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Dave Black

6 years

The World According to Championship Manager 1997/98 & The World According to Championship Manager 2001/02 are both available now in paperback and on Kindle!

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Dave Black

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1 year

What’s astonishing about Jonathan Pearce is that he is unimpressed by everything other than Sir Killalot

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3 years

FIFA Pass of the Year nominee Elvis Cridlington

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10 months

I was today years old when I discovered Claude from the Apprentice is in Champ Man 99/00 @claudelittner

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1 year

Remember when Michael Owen was out of contract so he released a brochure on himself?

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1 year

Let the games begin

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6 years

Remember when Anelka wore keeper gloves because he was cold?

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Dave Black

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3 years

NEW POST: You can now play CM9798 on your iPhone or iPad! Please enjoy our walkthrough guide. Huge thanks to @malte_sven for sharing the discovery

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Dave Black

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3 years

Ally and Clive are what happens when you have commentators that love their jobs. Absolutely ridiculous they aren’t ITV’s main pairing

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5 months

Gavin Peacock of course who covered the women’s World Cup for the BBC despite never playing women’s football. What’s wrong with these people? Get a grip

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@GPeacock8

5 months

Joey Barton ( @Joey7Barton ) has put his finger on an issue others are afraid to speak on. I agree with him on female pundits & co comm. Presenting & interviewing is different. The whole thing is indicative of a wider societal woke malaise that will not hear opposing opinion.

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Dave Black

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4 years

Nothing says the 90s like heading out of the tunnel at 100mph like Steve Watson. I expect this sense of purpose from you tonight @QuicklyKevin #qklive

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3 years

Sunday will mark the 24th anniversary of CM9798’s release. We have some content for the site which I’m looking forward to sharing. What are your earliest memories of this great game? 🤔

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Dave Black

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2 years

@scottygb “Pint please” of no specified liquid

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Dave Black

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5 years

Looks like WBA pressed done by mistake on the pen takers screen

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Dave Black

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6 years

Here’s @7RobLee being mobbed during the Channel 5 interview after Zagreb away...look out for the special gift from @stevehowey624

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Dave Black

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5 years

Rare to see the two red lines of shame

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Dave Black

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2 months

What I love about PES6 is you can score goals that look like goals that happen in real life. Look at big Al leap here to nod home a John Barnes cross. Poetry.

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Dave Black

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4 years

@tfNUFC When Steve Watson did this live on ITV in 1995 (at Anfield but any excuse)

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Dave Black

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6 years

I’m 30 today and my brilliant wife made me this cake. Not only is it the design from the 97/98 season but it’s bloody delicious too!

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Dave Black

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1 year

The Girl was born just after 1pm today weighing 8 pounds 9 ounces. Mother and baby are doing well. Father of 2 🤯

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Dave Black

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10 months

Merry first day of the season everybody #cm9798

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Dave Black

@cm9798

6 years

Help me settle an argument please. If you could only pick one player to have on CM9798, who would it be? RT for Tommy, Like for Ibrahima

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Dave Black

@cm9798

3 years

CM9798 on iPad & iPhone

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Dave Black

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5 years

So good of @btsport to show Man Utd vs Reading on 3rd round Saturday. Man Utd in particular are never on TV and could do with the money

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Dave Black

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4 years

Out of context Champ

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Dave Black

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5 years

Oh by the way, I became a Dad yesterday. Freddie and his Mam are doing well and we’re over the moon

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Dave Black

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5 years

Happy birthday to CM9798 which was released 22 years ago today! What are your first memories of one of the most addictive games ever created?

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Dave Black

@cm9798

1 year

The word genius is overused in sport but I am certain it applies to Roberto Martinez’s agent

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@David_Ornstein

1 year

🚨 EXCL: Roberto Martinez has reached verbal agreement to become Portugal coach. Appointment as Fernando Santos successor likely to be finalised towards end of next week. 49yo Spaniard has had club + int’l interest since leaving Belgium role @TheAthleticFC

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Dave Black

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4 years

In the last 24 hours Dion Dublin has been on Question of Sport, Football Focus, Homes under the Hammer and Catchphrase. He’s slowly taking over

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Dave Black

@cm9798

2 years

Happy birthday to this absolute legend

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Dave Black

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3 years

@90sfootball This is basically my tux, only for special occasions

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Dave Black

@cm9798

2 years

CM9798 was released 25 years ago tomorrow! To celebrate the anniversary there’ll be a quiz to get stuck into first thing, followed by our collated top 25 players list which we’ll countdown throughout the day

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Dave Black

@cm9798

9 months

@FourFourTwo Players sprinting out of the tunnel before a game. Steve Watson here has clearly got somewhere to be

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Dave Black

@cm9798

3 years

The rumours are true. @malte_sven has done it - CM9798 on iPad and iPhone. Guide incoming

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@malte_sven

3 years

@cm9798 this is a thing right? Cm on IPad?

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Dave Black

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1 year

Probably no coincidence that Zouma isn’t playing against Felix

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Dave Black

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9 months

Happy retirement to Buffon, another fallen CM9798 soldier. Miura is the last man standing by my reckoning

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Dave Black

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1 year

Out of context Champ

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Dave Black

@cm9798

5 years

Ahh a year since this. I regret nothing

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Dave Black

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7 years

I miss the days of players running out of the tunnel before a match. Steve Watson broke the land speed record here

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Dave Black

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4 years

Can one man transform a nation? Time to holiday and find out

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Dave Black

@cm9798

6 years

There goes the last manager still in the same job as he is in CM9798. #Wenger

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Dave Black

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4 years

Out of context Champ

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Dave Black

@cm9798

3 years

I’m really gutted about Glenn Roeder. He’s not going to go down in history as our best ever manager but his 15 months in charge had some great and ridiculous moments. He somehow kept a cool head through it all (short thread follows)

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Dave Black

@cm9798

1 year

I’m reviewing SNES football games this month. Here’s Super Soccer to start with, a game I loved as a kid. It also turns out you can lack match fitness to play video games. Turf shredding soccer action…

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Dave Black

@cm9798

4 years

That first time pass by Elvis Cridlington though

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Dave Black

@cm9798

1 year

Some of the best passes ever but once again the boy Cridlington is overlooked

Jogo Bonito

@ufcfooty

1 year

A thread of the most ridiculous passes performed on a football pitch 👇

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Dave Black

@cm9798

2 years

Still annoys me every year they didn’t end Only Fools with Time on our Hands. It was the perfect ending

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Dave Black

@cm9798

5 years

2001/02 is one of my favourite ever seasons following Newcastle United. Due to absolutely nothing happening tonight, here’s a mega thread of that season

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Dave Black

@cm9798

7 years

All set for legends day tomorrow with a classic from 97/98 (obviously)

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Dave Black

@cm9798

2 years

You won’t believe this but I remember watching Jermaine Jenas’ debut for Newcastle and the guy next to me said “one day that boy will host the World Cup draw.” Made us all look daft now

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Dave Black

@cm9798

5 years

Comfortably the best £5.15 (including postage) I have ever spent

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Dave Black

@cm9798

3 years

Happy new season day!

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Dave Black

@cm9798

7 years

20 years ago today, CM9798 was released! (Sadly it is not Friday today)

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Dave Black

@cm9798

3 years

The population of Pontypandy is about 40 people. If they just took it in shifts watching Norman they wouldn’t need a fire service at all

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Dave Black

@cm9798

5 years

Really hope Clive Tyldesley is creative in his introduction tonight. “Welcome to England vs Czech Republic in what would have been the Euro 96 final if Gazza was an inch taller”

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Dave Black

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3 years

Ally McCoist absolutely adores watching football. Danny Murphy and the like should take note

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Dave Black

@cm9798

2 years

Happy new season day everybody!

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Dave Black

@cm9798

6 years

Imagine saving a penalty in the World Cup with your Dad watching. I once scored a headed consolation in front of mine in an Under 14s league game and he told me my work rate was poor. That’s similar.

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Dave Black

@cm9798

6 years

Been visiting my Dad for 20 minutes and 19 of them have been dedicated to him telling me the biggest criminal of the 86 World Cup was Peter Shilton for being out jumped by Maradona, hand or no hand. A wound that will never heal.

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Dave Black

@cm9798

3 years

Just listening to @warrenbarton2 there, he completely gets it. If there’s an ambassadorial role up for grabs he’s the man #NUFCTakeover

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Dave Black

@cm9798

1 year

Imagine ever leaving the house in 1998 with this combination in one case

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Dave Black

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5 years

Haven’t heard Jonathan Pearce that excited since Sergeant Bash got flipped over

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Dave Black

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3 years

There’s a bot for everything these days

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Dave Black

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10 months

RIP Chris Bart-Williams One of the original CM legends

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Dave Black

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11 months

Finally a chance to manage the club he supported as a boy

Match of the Day

@BBCMOTD

11 months

Robbie Keane's coaching journey continues... 🔘 2018: ATK player-manager 🔘 2018-2020: Republic of Ireland assistant manager 🔘 2019-20: Middlesbrough assistant manager 🔘 2023: Leeds assistant manager ✅ 2023: Maccabi Tel Aviv head coach #BBCFootball

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Dave Black

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1 year

Next up to the SNES Review plate is ISS Deluxe. The ISS series became immensely popular on the PlayStation but how does an early iteration stack up on the SNES?

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Dave Black

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5 years

Here’s a scenario for you. You get asked to play 5 a side and the team wears blue. You can wear any shirt in history. What do you choose? This for me

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Dave Black

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2 years

@sid_lambert Shay Given the only Irishman who doesn’t know where Dublin is

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Dave Black

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2 months

I’m basically at the stage where any game from my youth will be purchased for a few quid and installed to the steam deck. Then every night is 1998.

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Dave Black

@cm9798

4 years

Now that it’s recorded I’m delighted to share that episode 1 of the brand new CM podcast will be out on Monday @RossBell1984 and I will be joined by Championship Manager founders Paul and Ov Collyer to talk through the series from the very beginning to what the future holds

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Dave Black

@cm9798

3 years

How do you prepare the Retirement Home for Champions League football? You sign one of the greatest strikers in history. See you at 11am!

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Dave Black

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1 year

He would know

Football Tweet ⚽

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1 year

🎙️ Luis Enrique to the coaches of football academies and schools: "All children have to play in all positions. Put your child development first, not your coaching career."

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Dave Black

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2 years

Tony Adams on CM9798

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Dave Black

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6 years

Players on CM9798 still playing on FM18: I’ve found 20, I’m sure there are more...

Players from CM9798 still playing in FM18

It may be 20 years since the release of CM9798 but FM18 is upon us. Although this blog is dedicated to keeping CM9798 alive, I can’t encourage you enough to keep involved with the FM series i…

cm9798.co.uk

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Dave Black

@cm9798

3 years

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Dave Black

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1 year

NEW POST: Where are the current Premier League managers in CM97/98? (and are any players still playing?!)

Where the current Premier League Managers can be found in CM9798 and is anybody still playing? 2022...

Good hello to you. Slightly later than usual it’s our annual roundup of where the current Premier League managers can be found in CM9798. It gets less vintage every year but there are some ne…

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Dave Black

@cm9798

3 years

It’s been bugging me who Mancini looks like and I’ve settled on an elaborate story where Richie from Bottom gets a steady job instead of being hit in the head all day by Eddie

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Dave Black

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7 years

Who wants to win France 98 Monopoly? Just RT this tweet and follow to enter the draw. Closes 9pm (BST) Thursday 19th October. Good luck!

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Dave Black

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6 years

To celebrate all things Roberto Baggio with @90sfootball here he is on CM2 Italia #90sLegendDay

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Dave Black

@cm9798

2 years

Best way to pass a train journey

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Dave Black

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1 year

This month we passed 8 years of running , which started as just me blogging a save but now has multiple writers, resources, a podcast and an annual tournament. All of that is down to YOU for embracing my nonsense and making a CM Community. Thank you!

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Dave Black

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4 years

I present to you - the most average footballer in the world. Except technically, where I can only assume he kicks everything with his studs or something

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Dave Black

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5 years

Happy Father’s Day! This seems like a good time to mention that my regen will be signing in October and he’s already going to be kitted out

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Dave Black

@cm9798

4 years

I’m interviewing Tommy Svindal Larsen tonight. I know, I don’t know what my life is either. It’ll be on the podcast later this month. Any questions for the great man?

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Dave Black

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3 years

Don’t judge me but I caved and bought this on eBay to complete the collection.

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Dave Black

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6 years

It's #90sLegendDay over on @90sfootball . Today it's Paolo Maldini so here he is in CM9798

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Dave Black

@cm9798

4 years

Sensational

Classic Football Shirts

@classicshirts

4 years

Ed Miliband with a classic Champ Manager shelf 👏👏 Via @FSWorldUK

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Dave Black

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7 years

Keegan's 95/96 entertainers. Includes Paul Kitson.

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Dave Black

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2 years

QUIZ TIME: CM9798 is 25 years old today. How many will you score in our anniversary quiz?

The CM9798 25th Anniversary Quiz

CM9798 turns 25 today! As you would expect, we’ve got the big day covered. Let’s get started with a quiz. How many will you score?

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Dave Black

@cm9798

2 years

Obviously there’s no MOTD tonight so I’m going to watch this episode from 10th January 1998 at half 10. It’s got Des. I don’t know the games or scores but I’m sure it’ll be a good one. Join in if you want #motd

MotD 10/01/1998

Manchester United v Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal v Leeds United, Sheffield Wednesday v Newcastle United and Bolton Wanderers v Southampton as well as highlight...

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Dave Black

@cm9798

4 years

One for the CM purists but a good friend of mine has created a program that captures who retires at the end of a season and who their regen is. Testing it later, 23 years and still we find new things!

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Dave Black

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5 years

Ronaldo is probably my favourite non-NUFC player of the 90s so it's a good job he is the focus of #90sLegendDay on @90sfootball . Here is the evolution of Ronaldo through Championship Manager from 1995 to 2003. Including his famous date of birth change...

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Dave Black

@cm9798

4 years

I hate promoting my own work but tomorrow’s Retirement Home is absolutely wild. There are two new strikers moving in, including this man. See you at 11am

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Dave Black

@cm9798

4 years

Seeing as it’s Roy Keane’s birthday and we’re being treated to Robbie Savage on commentary, let’s remind ourselves of what happened when angry Roy tried to sign that zany Savage

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Dave Black

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5 years

@90sfootball Definitely Ronaldo. Spent ages trying to get him!

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Dave Black

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2 months

Jason Koumas’ son just scored and I’ve never felt older

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Dave Black

@cm9798

3 months

Sad to see the end of QK. Three great people involved plus some incredible guests. When I helped out with the CM9798 live matches during Covid, I was happy to volunteer my time but they insisted on giving me something. I was blown away when this bundle arrived!

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Dave Black

@cm9798

6 years

RIP Peter Brackley. The voice of football Italia and PES for many years

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Dave Black

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2 months

£9k?! Bring him home

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Dave Black

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4 years

It warms my bitter old heart to see so many of you chatting CM. It’ll never get old. Look after each other, these are strange and unusual times where the only constant is Bobby Gould getting sacked by Wales #cm9798challenge

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