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                 Championship Manager Season 00/01 FAQ
                               Version 2.4
                            9th November 2000
                              by Rich Taylor
             e-mail: benoit@thecrippler.freeserve.co.uk
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Copyright:
 Copyright 2000 Rich Taylor. It may not be stolen, altered, or used for
any type of profit. It may be reproduced electronically, and printed 
for PRIVATE, PERSONAL use. It may not be placed on a CD, printed in a
magazine  or any type of publication. It cannot be placed on any website
without my permission.If you would like to contribute to this FAQ (you will
be credited,) please e-mail me, as well as any questions, comments, or
corrections, to the address above.

If you use a small part of this in your own FAQ, give me credit, and do ask
for permission first.

CAN PEOPLE PLEASE E-MAIL ME WITH A LOT MORE QUESTIONS OR RECOMMENDATIONS

The only websites that can post this are;

Game FAQs http://www.gamefaqs.com
Video Game Strategies http://vgstrategies.about.com
Action Trip http://www.actiontrip.com
The Cheat Empire http://home.planetinternet.be/~twuyts

If you have found this guide on any other site please e-mail me and
tell me where.
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This is very much a work in progress as the game is very new and new players
and tactics and tips will be added all the while. I am also on the Internet
a lot more now than with my FAQ for the last game, so I should have a lot more
information on this FAQ than the one for CM 99/00

Please feel VERY free to e-mail me with your favourite players/staff/tactics
and I will always include them in the next update, with full credit.

I am not going to go over all of the basics like what the stats mean, or how
to start a game, or what the different buttons do while you are playing a
match. You can read the instruction book for that. Or read Mark Vaughn's
guide from www.sigames.com/eng or www.thedugout.net as that tells you
everything like that you need to know. A lot of the other guides for the CM
series are just copies of that, and sren't as good. Whereas I try to collect
a lot of the information from different message boards at different websites,
as well as using my own experience, to give all the best players, staff,
tactics etc. Other guides may be bigger but they are just the instruction
manual typed out.
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Version 1.0 I have only played the demo from www.sigames.net as the game
doesn't come out til Friday but I thought I'd get started now to allow for a
FAQ that has information as I have it, best to get one out early.

Version 2.0 Added more info about the new features of the game. Added a few
recommended players.

Version 2.1 Added more players and a few tactics.

Version 2.2 Added a lot mor players. Changed the recommended players section
around so that higher league and lower league players are seperate.

Version 2.3 Added a couple of players. Added a new tactic and updated the info
about some of the players. Added a cheat.

Version 2.4 Added players
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Contents
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1. Introduction and New Features
2. Cheats and Tips
3. Recommended Players
4. Recommended Staff
5. Tactics and Formations
6. Ackowledgements
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1. Introduction
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This will be a FAQ about the entire game, not just the English League like
the last one for CM 99/00. I also want this to be an FAQ, so please e-mail
me your questions about the game and I will answer everyone that I can, if I
don't know it I will find out for you. If you want to reccomend a tactic,
save it and send me the tactic as an attachment, I can then check it out
and draw the tactic on here myself.

The main new feature about this game is the built in editor, you no longer
need to download one from the Internet (that reminds me I never thanked
Tri Wasano in my last FAQ for his brilliant CM 99/00 editor, thanks. Better
late than never). So I want to start off by asking no-one to use this editor
to cheat. It is an idiots way out and it should only be used to make the game
more realistic. Only make a player better if he is really crap in the game
when he is good in real life. Only transfer players when they have been
transfered in real life. This is what it is for. I hate it when people say
they took a team from the conference all the way to European glory in about
6 seasons. But you know that they done it with an editor. I always changed
the name of my club, usually to something stupid like, Jericholics or
Slayers Forest or The Skywalkers, but that just shows how sad I am.

My favourite new feature is the media interaction. Now when something
important is happening at your club they ask for your opinion on it.
This can affect the moral of certain players, or the way you are viewed by
other managers. For example I was asked whether or not I thought Alan Smith
(Leeds) was a future England star. By saying that I beleived he was let him
know that I held him in high regard. They also ask about whether someone is
available for transfer and the such, very cool thing.

You can also now give a player a warning before you actually fine him, which
is a good thing as it prevents them from getting too pissed off with you when
they are fined, if they are warned beforehand they should have a good idea
that something is coming.

The most important new feature (after the editor) is probably the FA request
feature. You can now complain to the FA about the Referee in your last
match :) (I love being able to complain about the ref). And you can also ask
for your next match to be psotponed, this is handy if you have too many
injuries or you don't have a Goalkeeper to play, or if three or more players
are on International duty then the FA may postpone your game and re-arrange
it at a later date. I could have done with that in the last game, especially
when the Olympic tournament was on as there was no age limit in it (it's now
under 23's only, thank god).

There are also coach and physio reports available for players in your own
squad. This is very useful when you aren't sure if someone is up to the
standard you wish, or if you are not too sure of their fitness.

The final big feature is the live league table during matches. You can watch
it while playing a league match and see what the positions are if all the
current scores stay the same, it changes whenever a goal is scored and is
very useful if you are trying to avoid promotion as you don't have to try
and work it out for yourself.

There are new leagues as well, here is a full list of all the nations who's
leagues you are able to be able to participate in;

Argentina
Australia (new)
Belgium
Brazil
Croatia (new)
Denmark
England
Finland (new)
France
Germany
Greece (new)
Holland
Ireland (new)
Italy
Japan
United States
Northern Ireland (new)
Norway
Poland (new)
Portugal
Russia (new)
Scotland
Spain
Sweden
Turkey (new)
Wales (new)

The game also comes in a DVD style box, which is a lot less space comsuming
than the old boxes, they still don't stand up properly though. I have a big
collection of DVD's all lying on their sides while all my videos are still
standing strong, and DVD is supposed to be the way forward. Anyway I digress.

If you want the game to be bang up to date dowload the first official patch
from www.sigames.com/eng it fixes any bugs (most of which are very unlikely
to happen, but it's better to be safe than sorry) and contains an official
data update, which includes Stan Collymore to Bradford. The problem is it is
11.4 Mb so it takes a long time to download, and not all download utilities
will allow you to resume on files over 10Mb, so you can be in for a
frustrating time. It's also available at www.thedugout.net.
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2. Cheats and Tips
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International Management
On the team selection screen when starting a game you can select to manage
an international team by going to the teams Squad screen and selecting to
manage them as with any other team. You can get to an international teams
Squad screen by clicking on a players nationality within a player profile.
(thanks to Mark Vaughn's CM guide).
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3. Recommended Players
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Higher league means the top division only, obviously the players will still be
good at a lower level but they will probably get restless. Lower league is the
equivalent of the first division and below. Some players might not be good
enough for the first division, so you would probably be better off going for
the lesser known higher league players.

HIGHER LEAGUE PLAYERS
GOALKEEPERS
Fabian Barthez
GK French Manchester United
27 8m (varies)

Recber Rustu
GK Turkish Fenerbahce
27 4m

Magnus Hedman
GK Swedish Coventry
27 3.8m

Jerzy Dudek
GK Polish Feyenoord
27 3.8m

DEFENDERS
Jaap Stam
DC Dutch Manchester United
28 10m

Evanilson
D/DMR Brazilian Dortmund
24 5.25m

Saliou Lassissi
D/DMRC Ivory Coast Parma
22 4.1m

Patrick Andersson
DC Swedish Bayern Munich
29 4.4m

Gilmar
SWDC Brazilian Real Madrid
21 2.3m

MIDFIELDERS
Rafael van der Vaart
ML Dutch Ajax
16 1.9m

Kennedy Bakircioglu
AMFRC Swedish Hammarby
19 625k

Rory Delap
SW/D/M/FRC Irish Derby
24 5m

Hidetoshi Nakata
AMRC Japanese Roma
23 9m

Francesco Totti
AM/FRC Italian Roma
23 20m (varies)
I have seen him sold for 45m

Kieron Dyer
D/DMRC English Newcastle
21 5m
Can play well in defence, but scores shit loads from midfield for
a defensive midfielder

Stephan Appiah
DMC Ghanaian Parma
19 3.2m

Sergio Conceicao
AMR Portuguese Parma
25 5.5m

Johan Micoud
AMLC French Parma
27 4.8m

ATTACKERS
Marcus Allback
SC Swedish OIS
27 600k
My favourite player in the whole game

Ismael Urzaiz
SC Spanish Athletic Bilbao
28 7.75m

John Carew
SC Norwegian Valencia
20 7.5m

Luis Arcamone
SC Argentinian
21 Free

Ade Akinbyi
SC Nigerian Leicester
25 3m

Marco Di Vaio
AMFC Italian Parma
24 5m

Andrew Cole
SC English Manchester United
28 10m

Thierry Henry
AMFLC French Arsenal
22 10m

Guilherme
SC Brazilian Atletico Mineiro
26 5m

Rajku Lekic
SC Danish B93
19 12k

Luis Hernandez
FC Mexican Los Angeles
31 3.9m

Robbie Keane
FC Irish Inter
20 5.5m

Ighli Vannucchi
AM/FRLC Italian Salernitana
23 3.8m

Savo Milosevic
SC Yugoslav Parma
27 9.5m

LOWER LEAGUE PLAYERS
GOALKEEPERS
William Packham
GK English Brighton
19 50k

Dean Williams
GK English Telford
27 15k

DEFENDERS
Andy Todd
D/DMC English Charlton
25 400k
Will drop down a couple of divisions for first team football

Gary Smith
DRC Scottish Hibs
29 275k

Lee Collins
DC English Stoke City
22 varies

MIDFIELDERS
Micah Hyde
MC English Watford
? 2m

Ronnie Wallwork
D/DMC English ?
20 Free
He shouldn't be on a free as he is at Man Utd still in reality.

Darragh Ryan
AML Irish UCD
20 8k
Good for that price, will play well in the Second Division

Dean Keates
DMLC English Walsall
22 275k

Charlie Miller
AMC Scottish Watford
24 1m

Michael Duff
D/DMR 

ATTACKERS
Derek Adams
SC Scottish Motherwell
25 425k
Scored 24 for me with Walsall

Paul McVeigh
SC Northern Irish Norwich
22 900k

James Flood
SC Free Transfer
20 Free

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4. Recommended Staff
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No favourites yet, please send them in.
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5. Tactics and Formations
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Tactic 1

     GK
 DC  DC  DC
     DMC
MR  MC MC  ML
    FC FC

This is a really good tactic with a lower division team, especially if you
play direct and attcking, as you get the midfield packed. It's also a good
idea to make the DMC tackle hard as it then can bully the oppostion's
midfielders out of the game.

Tactic 2

    GK
DR DC DC DL
 MC MC MC
 FC FC FC

To make this tactic really work make the two wide attackers run in towards
the centre attacker. I don't know why it works it just does, you get a lot of
the ball and the attacks always seem quite persistent

Tactic 3

   GK
DC DC DC
   DMC
MC MC MC
   AMC
 FC  FC

This works really well for me at Reading and Walsall. Make sure that the
central MC is quite attacking and that your defensive midfielder is a
Defender/Midfielder. I use Adrian Viveash at Reading and it works a treat.

Tactic 4

    GK
DR DC DC DL
    DMC
 MC MC MC
   FC FC

This is a good tactic for a big club. Use short passing and always stay on
Pressing. If you are ahead, especially by two goals. Switch to Counter
Attacking as you are then not that likely to get caught out.

More to come soon!!!
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6. Acknowledgements
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Mark Geneste for The Dugout (www.thedugout.net)

Eidos and Sports Interactive for the game

www.sigames.com/eng for the demo

Video Game Strategies (vgstrategies.about.com)

GameFAQs (www.gamefaqs.com)

Elvis Costello, Neil Diamond, Limp Bizkit and Soulwax for ensuring that I
don't have to sit in silence while playing the game, and writing this guide.

The Dugout Forum and all that take part in it.