• HFC Haarlem Globetrotters: Phase 8.1

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        Here we are – our 8th season at the helm of HFC Haarlem in the Netherlands, making it my longest save adventure since the Don’t Look Back in Angers days of Football Manager 2021. We finished in an…

  • HFC Haarlem Globetrotters: Phase 7

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        Hello and welcome back 👋. It’s been nearly a month since my last update, largely as I was away twice in the last 4 weeks between a nice one-week holiday in Fuerteventura and also a brief work trip…

  • HFC Haarlem Globetrotters: Phase 6

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        Welcome back to Haarlem – home of the 2028 KNVB Beker (Dutch Cup) Champions!!     Okay let’s rewind. In my last post we had just competed our 5th season of Sexy Footballing in the Netherlands, helping the…

  • HFC Haarlem Globetrotters: Phase 5

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        Welcome back to Haarlem, for what is now our 5th season at the helm of the HFC Haarlem Globetrotters whom we have spent the last 4 seasons resurrecting from dissolution to take a place in the Dutch Eredivisie,…

  • HFC Haarlem Globetrotters: Phase 4.2

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        Welcome back to the second update of our 4th season at the helm of HFC Haarlem Globetrotters, where we are having a wonderful time in the Netherlands having been promoted in Season 3 and now competing with the…

  • HFC Haarlem Globetrotters: Phase 4.1

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        Hello again. Or as we say in the Netherlands, Hallo. Did we mention we are an Eredivisie club now?     That’s right. It took us 3 seasons but we are now officially in the Eredivisie, the top…

  • HFC Haarlem Globetrotters: Phase 3

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        Welcome back to the 5th installment of this Football Manager 2023 save in the Netherlands as we commence our third season at the helm of the newly restored HFC Haarlem in the second tier of Dutch football. In…

  • HFC Haarlem Globetrotters: Phase 2

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        Welcome back to the sexiest Football Manager save adventure you’ve (n)ever seen.     When we last left off, we had just completed (and survived) Season 1 at the helm of HFC Haarlem, our newly restored team of…

  • HFC Haarlem Globetrotters: Phase 1

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        The scene is set. We have restored the previously extinct HFC Haarlem (dissolved in 2010) to professional football under the guise of new owner Ruud Gullit who started his career at the club all the way back in…