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Hello, hello. Welcome to Phoenix Football Manager, episode 12.

You can listen to this in your podcast app if you just want the audio experience. But if you want to see the gameplay, you can check out the episode on our YouTube channel as well. You can get the save file for this game as well and try it for yourself at the start of the season at the SquareBall.com. Forward slash FM. It's 2014. We are at the helm of the Leeds United Phoenix Club in the sixth tier of the English game. That's because David Hague sold the old club to Red Bull, and we are now in hot pursuit of Red Bull Leeds, who have Jesse Marsh as manager. We've relocated to Headingley Stadium in North Leeds playing under a dome, and that's mainly because Michael messed up the game settings and put us accidentally in an indoor stadium. Eddie Gray is our boss and the chairman of the club. Our manager, Ozz we go by the name of Arcadia Brendan Chisholm, which is an anagram of all five of our names on the podcast. Chris, Dan, Dean, Michael and Rob. We haven't actually spent a penny in the transfer market just yet. Instead, we've been hoovering up young Italian kids, some Legion United related stalwarts, and I think some sentimental favourites as well, including Andy Gray, who's in the squad. Our front of shirt sponsor is actually Levi's solicitors, although I am now taking an executive decision to elevate them to Platinum partner, which I think sounds more glamorous, doesn't it? They could also own sponsorship of the Mega Bowl that I've put us in, potentially. But anyway, you can get 10% off your legal fees now or in 2014, where we are in the game. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good luck cashing in on those. But if you work out what we're doing it, I'm sure they'll accommodate it. And I mean, there might be dispute resolution maybe in the off-in as well, because you might be a lead to council taxpayer. You might want to know why your council tax has gone up by 50% to fund a council-owned Superdome that we couldn't afford. Listen, don't get caught up in the Superdome too much. All those houses that got demolished. A few mistakes have been made. Another few million to make it a retractable, like Millennium Stadium. So don't go to Levi's listeners about that, but do go to them about their full range of other services on which you can get a 10% discount on your legal fees. Levi solicitors.com.com.org slash the square ball.

Full details and terms there.

So where are we?

Then we are top of the league.

We're 12 games in.

We're unbeat and we're through to the next round of the year.

Well, it's a qualifying round of the FA Cup.

More on that in a bit.

Everything looking pretty rosy at the minute.

It's an interesting day today though, because Michael, despite being in possession of the mouse here for the game,

is deeply insecure about Chris's presence because Chris has actual ball knowledge or game knowledge

at very least. Well, both. Yeah. Both, really. Put me to shame. But I'm going to proceed.

So we don't want this to get fractured, is what I'm saying. Although I will

obviously stir the pot

at every opportunity.

I'm going to wait

until we start losing

the game,

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