OK, so I haven't posted on here in a while because, you know, I've had a life and stuff - but I couldn't help popping back to celebrate my recent cup win on the forum

Woohoo me!

OK, so it was won on penalties (after a hard fought 2-2 with my opponent getting three first half injuries and not making a single sub), but a new trophy will be in the cabinet for next year and that's what counts

For the record:

Season 2 finishes with a comfortable league win, and two losing cup finals. Very unfortunate to get beaten by a much better team in the cup, followed by a bizarre thrashing from a lower quality team in the CL. Meh.

After spending a bit of money on this game in the first two seasons (a season and a half in actual playing time), I decided to go F2P for season 3....

Season 3 ends with another league title in the bag, this time with an early exit in the cup (last 16) and a semi final exit in the CL.

Considering that I haven't spent any money this year, I'm happy with the performance of the team but the season as a whole wasn't very exiting as a player and was impacted by a ludicrous number of injuries - particularly to CM players, all 4 being injured at the same time on a regular basis

Season 4 continues my 'no-spend' policy, and the league is much more exciting as there are 4 people who won their league last year, all with 5* average teams

As things stand I am one point behind the leaders with one game to go, third place is four points behind me (I play them on the final day) and fourth is behind them on goal difference - they both have two games to play

The cup final was reached and won on penalties against a Lvl 6 team with a superstar CM and 3 other world class players. I dropped my attacking style for normal and went hard tackling, taking out 3 of their players in the first half!

My tactics were influenced by another spate of CM injuries, this time 3 are out. One of them got a 5 day injury two days ago, so I cured him and he promptly got another 5 day injury two games later....

Have a CL final to come tonight, so hopeful of a cup double. League is out of my hands, but you never know

Hope everyone had fun this season :-)