I know how Iain Dowie feels

I got sacked in the Manager mode of FIFA 07!
The cheek of it!

Okay I had a couple of bad results including a three-nil defeat by Portsmouth, but still, I was eighth in the table just after Xmas and was progressing nicely in the cup, so what gives?

If life imitates art, old Benitez better watch his back! ;)

Yay!

FIFA 07 was awaiting me when I got home yesterday evening (so I got it cheap and early - result), and -although I didn't have a huge amount of time to dedicate to it (baby to see to, new episode of Lost to watch, etc), I can tell you it's pure fucking class..

First game in? A nice drubbing of the blue shite at Anfield. Marvellous.

I think this review says it better than I could though..

Busy weekend ahead, so not many gaming hours planned, but next week this game is getting a hammering - joy!

Grim

I notice that winter has started outside the window of the office today.

The tree's seem to be being mercilessly blown about in the wind and it looks thoroughly grey and miserable out there.  Almost makes me want to hug my PC for the warmth.  It's usually quite difficult for me to judge how the weather is doing during the winter as I generally arrive for work in the dark and go home in the dark (actually I got home in the Golf, but that's not important right now). 

 

Occasionally, if I venture out at lunchtimes to forage for food (which is as rare, as there is still fuck all to do in Chadderton during any given lunch time), I may be affected by the weather -adversely or otherwise- but, apart from that, trapped in my office cocoon it's difficult to gauge what's going on.  Probably for the best.

 

I am beginning to realise that I am a bit of a control freak when it comes to coding.  At the moment I'm on a project that seems to be spiralling out of control and running out of time.  So I am freaked out.  Pity as well as I'm arguably working with some of the finest coders (me being on the team finally proving that "birds of a feather do NOT flock together"), so it's not an IT problem, it's the business who are fucking us over.  I can only console myself by reminding myself that I have two weeks off in seven weeks time.. ..and then it will be 2007 - wow!

 

However, my cheap copy of FIFA 07 has been shipped (I know this as I got a SMS from shopto.net - how cool is that!?), so there is some good news after all.  I fully expect to be on the receiving end of seven - nil thrashings on XBox live anytime soon.  Wicked.  Hopefully I'll clock up a few gamerpoints too as the 70 I currently have (see gamercard above) is woeful compared to my online peers.

 

 

Cash Back!

Yeah, it has been a few days since the last post.. That cold really knocked the stuffing out of me to be honest.

But I'm back and I'm bad and all that shite now so..

Anyway, if -like me- you like your games either on the PC or on some of the shiny, shiny consoles that are in circulation at the moment, then you might want to bob over to shopto.net.

I have been looking for the cheapest copy of FIFA 07 for the 360 online, and did my usual search at kelkoo.. to find the cheapest online deal and shopto.net were the cheapest. Admittedly they were only cheapest by a quid, but a quid is a quid - right?

Anyhoo.. not only were they cheapest by a quid, but when you buy your first order from shopto.net, you get £3 off the total price. So suddenly I'm getting four quid off the cheapest online price - result, in fact one might say "Back of the net" (and as a Liverpool fan it's not often this season I can say "Back of the net", so indulge me, okay?).

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