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Well, welcome to Phoenix Football Manager.

It's 2014.

David Hager sold lead United to Red Bull, so we are trying to claw them back in. We're going to try and overtake them because they've taken our place in the championship. With Jesse Marsh at the helm, we are in charge of the Legion United Phoenix Club in the sixth tier of English football with Eddie Gray as our chairman. We are playing our home fixtures at Headingley Stadium in North Leeds and the John Charles Centre for Sport is our training ground in South Leeds. We are Arcadia Brendan Chisholm, which is an anagram of all our five names, Chris, Dan, Dean, Michael and Rob, an experienced veteran English coach, if you've not really heard of before this, but our birthday is October the 19th. We share it with Leeds United. We speak many languages and we started this game with an empty squad and half a million quid in the bank. So, where are we now, Michael and Rob? We are one game away from the start of the season. We've got, we've beaten Thackley, we're a Thackley scum. Yep. I got, I got, unable to return home. I got on the bus in, but they won't let me on on the way back. We've now played Glasshouten because I'm trying to get into the people of Castleford

or surrounding areas. I'm trying to get into the people of Castleford. Not that, probably. We'll probably have a day at the ski slope as we're playing there. Oh, no, we're at home, actually, aren't we? That's a shame. It's only 10 minutes we're down the motorway. Anyway, we're at home actually, aren't we?

That's a shame.

It's only 10 minutes we're down the motorway.

Anyway, we can do it anytime, can't we, I suppose? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. We should say, by the way, this is brought to me Levi's solicitors, our front of shirt sponsor. Yep. Very nice. I have just noticed that you had to write our own name down. Well, I'm just thinking, is Dean done one of these episodes yet?

Why, he's trying to...

Are we expelling him from...

Well, I'm just thinking, is Dean done one of these episodes yet?

What are you trying to? Are we expelling him from? Well, I'm just trying to work out how arcade, because he's not done one yet. Do we need to remove his name from the anagram? Right. Or are we going to leave him, give him a bit of grace? For now. Okay. Keep him on his toes. He's on notice. Levi'solicistons.com.com.com.com.org. slash the square ball to get a 10% discount on your legal fees on their full range of services,

which you'll find in the match program.

Yeah, we've had to consult with them quite a bit, actually, on employment law stuff

because looking at the squad, we seem to have employed nearly all teenagers.

Some of them, a lot of the squad are not adults.

We've got five, 16-year-olds,

two 17-year-olds, and then a load of 18, 19, 20-year-olds, and then just a handful of actual

grown men in the building. We're building for the future. That's partially true. And also

cheap labour. For the cheap. That's the big thing yeah i mean looking

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