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Thursday, May 16, 2013
So Let Me Get This Straight, Part I:
Man City's Chairman Al Mubarak was embarrassed by the way Mark Hughes was fired by the club. And now they hang Mancini out to dry by doing the exact same thing, pretty much confirming Pellegrini's hire the day before Mancini had to lead the team out onto Wembley for the FA Cup finals?
Interesting to read City fans' reactions on the club firing Mancini. There are a few ways to look ... Read More
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Posted on May 8, 2013 at 12:52 PM.
(UPDATE: The Guardian now has an article up on how the entire process went down.)
(UPDATE #2: Not much we know at the moment, but Wayne Rooney has apparently-- again-- asked for a transfer)
The Premier League ... Read More
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Posted on May 2, 2013 at 12:02 PM.
Barcelona 0 - 3 Bayern Munich (0-7 on Aggregate)
Now that was a proper thrashing.
I don't know what's more amazing, putting three past Barca in Nou Camp, winning 7-0 on aggregate, or doing all of it in a fashion that made Barcelona-- Barcelona-- look like such a hapless group of pedestrians. The Bayern team just looks irresistible ... Read More
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Posted on April 25, 2013 at 06:35 PM.
Well, that was an interesting few days.
One of the Most Uninteresting Title Races In Recent Memory
With four games to go, Manchester United clinches the title. This one was in the bag pretty much by the end of January.
- A take on the on the whole Guard of Honour
Monday, April 22, 2013
PES 2014 will include a dedicated Asian Champions League mode, "enabling users to control one of the 32 teams that compete in the tournament."
One can assume that this mode will be similar to the other competitions-- The Copa Libertadores and the UEFA Champions League-- currently in PES, most likely featuring some branded presentation and the ability the play the entire tournament. So far we've only heard about ... Read More
Monday, April 8, 2013
As somebody who grew up playing the NHL series (and hates the current fighting module), it was really interesting to read Glenn's take on fighting in hockey games. In many ways, you can ask the same question about diving in soccer games. Is there a place for it? And if it does, is there a way the games can simulate-- no pun intended-- it properly?
Right now, the option for players to initiate a dive is present
Right now, the option for players to initiate a dive is present
Monday, April 1, 2013
Some of the following may or may not have been written in jest:
- Sunderland have appointed Paulo Di Canio as manager after sacking Martin O'Neill...
- ...Which causes all sorts of controversy, because Di Canio, as some of you will remember, has a thing for fascism. In his defense, he says he's just a fascist, and not a racist. Phew!
- Interesting though, how the narratives differ between Reading sacking
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Winning Eleven Blog has posted a more detailed writeup from Edge Magazine's preview of PES 2014's Fox Engine. Some additional interesting tidbits:
- I know it's all words, and we're getting to the point where we should start to temper our expectations until we, you know, actually see something from the actual game, but this is another encouraging anecdote: "the article states that real and engine versions of Old Trafford
Happy Tuesday! Here are some soccer related bits n' bobs you may be interested in.
- Make your own chicken puns: Blackburn sacks Michael Appleton less than three months into the tenure.
- Michael Owen will retire at the end of the season. What are your fondest memories of him? I somewhat naively thought he and Rooney were going to be the next Shearer
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
And so it begins.
PES fires the opening salvo in the battle of previews, with fresh details on (mostly) PES 2014's new Fox Engine. What to make of them?
- Barycentre Physics: Great, another feature name, like FIFA'sImpact Engine, that I'll have to remind myself not to overuse in the articles/reviews.
- This is a particularly interesting tidbit from the writeup: "You control the player and the physics
Friday, March 8, 2013
Goodbye, David Beckham. Hello, various over the hill ex-Premier Leaguers! (And, yes, good homegrown talents.)
Last week was a fun opening weekend for Major League Soccer, wasn’t it? The Timbers and the New York Red Bulls battling to a 3-3 draw (my, what sound and fury from the Timbers fans), and the Impact upsetting the Sounders with a 1-0 win. Good old ... Read More
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
What's all this hoopla-- an important match was played today? Did something controversial happen?
- Treble No More: Well, there goes Manchester United's dreams of a treble, in probably the most contentious fashion possible. So what comes next for the team? They could lose momentum, stumble, lose a few games (maybe get knocked out of the FA Cup too), and City ... Read More
(H/t to I'mTellinTim for posting the update in the OS Football Manager forums)
In case you missed it, Sports Interactive has released a new patch/data update-- with January transfers included and players' attributes updated-- for Football Manager 2013. Traditionally, this is the last official release from SI until FM 2014, barring any extraordinary circumstances.
The changelist can be found here: http://www.sigames.com/news/14218/Fo...Update+out+now ... Read More
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Wouldn't you know it, we're heading into the dog days of March already, and that fresh excitement you got from firing FIFA 13 up is probably long gone. But for those of us who still want to spend a few hours on the game every weekend-- and especially those who don't do the Ultimate Team thing too often-- just how do you keep the game fresh?
Why, give yourself a challenge or two, of ... Read More
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
To borrow a phrase that's all too often thrown around when describing the sport, it's been a game of two halves for soccer games in this console generation.
Things kicked off to a somewhat shaky start. For PES, the less said about its' early efforts the better, as the franchise seemed to have been horribly unprepared by the console transition. PES 2008 and 2009 were all over the place, with its laggy online, bumbling ... Read More
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