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Yes I know I missed another update yesterday, although with the community being so slow at the moment daily updates would only result in me moaning about the lack of new content, so count yourself lucky you don’t have to put up with my whining everyday and instead get to here the news of four updates as well as some fantastic, ground breaking news in regards the world of FM2007 Skinning.

I’ll get on with the ground breaking news first. Basically Borat, the legend, who amongst other things, was the first person to discover how to make background changes work for Football Manager, appears to have discovered how to edit the layout and information contained within individual screens as well as the ability to add new custom screens, here’s a direct quote from the man himself.

I have figured out a way where I can create additional screens for adding into the game and editing the positioning of all ready present screens of the game. This is probably where I need most help and that would be trying to think which screens to edit and add. For example we could change the whole layout of the player information screen so that it would look like we are playing a totally different game same with all other screens.

It sounds very promising and I look foreward to how he and other members from FMG Live will get on in putting together some of the most ground breaking and unique FM Skins we’ve ever seen.

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CM Frenzy have begun work on a new tactics test with the first two parts available on the site now. It’s very simple really, the author has taken a mid table team in the form of Bolton Wanderers and attempted to test out all the various tactical incarnations available in the game via the holiday mode of FM2007.

Part one introduces the experiment, whilst part two looks at getting a ‘standard’ season for Bolton with which to compare the other seasons with the various tactics to.

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Manager Crisis have a new article up looking at SI Games latest announcement in the form of Football Manager Live. It’s good to see someone finally give the announcement a write up, I’m surprised no other articles on the subject have appeared yet, there are certainly a whole host of areas to discuss with fare more depth than this piece is offering, why you could possibly get a good 4 or 5 articles out of FM Live.

Although I do have to disagree with some of the points raised in Manager Crisis’s article. I don’t pretend to be an expert on the subject but I do believe the authors gone a bit astray in a couple of places.

For instance in regards time I’m pretty sure there isn’t a week/month/year etc in the way FM2007 runs. Instead it’s all in real time minutes and rather than a player being out injured for say 5 days he’ll be out for e.g. 10 hours or something like that (not sure exactly how it would work out). There are no days, weeks, months or years as far as I’m aware.

Another thing which really could have been highlighted and I think is one of the most important aspects to consider in regards FM Live is how the community will be able to interact with it.

The boom which came with the ability for making custom graphics for Football Manager is probably the single most important thing ever to happen to our little community. We can now spend hours giving our various hints and tips as well as making graphics and utilities to download for the game.

But there haven’t been any indications suggesting people will be able to use any custom graphics or utilities with FM Live and I’d be surprised if player, tactic and training tipping as well as general guides will be as popular in regards FM Live as everybody will be competing against one another and won’t want to give their rivals tips which would only make it harder for that individual to get success.

Will FM Live be able to be a success without strong community interaction? Hmmm I’m not sure; it would definitely be one of my top concerns if I was Mr Collyer.

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And finally Goal Kick have another team guide this time looking at Atletico Madrid which follows in the sites usual trend of depth and quality.

Atletico Madrid Guide Visit / Rate