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Our English Premier League journey, for the second time, finished last week with Manchester City crowned league champions, denying Liverpool what would have been an incredible three-in-a-row following a close-fought season.
While City (and Shane) can celebrate a league title, there's the small matter of a Champions League final for Liverpool (and Ken) with this week seeing the Reds in action against Bayern in Paris.
We'll get a feel for City's season, and sow the seeds for where we're off to next, but for one final time in Football Manager land, we're hanging with Liverpool in the hope that they can improve on their rollercoaster form of late and get something out of the last game in season 12. 
They think it's all over - it is now.
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It's finally over. 
Four months on since the release of Football Manager 2024, our Premier League adventures come to a close this week. 
The two-season arc is finished and the race for the title came all the way down to the final episode of the season. With a game in hand, can City make the extra points a possibility or will their poor run of form continue to haunt them with Liverpool - mathematically at least - still in the league?
It's City v Spurs, Man United and Southampton, while Ken's Liverpool travel to Goodison Park to meet Everton for the final Merseyside derby of the podcast series before hosting Bournemouth on the last day of the season.
Pride is at stake. The Premier League title is at stake. The plan for next season is at stake.
Having ported the universe from Football Manager 2023, is it time to press reset and soak up FM24 for all its worth, or do we head on over to Mexico for our long-planned visit and try cause some carnage that side of the world for a few weeks.
Whatever happens, it's been a long, winding, interesting season, but it all comes to a close this episode!
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For the second, third and final times in this Football Manager journey of ours, it's back to the Etihad we go this week as Ken's Liverpool make the trip to Shane's 'The Manchester' to settle the trilogy and close out the season.
With a 5-1 aggregate lead from last week's Champions League semi-final, Ken reckons he has this one in the bag, until he realises that the Liverpool prodigy-in-the-making, Fred Kalenga, is going to have to make an appearance with Yunus Musah collecting a potential season-ending injury as soon as we click continue this week. He joins a list including Jude Bellingham, Luis Diaz and Curtis Jones with long-term injuries, while Barello and Roberton still have red cards to contend with. City are bruised but not beaten and they're going full Leeroy Jenkins to try claw a place in this year's Champions League final.
While it seems a long shot, odds are a lot shorter when City and Liverpool have to meet for the final time in the Premier League. When it comes, the gap is only six points. City have a game in hand, with three to play. With likely one episode left for our Premier League adventure, is this the week the title finally goes to the blue half of Manchester, or will there be another twist in the tale that's been our longest season ever.
It's all go, complete with added pressures, frustrations and everything else that Football Manager typically brings, so join us over a break where we get stuck into the run-in for our final stay in England.
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On paper, this might be the biggest clash of our Football Manager journey to date.
While the race for the Premier League title has Man City clear of Liverpool by 6 points, the sides have been paired once again in Europe and this week we’ve got the first of our Champions League semi-finals along with some league action.
Between this week and next, we’ll play each other on three occasions, twice in Europe and once in the league in a bid to settle our final English stint once and for all.
With Liverpool having already seen off City in the Community Shield and the League Cup final this season, is there another sting in the tail or can City exact revenge and progress to the UEFA Champions League final?
I guess we’re about to find out…

This week on The Football Manager Show, we're going back in time. 
You see, there may have been a mishap after last week's episode in that, well, when it was supposed to save, it didn't save. Or maybe Ken didn't save the game. Or maybe the laptop died, or something happened, but the save wasn't there and the backup wasn't there, so where we took off and played our Champions League quarter-finals against Benfica and Real Madrid with Ken winning 2-0 against his old club (while playing with nine men) and Shane going town 2-0 at home against the new age Galacticos, we've got to go again. 
Similarly, we go again against Leeds and Newcastle to bring the timeline up to date before we jump into where we should be. 
Oh you can feel the tension. You can smell the tension. One person in particular is not all that happy. 
But that's what happens in Football Manager land now and again, isn't it?  
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It's finally April.
We're into single figures remaining in the Premier League, while the Champions League hits the quarter-final stages.
Can Ken's old boys Leicester cause an upset at Man City? Will Haaland have the edge over Real Madrid? Will Benfica come back to haunt Ken at Anfield and dent hopes of European success in our final season in England? So many questions, so many concerns!
Let's get into it and start the countdown to the end of our Premier League stay.
Contains strong language.