Go, Go Burton!

Yesterday I played my Football Manager 2008 Challenge like a mad man and I managed to go through three quarters of the really busy Blue Square Premier season. It is quite tougher than what I was anticipating, but at least I'm not losing yet :) With 14 or so matches left 'til the playofs, The Brewers were placed 6th but there's a huge battle for promotion, with the first place having just four points ahead of me.

Strangely, during these games I played with my Burton Albion, my defence failed to rise to the standards, while the attack was top notch (and I was anticipating it to be otherwise :D). So, as you can see in the screenshot below, this Shaun Harrad guy can do some wonders even though his stats are pretty low:
On the other hand, I have managed to snap a BIG loan from a Romanian club, FC Bihor and got a pretty good winger, Jozsef Lorincz, who became my goal creating machine, as you can see in the snapshot below. Of course these two are not the best players in Football Manager 08, but they helped The Brewers and my job quite a lot.
So I had some pretty good matches I totally dominated:
But I was also killed by York in an away game, even though my team didn't play badly. Just looking at the number of corners we had makes me want to apply the "corner cheat" - but this challenge will be done with no cheats, so I'll have to do my best in the future.Burton was always somewhere in the 3rd - 6th place during the matches, with a very tight battle being held for promotion:During my spell at Burton I have signed a total of 10 player (including 3 loans) for the impressive amount of $8,000. I also managed to sell four players for a good sum of $14,000, all of them over-valued, so I am pretty happy. The Brewers were eliminated in the first round of the FA Cup (but I reached the goal! :D) and we also lost to York in the fifth round of the Setanta Shield. On the bright side, we've reached the fourth round in the FA Trophy and we have a relatively game at home against Histon. The board will be pretty happy with this. Wish me luck and check back for more updates.