How many narcissists do we have in our midst?
Well, how many do we have?
For once I’m not having a whinge at the Putzy’s of the scene who do everything to get noticed, nope we’re talking about Football Players.
No not those little dots you think you are managing to greatness on your 17″ TFT but the real ones. In a similar ilk of remembering back to the good old days of CM4 and CM 03/04 when all us fans went out and spent £5 on a shiny magazine with a CD on the front (No not those kind of magazines), yes I mean the Official CM magazine.
Now one of the really cool features was an interview with a footballer who played CM. They were asked all the generic questions like do you start as <insert own team here>? Do you try and buy yourself? Does the game accurately recreate your playing style? yadda yadda yadda you get the idea.
Well this has got me thinking, There must still be players out there who are partial to a bit of the ol’ FM and enjoy finding out how gamers rate them. So amongst our many regulars throughout the scene is lurkers who are actually in the game, unlike 90% of you that wish you were a professional footballer let alone included in FM.
So just think all those forum posts you’ve made slating your favourite player for “being shit” on FM may have actually read your posts (Is probably why he doesn’t score anymore but meh you should support a decent team). How many players now think they’re the best thing since sliced bread after reading all these positive player reviews around the Scene? Let’s be honest I’ve never read a negative player review mainly because if the players not already well known people can’t be arsed to write about them.
There’s 300,000+ people in the database yet it’s the same old players that are reviewed. Why not write about those guys in League 2 who play FM as it’s the only way they can live the dream of playing in the premiership. One day maybe one of lurkers might even feel safe enough to actually post – shock horror, a professional footballer posting on a forum with football fans. Chances are there’s already has been a few but you’ll never know!!!
Monday, June 4th 2007 at 10:51 am
would you adam and eve it Q!
I finish writing a player review about a player from the Conference North, and then come and read this on here! Like two peas in a pod (haha)
erm, yeah cya
Monday, June 4th 2007 at 10:21 pm
Even if they did, they would never be believed. Interesting idea, although I am sure they have learned to cope with been slated and shit.
Friday, June 8th 2007 at 6:09 pm
“For once I’m not having a whinge at the Putzy’s of the scene.”
DAMN! There was me hoping that’s what it was… :p
Monday, June 11th 2007 at 4:48 pm
Well, I have a few mates who will be in it next year, as they have gained scholarships into football academies.
Look for Kwasi Bentil, a Ghanian forward at Darlington, Jak Quantrill, English centre back at Sunderland, and Domonic Harding, English central midfielder at Hartlepool.
I know Steven Istead, former CM4 Mag interviewee and Hartlepool winger plays FM, as I know him personally. He’s a druggie now, however.
Ex-Sunderland captain Nick Pickering also plays FM, as he got his son, Luke Pickering, my mate into it – he was a good player, won the FA Cup iirc.
There are bound to be players that play FM, and good ones, like Nosworthy or Bramble or something.
Thursday, June 14th 2007 at 6:38 pm
Before our (Woking) game against Walton and Hersham in the Surrey Senior Cup (real glamorous competition, really), our, now gone to Grays, centre midfielder-cum-right back-cum-centre back Karl Murray was playing FM in the club bar before the game.
Tuesday, June 19th 2007 at 7:40 am
About reviewing players that are no good, I’ve done it. If you check the likes of TI or GK, you will see a review on Marek Saganowski, who I really like in real life, but on the game is is cack. Since I’ve had a bad run with a certain team on FM, I’ll be writing more player reviews on players ‘not’ to buy.
Nice article.