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Odd...I swear I just played a ranked match against someone with a modified Chelsea team :| Mainly because I don't know how to play an unranked match, but I swear I went through my usual way to get online and clicked on a "Quick Ranked Match". Right from the start I notice he has Ronaldo, Messi, Kaka e.t.c so I think I've chosen an unranked match by mistake, but after I thrash him 5-2 anyway I try and find out where you play an unranked match and I can't even find it despite looking for the bloody thing :\

Finally got taken over by that consortium. Got a ton of money to spend now but I'm in the last week of the transfer window because the bloody embargo stayed even when the new board were in >_>

Guthrie was one of my top players in the Championship. Vela was my overall top goalscorer/top assist maker/top rated player, and I have managed to snap him up for the £5 Million agreed at the start of the loan! Had to wait til I had secured promotion til he would sign the contract but I wasn't complaining! Slightly overspent so the club are currently in the red, but I have just got this message: Game on!

Got Nolan, Ameobi and Xisco on their way in January (Xisco for £6.5 Million, which was nice). Bringing in Lloyd James from Southampton, Fausto Rossi from Juve, Frederico Laurito from Udinese and I have bids accepted and contracts on the table for Danny Rose from Spurs and Ever Banega from Valencia. Spurs are also interested in Banega so he will probably go there, but I'm hoping that he decides to come play for me instead! If you can't tell, I'm trying to build up a strong young team that will come good just as I move up into the Premiership. If I do get promoted (which is nearly a certainty) then I might have to bring in a few more experienced heads around the age of 24-25 just to make sure I have the quality there that is already quality! EDIT: Just got my first "Ashley looking to step aside" news message ^^ EDIT2: Take over talks are rife in Newcastle! Woop woop! EDIT3: Takeovers just take the piss on this game. It's either progressing well or it's on the rocks. This is stupid >_< Takeover not happened

The worse players are the ones that beat you 4-0, accept a rematch, go down 3-0 in 20 minutes and then quit. If you have the decency to stay for the game where you get thrashed then they could at least do the same.

Only 9 games into this (I don't play much and when I do I take my time!) and have a nice 6 point gap from second place so sitting nice at the top of the Championship. Trying to blood in my purchases which include Lallana and Thompson from Southampton (both have good potential according to scouts) and a guy called Paulo Henrique who can supposedly become better than Vela will. Changed around the whole Newcastle philosophy and am winning games by 1 or 2-0 without conceding. Only conceded goals in two of my nine games, but conceded none since switching to a new tactic.

I live in the most racist area of Britain supposedly. Hurrah... I feel we will be targeted by the BNP because our house was once (wrongly, may I add) listed as a synagogue....

I played some American the other day who switched sides when he saw I was Newcastle from some 4 Star team (which would have been a nice equal game) to a 5 star one. I decided to go as Villa and was 3-0 up within about 20 minutes. The guy had his mic on and was giving out "Oh my god this is such bullshit!" and "Oh my god come on ref!" lines and then he finally quit. I sent him the usual "quitting cunt" message and got a voice mail back like "Three goals in 20 minutes! That is just bullshit! You are bullshit!". >_<

Got a link to your skin, Andrew?

When do the takeovers start coming about? I'm only at the start of my season, but it would be nice to know there is a sugar daddy on his way!

Good point o.O Lemme check that..... *loads up Football Manager* Ah, I meant Barnsley ;D

Managed to get Vela in on loan with 3.3 Million upfront and the option of buying him for 5 Million at any point! I thought this was meant to be realistic :| Anyway, I shouldn't complain. Managed to keep hold of Martins who has just got a hat trick in the first game of the season away to Burnley. Got Celsinho in on loan as well and only sold Smith and Geremi so far. Slowly looking to bring in a decent young player for each of the older ones.

Going to give this a go. I don't play FM much but hopefully this will inspire me to! Trying to build up a young side to get me promoted first season and will then hope they come good to keep me in the Premiership!

"You have received an e-mail from rich_middleeast_consortium@hotmail.com"

I think we all should. "I'll give yer a tenner for it"

Well I did go on last night with all intent and purpose to prove myself right, but failed. First game I beat a guy playing as Celtic who stayed to the end, second game the guy went Arsenal so I went Chelsea for a bit of a derby game and I annihilated him 9-0 (he started being a fouling cunt after 4 goals, though.), and then I played him again and beat him 3-2 (he was actually a decent player when he bothered to try). No quitters, albeit that I only played three games.

Can I ask why them gamer tags fascinate you? lol - Unless one of them is you

There is a "did not finish" percentage on Fifa 09, but you can only see it if you are on the online BAP. I might start my own personal named and shamed list in this very post, and just edit in the names of all the gamer tags that have quit on me. Otherwise I will just carry on what I already do, and sending them a "cunt" message when they quit. Maybe Fifa 10 should have a cool-down period after games. So, for example, if a player quits in the first half there is a 5-10 Minute cool down before he can play another game. If they quit as the game nears the end it should either become greater or become less, depending on what is seen as worse. Would make people think twice about quitting if a cool-down is placed so that they have to wait 20 minutes or so before they come to playing another match. It should be saved somewhere, too, so that turning the XBOX on and off wouldn't work.

Now and again though I find a rare gem who I play for around 4-5 matches in a row of which all are well competed in even if one of the players ends up going down by about 3 goals. It is players like that that keep me just a little bit addicted. Fifa 10 should flash up some sort of "Hold tightly onto your controller" message when a player quits and then give them an electric shock or something. Or they should just disallow quitting all together and remove the possibility from the menu. Granted that sometimes you do have a genuine reason for leaving a game, but that is normally something like you have to go away from the XBOX so turning it off wouldn't be too much of a hinderence. At least then people who want to continue playing would have to turn off the console and then turn it back on again to get playing again.

Getting a little sick of online now. I stay for games that I lose 5-1. I go three nil up in the first half and the other guy quits. In the last 10 games I've played I've technically beaten no one because they quit before the end. Its getting ridiculous, and they need something new in Fifa 10 to stop it happening.

have a mag preview/interview thingy that I bought for the feature on AC2, seems like they've varied up the combat and the games missions and such, for one you get them from multiple source and they aren't all "go here, kill this guy" like the first one, some apparently require you to be a theif or investigate something or other, I'm well looking forward to it Didn't they say that about the first one though? And the 'difference' in the mission was that you had to pick pocket some guy to get some note, before it ended up in the usual go there and kill him mission? I am looking forward to the game though, even if it is just for the graphics and the fun to be had in jumping around a lot.

Too easy as well. You could just tap a button to enter a short sequence that would end up in your opponent killed instantly while the other enemies around you do nothing. Then you just move onto the next guy and do the same thing, and before you know it everyone is killed. From what I can tell from these videos, it doesn't look to be much different.

http://uk.media.xbox360.ign.com/media/143/...493/vids_1.html Looks...interesting. As far as I can tell it is as graphically pleasing as the first one was, but there has been nothing to say that it isn't as boringly repetitive. Hopefully they have made it a more fun game to go back to, because that was one of the only things the first game was missing.

Awful, I know:

You've been waiting for that one aint ya