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My PSP died at lunchtime. Sony are sending out a replacement for delivery tomorrow, though, so no real harm done.

Anyway, before it died there was some oddness. Seems there’s a weird bug that means that when you’re over wage budget you can’t buy players – which makes sense – but the game lets you make offers, but then you never hear anything more about them, or something. I’m not too sure yet. I’ve been trying to buy players to fill the gaping hole in the right of defense, but after making bids for players I’m not getting any more news stories or anything.

I’ll have to investigate further tomorrow.

Oh, and we played a match against a terrible team and lost horribly. Sigh.

Ack, this is awful.

We’ve lost our winning streak, but more importantly it’s time for contract negotiations. I can’t lose anybody, but all my players are demanding huge wage increases which I just can’t afford. I don’t know what to do. I went through the squad list looking for players to sell and there just isn’t anyone I can do without. Plus the current wages are so low selling a player or two wouldn’t get me back under the limit.

It’s very stressful.

We lost the game against Cambridge. Score was 4-2 again, but the other way round. In the next game we lost to Northwich.

.Then it was a game against Oxford. I didn’t expect to get anything out of it, but we managed a 2-2 draw, which was nice. We’re currently in thirteenth place in the league. Not far enough from the relegation zone to be comfortable.

After that, it was on an FA Cup game against non-league Alfreton, which was confident of winning… until Alfreton’s Dairus Hall scored twice in the first five minutes. Ouch. I checked his stats and they full of green numbers. In fact, most of Alfreton’s squad had lots of green numbers. Why don’t my players have green numbers? I mean, there are a few, but several members of my first team don’t have a single green number. I’ll admit, I was feeling hard done by at this point.

So I gave up, I changed my tactics to Attacking and at half time, when it was still 2-0, made three substitutions so that my best players wouldn’t get too tired.

And then we scored a goal. And another. And then there was a penalty and we were somehow 3-2 up. But then Alfreton scored to level it and, just as I was thinking a draw would be okay, we scored a fourth, to put us through to the next round of the cup. Amazing scenes!

So, it looks like the loan thing is a bug. Annoying, but not fatal.

Anyway, as I got this McGarry chap I thought I’d play him. Possibly a mistake, as I lost 2-0 to Altrincham and he got a five out of ten rating, which is very rubbish indeed. And then in the first training session after the match he injured himself and is now going to be out for two months.

So, that loan was worth it…

After the loss against Altrincham I really needed a win in the next match, a home game against Cambridge. We scored early from a penalty, but then Cambridge scored two. Before half time, though, we scored another to level the match. The second half was all ours. We added two goals and didn’t let any in. A great 4-2 victory and just what we needed.