Originally posted 18-05-2009
Ok. I've tried to remain upbeat about online play. and largely I've succeeded. but some people are just plain idiots. So here is my first rantblog.
I was searching for a QRM. i found one. My default team is arsenal, simply because i havent bothered to change it. He is Sifting through a bunch of teams and i thought to myself "ill wait, see where he ends up, and choose a team based on that." so i sit there and he eventually settles for spain. Now think what you like of this, but being an all manual player online, i try and avoid matchups with 5* teams. there is something about it that i cant stick. I play manual to slow the pace of the game to a more realistic level and 5* teams tend to be too fast. So i try to find games with 4* teams or less and i am always happy to go down to whatever level they want to play at. i have made a small selection of teams throughout the ratings that i am comfortable playing with. /digresion.
Anyway. i decide not to play, and leave the session. whilst i am looking for another game i get a message notification.
***** has sent you a message (i dont know if naming and shaming applies to blogs. better to be safe than sorry)
"***** 5* Arsenal vs 5* spain. wots the ****ing difrence. *****"
I couldnt leave it. I told him why my team was set to arsenal, i hadnt bothered to change it. i explained i try to only use 4* or less online, with rare exceptions.
Easy. end of that. job done.
"Yeah yeah *****. too scared".
Fine. Kappa has taught me a nice technique for dealing with morons and i believe he has had great success with putting people in their place. see here.
So i invite the guy into a full manual game. He goes for spain. i go for fenerbahce.
He left within 3 game minutes. i didnt even have time to score or find out if he was good enough to back up his cockiness.
Why do people have such an attitude online? This isnt the fist time ive seen behaviour like this and it wont be the last. i just cant understand the mentality? I bite sometimes when people are dickheads, im pretty sure we can all say we have done that, but i never send people messages like that for no reason.
The problem with 09 is the players. Its the gamers online that screw things up, people who are only interested in getting peoples backs up and making themselves feel clever, maybe they werent hugged as a child.He/She knew nothing about me. i could have been a 13yr old playing my first online game and i get a message like that? Not cool. Treat people as you would expect to be treated is the order of the day.
Ok thats the rant bit done.
I played a league game against webb95 last night. i went one nil up in the 4th minute when he, rather lightly, knocked me over in the box. it was a pretty poor penalty to be honest and i am still in 2 minds as to whether it was valid or not, but these things happen, and i tucked the penalty away. 1-0.
Webb got D/C in the 23rd minute. By league rules because he was losing and D/C he forfiets the game. But he was back online in seconds and it happens to everyone at some times or another. i wouldnt have been able to sleep if i had refused to play again. So we restarted, he stuck an own goal in to put the score right and we just messed about until the 23rd minute, then we carried on.
It was a brilliant game, summed up by how brilliant webbs equaliser was. an inch perfect cross was met by beckford who nodded it home comfortably. I am hoping to soon replace my descriptions of goals with links to youtube but i still havent got my capture card so for the next 2 weeks you will have to make do with my descriptive talents to paint you a picture. We both had LOADS of chances. Webb wrote up a match report which you can read here. he noted that he had 20 shots on goal and i had 15. In the 89th i broke free and found myself 1 on 1 with the keeper but panicked and stuck it wide. Pretty gutted i missed it but i think a point each was the fairest outcome from the game. It was a cracker and cant wait till i play him in the league again.
Staying with dodgy penalties as a topic, I also played a game with Kappa over the weekend. I was 2-1 up in the last minute. He flew into my area and would surely have scored but i put in a last ditch tackle. It must be noted that it was intended as a last ditch tackle, not as a blatent foul. anyway, i sent him flying. we both agreed it was going to be a penalty, but it wasnt given, no card, no foul, nothing. The game ended 2-1 to me. Unfortunately the footage Kappa had captured got lost thanks to good ol windows blue screen of death. Another reason for me to sort my capture card out. Its top of my things to buy/do list i promise.
The league tables are shaping up nicely.
Im now joint third. strangely both myself and wexi have played 5, won 1 drawn 3 lost 1 and both have a goal difference of 0. spooky. Its hard to take a decent look at the tables because Webb has played all of his listed fixtures (6). Me, Kappa and Wexi have played 5 each. Hamburg have played 4 and the rest have still only played 3. AZ Alkmaar and LA Galaxy could be hard to catch. they have both played 3 won 3.
At the moment im jsut waiting for the other cup games to be played so i can find out who i have in the next round and i still have a league game against Honome to play.
Will update once thats all done.
Tom