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Graham FM · 05-05-08, 08:39 PM

Lower League Management At Its Finest

After the enjoyable Bromley game i had going a while back i wanted to start a new game in the english lower league and try and stay at the club for at least 10 years or stay in england.

So the new journey starts at Boston United in the Blue Square North, a club well known by me as i had a save game with them on fm 07.

Boston United Football Club are a football club based in Boston, Lincolnshire, England.

Club History

The club was founded in 1934 as a successor to a club called Boston F.C., and had a moderate amount of success in various leagues, including the Midland League and Southern League. They were founder members of the Northern Premier League in 1968, of which they were champions four times, and of the Alliance Premier League (now the Football Conference) in 1979. Their main rivals are Lincoln City. Boston are nicknamed the Pilgrims, although they were briefly nicknamed the Skyrockets during the 1985/86 season due to their long-ball style of play.
Boston finished third in the Conference in 1988-89, but were unable to build on this and were relegated to the NPL in 1993. They transferred again to the Southern League, winning the title in 2000, and went fully professional in 2001. In their first season as a professional club, Boston won the Conference and were promoted to the Football League.

However, in the wake of their promotion, Boston's manager, Steve Evans, and former chairman, Pat Malkinson, were charged with breaking the Football Association's rules over the registration of players. Both men received bans from the FA, and the club were fined and docked four points from their first season in the League. This angered some, especially the Conference runners up Dagenham & Redbridge, who believed that any points deduction should have applied to the previous season, which would have meant Dagenham being promoted instead. In their promotion to the Football League, Boston never really looked like challenging for promotion to the third tier of the league and most of their time from 2002 was spent in mid-table.
In May 2007 Boston were relegated from Football League Two on the last day of the season.

Originally scheduled to play the 2007/8 season in the Conference National, this position was immediately placed in doubt after the club's chairman Jim Rodwell entered Boston into a Company Voluntary Arrangement late in their last game so as not to be penalised for the 2007/8 season - 10 points are docked from the past season, instead of the next, allowing them to have a clean start in the Conference. As a result of HM Revenue & Customs placing a restriction into the CVA of Boston not being allowed to pay football creditors 100% of what they were owed, as per FA rules, on June 9, Boston were relegated two divisions and are now scheduled to start 2007/8 in the Conference North division, two steps below the Football League.

Boston United play at York Street, Former club chairman Jon Sotnick has claimed it is not up to Football League standard and has called for a new ground.Planning applications were made to Boston Borough Council Borough in June 2006, but the council turned down the application. The ground has a total capacity of 6,645.

Honours

FA Trophy runners-up 1984-85
Football Conference champions 2001-02
Southern League champions 1999-2000, runners-up 1998-99
Northern Premier League champions 1972-73, 1973-74, 1975-76, 1976-77, 1997-98, runners-up 1971-72
Midland League runners-up 1955-56
Central Alliance League champions 1961-62
United Counties League champions 1965-66
West Midlands (Regional) League champions 1966-67, 1967-68
Lincolnshire Senior Cup Winners 2005-2006

With a couple of trophy's all ready in the cabnit can i add any more ???

So there all the information of the club as i feel the more u know about the club the more enjoyable the game will be.

thats the lot for now :) i will update with screen shots of my team etc..