Season 28 Week 22 processing...Last week of the season...

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Africa

Kaiser Chiefs 59 +36 unmanaged
Accra 40 +23 Dave Agyarko feeder club for Wycombe
Mamelodi 38 +13 unmanaged
Enyimba 29 -3 unmanaged

The Chiefs took the title after Dave took his eye off the ball with his feeder club but hopefully Accra's troubles are all behind them and next season will be much better...

Scotland

Celtic 51 +38 Steve Mumford
St Johnstone 49 +33 Geoff Fields
Inverness 45 +18 John Horrocks
Aberdeen 35 +16 Mike Horwell

Celtic only lost twice all season and were worthy winners in what is a very strongly contested league, with big changes coming next season to the structure of the league things should improve further for those that suffered at the hands of having to play Celtic three times, it will only be twice in future...

Slovakia

Slovan Bratislava 61 +63 Adi Smith feeder club for Real Betis.
Ruzomberok 55 +48 Dave Brothers
Bystrica 25 -10 unmanaged
Inter Bratislava 25 -18 unmanaged

First win for Adrian in his first full season in Slovakia, off to the Prussian league next year for the top sides...

Spain

Valencia 58 +52 John Simmons
Real Madrid 57 +55 Richard Allen
Barcelona 48 +43 Rob Wilson
Real Betis 46 +39 Adi Smith

Valencia secure the title ahead of the big two taking advantage of the managerial merrygoround that affected both Real and Barca this season, "Seven third place finishes since I took over are all forgotten if this one goes in"...

Eastern Mediterranean

Galatasaray 62 +58 Mal Davies feederclub for Stuttgart.
Zamalek 60 +41 unmanaged
Fenerbahce 42 +15 Zvenger Wrolf feeder club for Hamburg.
Beersheba 40 +12

A well deserved title triumph for Galatasaray as Mal's feeder club went the whole season unbeaten and dropping just four points, oh how he wishes Stuttgart could do the same. A new manager at Besiktas for next season will improve competition for the Champions though...

MLS

Harrisburg 58 +46 Josh Eaton
Cosmos 53 +39 Brandon Eaton
Chicago 52 +34 Pete Heddings Santos feeder club.
Tampa 44 +30 Matt Backley feeder club for Soton.

Was touch and go for awhile but eventually the League and Cup Double goes to Joshua who has done very well since taking over from me...

Yugoslavia

Red Star 66 +55 Bobby Greenacre
Dinamo Zagreb 57 +36 Dave Atkins
Dragovol 54 +39 Tony Zilic
Partizan 45 +23 reality manager.

Another excellent season for Bobby's unbeaten Red Star Belgrade side, his second title in two seasons since taking over, add to that a cup win and a super cup win and Red Star would seem to be in very good hands. "I'm going for beating that record that says Red Star won FIVE doubles on the bounce"...

That brings us to the end of the roundup for this season, but we have the playoff semi finals and the playoff finals to look forward to over the next two turns before it all kicks off again for the new season and somewhen before next season I will be taking a holiday, I'll let you know when it's all finalised...

Transfers now...

Neymar has joined Schalke for £165millions from Barcelona.
Asensio moves in the opposite direction for £90millions.
Tolisso moves in the opposite direction for £60millions.

Parma sign Dzyuda ( late transfer left over from last week ).

Chelsea sell Lucas Piazon and sign Michael Antonio from Preston.
Chelsea sign Juan Mata from Real Betis for £17.5millions.

Real Betis sign Angel Di Maria from Chelsea for £20millions.

Man City sign German keeper Bernd Leno from Bohemians for £25millions plus Ian Lawlor.

as you can imagine there are plenty of smaller deals too this week, they are all detailed on the TP special action sheet...

Coaching...

Cheers Paul for another interesting season.

Just a couple of 'self-inflicted' blips for Schalke - too much tinkering - but I won't be making THAT mistake again!

Well done to all the many winners, especially John at Valencia - great title win that!

Paul Hemmings wrote:: Premiership

Plymouth 48 +35 Ben Wilson.
Man City 48 +25 Geoff Fields.
Charlton 45 +26 Tom Hurst.
Watford 42 +28 Phil Green.

Plymouth take the plaudits as Ben steers them to first place it what has been an exhilerating season for the English top flight, it's always close and this season was no different...

Congrats to Ben, the table never lies and so he deserves great credit for winning the toughest league in the game, well done mate.

Not a bad season in the end for Charlton, semis in the European Cup and since week 5, no-one has picked up more points. It was the dreadful start that cost us dearly. Four weeks in and only 2 points on the board, 8 behind the leaders, was always going to be too much to catch up. So to finish only three points off the top two is quite satisfying after all.

Paul Hemmings wrote:: Brazil

Santos 5+55 Geoff Fields
Fluminense 53 +35 Tom Hurst
Corinthians 49 +18 Steve Best
Flamengo 39 +17 Jochen Wasley

Santos depose Fluminense but it's been nip and tuck between the top two ever since they came to Brazil and long may it continue...

Congrats to Geoff on a great season, league and Libertadores winners is no mean feat, Santos were just too strong this year. Glad Fluminense could pick up a cup win, hopefully the start of more trophies to come.

Corinthians were not far behind either, will be a very interesting season next year.

Delighted with Nantes' progress this year, more improvement is the aim for next year although how can you improve on a domestic double. A stronger run in the Europa would be a good start I guess.

Pleased to see Brighton get promoted to the Football League, that was my aim initially when I took them over so delighted that Tom Grealish has taken them to the next level and is doing an outstanding job there.

Finally congrats to all the title winners, trophy winners and managers that managed to get promotion, nice reward for a long tough season.

Thanks too to Paul for the hard work that has gone into the game, especially this year with the transition to Windows 10. Fantastic creation and a pleasure to play.

All the best to all teams involved in playoffs and all other managers for next season.

Printing now, email turns sent out later today...

Everyone OK after last night?

This about sums it up!

My experience was ~~hampered~~ frustrated by poor TV reception, which meant that me and the grandson listened to more of the second half and extra time than we saw!!!! (Apparently the local transmitter is on lower power while repairs are underway....DURING THE WORLD CUP!!!!) Got home and downed half a bottle of whisky. Then off to North Shields this morning to wrap up second place in the Tyne Valley Trophy subbuteo league. So not all bad.

Dave@Villa wrote:: My experience was ~~hampered~~ frustrated by poor TV reception, which meant that me and the grandson listened to more of the second half and extra time than we saw!!!! (Apparently the local transmitter is on lower power while repairs are underway....DURING THE WORLD CUP!!!!) Got home and downed half a bottle of whisky. Then off to North Shields this morning to wrap up second place in the Tyne Valley Trophy subbuteo league. So not all bad.

This may be my new favourite post ever.

Email turns all sent out.

Gutted we should have beaten no hopers Croatia.

Paul Hemmings wrote:: Belgium

Genk 58 +52 Phil Green feeder club for Watford.
Liege 53 +44 Gert Verheyen
Anderlecht 51 +41 Scott Cagliuri
Mechelen 36 +13 unmanaged ( might be my club for next year )

A great triumph for Genk who have become a top side and look ready to go to the next level next season in the new combined Holland-Belgium league...

I'm very pleased to have won the League with Genk! Hopefully i can continue to build on the success next season! However going to be very hard after doing the double this season!

But always look forward to a challenge!

Paul Hemmings wrote:: Premiership

Plymouth 48 +35 Ben Wilson.
Man City 48 +25 Geoff Fields.
Charlton 45 +26 Tom Hurst.
Watford 42 +28 Phil Green.

Plymouth take the plaudits as Ben steers them to first place it what has been an exhilerating season for the English top flight, it's always close and this season was no different...

The unstable season Watford have had is finally behind them and can hopefully make a fast start to the Season and rack up some early wins! Looking forward challenging for the top honour again, But congrats to Ben!

Massive thanks Paul for all the hard work and dedication showed each week to bring us the excitement and heartbreak! sometime's both! Hard to keep track with 3 teams.

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