Back To Vietnam … Again.
It’s been three days since I excitedly purchased my copy of Call Of Duty: Black Ops. I’m following my normal rigorous routine with the Call Of Duty games – single player first, then (and only then) will I get online for the multiplayer version of the game. I know most people jump straight into multiplayer, but actually I buy these games as much for the single player as anything else. I have to admit my first reaction to the game wasn’t a good one. Why do Treyarch insist...
Read MoreNo Persistent Standing Allowed
Last Saturday, me and my good friend Rob took a trip to the Hawthorns Stadium to see Manchester City vs. West Bromwich Albion. The first thing that struck me was my ticket; it had ‘persistent standing not allowed’ written on the bottom. Now I understand the thinking behind this – thousands of excited people sitting down in close proximity to each other is generally safer than thousands of excited people standing up in close proximity to each other – but I wish they would...
Read MoreShit. I Dropped My iPhone
Today started quite well – I got my copy of Fifa 11 this morning and I’ve got a weekend of football ahead of me. Things were looking so bright. Then, at 3 this afternoon I dropped my iPhone. No big deal, I drop it all the time and it’s surprisingly robust; not this time though. I picked it up to discover I’d shattered the screen and now I’m not in the best of moods. Luckily it’s insured (although it will take a month to get a new one) and strangely...
Read MoreMy First Europa League Game
Last night my dad, my brother and I took a trip to the City Of Manchester City Stadium for my first ever live Europa League game; Manchester City vs. Juventus. My season ticket seats had already been taken, meaning we got another different seat for the game. Normally this would annoy me but actually the seats we ended up with were great, so I had nothing to complain about. The Juventus fans were extremely loud and managed a reasonably good turn out – I was fairly impressed given...
Read MoreNew Seats!
Last week I actually had the time to take advantage of my brand new season ticket at Manchester City and take a trip down to Eastlands, where I saw my second live Premier League game of the season: Manchester City vs. Blackburn Rovers. The seats are amazing and probably better than the ones I had last year; they’re three rows from the front, right on the half way line. I like being close enough to hear the players swear at each other, because that means there’s a fairly good chance...
Read MoreWhy My Hands Hate Me
I think it would be fair to say I’m a reasonably clumsy person; I won’t break things or drop the catch when someone throws me their phone, but it would appear I’m intent on hurting myself. Admittedly it’s never anything life threatening or major (shouldn’t have said that really) but my little mishaps will, more often than not, end up in a permanent scar or trip to the hospital. I’ve got scars everywhere, but over the last few years my hands have taken the...
Read MoreGoogle’s Live Search … Is Shit
Live search, Instant search, Streaming search; I’ve already seen a myriad of different names given to Google’s latest experiment, where the results are instantly updated as you type. This isn’t the real-time suggested searches (which are relatively unobtrusive) you’ve been seeing for a while. This is where you start typing and the results show before you’ve finished the word. Then if Google finds something more relevant by the middle or the end of the word, it...
Read MoreShouting At Tottenham Fans
So this week has been a fairly interesting one; I’ve incorporated my own company, handed in my notice at my day job and managed to work a fairly impressive 60 hour week so far. While all that probably sounds more interesting and important that football, it isn’t. So I’m focusing on the highlight of my week – my trip to White Hart Lane to see Spurs vs. Manchester City. OK so it turned out it wasn’t the best game in the world to be a Man City fan (you know it’s...
Read MoreC4 News & UFC: Review Of My Week
I’ve had a reasonably interesting week, although I’ve just figured out I spent over 10 hours on trains in the last 5 days. I fucking hate our train service. It’s unreliable, under-maintained, ridiculously expensive and you can’t smoke on platforms even though half of them are OUTSIDE. Anyway, I spent the first half of the week complaining that the weekend went too fast and generally bitching about the fact I had to go to work. So nothing new there. On Thursday though I...
Read MoreGot My Tickets…
God I can’t wait. The FA Premier League starts one week today, with the first game of the season being Spurs vs. Manchester City at White Hart Lane. It’s a 12.45am kick-off, so that’s the one I’ll be headed to. I HATE the summer football break. This year I was less bothered than normal because we had the World Cup, but after watching England demonstrate their unique ability to be utterly fucking useless and a final that was essentially a Dutch team attempting to kick the...
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