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Bottom At Christmas | Season 6 | Final-Day Relegation Faceoff Big Sam Allardyce made it 3 survivals out of 5 as he led a beleaguered Wolves to unlikely Premier League safety in 2028. But there was no time to hang around in Wolverhampton as Big Sam tendered hi…

Our #BottomAtChristmas #FM24 experiment concludes with a really fun season in Portugal. Big Sam takes charge of a winless #GilVicente and uses his tactical nous to breathe new life into the strugglers.

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Bottom At Christmas | Season 6 | Final-Day Relegation Faceoff Big Sam Allardyce made it 3 survivals out of 5 as he led a beleaguered Wolves to unlikely Premier League safety in 2028. But there was no time to hang around in Wolverhampton as Big Sam tendered his resignation, holidayed ahead to Christmas, and went in search of a new club to save.

#FM24 #BottomAtChristmas Season 6: Final-Day Relegation Faceoff. Big Sam takes control of winless @GilVicente_fc but a tactical rethink sees him drastically improve the strugglers' fortunes and tee up a potential final-day thriller.

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Bottom At Christmas | Season 5 | A Christmas Cracker Of A Relegation Scrap Big Sam enjoyed a positive fourth season of his Bottom At Christmas experiment, leading an underachieving Köln side to comfortable Bundesliga survival. And that made it 2 survivals, 2 relegations and 1 sacking. But, despite growing fond of the German club, he wasted no time in taking 7 months out of the game and holidaying ahead to Christmas 2027.

#FM24 #BottomAtChristmas Season 5: A Christmas Cracker Of A Relegation Scrap. Big Sam heads back to England with a beleaguered @Wolves and a massive transfer window sees him revive their fortunes. But would it be enough to sneak survival?

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Bottom At Christmas | Season 4 | Reviving A Massive Underachiever Big Sam suffered his second relegation in three seasons of the Bottom At Christmas challenge as his Sampdoria side was relegated by local rivals Genoa on the final day of the 2025/26 campaign. He took seven months off to lick his wounds and holiday ahead to Christmas Day 2026.

#FM24 #BottomAtChristmas Season 4: Reviving A Massive Underachiever. Big Sam takes on a brand new challenge as he heads to Germany with @fckoeln, who'd somehow gone from finishing 5th to sitting bottom of #Bundesliga within 6 months.

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Bottom At Christmas | Season 3 | Epic Final-Day Rival Relegation Decider Big Sam Allardyce enjoyed a much stronger Season 2 of his Bottom At Christmas challenge, leading Cádiz CF safely away from the LaLiga dropzone. But he swiftly stood down and holidayed ahead ready for a new challenge in Season 3. Looking back at his former clubs, Nottingham Forest gained promotion at the first tome of asking and are currently 12th. While Cádiz sit 14th in LaLiga, 6 points clear of safety.

#FM24 #BottomAtChristmas Season 3: Epic Final-Day Rival Relegation Decider. Big Sam takes on a new challenge in Italy, where he drags a doomed side to the brink of survival. But his fate will decided by a huge final day showdown.

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Bottom At Christmas | Season 2 | Excellent January Transfer Business Season 1 of Bottom At Christmas ended with a pretty pathetic relegation at Nottingham Forest. But, for some reason, Forest didn't sack Big Sam, so he was forced to resign and holiday ahead to Christmas 2024.

#FM24 #BottomAtChristmas Season 2: Excellent January Transfer Business. The 2nd season of our #FMExperiment sees Big Sam Allardyce head to Spain with @Cadiz_CF. And shrewd signings, including Noni Madueke and Igor Thiago, inspire improvement.

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Bottom At Christmas | Season 1 | A Shambolic Start In the last two versions of Football Manager, we've run experiments with Big Sam Allardyce stepping in to try and rescue teams sitting bottom of their leagues at Christmas time. We weren't planning to run it on FM24 but, with the delay to FM25, this Christmas period seemed like a good time to revive the series.

#FM24 #BottomAtChristmas Season 1: A Shambolic Start. We launch our 3rd series of attempting to rescue clubs bottom of their leagues at Christmas by installing Big Sam Allardyce as manager of #NFFC. But could he save a seemingly doomed side?

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