Credit to Johnny Karp

Hello friends, before i update my next post of Thurrock story, i would like to do a special post. The title of the post is “Credit to Johnny Karp”.

I have been playing football manager for years including the times when they were championship manager. I just concentrating playing and never think of anyone will write a blog regarding his football manager story. Somewhere in June/July 2009, i came across “truefootballmanager” written by Vitaliy Mokosiy by some FM forum(i think so) and i was ‘wow’ somebody has written a blog about football manager.

But i am hungry for more, so i search around using some keywords and one day i saw Johnny ‘s “footballmanagerstory”. I was hooked to it immediately and will always came up to look for his new updates. At that time, Johnny’s website has been around for several months and because of his Chester game unable to load up, he started a new story which he chosen “Blyth Spartans”. I was even more interested to find out as i always started playing from the lowest league. Neverthless i still follow his Chester story and started reading from the beginning. It was well written and very interesting and in fact i thought it was the best football manager blog that i ever came across.

I started to make some comments on his story, Johnny is a very friendly guy and he imediately reply to my comments. From what i noticed, he always respond to every comment made to his blog and will try to answer any question his readers have for him. Based on his recommendations, i also downloaded some enhancements such as facepacks, logos etc. For the past i just played without all these and this enhancements really excites me especially the facepacks.

The more i read Johnny’s story, the more eager i will think ’Can i write my own football manager story’?  Johnny really inspires me to start out a blog writing my own football manager story. Thats how my “fmstory” starts.

The reason why i want to do this post is that since the released of the new verson football manager 2010. I started to notice that visitors of Johnny is starting to write the football manager story of their own. I started to make new friends from the football manager community. I believe most of us is inspired by Johnny’s website to actually create a blog and try to learn from each other to make our football manager journey more enjoyable. 

The links to Johnny’s site is increasing now and then, there are almost 15 blogs in his link page now. I don’t know how many of them are inspired by him, but i definitely know Kevin, Martin and me(yours truly) are inspired by Johnny to write a story of our own.

Johnny has always trying to improve the functionality of his website,  recently he had introduced 2 new features to his website.

1) Guest Author

Johnny allows a guest author to publish a story on his website and i think this is really a gracious gestures by him. I am delighted that Kevin had decided to publish his Swindon Town story and add an extra dimension on top of his Notts County story.

2) Web browser toolbar

Johnny created a web browser toolbar for the readers to create a real FM community.

I really love these 2 features and i hope to see more innovative ways of him to excite us in future.

Before i end this post, i would like to say a big ‘THANK YOU’ to you Johnny for making the football manager game more enjoyable and interesting. Since the commence of my blog, i had found more purpose in playing football manager and my passion had grown even deeper. Thanks…

P.S to the creator(SI) of football manager: Please continue to make and improve the football manager game so that our passion can last forever.