Congrats to all league and cup winners!

Orange Roughies needed one point in two remaining matches to knot up the league win. We beat the 8th place team 2:1 on their turf with the manager (me) absent from the game. Boosting morale of the entire squad and giving the lads ample rest and top bonus surely helped. I had been moving away from my once favored 4-5-1V formation lately, but it seemed perfect against the top-heavy 4-2-1-3 of the opposition, so I rolled the dice and won. It gave my star DC/DMC with FK a chance to shine from his preferred position. He scored a goal and grabbed MOM honors. I had renamed him Busquets when he came to the team last year.

To make the triumphs sweeter, if less dramatic, the 2nd and 3rd place teams earned one point between them and fell further behind.

The biggest challenge now is selling off overrated players in time for the next season. I had carried two 6* GKs most of the season hoping one of them would make a case for a permanent job as a starter, and one did. Besides, the academy has just sent me a 2* 0T GK. Why not?

Must also sell an unexceptional 6* MC who has been a YC magnet until late in the season, and a DR for no fault of his own, just to make the math work.

Perhaps the academy players will get a start in the last match of the season and try to give us a 12 point final lead over the competition.

Thank to all for your support and advice. Go Roughies!