Runaround................Now!

Grezz once said "if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen", and at game 16 of season 10, that's exactly what he did. Yes, Grezz made the backward leap from the Manta Premiership to Manta Division 8 to take on a new challenge with a team that was lying in 19th position. He renamed his new charges 'Ex Mundi' and set about climbing up the table. The club finished season 10 in 4th place winning every game under Grezz's management. A fantastic achievement.

He was followed soon after at game 22 by Rocketman, who left his post at Chelski of the Eros Premiership. Rocketman took over Ghosts AFC who finished a respectable 8th position.

I, Webby, joined the Division 8 challenge at the end of season 10 after taking Lancaster Bombers to 12th position in the Manta Premiership following many seasons of relegation battles. I renamed my new club, who finished 19th in season 10, Ancestral Bombers as a respectful nod to my previous club. I'm happy to say that Ancestral Bombers were the first team to beat Grezz's Ex Mundi in game 2 of this season, winning 2-1 at home.

It's an interesting new challenge here in division 8, and the manager hopping doesn't end yet. JamieHutber, former manager of Manta Championship outfit Bulletboys, decided to turn down the opportunity of managing in the Premiership (they won the Championship) to take on new foes down here in division 8. Jamie is now managing Bowen FC.

Funnily enough, as I write this, at game 10, you could cover the four of us with a blanket, we're that close, and I don't mean in some homo-erotic way. Take a look at this screenshot:



Anyone else want to join the adventure?

Manager Nationalities in Manta

I've merged the England into the UK numbers, so don't be surprised if you don't see it :)

Country	Prem	Champ	Div 1	Div 2	Div 3	Div 4	Div 5	Div 6	Div 7	Div 8	Total
UK	9	13	9	9	11	11	9	10	11	10	102
Bulgaria	3					1		1			5
Croatia				1		1	1		1		4
USA	1						1			2	4
Australia	1		1						1		3
Belgium						1		1	1		3
Finland	2								1		3
Romania			1			1	1				3
Ireland		1			1						2
Netherlands	1					1					2
Singapore			1				1				2
France				1							1
France, Metropolitan								1			1
India			1								1
Macedonia				1							1
Marocco			1								1
Mexico		1									1
New Zealand		1									1
Norway					1						1
Phillipines		1									1
Russia									1		1
Scotland			1								1
Sweden	1										1
Yugoslavia					1						1
Zimbabwe				1							1
Vacant	2	3	5	7	6	4	7	7	4	8	53

IAG problems again?

Is anyone else having trouble getting on IAG?

How many...

While I was working on a lazy wednesday afternoon a friend of mine shared something with me and I decided to post it in here.

So let's see how many five year olds could you take in a fight...

My score is 23 and I'm proud of it. Go get them tigers...

23

Manta Friendly Tournament

Tournament format:
- Two groups of 4 teams playing home and away fixtures
- Top 2 from each group play in a direct elimination, single-fixture phase with lower ranked teams given home advantage, while the ones finishing 3rd and 4th play in a another tournament with the same rules. There will be 3rd-4th and 7th-8th place games. Every fixture in this phase will be arranged until penalties

Groups:

Group A
Team	P	W	D	L	GS	GA	GD	Points
Botev Plovdiv	6	4	1	1	13	8	5	13
Liverpool City	6	2	2	2	8	9	-1	8
Inter Milager	6	1	4	1	8	8	0	7
Tomson Ramblers	6	0	3	3	6	10	-4	3

Group B
Team	P	W	D	L	GS	GA	GD	Points
Volvo United	6	5	1	0	13	3	10	16
Chaos Shumen	6	4	0	2	11	5	6	12
Killamarsh FC	6	2	1	3	7	4	3	7
Burnthouse	6	0	0	6	0	19	-19	0

Fixtures:

Group Fixtures
Round 1 – 09.08.08
Botev Plovdiv	2	v	1	Inter Milager
Tomson Ramblers	1	v	2	Liverpool City
Chaos Shumen	1	v	0	Killamarsh FC
Burnthouse	0	v	3	Volvo United
Round 2 –10.08.08
Liverpool City	1	v	1	Inter Milager
Tomson Ramblers	2	v	2	Botev Plovdiv
Volvo United	1	v	0	Killamarsh FC
Burnthouse	0	v	4	Chaos Shumen
Round 3 – 11.08.08
Liverpool City	1	v	2	Botev Plovdiv
Inter Milager	1	v	1	Tomson Ramblers
Volvo United	3	v	1	Chaos Shumen
Killamarsh FC	3	v	0	Burnthouse
Round 4 – 12.08.08
Botev Plovdiv	3	v	1	Liverpool City
Tomson Ramblers	1	v	1	Inter Milager
Chaos Shumen	1	v	2	Volvo United
Burnthouse	0	v	3	Killamarsh FC
Round 5 – 14.08.08
Inter Milager	2	v	2	Liverpool City
Botev Plovdiv	3	v	1	Tomson Ramblers
Killamarsh FC	1	v	1	Volvo United
Chaos Shumen	3	v	0	Burnthouse
Round 6 – 15.08.08
Inter Milager	2	v	1	Botev Plovdiv
Liverpool City	1	v	0	Tomson Ramblers
Killamarsh FC	0	v	1	Chaos Shumen
Volvo United	3	v	0	Burnthouse

Final Phase
Semi-finals - 17.08.08
Chaos Shumen	2(5)	v	2(4)	Botev Plovdiv
Volvo United	1	v	2	Liverpool City
3rd Place Playoff - 18.08.08
Volvo United	1	v	3	Botev Plovdiv
Final - 18.08.08
Liverpool City	2	v	1	Chaos Shumen
Semi-finals - 17.08.08
Burnthouse	0	v	3	Inter Milager
Tomson Ramblers	0	ff	3	Killamarsh FC
7th Place Playoff - 18.08.08
Burnthouse	3	ff	0	Tomson Ramblers
5th Place Playoff - 18.08.08
Killamarsh FC	2(4)	v	2(3)	Inter Milager

* Lower ranked clubs play at home

Stats:

Goalscorers
Name	Team	Goals
J Yates	Chaos Shumen	8
L Much	Inter Milager	8
B Lysen	Botev Plovdiv	7
M Genest	Volvo United	5
Q Dudfield	Botev Plovdiv	4
B Patasso	Liverpool City	4
I Brekke	Liverpool City	4

Assists
Name	Team	Assists
M Abrantes	Botev Plovdiv	3
D Bishop	Chaos Shumen	3
H Nyborg	Inter Milager	3
A Lopez	Inter Milager	3
B Castonguay	Volvo United	3

Discipline
Name	Team	YC	RC
M Hadfield	Chaos Shumen	3	0
T Ison	Chaos Shumen	3	0
D Horner	Killamarsh FC	3	0
C Vinson	Tomson Ramblers	3	0

Name	Team	MoMs
M Hiuspää	Volvo United	4
C Walsh	Inter Milager	4
J Huntley	Chaos Shumen	3
I Brekke	Liverpool City	2
D Cameron	Killamarsh FC	2

Manager Nationalities in Manta

For a number of reasons, my posting regularity has declined severely and in an attempt to make up for this, I thought it would be a good idea to acquaint the Manta managers with the variety of nationalities our beloved Itsagoal has presented us with.

Now then, there's little to say on the subject and I'll leave any comments to you, so here's the table:

Bombers' Financial Decline

As some of you may know, I've recently been thinking of moving on from my team Lancaster Bombers due to the very restrictive situation I find myself in.

Being in debt means I can't buy any new players or employ any new staff, which means I can't improve my team. I have plenty of good players who are not maxed out on any skills that could no doubt benefit from better quality coaches.

I've tried selling players to make some money but I never get any bids. Perhaps I'm overpricing, I dunno. Whatever.

I've taken a look at the financial history of the club and notice that in season 6, my first season in the premiership, my ticket sales were 4,262,470. Last season though, season 9, they were down to 2,811,180. Quite a difference. As my club rating has gone down, demand for tickets has dropped off. I've reduced my ticket prices down to around 23 from 29 or 30 from season 6. I must say I don't think I should need to reduce ticket prices below 20 to sell out. I am in the premiership after all. I look at other clubs and see ticket prices in the 40's.

Anyway, here's a screenshot of my financial history:


Disturbing huh?

I'm gonna try and get my ticket price up. After spending a lot of last season renegotiating contracts, I don't need to worry about any of those this season.

Thoughts?

Team Ratings and Matches

First post of the new season and it's one that looks back over that last two...

Well, not so much looks back as quickly summarises them with a pair of pictures apiece - but as they're each worth a thousand words, it all counts :)

Above are the team ratings in season 9 and below, the season 8 ratings:

Like the graphs posted for season 7, it's much better to be next to a blue or green team name... And, as before, the drop when managers resigned from a team is quite noticeable.

And the matches that played a part in affecting those ratings; for season 9 -

And for season 8:

I'll eventually get around to doing a team rating graph of the Premiership since season 6, but I wouldn't hold your breath ;)

oh, ps. Webby, I can't seem to get this post to have just an excerpt on the index pages - has something changed from the last time I posted or have I just forgotten how?

Techie Friday

As it's close season on itsagoal, I thought I'd get all techie on you. Just yesterday, I added an RSS button to this blog. There it is under the 'Subscribe To Manta Banta' section of the sidebar -->.

Briefly, RSS enables you to subscribe to a website's content. Whenever new content is added, the RSS feed will update. This means that if, for instance, you visit many different websites that add new content, whether that be daily, or as infrequently as once a month or even less, you can simply check the RSS feeds for those sites.

There are a few ways in which you can employ the feed. One, your browser may have RSS built in, so, you can add the feed to your bookmarks folder, or bookmarks toolbar and access it from there. Two, you could use a web based RSS reader such as Google Reader. This requires copying the feed address and adding it into the reader. The third way is to use an actual RSS application on your machine. This works in much the same way as the web based kind.

I'm using the RSS function built into the browser; for me, that's Firefox 3. I know that IE7 has support for RSS, as does Safari. They all work in slightly different ways to achieve the same result. Note: IE6 doesn't work with RSS.

To learn how to use RSS in Firefox, there's a simple tutorial here.

More...

I've been using Firefox 3 a bit recently. IE6 is the default browser on the machines where I work and they won't let us install IE7 because our HR websites are incompatible with it!

So anyway, using FF3; impressed. I like how you can tag bookmarks. Save a bookmark, give it a tag or 3. Easier to find 2 months down the line.

Another thing I like about FF is the add-ons it has. I'm writing this post, and I'm not even logged into my blog. I'm using an add-on called Scribefire. I access it from the bottom right of the browser and up pops a text entry window. From there I can write and publish directly to my blog. Brilliant. It's easier to use than the text entry box within blogger itself, so if you're a Manta Banta author and you're using Firefox, take a look at Scribefire.

Well, I think that's enough techie stuff for now. Have a good weekend chaps. See you in the new season.

All is Well

After the dramatic events of the last couple of days, I'm happy to say that everything appears to be back to normal with itsagoal.

I don't know what the official cause of the problems were but I'm sure we'll hear soon enough on the site itself.

There was a workaround for the issue though, and for that we thank Grezz. It worked for most but not for some though. It appears that the fix didn't work for those operating behind a proxy server, for example, from a PC at work.

I'd also like to thank fellow mac user Bearing for posting detailed instructions for applying the fix in mac os x. I then posted those instructions in the Facebook group. Not all of us use windoze ya know!

I think that this site was only known to a handful of people but somehow people found their way here. The community spirit and efforts of those that were able to help has been brilliant, so thanks to everyone who contributed to this blog yesterday. I think mantabanta may have found it's way into a few new Favourites and Bookmark folders.

itsagoal down

Just thought I'd put some keywords up here to aid google searches. Dunno if it'll work.

Can't connect to iag
Can't connect to itsagoal
Can't access itsagoal
Can't access iag
itsagoal site down
Can't login to itsagoal
Problems
Issue

p.s. itsagoal isn't down, there is just an access issue preventing people from getting to the site.

IAG access fix (works for some)

Now, now. Don't get too excited! I just thought I'd pull the instructions out from the lengthy comments of the previous thread and put them here.

It has been noted that this fix works for some, and not for others. So here goes:

Windows:

Go to C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc

Open up your file called hosts with notepad

Add this line:

87.117.198.158 (and then hit tab, and then type) www.itsagoal.com

Save the change

Start a new browser session

Type www.itsagoal.com in the address bar

If your PC does not save this then you need to do the following first.....

Right click on "hosts" and then click on properties, go to security tab, click "edit" to change permissions, highlight your username and then click on all the buttons below where it says permissions for users, and then "apply" the changes. This will enable you to save the changes Grezz has suggested making. You then should be able to access the site.

Good luck.

IAG Connection Problems

If someone reads this anytime soon, please ask around IAG what I can do to connect to the site. It just refuses to load and I think there was a problem like this a while back. Another manager dio1 also can't open it, while I asked a buddy of mine from another city some 300 miles from here and he said he can open it.

I asked my providers and they said other it's not only them, other providers can't connect either, so it must be something in the site.

God, I hope someone reads this soon!!! I wrote to Guermano vie e-mail, but I haven't got a way to contact anyone else, while he's probably busy at work. And just in case this isn't resolved soon, please tell me who I drew in the Super Cup and how my game with pleasant ended.

Cheers,

A seriously angered chaos

Manta League Cup Quarter Finals

As has become tradition, after the league cup action I try to supply with a somewhat fictional review of the games and of course - the LC stats. Let's see what the Season 9 quarter-finals had to show.

Botev Plovdiv 3-1 Easyfit Walsall
A penalty win in the last round for Botev and a dominant display of scoring power by Easyfit in the previous round suggested a thrilling encounter in the first quarter-final match up. Hristoskov, however, had different ideas and cruised past his opponent with authority. The 13 shots on target the home team got and their 65% possession clearly show who was in control of this match up. Having taken the lead near the end of the first half, the Plovdiv side were put under a little pressure when Walther equalized for Easyfit 15 minutes after the interval. However back to back goals by Kodritz and Lysen gave the hosts a comfortable two goal advantage which sent them into the Semis.

High Plains Drifters 2-0 North London FC
Relatively new Manta manager FooQ keeps his impressive run going by eliminating the underdog sensation of this season's league cup North London FC. The away side, having started in round 1, showed resilience and took advantage of the luck of the draw to get this far, but having to play away against currently 9th placed in the Premiership was too much for them. Despite the Drifters' crushing possession, it took a penalty in the 40th minute to give them the lead, but even at that point the way the home side played made the outcome clear. Berthiaume and Crouch kept firing at Yerbury's goal and it didn't take much longer before the latter got on the score sheet. With that goal, confidence of victory took over the High Plains players and the lapse in concentration at front was probably the reason Berthiaume couldn't score more despite his constant attempts at goal. On the other end, Sumner and Mullen who both had 6 goals so far in the cup were thoroughly marked and could manage a total of 1 shot, before Mullen had to be carried away on a stretcher in the 69th minute.

Rex Mundi 2-1 Inter Milager
In contrast with what is to be expected of this competitive stage of the competition, the closest game of the four didn't even go to extra time. Rex Mundi needed a 91st minute goal to seal their place in the Semis after Inter's star striker Much tied the game in the 88th. And despite the thrilling ending, the game went under the home side's pace and Logan's 47th minute opener could've easily been enough for his team to progress. After the game Grezz probably had some harsh words towards his lone striker for wasting 10 shots which could've made the victory so much easier, but with progression a fact anything more than a quick talk would probably be excessive.

Warlords 0-3 Castle King FC
Castle King FC made club history by advancing to the Semis at the expense of Warlords. Being at home, the division 4 side probably had a slight edge, but their choice of a 5 man defense didn't stop Castle King strikers Vazuez and New from both scoring. It was Vazuez who gave his side a one goal advantage before half-time, but the second half was New's as he got a brace. Warlords central midfielder Bolder got a red card in the 79th, but at that point the game was practically finished.


S T A T S

Teams
Team	Div	GF	GA	ET	Pen	H	A
Botev Plovdiv	Prem	14	6	0	1	2	3
Castle King FC	Prem	14	4	2	0	4	1
High Plains Drifters	Prem	14	5	1	0	2	3
Rex Mundi	Prem	14	2	0	0	2	3

GF = goals for
GA = goals against
ET = games gone into extra time
Pen = games gone into penalties
H = games at home
A = games away

Top scorers
Player	Team	Goals
B Vazuez	Castle King FC	7
M Campagne	High Plains Drifters	7
B Lysen	Botev Plovdiv	6
M New	Castle King FC	6
E Grogan	Easyfit Walsall	6
D Mullen	North London FC	6
A Sumner	North London FC	6

That's all for this article. See you after the Semis.

Stadiums

I have done a bit of research into the stadiums of the top 100 teams from Manta to see who has dared go for that big expansion or who would rather splash their cash on players. Here's what I have come up with:

Stadium size

13800 - 2 (Botev Plovdiv, Rex Mundi)

10300 - 6 (Kif Villans, Noodle FC*, Hornets, Easyfit Walsall, Roker Park Rangers*, Scudders)

9850 - 2 (Chaos Shumen*, High Plains Drifters)

9400 - 1 (Channel Four News)

8500 - 1 (Howick United)

6800 - 18 clubs

6350 - 18 clubs

5900 - 14 clubs

5450 - 24 clubs

5000 - 14 clubs

*Stadium currently under expansion

The top 100 clubs have added an extra 210 corner expansions (450 seats) and 14 side expansions (3500 seats), spending a total of 251,125,000 or approx. 250m to their stadia.

So far no-one has gone for the big 5000 seat expansion! (Hristo whats taking you so long? :p)

Manta League Cup Round 5

Eight teams are left to battle it out for a place in the IAG history books and even more importantly - the 2 million the League Cup winner will get. And unlike in the last article, I'll take a slightly more detailed look at the fixtures that determined the quarter-finalists.

Castle King FC 3-2 Bulletboys (ET)
It took 23 whole shots and 120 minutes for Castle King's offense to bring down the resilient Bulletboys. After a late equalizer by the away side, the seemingly won match was taken into extra time at 1-1 and it took only 4 minutes - between the 100th and 103rd for both teams to exchange a further 3 goals. Castle King's ace striker in this tournament Vazuez finally capitalized on the abundant free space he was given scoring the winning goal for his side and despite Vyse scoring his second of the game for Bulletboys in the following attack, the home team held on for the win and their second ever place in the quarter-finals. Credit must also be given to the other Castle King striker New who scored the first and second goals for his team.

Chaos Shumen 2-2 Botev Plovdiv (3-5 after penalties)
In it's 17th appearance, the Bulgarian derby between Chaos Shumen and Botev Plovdiv was bound to be a close and thrilling game. In their previous 3 meetings in cup competitions, Botev had always run out winners from the clash and this time it was no different. The Plovdiv team made good use of their possession and scored an early goal, which Chaos managed to cancel out as late as the 94th minute. Scorer of the first goal for Botev Lysen gave his side the lead again in extra-time, but Chaos hitman Yates leveled the score again and the game went to penalties. At that point it was all up to chance and a single miss by the home side handed the victory to Botev.

Inter Milager 2-1 Scudders (ET)
This was bound to be a close game and indeed it took a goal 4 minutes from the end of extra-time to determine the winner. And while the Inter forward Much probably had a little word with his manager for scoring once from 6 shots, then Scudders manager Guermano must have made his squad an all-shooting training schedule, as he didn't have even one player with more than a single shot registered for the whole game. This might have been enough for striker Sukova to tie the match in normal time, but nobody else could cancel out the lead given to Inter by Much in the 116th minute.

Kif Villans 1-2 High Plains Drifters
The undisputed most impressive act of giantkilling in the cup thus far. While many were already aware of Drifters manager FooQ's qualities, this away victory to the current Premiership number 1 and most probable league cup winner, showed his brilliance to the entire Manta world. The Villans' constant possession of the ball only payed off once when Hirsch tied the game in the 73rd after Burnell had opened the scoring and given High Plains the lead 5 minutes earlier. The home fans were probably getting ready for a pre-extra time pint when Berthiaume stunned the crowd with the winning goal of the game in the 87th.

North London FC 3-1 Kingriver
Who would've thought a team which played in the 1st round of the cup would reach this far? If you're one of the few who would, then surely even you had doubts as to North London's ability to win this game against 113 ranked Kingriver. Well, against all odds the Division 1 side cruised past their 600 better ranked opposition with a brace from Sumner and a 3rd by Mullen, which took both forwards to 6 goals in the cup. With no cards received in this game, North London will be certain to have their best available for the next round and man of the match right back Clavette will be looking to supply match deciding assists in the next round which is the best North London have ever achieved.

Smirnenski United 1-3 Easyfit Walsall
While not particularly impressive throughout the game, Easyfit took a 3 goal lead and only conceded 7 minutes from full time, which was nowhere near enough to stop them from winning the game. It's totti's second quarter-final in a row and he'll be having his eye on the semi-final he couldn't reached last season. Grogan's opener also was his 6th goal of the competition equaling him to 3 other players with the same tally on 2nd.

The Trumpton Riots 0-2 Rex Mundi
A 2000+ ranked team facing a former two time League Cup winner and top 100 club. Needless to say bookies weren't putting odds in Trumpton's favor. Rex went on to comfortably win the game with a goal in each half and with Noodle FC and Kif Villans out could be considered the title main contenders alongside Botev Plovdiv.

Warlords 1-1 Northbankhighbury (4-3 after penalties)
The second team ranked outside the top 500 to progress to the quarters was Warlords from Division 4. Having taken the lead against the newly promoted Premiership side early in the game, Warlords supporters were seriously disappointed to see Mann equalize for Northbankhighbury in the 91st, but the penalties went the home side's way and ensured a new record league cup performance for Warlords.


Stats of the competition after round 5

Teams
Team	Div	GF	GA	ET	Pen	H	A
Botev Plovdiv	Prem	11	5	0	1	1	3
Castle King FC	Prem	11	4	2	0	4	0
Easyfit Walsall	Prem	10	3	0	0	1	3
High Plains Drifters	Prem	12	5	1	0	1	3
Inter Milager	Prem	9	3	2	0	4	0
North London FC	Div 1	13	2	0	0	4	1
Rex Mundi	Prem	12	1	0	0	1	3
Warlords	Div 4	6	2	1	1	2	2

GF = goals for
GA = goals against
ET = games gone into extra time
Pen = games gone into penalties
H = games at home
A = games away

Top scorers
Player	Team	Goals
M Campagne	High Plains Drifters	7
B Vazuez	Castle King FC	6
E Grogan	Easyfit Walsall	6
A Sumner	North London FC	6
D Mullen	North London FC	6

This article will be further expanded with information about the other games in the next few days.

Manta League Cup Round 4

Anyone remember last season's articles I wrote about the League Cup? They're back again and for those of you reading who are still in contention, this one could provide you with a little info about what to expect or hope for.

At this point, with so many teams left (and so little time at the office before going home), I'll just wrap this article up with the basic stats:

Divisions
- 11 out of the 16 remaining teams are from the Premiership
- 2 are left from the Championship
- Divisions 1, 2 and 4 each have one last representative

Finishing power
- 4 teams claim the title of most goals scored thus far: Kingriver, North London FC, High Plains Drifters and Rex Mundi have all scored 10 goals. North London, however, have played 1 more game than the others.

Venues
- Castle King FC, Inter Milager and North London FC have had the privilege of playing 3 games at home. However, North London have had one away game, as they started from Round 1.
- Kif Villans are the only team having not had a home game so far. Doesn't look like they need on though.

Teams
Team	Div	GF	GA	ET	Pen	H	A
Botev Plovdiv	Prem	9	3	0	0	1	2
Bulletboys	Div 2	7	3	1	0	2	1
Castle King FC	Prem	8	2	1	0	3	0
Chaos Shumen	Prem	6	1	0	0	2	1
Warlords	Div 4	5	1	1	0	1	2
Kif Villans	Prem	7	1	0	0	0	3
Easyfit Walsall	Prem	7	2	0	0	1	2
Inter Milager	Prem	7	2	1	0	3	0
Scudders	Prem	6	1	0	0	2	1
Kingriver	Champ	10	3	1	0	1	2
North London FC	Div 1	10	1	0	0	3	1
Northbankhighbury	Prem	7	1	1	0	2	1
High Plains Drifters	Prem	10	4	1	0	1	2
Smirnenski United	Prem	8	2	0	1	2	1
Rex Mundi	Prem	10	1	0	0	1	2
The Trumpton Riots	Champ	7	3	0	1	2	2

Top scorers
Player	Team	Goals
M Campagne	High Plains Drifters	7
B Vazuez	Castle King FC	5
E Grogan	Easyfit Walsall	5
D Mullen	North London FC	5
G Dunlop	Bulletboys	4
A Sumner	North London FC	4
G Wilk	Rex Mundi	4
J Oscroft	Smirnenski United	4
Q Dudfield	Botev Plovdiv	3
A Tracey	Botev Plovdiv	3
J Yates	Chaos Shumen	3
T Barrett	Inter Milager	3
R Grey	Kif Villans	3
A Hirsch	Kif Villans	3
L Mike	Kingriver	3
A Henckler	Northbankhighbury	3
T Sukova	Scudders	3
W Schwarz	Scudders	3
R Nash	Smirnenski United	3

The Premiership Managers

The original idea behind this article was to go through the entire Manta to collect information on manager nationalities. I quickly realized that was quite a tedious and time-consuming task, but doing a more detailed look at manager stats from the Premiership only seemed like a good way to kill time. Here's what I ended up with:

Managers not since day 1
Manager	Date Joined
scud	12.05.2007 г.
ryanj1991	8.12.2006 г.
mobby	28.10.2006 г.

Account types
Free	9
Subscriber	7
MOD	2
ADV	1
GM	1

Clubs Managed
Manager	Current Team	Clubs Managed
scud	Norwood FC	4
Wellings88	Killamarsh FC	3
mobby	Tottis Allstars	3
totti	Easyfit Walsall	3
ryanj1991	Smirnenski United	2
FooQ	High Plains Drifters	2

Everyone else has only managed one team before.

Nationalities
UK	12
England	3
Bulgaria	2
Ireland	1
Australia	1
Spain *	1

* Guermano may be treated as a multi-national citizen :)

Transfer Rating
Value	Managers
10	11
5 – 9	5
1 – 4	2
<>	2

Games played
> 400	2
350 – 400	14
300 – 349	2
<>	2

Wins
> 250	6
200 – 249	10
<>	4

And finally the full table I used to draw these stats from:

Manager	Team	Joined	Account	Clubs	Nationality	TR	G	W	D	L
Hristoskov	Botev Plovdiv	27.10.2006	Free	1	Bulgarian	10	407	285	67	55
Haziebob	Burnthouse Surfers	27.10.2006	MOD	1	UK	8	371	178	77	116
KingOfMyCastle	Castle King FC	27.10.2006	Subscriber	1	UK	4	359	245	55	59
chaosmaster	Chaos Shumen	27.10.2006	Subscriber	1	Bulgarian	10	371	229	79	63
totti	Easyfit Walsall	27.10.2006	Subscriber	3	UK	10	361	246	67	48
DaveMc	Foresters	27.10.2006	Subscriber	1	UK	5	355	219	61	75
FooQ	High Plains Drifters	27.10.2006	MOD	2	Australia	10	360	256	49	55
ndjuk	Hornets	27.10.2006	Subscriber	1	UK	10	373	240	69	64
pleasantsurprise	Inter Milager	27.10.2006	Subscriber	1	UK	10	366	245	56	65
kifd	Kif Villans	27.10.2006	Free	1	UK	10	382	232	78	72
Wellings88	Killamarsh FC	27.10.2006	Subscriber	3	England	0	344	194	62	88
Webby	Lancaster Bombers	27.10.2006	ADV	1	UK	4	355	209	67	79
benzb	Noodle FC	27.10.2006	Free	1	England	8	404	281	80	43
NickMcG	Northbankhighbury	27.10.2006	Free	1	Ireland	5	358	257	57	44
scud	Norwood FC	12.05.2007	Free	4	UK	-1	208	143	26	39
Sainsy69	Openshaw United	27.10.2006	Free	1	England	10	355	256	53	46
Grezz	Rex Mundi	27.10.2006	GM	1	UK	10	399	284	69	46
Guermano	Scudders	27.10.2006	Free	1	Spain :D	9	375	218	78	79
ryanj1991	Smirnenski United	8.12.2006	Free	2	UK	10	292	197	37	58
mobby	Tottis Allstars	28.10.2006	Free	3	UK	10	341	222	39	80

Enjoy

Information is valid as of 12.05.2008