News From The Terraces - February

Well this month has been rather eventful for Football Manager Fans all over the world with the release of both a new patch and data update and a new game from Sports Interactive in the form of FM Quiz Mobile. However Sports Interactive haven't been the only people working hard, here's a look at what the online community has been producing this month.

Site Of The Month
This month's site of the month is Pitchside, a small site offering a wide range of interesting and helpful guides to various areas of FM2007. This month the site has done brilliantly and updated with a helpful collection of guides to managing in the South American nations, a look at both defending and scoring from corners and an investigation into the way players develop through the game depending on the type of player and training involved.
Visit Pitchside

Article Of The Month
This months article of the month comes from the site of the month Pitchside, and comes in the form of a fantastic bit of research into the physical development and decline of players in Football Manager, in order to properly assess how best to train your players as well as look at the effect injuries, training and the number of matches played have on a players development.

This is an ongoing project, so if you like the first two parts you should definitely keep checking back over the course of the next month for further updates.
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Download Of The Month
Following the release of the 7.0.2 patch, the race was on for the various community add ons to be updates. The quickest has to be FM Genie, which even followed up its release with a whole new site dedicated to the program and a wide range of new features.

FM Genie is an alternative to the search engine in Football Manager and allows you to search the entire database via a wide range of options and even includes hidden information and stats which the game doesn't show you. Although using the tool is usually considered a form of cheating, so avoid it if you don't wish to go down that road.
Visit the official FM Genie Site

Guide Of The Month
The guide of the month for March is actually a compilation of guides to managing in the South American nations including in depth looks at managing teams in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Peru and Uruguay.
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Top Tactics
This months top tactical tips come in the form of two brilliant guides looking at 1) how to defend corners and 2) how to score from corners. Both guides investigate various ways of doing both of those things, offering directions for each technique as well as explaining the authors own results when using each one.
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Funnybone Of The Month
There hasn't been too much in the way of comedy from around the community this month. However this piece from The Caley & Cleon Show takes the micky out of the various complaints thrown at Sports Interactive from Football Manager fans on a daily basis and makes for a rather funny read.
Read the article

Story of The Month
This month's story of the months comes from FM Britian, a site normally known for its tactical knowledge. The story is a very well written satirical piece with an entertaining fictional story line similar to that which you might find in Lord of the Rings or something similar.
Read part one in the story

New sites this month

Quite a few new sites have appeared this month, here's a brief look at some of the top ones:

Football Manager Downloads - Quickly becoming one of the top places to download graphics and utilities for Football Manager 2007.

FM Pro - A small site offering a range of player and tactical guides as well as general hints and tips for FM2007.

This round-up was written by Rob of the FM Portal, for a daily round-up from the FM community, visit the portal now.