King Of The Rooks

A Royale Mess – A Blog Squad Tale | Part One: Spin That Wheel Blog Squad Get Real | @KingOfTheRooks Hello and an icy cold welcome to the next Blog Squad League. It’s been a fair while since we’ve done something like this, as we’ve all be off adulting. In short, the idea here was to take the 10 teams with the best reputations from the Scandinavian countries and throw them together to thrash it out in a not so modern take on the Royale League concept.

NEW from @KIngoftheRooks.bsky.social: The Blog Squad have made another league! Find out what this Scandinavian adventure is all about....

CM 97/98 Portuguese Men o’ Wolves – Part 21: An old flame | @NTR9798 Bom Dia! and welcome back to Molineux as we check in with Nick to see how he and his Portuguese-only Wolves squad are getting on. A change in formation has seen them start season six impressively, …

NEW from @ntr9798.bsky.social: Nick’s men have once again made a good start to the season, but can they overcome their consistency issues as a former Wolf returns in the cup?

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CM 97/98 Nowhere I’d Radebe – Part 13: The Quick and The Fred | @Matt_C_Wills Hello and Happy New Year to you all. I hope you’ve had a decent break and are ready to follow more trials and tribulations with my African Leeds team. We’re about to embark on Season 5,…

NEW from @matt-c-wills.bsky.social: All-African Leeds kick off season 5 hoping for success at home and in the UEFA Cup. There's a goalkeeping crisis to contend with but a proven goalscorer is leading the way forward...

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CM 97/98 Portuguese Men o’ Wolves – Part 17: Shocks away! | @NTR9798 Bom Dia! And happy new year to you! Nick and his Portuguese Wolves are back from the festive break to give you your Friday fix of Champ once again. They were in a great position when we stopped for…

NEW from @ntr9798.bsky.social: Nick’s Portu-Wolves have made a promising start to their second Premiership season, but will the added demands of European football take their toll?

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CM 97/98 Top 10 at 10: Blog Saves Hello to you! As I may have mentioned, January 2025 signals the 10 year anniversary of this very blog. We love a milestone on here, and why the heck not. Back in 2015 I thought it might be a laugh …

NEW POST: It’s the top 10 at 10!

Throughout January, I will be counting down some top tens of CM9798 to mark 10 years since the site was created.

To start with, here are my ten favourite blog saves.

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CM 97/98 Team GB – Head to Head. Part 1 – Meet the Teams | @Emsonite Happy New Year & welcome to a new blog series. Apologies if you are expecting more of the same. I did start a new blog with another stupid backstory but I lost interest in it. The backstories c…

NEW from @emsonite.bsky.social - The Team GB Challenge!

Deano and his extended family are setting a new challenge this January and creating a Team GB in Serie A. I'll let Deano explain the rest.

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CM 97/98 Donny On Top – Part 1 | @FMCM_FC Hello All. It’s been a while since I did a blog but I’ve been given a challenge and a half by Santa. Let me explain. The Blog Squad got together over Christmas to do a secret Santa. We …

NEW from @nathgenty.bsky.social: A new series is here from Nath! He's trying to take the awful Doncaster Rovers side out of Division 3 with what I can only describe as the shortest lasting twist I have seen.

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CM 97/98 Nowhere I’d Radebe – Part 12: You Kanoute be Serious?! | @Matt_C_Wills Yeboah! Hello, and welcome to the end of Season 4 for my African warriors. Last time out I left you with my charges dragging their heels near mid-table, but with prospects in the Champions League a…

NEW from @matt-c-wills.bsky.social: It's the end of season 4 for the all-African Leeds side and a burst of form sees them back in contention in the league. They also teach Ajax a lesson to breathe life into their Champions League tilt...

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CM 97/98 The 2024 CM Cup: The Results Show Hello and welcome to the 2024 CM Cup! As ever, I’m not certain how much interest there is to anybody outside of the 23 participants so we’re sticking with the presentation from last yea…

NEW POST: It’s the 2024 CM Cup! 23 competitors enter in a new last man standing format. Who will be crowned 2024 CM Cup Champion?

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Who remembers playing this?

No Steve Bould though, such a shame.

Lester Bolton

Chelsea Fleetwood

Charlton Bradford

Burton Preston

Americans who sound like Carabao Cup ties

CM 97/98 Portuguese Men o’ Wolves – Part 14: Coelho K-O | @NTR9798 Bom Dia! and welcome along to another Friday of fun and games with Nick and his Portuguese Wolves, who have made a good start to life in the Premiership so far, including a win at Old Trafford. Can…

NEW from @ntr9798.bsky.social: Nick and his pack of Portuguese Wolves have started Premiership life well, but is a serious injury to one of their star players about to burst their bubble?

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CM 97/98 Nowhere I’d Radebe – Part 10: Africa Enters Europe | @Matt_C_Wills Hello to you – I’ve named the first part of Season 4 as ‘Africa Enters Europe’ as last season we won the FA Cup, which would allow Leeds to compete in the Cup Winners Cup, b…

NEW from @matt-c-wills.bsky.social: Being in Europe brings new challenges for Matt and his all-African Leeds side. Can they get into the Champions League and maintain their league form?

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I still can’t believe ‘Marv’ is also the narrators voice from the Wonder Years

It was just never happening was it? Spencer Prior and Steve Walsh vs. Bergkamp and Kluivert. The end.

Home advantage given away…

And this one confirms it. Oh, Holland in the playoffs. Marvellous.

As does this qualifier…

This friendly suggests no…

And this time the volume is there, but is the quality…

What’s that? More #oneclubmentality ??? Sure thing.

Right, I dug out a very old laptop and ripped the ISO myself. I’ve fired up the Dutch leagues on the Xbox Series S via RetroArch. I just couldn’t get it to work using DoxBox on PC. It is more straight forward on RetroArch using DoxBox Pure. At least for me.

Check out the simpler CM2 menu 😀

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I've launched my own book publisher called Curly Fish.

Our 1st book, Game For A Laugh by Elton Welsby is already doing well.

Please follow @curlyfishuk.bsky.social

Looking for new authors to work with, don't hesitate to get in touch.

#books #writers

And then in typical England fashion, we could have been through. Armstrong denied the winning goal in the 88th minute. Disallowed. The end. (Should note, Spurs signed Dyer this his inclusion)

It is a first leg massacre

But jesus christ this is woefully inept…off to the play-offs with no hopes

And this is a bit promising

As things go, this isnt a terrible start all considered

Which means our 17 man squad will look like this. Its ‘okay’ but fragile