Football Manager | The Fred Everiss Challenge | Episode 1
Channel: Bobby Graham
Date: 18/07/2017

Hello and welcome to my new serieson Football Manager 2017 called "The Fred Everiss challenge".

 Fred Everiss holds the record for longest serving manager of a football club of all time. He was in charge of West Brom for an incredible 46 years between 1902 & 1948. He won a league title in 1920 and the fa cup in 1931

Now, things were a little different back then and the team selection was made by a committee of board members so he wasn't a typical manager by today's standards with his job being far more administrative than typical football manager. 

So, how is this series being done? 

The aim of the save is simple, to stay at one club for 46 full seasons. With this in mind I have set the database out as follows

We have only the English leagues selected, no need to run France or Spain as we won't be going there. With the huge scale of this save I needed to streamline the game speed as much as I could and extra leagues will just slow us down.

To the rules

Firstly, I won't be picking the team, Fred never did so it's only right to follow this same path. I will set the formation, mentality etc.. but team selection will be done by clicking the quick pick button. After every match the team selection will be cleared ready for the next match. The team I will be using is, of course, West Bromwich Albion.

Transfers. I will control transfers but will not be allowed to use the scouting screen. Just like in an LLM save only players my scouts recommend will be available to sign. Now I have enabled all high reputation players from all continents so we should see some overseas arrivals. 
 
Because of the length of this series I don't want to start bogging us down with constant videos so I will upload 3/4 videos per season. 

A season intro highlighting summer signings

A mid season review of where we are and how we've done

And an end of season review showing the finishing position of the club

I may also do a January transfer special where we go through deadline day & see what deals we can tie down.