Hello dear friends! A new year is here and after some thinking I decided to start a brand new competition here! It will obviously be related to Football Manager 2011, a competition between the most beautiful goals that you have seen in the game. How it will work is extremely simple: if one of your players has scored a great goal in FM 2011 you will simply have to upload that goal to YouTube and then post a comment with a link to the video. Submissions will be open until the 15th of the month, then all the submitted goals will be published in a post and entered into a poll where the readers will get to vote until the end of the month and decide which goal is the most beautiful one.
Every competition has to have some prizes, right? Well, each «goal of the month» winner will get a football related book from me. The January winner will get a copy of «Inverting The Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics» by Jonathan Wilson, a great book that will really improve your tactical knowledge and skills.
The competition will go on until there will be an official announcement on the release date for Football Manager 2012! Then the monthly competition will stop but we’ll have a kind of a play-off between all the monthly winners: all the best goals from each month will be entered into another poll and the winner will get a copy of FM 2012!
Just to kick off the competition, here’s one of the best goals I’ve seen so far in my Vauxhall game:
Don’t forget to submit your videos before January 15th folks, good luck!
James
5 января, 2011 at 13:46
Oooooooh this looks fun :)
Johnny Karp
5 января, 2011 at 13:48
I surely hope so :)
James
5 января, 2011 at 16:45
Who will be able to vote? people who actually enter with a goal or poeple who havnt entered?
Johnny Karp
5 января, 2011 at 20:23
Everybody will be allowed to vote.
Laxeyman
5 января, 2011 at 16:27
Good idea Johnny, it will be great to see some fantastic goals, should be interesting :)
Johnny Karp
5 января, 2011 at 20:23
Thanks Laxeyman, I hope it will be a nice one.
Vaibhav C.
5 января, 2011 at 17:31
the competition is on Johnny, btw is the comment on this post or any post?
Johnny Karp
5 января, 2011 at 20:23
It should be on this post, it would be easier for me to track all the links. You can also email it to me if you want.
Zola
5 января, 2011 at 18:38
Great idea.I want to be part of the competition but don’t know how to create a link.So feel free to use the video in my blog.The one you comment on it.
Johnny Karp
5 января, 2011 at 20:22
You don’t have to create the link. Just go to YouTube, go to that particular video and copy the link. For your video the link is as follows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1kcLgMeYoA
Chris
5 января, 2011 at 19:47
This is a brilliant idea. Just have to teach the boys how to score the special goals now. If you did a competition for the scrappiest tap ins I would win hands down. Well done Johnny
Johnny Karp
5 января, 2011 at 20:24
I’m glad that you like it Chris. The «scrappiest goal» thing would be far too competitive I guess :)
Chris
6 января, 2011 at 08:33
Doesn’t matter anyway, Owen Hargreaves just scored a screamer. It won’t let me upload though. Did I have to link my YouTube account when I created my profile?
Johnny Karp
6 января, 2011 at 09:33
You can link your YouTube account before uploading, go to your profile in the game and there should be a «Social Networks» tab somewhere and you can add your YouTube account there. Then you’ll be able to upload.
David Wiggins
5 января, 2011 at 21:28
Hi Johnny, does the goal have to be in a competitive game or do they count if they were scored in a friendly?
Johnny Karp
6 января, 2011 at 06:42
It doesn’t matter, friendly goals are welcome as well.
dami
6 января, 2011 at 01:25
We could transfer this to the forum also but here’s mine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0CdIC69QV0
dami
6 января, 2011 at 02:27
how many goals are we allowed to submit
Johnny Karp
6 января, 2011 at 06:44
I didn’t think about it but I guess the fair thing would be to allow just one entry per month for each user. You can submit another goal in February and then another one in March and so on.
James
6 января, 2011 at 08:40
That was a quality goal Dami :P
Johnny Karp
6 января, 2011 at 06:43
That’s a good one Dami, great goal!
Sears
6 января, 2011 at 01:39
Great competition Johnny, will be nice to see some quality goals. I’m taking a short break from FM though so I may enter at a later stage if that’s OK. Again, great idea and great competition.
Johnny Karp
6 января, 2011 at 06:43
Thanks Sears, you can enter whenever you want.
James
6 января, 2011 at 14:50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHMjC6yRELE
My goal :D PEDROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Johnny Karp
6 января, 2011 at 16:53
That’s a fine goal mate, thanks for submitting it.
Ana Garcia
6 января, 2011 at 15:16
Sounds like fun!
Here is my goal! Its from my favourite player from South China the magical Wang Bo! :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtL02knBwBA
Ana Garcia
6 января, 2011 at 15:20
I am just in for fun, so no prize for me if I win!
Will you just put all the goals into a post? or on the forum??
Johnny Karp
6 января, 2011 at 16:51
OK Ana, no problem. The goals can be submitted until January 15th and then I’ll put them together in a post here and maybe on the forum as well. But probably the voting will be done exclusively on the main site.
Johnny Karp
6 января, 2011 at 16:52
That’s a great goal, we’re really having a tough competition here! :)
Vaibhav C.
6 января, 2011 at 16:34
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr_pig0IrxA
Jack Cork scored against Bristol City for Burnley
Johnny Karp
6 января, 2011 at 16:55
Great goal mate, thanks for sharing it!
garryduncan
6 января, 2011 at 17:12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifpc3ZKDhj8
dean hammond for my southampton team
Johnny Karp
6 января, 2011 at 17:31
Nice one Garry, thanks!
garryduncan
7 января, 2011 at 02:55
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gx47BsoO2Q
Higuain lob…great finish
Johnny Karp
7 января, 2011 at 07:00
Garry, you can submit just one goal per month so I guess you should save this one for February :)
Chris
8 января, 2011 at 08:47
Ok Johnny, heres mine, I thought it was gonna be the best easy but some of the others that have been posted have been brilliant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysAqpIGIOL8
Johnny Karp
8 января, 2011 at 08:50
That’s a great goal Chris, thanks!
Lye
12 января, 2011 at 02:59
Hi Johnny,
This is my entry to the goal of the month competition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgFeuP2tlus
Johnny Karp
12 января, 2011 at 06:24
Great goal mate, thanks for sharing!
dami
12 января, 2011 at 19:15
geez, I have so many wonderful and sometimes funny goals. Seems like playing in lower leagues produces more quality goals than playing in higher leagues. Strange
Johnny Karp
12 января, 2011 at 20:20
You can save them for the next months Dami :)