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It's back to the Dragon's Lair for Season Eight of Dream Team, and relegated Harchester United face a scrap in the newly formed 'Championship'. But their European dreams are still alive as they gear up for exciting Champions League fixtures. New signings include Shane Lynch as the club's new owner Eli Knox, with Viv 'Jaws' Wright (Philip Brodie), long-suffering wife Chelsea (Karen Ferrari), Curtis Alexander (Chucky Venice) and Nicki Stein (Nina Muschallik) among the returning favourites.
We pick up from where we left off at the end of last season, the lads still celebrating their fourth place finish in the premiership thus ensuring Champions League football for the new season but unbeknown to them also being relegated down to the Championship as a result of the match fixing towards the end of last season.
Dean tries contacting the team through Viv's mobile to tell them the bad news, but the lads won't have any of it and laugh it off. It takes a second call from Clyde's dad before the penny finally drops, leaving the players in disbelief.
The next morning, the team gather round to watch the news as the result of their appeal comes through. Dean is convinced they will get it overturned after the same happened to Monaco the season before, but this time however is not the case. The team are dejected, Dean suggests another appeal but the team talk him out of it saying that it could damage their Champions League dream as well. Clyde leads the team in demanding the money they are owed due to them getting into the Champions League then finding other clubs.
Meanwhile a prestigious businessman known as Eli Knox lands in Harchester and sets off in his limousine to meet ex-Wigan and now Harchester manager, Don Barker, a hard-nosed Scotsman with a good background of the lower leagues. Don puts forward his case to try and convince Eli to buy Harchester, and with Coopers Bank desperate to sell he would be picking up a Premiership side for next to nothing and with Don vowing to get them back in the Premiership this season he will make a tidy profit in the end. Being the gambling man that Eli is, with a toss of a coin, he becomes the new owner of Harchester United.
The next morning Dean introduces the new arrivals to the team including Frank Stone, a new central defender who Don brought with him from Wigan and incidentally is also Don's daughter, Jodie's husband. Clyde brings up the matter of the team splitting up and going to separate clubs, Eli dashes their hopes of their Champions League bonus they are owed if that happens soon indicating that they still have the qualifying round to play in order to get into the Champions League group stages, which doesn't go down well with the lads.
Don has his eye on a new signing in Chelsea right-winger Tommy Valentine. With Harchester strapped for cash Don, with a little help from Jodie go to the press with the story that Tommy has been sleeping with one of his Chelsea team mates wives. As soon as this gets out, in steps Don giving Tommy a way out of Chelsea and regular first team football as well as a crack at the Champions League. Tommy is unsure at first but his agent, Sofia convinces him that with his reputation in tatters and Chelsea not letting him go to another Premiership he should think about it and it's not long before he signs on loan to Harchester until Christmas.
Clyde is having a tough time with the changes. The new manager takes an instant disliking to him and plays him out of position to please new signing Tommy. Things aren't looking promising either when Sofia can't get him a move back to the Premiership informing them that they all believe he has a bad attitude. Sofia manages to get a representative of Norwich to come and watch Clyde in his first game against Brighton, but Clyde's mouth gets the better of him during a confrontation with Don, which results in him being dropped. Harchester kick off their Championship campaign with a tricky tie away to Brighton and Clyde, knowing that this match could be his ticket out of Harchester grudgingly apologises to Don and his team mates and plays in the game albeit out of position in centre midfield. The lads get a reality check when Brighton take the game to them, making the Dragons realise that life in the Championship won't be as easy as expected. Its all square at half-time and Clyde and Tommy decide to switch back to their preferred positions unbeknown to Don. Their plan backfires and Harchester end up losing the game 1-0 and Don vents his frustrations on Clyde.





First appearances of
Don Barker, Frank Stone, Jodie Stone, Eli Knox, Sofia Moxham,
Tommy Valentine
 

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