't have the time or energy to play 3 or 4 nights a week at the moment. See you in September. Meanwhile, Gijon are top of the pile with a 5 point lead, with Barcelona lurking with a game in hand.
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Dave Black
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· Jul 20
Sporting Eeyore – Part 14: Record Smashed
Guten bonjola and welcome back to the always-a-little-too-long middle section of the season. It is season 5 here in Gijon, Spain, and we're playing Champions League football for the first time. Can we capitalise on a decent start? Our one blot came against Atletico, with Real fading away a little. Let's football.
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Dave Black
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· Jul 13
Sporting Eeyore – Part 13: Breaking Ground
Bonjola once more and welcome back to Gijon for a new season. Season 5 promises much as we take our first steps into Europe's Elite with those famous Champions League nights, provided we can see off hopefully a minnow in the qualifiers. More on that later. A reminder though of how we got here...
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Dave Black
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· Jul 6
Sporting Eeyore – Part 12: Breakthrough
Bonjola mes amigos and welcome back to Spain, or Gijon to be more precise. It's part 3 of season 4 which means we've got loads of games to get through. There's a very real possibility of us qualifying for the Champions League and, whisper it quietly, we're only 2 points off the top. Real Madrid's insistence on simply turning up for games and keeping the ball for 90 minutes has proven to be a shoddy experiment.
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Dave Black
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· Jun 29
Sporting Eeyore – Part 11: Men on a Mission
Bonjola and welcome back to Gijon, where we're just into the last swathes of Autumn in season 4. Or, late October, if you're not bound by the four seasons. The Summer rebuild didn't really materialise, mainly because all of those players who wanted out and were running out of contract were all mouth and no trousers. They stayed, we topped up with some regens and we prepared to go again.
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Dave Black
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· Jun 22
Sporting Eeyore – Part 10: Building Regulations
Guten Bonjola and welcome back to Gijon, where the third season didn't really see the progress we craved. 5th place is fine, it's a bit like when Stu's father-in-law to be is describing him in the Hangover and basically says he's a crap type of rice. 5th, UEFA Cup runners up and another crack at the same trophy is all fine, but we're 30 points off the big two.
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Daniel Barker
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· Jun 19
NEW EPISODE!
Join us as we look back at the January 30th 2002 episode of The Premiership.
Podcast: tinyurl.com/4mxhc2xy
YouTube: tinyurl.com/j978u6bb
(I know there are one or two issues with the sound, they’ll be ironed out before the next episode)
Join us as we look back at the January 30th 2002 episode of The Premiership.
Podcast: tinyurl.com/4mxhc2xy
YouTube: tinyurl.com/j978u6bb
(I know there are one or two issues with the sound, they’ll be ironed out before the next episode)
Episode 1: The Ballad Of Matt Jansen
Pundits And Panini Stickers: A Retro Football Podcast · Episode
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Dave Black
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· Jun 19
Turf Roar: Season 6 – part 3
Welcome to the final episode of this series, the Turf Roar boys are still fighting on three fronts, we lead the Premier League by seven points and are still in both the FA Cup and Champions League. Our first match of the episode sees us travel to London to face Crystal Palace. They have his royal highness Edwin Turkington in goal.
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Dave Black
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· Jun 15
Sporting Eeyore – Part 9: Going Backwards
Guten Bonjola and welcome back to Gijon, where we are still in two cups and occupy the all important "best of the rest" spot in the table. It's the run in, which is a hefty 17 league games plus however far we get in the cups, so let's get to it.
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Dave Black
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· Jun 15
Dave Black
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· Jun 13
Portuguese Men o’ Wolves – Part 40: The final (wolf) whistle | @NTR9798
Bom Dia! and welcome to the final episode with Nick and his Portuguese Wolves, who are struggling in the league, but can still win the League Cup and Champions League for a second time. Will they end this story in style? For the last time, here’s Nick… You wouldn’t believe we started the season brilliantly and were 2nd after 12 games, but things have gone horribly wrong since.
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Dave Black
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· Jun 12
Turf Roar: Season 6 – part 2 | @ Taitanator
During the first third of my final season with the Clarets we had made a positive start on all fronts. We were top of the league with 28 points from a possible 36 and joint top of Champions League Group E, with seven points from a possible nine. The first match of episode two is a Clarets Clash, in the League Cup 3rd round.
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Dave Black
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· Jun 11
Dave Black
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· Jun 11
A Royale Mess – A Blog Squad Tale | Part Five: On Brannd | @KingOfTheRooks
Hallo, hej, hello! Welcome back. Last time out Zak and his Malmo side had managed to break into the top 2 positions. Which has been quite the shock given Malmo were probably not one of the pre-draw favourites. But they have proved reliable and consistent so far. First up, thankfully, it’s the league.
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Dave Black
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· Jun 8
Sporting Eeyore – Part 8: Fourteen Goal Thriller
Bonjola and welcome back to Spain, where Sporting Gijon are accelerating my descent to grey hair. Or maybe that should be ascent, it could be a positive. I'll let you know. Anyway, the once-worst-team-in-Spain are coming off the back of a third place finish, so now we have the small task of hunting down El Clasico competitors. It's early day yet, I suppose.
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Dave Black
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· Jun 6
Portuguese Men o’ Wolves – Part 39: Thrown to the Lyons | @NTR9798
Bom Dia! and welcome to the penultimate episode with Nick and his Portuguese Wolves, who are doing well in pretty much every competition apart from the league. They’ve already secured the World Club Cup, but can they now add the European Super Cup to the cabinet? Here’s Nick… This is how the table is looking. We were 2nd not so long ago, but after just two wins from our last eight games, we’ve slid all the way down to 7th.
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Dave Black
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· Jun 5
Turf Roar: Season 6 – part 1 | @Taitanator
After the disappointment of finishing second to Wiki rivals Leeds we are back for one final season (unless it all goes wrong) to see if we can win the league and maybe some other stuff. I make two signings over the summer, Martin finally agrees to a bit of Bene and Brazilian Glaucio has been tearing up the Dutch league with Feyenoord.
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Dave Black
@cm9798dave.bsky.social
· Jun 1
Sporting Eeyore – Part 7: Home Comforts
Hola, Bonjour, Greetings. Welcome back to Spain where Gijon are having a wonderful time in La Liga, establishing themselves as the best of the rest in season 2 and hopefully setting their sights on disrupting the El Clasico duo next. How on earth are we going to do that?
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