That's the purest way to play the game, IMO.
Start unemployed with as low reputation as you can get and work your way up. The main thing that would annoy me about that, is that if/when you eventually get a job at Villa, all the current players would be long gone. I like to buy the game to take over Villa and see how much better than Lambert I can do. (I'm currently 7th btw!)
How?? I'm consistently in a relegation scrap no matter what I try