Posted by sean on October 18, 2004 at 7:56 pm in Geek Stuff, Leeds United, Television, Video Games with No Comments


Old news this but as I haven’t done any updates all weekend I thought I would mention it. Leeds beat Preston 1-0 at the weekend, collecting 3 vital points in the progress. Leeds still had to reply upon midfielder Danny Pugh for the goal though – the strikers simply cannot score! Paula Radcliffe can finish better than those lads!

Leeds have been trying to sign the Preston and Northern Ireland striker, David Healy for various amounts £100k, £200k, £300k and today £600k. Preston keep turning the offers down which is very frustrating as Healy is desperate to come to Leeds. The good news is that he is refusing to sign a new contract with Preston, so if he hasn’t been bought by January 1 st 2005, he can sign a contract for next season with Leeds who can get him for bugger all!

I have finally mastered Fifa 2005 now and am doing well in Career Mode. Remember, you can follow my progress on the Fifa 2005 page. This is frequently updated as I’m playing it quite a lot! This may all change in 2 weeks though when Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is released – I can’t wait!

Some good news. My MMC Card for my mobile that I messed up last week has been healed. My friend used his Card Reader for the PC and formatted it. Now I can store 512mb of pictures, mp3s and sounds on my phone. Hazzah!

And now for a very important announcement:
Tomorrow night, BBC Three, 9pm is the new series of the excellent Little Britain created my Matt Lucas (from Shooting Stars) and David Walliams. It is absolutely hilarious and I urge anyone who has not seen it to watch it.

On the topic of funny things, I was listening to Radio 1 this morning and DJ Chris Moyles made a fuck up quite literally! Have a listen to this uncensored sound clip. Listen carefully for producer Rachel whisper “say sorry!”.

Good bile!

Posted by sean on October 14, 2004 at 10:27 pm in Football with No Comments


I had the misfortune on Wednesday of watching the boring England game against Azerbaijan. Sure, it’s always good to see England win and keep a clean sheet, but this game was just so slow and boring. If England had been playing a stronger team they would have lost. The only highlight of the game was goal keeper, Paul Robinson tackling a pitch invader by tripping him up and holding him until the enforcements arrived.

Still on the topic of football, Preston and Northern Ireland striker, David Healy scored a brilliant goal for his country against Austria. Leeds are said to be on the verge of signing him, so I was listening on the radio at work today for news on a bid. I heard nothing. Checked the Internet when I got home and found Leeds had sold their training ground for £4mill (on a 25 year lease back deal) and only managed to find £100k for the brilliant Healy – not what I was expecting or hoping to hear! Mind you, being a Leeds fan NOTHING the club do would surprise me nowadays. Needless to say, Preston turned this bid down. Hopefully Leeds will come in with an improved bid as he will be a real asset to the team.

I’m still getting to grips with Fifa 2005. It’s very different to 2004, therefore I’m still playing friendlies. I refuse to start my 15 Year Career until I am at least half decent!

Posted by sean on October 12, 2004 at 9:34 pm in England, Video Games with No Comments


My long awaited copy of Fifa 2005 arrived yesterday. It is a big improvement on Fifa 2004. While the gameplay is similar to previous versions, there are many new aspects which are taking me a while to get to grips with.

A great feature in the game is the 15 Year Career Mode. In this you get to manage a variety of clubs. Your starting choice of clubs is very small, but with success options to manage much larger clubs becomes available.

As the seasons go on, the players age, so after 10+ seasons, players like Roy Keane will long since have retired but players like Wayne Rooney will be at the peak of their career.

I’ll add lots more about this game in the Fifa 2005 section asap.

Sticking with the topic of football, it came of little surprise to me this morning when I hear the revelation from David Beckham that he got booked deliberately on Saturday’s game against Wales as he knew he would miss the Azerbaijan game tomorrow through injury.

The funniest part of the whole thing is his quote…

“I’m sure some people think that I have not got the brains to be that clever. But I do have the brains. I could feel the injury. So I fouled Thatcher.”

If he had the brains, he would have kept his mouth shut. He now faces strong disciplinary action. What an idiot!

Moving on from Beckham, England play Azerbaijan tomorrow at an early(ish) kick off of 5.30pm. England need to be careful not to underestimate Azerbaijan as they have already shocked Wales and Northern Ireland. The England players are highly professional (most of the time!) and I still think they will get a victory, especially now with the return of Rooney and the improved defence.

My prediction: 2-0 to England

Posted by sean on October 10, 2004 at 9:41 am in England, Geek Stuff with No Comments


Well done to the England boys, winning a very respectable 2-0 in yesterdays game against Wales. Frank Lampard got the first goal in the inside 4 minutes. England then continued to pummel the Welsh goal.

The Welsh did experience some periods of possession but they were unable to capitalise on it. David Beckham finished the game off in the 76 th minute with a truly stunning goal to make the final score 2-0 to England.

The most frustrating aspect of the game was that following his wonder goal anf England were cruising, Beckham got booked for a ridiculous foul, therefore automatically getting suspended for the game against Azerbaijan next week. He was also injured in the process, so even if the referee had been more lenient, Beckham would be out with injury.

The game did have its comical moments, the moron who is Craig Bellamy getting booed every time he touched the ball being one of them and Newcastle United team mate, Nicky Butt’s tackle throwing him to the floor!

Now, moving on from the topic of football. I have been having some computer problems with Spyware. Somehow Gator got onto my system – I don’t use Kazaa, Overnet or any other peer to peer services on my PC so I can only think it came from a website or ICQ. Gator thought it would be clever and asked me if I wanted to install some crap called Precision Time. I said no, but found it installed on my system anyway!

Anyway, I ran Ad-Aware and Spybot and it removed all the crap. I then installed SpywareBlaster, which looks very good. It runs in the background of your computer and stops trojans, dodgy cookies and spyware before they even install themselves. Hopefully, if I keep that up to date and continue to stay away from p2p software on my PC, I’ll be ok.

Posted by sean on October 9, 2004 at 9:29 am in England with No Comments



Today is the day all England and Wales football fans have been waiting for.

Both National teams will meet at Old Trafford at 3pm today in a massive World Cup Qualifying game.

The England line up is still unknown with some saying Sven will start with 3 strikers – Michael Owen, Wayne Rooney and Jermaine Defoe. I’m still undecided as to whether using by far all our best attacking players at once is a good move by Sven or one of a man too scared to drop a big name like Owen from the starting 11.

Naturally, I want England to win and think they will. While both teams are improving, I simply don’t think Wales have enough quality players at the moment to get a result against Sven’s men.

Both sets of players will be up for it and Wales will give England a hard time, especially Craig Bellamy and Ryan Giggs.

My prediction: 3-1 to England

C’MON ENGLAND!!!
LET’S MAKES SOME DRAGONS CRY!!!

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