Well, after a 5 day break, i managed to get online and play some Fifa. It felt weird to start with and it took me a game to get back into the controls. I played a game against liamM97, a guy from the fifa forums. He is a very tidy passer, and caused me a bit of a headache at first. I was still trying to dial my passing in again and gave the ball away a lot. He had a few decent chances and i had one "it must be!" moment, but neither of us scored and he quit just before half time because the game was laggy. It was weird lag, it was smooth as anything for a minute, then terrible for a minute, then smooth again. We tried to play through it but it got too much, i was preparing to quit at half time when he left anyway, so no harm done.
I then played a guy called Lord Provoker in a QRM. He certainly lived up to his name. He was good, but one of those weirdo's that does tricks with his defenders when they have no one near them? whatever floats your boat i guess. As usual i got treated to replays and drawn out celebrations. I didn't mind the replays, because his goals were all brilliant, so it was ok to watch them again. He was great at frustrating me and I was p***** off but wont quit even when im being thumped, so i stayed, he dominated me and won 3-0. I had sorted my passing out and that was enough for me.
Then played a full manual game with Webb. He stayed at Leeds so i went for Sheff Utd who are a league above but the same * so it was a fairly even game. Webb played much much better than i remembered, probably because in our last game i had a huge advantage using a 4* team against a 2 1/2* team. We both had good cracks at goal but Webb was controlling the possesion for much of the game, his attacks were slowly worked and built around picking the right pass rather than trying anything too risky and giving away possesion, so i had to counter quickly as possesion play vs possesion play doesnt work that well for me. Id rather let them keep the ball, defend well and try to score on the break. It was a really enjoyable game, and it finished 1-0 to Webb.
Then played 2 games with some guy called davidfallah. He seemed alright at first, we both played full manual. He was a pretty decent player, his style was more to hit me on the break, so i adopted a possesional attitude and it worked pretty well. We both created chances and both missed some horrible sitters. He won 1-0 with a Back post corner goal in the 90th minute. Nightmare.
We rematched and from kick off he tried to score? with manual controls? it wasnt far off to be fair, but i made him watch the replay because glitchers are C***S.
We played much the same as the first game, he was trying to break through quickly, i was trying to slow the game down to suit me. I Scored a SCREAMER towards the end of the first half. Lupoli with his back to goal on the corner of the box, picks the ball up, rolls the defender, comes in towards the keeper at a very tight angle, and smashes it into the net as the keeper goes to ground. it was beautiful. Probably the most satisfying goal i have ever scored. Kick off again. Shot from kick off again. replay watched again. He got a bit loose with his challenges after that so it must have got to him. He did miss a couple of pretty good chances in horrible ways. One shot actually went out for a throw in about 15 yards up from the corner flag! thankfully i havent had too many like that recently.
My wonder strike turn out to be the winner, and it deserved to be. I would love to post a video, but i dont have a capture card yet. It's been delayed for probably at least a week. I havent been paid my overtime for last month. Pretty hacked off. The finance controller says it because someone else didn't fill their form out. Like i give a flying f*** if someone else hasn't filled their form out?!?! muppet.
Anyway that'll do for today. I have to fire off a s***** email to my directors.
Tom