I can gather by this post that you were one of the many noobs who used to think that he was good at fifa.
Running down the wing 65 yards and cutting in to shoot at an obtuse angle
Or hoofing a longball and stealing it off a defender to get a shot in 08.
In both of those games I tried to play the proper way but they were totally noobproof, built for scrubs like you and I quit after 2 weeks.
I hope 09 keeps the same gameplay, there really is a variety of ways to move the ball up the field and score and not 1 single way thats miles better than all the rest that everyone goes for over and over, like Fat Frank over here used to do.
btw no one answered my question about that number beside the players name.