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That Rev Chap
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Football Manager Handheld
Apr 25th
A fraught bus journey into work today.
Just one game, but it was the FA Cup tie against Cambridge City. An easy game, so I rested Woods and Connell, who weren’t at peak fitness in the run up to the game. Connell especially has been getting tired lately, so I thought the rest might do him good. (If not, I’ll have to put him on fitness training for a while.) Put Goodwin in for Woods, who I think is the only player I’ve signed who has actually played in the team.
I’m trying not to blame him for the fact that Cambridge City went 1-0 up almost immediately, as I’ve got no proof it was his fault. I’m also trying not to blame for the fact that after we equalised they went ahead ahead again half way through the first half.
I took him off at half time and we ended up winning 5-2, much to my relief. Can I lay the early trouble at Goodwin’s door, or is it just a case of Cambridge City coming out fighting but not having the legs to see the game through?
Anyway, we’ve been drawn against Bristol Rovers in round two who, like us, are jostling for space at the top of the League Two table. I’ve got a decision to make – do I concentrate on the FA Cup or the league? League does make more sense. We’re not going to win the cup, so getting through another round or two would be ultimately meaningless. But there’s something about the cup that fires the imagination. Maybe it’s just that each match is so meaningful, unlike the league where the odd defeat can be shrugged off. I’m not sure. Maybe I should treat the next cup tie as a normal match, with no special preparations at all.
I shall ponder.
Zuma
Apr 24th
Hooray! I finally got off Stage 5. Didn’t get an achievement for it, though. It was definitely worth one.
Stage 6 isn’t letting me past right now, the git.
Geometry Wars 2
Apr 24th
What a bizarre session. Fifteen or twenty games, only got above 100,000 three times. Which, for those who don’t know, is so crap it’s just plain weird.
However, one of those games saw me get 343,000, beating my previous best score by 50,000 points. How odd.
Eight thousand short of the next target on my friends list though. Bah.
Marble Blast Ultra
Apr 24th
Final advanced levels are stupid. I’ve just checked. They will never be completed.
BEGONE!
Football Manager Handheld
Apr 24th
Well, I should be happy. Two league wins on the trot have seen us go top of League Two. Priso got a 10 out of 10 rating in one of those matches, my first of the game. I’ve just won Manager of the Month for October. We’ve been drawn in the FA Cup against Cambridge City.
All good things. But putting a downer on all that is the fact that Jo Kuffour got a calf strain in the last game which is going to see him out for two months. I’m really not sure how we’ll do without him. He always seems to be mixed up in the action, even if he’s not scored an awful lot.
Football Manager Handheld
Apr 24th
Two matches on the bus into work. A league game against a team way below us in the table which we lost, sending us back down into fourth, followed by the first round of the LDV Vans Trophy against Cheltenham, which we won. We’ve drawn Leyton Orient in round two. We should be able to beat them, but I’m not confident about any match right now.
Football Manager Handheld
Apr 23rd
And a 2-0 win against Cheltenham puts us back on track and means I can go to bed feeling slightly more positive.
Gunbird 2
Apr 23rd
The DC version, prompted by someone saying they’d completed it on one credit on their first go.
I got as far as the level two boss once. That was my best effort. And I typed my name in wrong on the high score table.
Sigh.
