After three years and 12 seasons, crossing from South America to England, Spain, Turkey, Italy, Scotland, France, South Africa, Portugal, Germany and back to England once again, it's time to bid farewell to The Football Manager Football Show. Like Arsenal's bid to become Premier League champions and Jurgen Klopp's reign at perennial contenders Live…

Our English Premier League journey, for the second time, finished last week with Manchester City crowned league champions, denying Liverpool what would have been an incredible three-in-a-row following a close-fought season. While City (and Shane) can celebrate a league title, there's the small matter of a Champions League final for Liverpool (and K…

It's finally over. Four months on since the release of Football Manager 2024, our Premier League adventures come to a close this week. The two-season arc is finished and the race for the title came all the way down to the final episode of the season. With a game in hand, can City make the extra points a possibility or will their poor run of form co…

For the second, third and final times in this Football Manager journey of ours, it's back to the Etihad we go this week as Ken's Liverpool make the trip to Shane's 'The Manchester' to settle the trilogy and close out the season. With a 5-1 aggregate lead from last week's Champions League semi-final, Ken reckons he has this one in the bag, until he …

On paper, this might be the biggest clash of our Football Manager journey to date. While the race for the Premier League title has Man City clear of Liverpool by 6 points, the sides have been paired once again in Europe and this week we’ve got the first of our Champions League semi-finals along with some league action. Between this week and next, w…

This week on The Football Manager Show, we're going back in time. You see, there may have been a mishap after last week's episode in that, well, when it was supposed to save, it didn't save. Or maybe Ken didn't save the game. Or maybe the laptop died, or something happened, but the save wasn't there and the backup wasn't there, so where we took off…

It's finally April. We're into single figures remaining in the Premier League, while the Champions League hits the quarter-final stages. Can Ken's old boys Leicester cause an upset at Man City? Will Haaland have the edge over Real Madrid? Will Benfica come back to haunt Ken at Anfield and dent hopes of European success in our final season in Englan…

It's Friday. It's podcast day. We almost didn't make it, but we did. For the first time in 3 years, through a myriad of real-world events, it's taken us until late on release day to find 30 minutes together to unwind with some Football Manager. The gas thing, Shane's still hurting after last week's League Cup Final collapse. But it doesn't matter t…

The Caribbean God versus the pretender to the throne. The current FA Cup holders versus the current Premier League holders. Good versus evil? For the first time ever in 161 episodes, we're going all-in on one game. Yes, this season has been a slog, but it's also been methodical to a point and as results mounted up, the path was paved to send Man Ci…

We're mixing things up a little this week. For the first time in a while, we've managed to get some games under our respective belts this week before we actually press record. Remember when we used to do this before season 12? Recognising that last week segued into all manner of discussion, we're getting into the action early this week as we naviga…

It's been a busy week at FMFShow towers, and a crazy week in the world of Football Manager. Before it gets patched (presuming it gets patched anyway), we put the latest 'no money down' transfer moves into play to see if you really can lure some of the biggest players in the game to greener shores for little to no cash. We've got two must-win games …

This week seeks the January transfer window slam shut, Liverpool continue their FA Cup journey and February's league games start with trips to Sheffield United and Chelsea. With 13 games left in the league, every point counts and with our next league destination pretty much in the bag, it's time to throw caution to the wind at all costs meaning the…

With three years of weekly Football Manager podcasts behind us, year four begins with Liverpool and Man City arriving at the end of January, a crunch time for any Premier League duo. There's the small matter of needing to win in the last game in the Champions League new table stage to seal automatic progress to the knockouts. There's also the small…

Happy birthday to us. Three years on, working our way towards a million podcast streams, two Irish lads who love Football Manager are celebrating three years talking about just that... Football Manager. Sure, Covid has been and gone, work life has stepped up, live comedy is on the rise, we've had the launch of The Wrestling Fan Wrestling Show and K…

It's episode 155 of The Football Manager Football Show and this week we've got a mix of FA Cup, League Cup and Premier League drama to unfold while the January transfer window is very much open for business in 2026. So much so, that some of the Saudi Arabian heavy hitters are coming in strong for key names for both City and Liverpool, causing ructi…

There are three things certain in this life. Death. Taxes. And if you play FM, getting properly Football Managered. If you've experienced it, you'll know exactly what we mean. Last-minute highlights, out of nowhere, breaking your heart, no chance to bounce back. It's a win that turns to a draw. It's a draw that turns into a hopeless defeat. It's ta…

Happy New Year, Happy New Year, may we all have our hopes, our will to try, if we don't we might as well lay down and die. So say Abba, but there's no sense of laying down and dying this weather as we finally get to close out another calendar year of fixtures and brace ourselves for the ridiculous onslaught of January. This week, with the last of t…

On this week's podcast, we're winding out 2023 with a return to the Champions League, Premier League and the Carabao Cup as the January transfer window beckons. Shane's on air, Ken's still remote and on holiday and plans for the post-Premier League era begin to take shape as we wonder if there's a potential Football Manager challenge to be had by f…

It's tiiiiiiiiime. Recorded on release day (22 December), we're squeezing in an episode just in time for Christmas, that lovely time of year that we hope sees everyone get a proper rattle at FM24, or you get to drag your FM23 season kicking and screaming into the New Year. We've still got another episode to go this year but this week we've the impo…

One minute you're cruising, the next you're running into obstacles at the most inopportune time. On this week's helping of The Football Manager Football Show we're back for some lunchtime FM action, rolling tape as Liverpool and Man City jet off to Europe to take on the mighty giants that are Real Madrid and Bayern Munich. Before that we've got som…

Another week rolls around in our weird, wild and wonderful world of Football Manager 2024 and this week we're in Premier League, League Cup and Champions League action. A few things are starting to happen. Haaland's misfiring. Liverpool may be hitting an injury crisis, not helped by the lack of suitable cover registered for Europe with a whole bunc…

Hello December! We're into the final month of the year and it's a fast-paced episode of The Football Manager Football Show this week as we continue to get to grips with Football Manager 2024. The upgrade is done, the next big update is out and between Man City and Liverpool, the battle for the top spot in the Premier League is well underway with Ch…

Finally. While Ken's got a month of Football Manager 2024 under his belt, Shane's finally ponied up and bought his upgrade. Farewell Football Manager 2023, you were class, but we're all in on FM24. Not only that, but thanks to one of the best features to hit Football Manager in its history, you can finally port games from the previous year's versio…

Football Manager 2024 is in the wild, wonderkids are on the move and it turns out Shane's already got one or two on his bench. While our Champions League journey got underway last week, we've got some league and League Cup action this week. While Shane's Man City side get a plum draw against Walsall, Ken's bringing Liverpool to London to take on Ch…

E145: Football Manager 2024 is out, David Ginola's hair, Ken's Liverpool meltdown and other FM stories [Live Episode] In what's one of our most whirlwind episodes to date, we're back for our last game in Football Manager 2023 thanks to the official release of Football Manager 2024 this past Monday. Yes, it's out now, if you haven't gotten a copy al…

With less cans of Monster and cups of tea than in previous weeks, we're finally back in the studio and find ourselves just days away from the official release of Football Manager 2024. Ken's been getting to grips with Rochdale during #FM24EarlyAccess but in Football Manager 2023 land, the Premier League is underway as Liverpool and City take on Wes…

The Football Manager 2024 beta - aka Early Access - is here. Ken's on holiday for this one so while he's away we've managed to get a remote link to do the podcast this week and it all builds to just one match before we make the jump to Football Manager 2024. It's the biggest game of the pre-season. All the preparation comes down to this - the FA Co…

With the Club World Cup behind us (and another trophy in the bag for Liverpool), Shane's bound for Singapore where he's intent on making an example of the locals. The sprawling extent of Liverpool's finances are revealed as the lads effectively draw a line under their transfer activity well ahead of the closing of the window. And it's the last game…

This week on the podcast it's a fly-on-the-wall approach to our Club World Cup journey with Liverpool and Man City facing heavy opposition in the form of PSG and Bayern. Recorded over a lunchtime sandwich, you'll get a feel for how our live plays for Football Manager 2023 are getting somewhat frustrating, with a whole season yet to come and a Premi…

As we begin our fourth and final season in the Football Manager 2023 universe we find ourselves in new territory - the FIFA Club World Cup. What's managed to escape us in recent years because, well, we weren't winning Premier League titles or Champions League titles or FA Cups or anything like that, both Liverpool and Man City are in the FIFA Club …

It's time to start sending Football Manager 2023 home, and do it in style. For season 12, we're going to try and squeeze it all into the month of October, right up to the lead off of Football Manager 2024 which - if you've been living under a rock and not heard already - gets a release at 4pm on 6 November. Picking up where we left of last week, Sh…

On this week's podcast we're finally drawing a line under season 11 of The Football Manager Football Show. Liverpool have won the Premier League, Hoffenheim have finished outside of the European placings and a season that started united (no pun intended), ended divided which means it's time to settle on where we go for season 12. With Football Mana…

It's been a big week for Football Manager fans. The game's 2024 edition just got a release date - 6 November - there are competitions for copies flying all over the place, save reveals are happening, Twitter (X) is tearing apart the launch trailer to look for any hidden details that might give something away and pre-orders are open via Steam with e…

The wins are adding up for Hoffenheim and European qualification is within grasp. For Liverpool, a draw is all that's needed to secure the first Premier League title for the podcast since we launched and there's every possibility it could happen at Anfield. But then, the most curious thing of the entire season happens. Perhaps the entire three seas…

It's just another day in paradise for The Football Manager Football Show. March turns into April this week as we continue the live-plays in studio where fresh from their exit of both the Champions League and FA Cup at the hands of Arsenal and Man City respectively, Liverpool start the month with a tough home fixture against Chelsea before heading o…

We're back in the studio, recording some live play this week as we move through March in season 11 - now combining the Premier League and Bundesliga. On the domestic front, Shane's struggling to score goals but is doing a reasonable job of not conceding them at the same time. In Europe, however, Newcastle are on their way back with a 4-1 lead in to…

We're back in the studio again this week for another live-play fix from the topsy-turvy world of our Football Manager multiverse. This week we'll - Find out what Ken's been up to with Benfica - Get the latest from Shane on his return to Preston and Man United - Take in some Europa Conference League, FA Cup, Premier League, Bundesliga AND Champions …

We're back in another "live" episode this week as we get to grips with the Europa Conference League for Shane's Hoffenheim while Ken's getting reacquainted with an old flame in the FA Cup. Frankfurt make a fleeting return to the podcast too this week but between squad registration woes and big ticket injuries, there are causes for concern for both …

Like two kids in a sweetshop, Ken and Shane have money to burn and it's transfer deadline day so we're going with one more live episode to get us across the line and into February. For Ken, there's about €20m to play with at Anfield though with the squad registration full, it's got to be one-in-one-out and the offers aren't exactly forthcoming. Sha…

Football Manager slows for no man, woman or child. As we tick towards the January transfer window, Shane's still jobless having suffered at the hands of the Man Utd board last time out with his unceremonious sacking. But with the clock ticking down to transfer deadline day, is there any hope of him securing a job, let alone one that might allow him…

Unbeaten streaks are there to be broken. Small teams exist to cause you to let your guard down, trip you up. Sometimes the big names fall. Sometimes, you don't always get to win. That's what it feels a little like this week as we move into January. We arrived there in last week's episode, the new year bringing renewed hope and optimism. Shane's got…

It's episode 128 and in the studio this week we've been blitzing a whopping eight games in December between the Premier League, Champions League and League Cup with more mixed results this week. Now, Shane's not been sacked - yet - though we're playing through some live elements this episode to see if it will happen or if he can actually pull off t…

In a break from our usual approach to playing, we've decided to take the studio for a long lunch break and bounce out the month of November in our third season in Football Manager 2023. We floated the idea last week that with Shane's ongoing frustrations with Man United winning in Europe but performing miserably in the league, we would record 'as l…

On this week's helping of The Football Manager Football Show, we've got some immediate reaction to the announcement from the Sports Interactive announcement on changes coming down the track for FM24 and FM25. We'll get into it more down the line but it's safe to say that, on paper, it's a bold statement that sets out a clear path for the future of …

In a week where Luke Shaw has been showing Shane that he's got Puskas credentials, we're getting through September and into October as our return to the Premier League continues. Not only that but we've got the first taste of two cup competitions with Liverpool and Man United in Champions League action against some familiar opposition while the Lea…

The 2024/25 Premier League season is underway! With pre-season wrapped and a transfer deadline day looming, the Premier League season starts properly with Liverpool at home to Arsenal on the opening day of the season while Man United make the trip to West Ham. We'll get through the month of August and through to mid-September including our first Pr…

It's a very Premier League pre-season as we get through our entire calendar of pre-season games this week for Liverpool and Man United. While Liverpool seem to be able to raise transfer funds through departures like Henderson, Thiago, Keita and more, United can't seem to sell a sinner get a bloated squad trimmed before the league kicks off. As pre-…

It's the season 11 premiere that we've been waiting for since, well, season 1. Germany is in the rearview mirror and we're off to pastures new. We've had suggestions of Holland, ducking down to Serie C, going to the depths of the English football pyramid, heading to Australia or backpacking across Asia. But at the end of the day, there's one footba…

So it turns out that when we put our minds to it, we can actually blaze through a whole bunch of games in Football Manager when the pressure is on and things need to get turned around quickly - namely us closing out the final six weeks of our time in Germany and the Bundesliga. We won't spoil it entirely, but there are a few positives to take away …

The end is nigh in Germany as we get through the penultimate month of the Bundlesliga where, somewhat surprisingly, results of improved a bit for both Frankfurt and Augsburg. At least that's what the game would like you to think before it transpires that Shane's still under press while Ken's good run of form - up until the moment you hit save and c…