Its saturday morning. I have a hangover. i have a cup of tea. the smell of bacon is wafting out from under the grill, warburtons is in the toaster and soccer AM doesnt start for another half an hour so i thought id go through some of my results from the past few days.

Aside from a few unranked defeats ive managed to clock up a few wins against other players from the league, which is such a confidence boost. I managed a win against webb95, who is a really good player but i think over...

It would appear that my new found confidence in my shooting abilities wasn't misplaced.

Last night i racked up my first league win, And i was very pleased with my performance, although a few considerations must be made. Wexicoish had replaced his controller and had probably not played for at least a few days. So he was probably not exactly "match fit" and i think his game against me was the first of the night whereas i had played one QRM before we played each other. That aside...

Gentlemen. Last night. I made. A Breakthrough.

I think i am finally understanding the shooting controls. Properly.

Lately i have noticed a significant improvement in hitting the target. Now when i am 1 on 1 with the keeper and it goes out for a throw in (this has happened) it's because im either not concentrating properly or i panic and dont stay calm. The first game i played last night was against liverpool_fifa. He has just joined the manual league as marsielle and...

In the last 2 weeks i have noticed so many players switching to manual and i think its fantastic. My friends list is swelling with manual players, and best of all they arent all from the manual league. i have added a bunch of people recently, all solely for us to play manual games and practise against each other.

I think in fifa 10 EA need to accomodate the growing number of manual players in some way. wexicoish started a thread earlier which quickly deteriated but still managed to...

Well. I said i needed practice with manual controls, so thats what ive been doing.

I played 3 Great games against Kappa this evening. first was his PSV vs My Fenerbahce. Good game, really open, Just as Kappa was telling me about a near miss manual bicycle he had hit earlier on in another game, he did it against me. thankfully it didn't go in, but it was a sight to behold none the less. i managed to nick a 1-0 win, but even if i had lost 10-1 i would have been happy to have tucked one...