Introducing something slightly newish

The story behind this post started two months shy of three years ago, both Niniev and myself were leading Manager-Crisis whilst Danlufan (the owner) was on one of his many unexplained “A.W.O.L Missions”. The problem we were having at the time was that Dan wanted clean cut material for the main site and to keep everything fairly decent and respectable. The problem we were having was that FM2007 had just come out and was frustrating the hell out of us. Whilst managing and providing the content for the most part at Manager-Crisis was still keeping us there there was a part of us that wanted to push the boundaries a little bit and let rip now and then.

We decided that we’d have our own little blog and there we could do as we pleased without worrying that Dan would take offence. A name for the blog and an identity was easier to come up with than the actual content in the end! With Niniev hailing from Edinburgh and myself from South London, coupled with the fact that we both grew up on football before the Premier League existed (before Sky owned the monopoly on football rights and when you could see live games on ITV) left us with the easy choice of choosing Saint and Greavsie as our ‘persona’.

For those of you who don’t remember who Saint and Greavsie were (which I have a feeling is everyone apart from Niniev and myself!) Here’s an excerpt of two old codgers rambling …

I still claim to this day (and probably until I die) that I am the person solely responsible for getting the alteration of pitch sizes into the game – The Proof!, maybe going through the archives at S&G then SI might read this one about how pointless a physio is. Then again I may be getting ahead of myself and they’ve actually given the physio something to do in FM2010!

Anyway, back to the story … S&G was never intended to be prolific and Manager Crisis began to pick up once again, Niniev took more of front seat whilst I buried my head in Data updates as usual and S&G fizzled out. There were times when S&G could’ve been reignited but it usually favoured one or other of us and as the site was intended to be both us neither wanted to do it without the other.

So, after a couple of years apart with myself arriving via Goal-Kick and Niniev being here a while we’ve reunited! Yes, Saint and Greavsie are returning for FM2010 exclusively at FM-View (Maybe I should put some disclaimer here as I usually leave places regularly!)

With the relaunch of the Main site and the semi-regular content that we’ve been adding recently it was decided that whilst FM-View was heading back into a magazine format with a little bit of something for everyone it was still lacking one thing – Opinion! And that’s what we’re aiming to inflict on you all!!