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We're going to get the familiar line about individual errors - and yes we've had some corkers, but when every MU attack is something like 3-on-2 or 4-on-2, this shit is inevitable and I refuse to believe a less-Spursy coach couldn't mitigate it.

I hate end-to-end 'basketball' games of football. Hate them. Don't appeal to some lofty notion of entertainment (for neutrals?!) just to try and excuse your inability to manage a game.

Chelsea fans watch their team go 2-0 up and immediately start worrying about the obligatory second half meltdown. Chelsea: "Second half? Hold my beer."

The real question is whether for your first 5 unit squad you pick your Super Best Now It's Even Better It Will Destroy Everything squad... or your Damn Guys You Suck A Bit You Need A 5th Person For Help squad.

To be clear: in no way was I suggesting that Chelsea are close to being good, or deserve to be higher up the table, or whatever the woodwork thing was originally meant to be about. I'm more wondering exactly what kind of stupor Poch is inducing in his half-time team talks.

I have to say, an unfortunate problem I have with these games (or at least 0, being still the only one I've played) is that I'm never going to platinum them on the basis that a) it will take months and months to do, and b) I'm just not any good at half the mini-games that it would necessitate. "But surely you can just enjoy a game and go about your life without feeling compelled to platinum it" - I have no time to listen to such reasonableness, away with you.

Pfft, the real question is, what if all the shots that we rolled tamely into the goalkeeper's arms went in.

Chelsea's first-half form: Champions League. Chelsea's second-half form: relegation. Insanity.

Classic Chelsea performance once again, at home to 2nd-worst team in the league... * Under fire immediately as game starts with incessant Burnley attacks * Scrape a soft penalty to end the first half 1-0 up and with Burnley down to 10 men * Concede equaliser immediately after the restart * Hit 30-odd shots straight at the Burnley keeper while they force fingertip saves/hit the woodwork at the other end * Go 2-1 up only to again concede straight away (losing a header off a corner with a man advantage, naturally) * Gusto taken off possibly injured because lol * Two points dropped and I presume Poch will say something about the process in his interviews

1. Persona 3 Reload 2. Unicorn Overlord Be prepared for a very long credits sequence as every single party member gets their own little epilogue...

Because I've played maybe 10% of Yakuza 0 and none of any of the others. 😬 I love what I've seen of the turn-based combat in the latest game(s) though. I will continue to crawl through 0 but given that it only comes out when I'm between new games and I am compelled to focus on side activities anyway, it'll probably take another year to get through.

Unfortunately, bringing Tottenham down would have required me to invent a way to turn their trophy haul into negative figures, and I'm not sure the laws of physics accommodate such things.

Once upon a time LinkedIn suggested I might be interested in working for Tottenham Hotspur and it's been dead to me ever since.

Yet more Chelsea players who returned from injury for maybe 2 games are now injured again (Chukwuemeka, Sanchez, Chalobah). This alongside confirmation that Lavia (still not 100% convinced he's a real person) is ruled out for the remainder of the season after that 5 minute cameo he got in December, or whenever that was. I know injury problems are ubiquitous, but the repeated pattern of these Chelsea players really does make me wonder if the entire medical staff is literally incompetent OR if something even more ridiculous is causing these absences.

@Ruki Much like you, my teams have evolved quite arbitrarily and the good ones have kind of fallen together by accident. I tinker occasionally, but once a team 'works' I tend not to mess with it... until it stops working and suddenly falls several levels behind. I have a couple of those. (There is a storyline mission where four characters run off together and you're sent straight into battle without them. This gutted four of my different teams and I had to do a massive reorg on the fly... But eventually the new ones worked, so I didn't change them back!) Anyway, here are my teams. Obviously there will be several names and job classes you don't recognise since I'm around Lv30 right now...

Seeing Arsenal fans trying to 'reclaim' Ashley Cole amidst his PL HOF induction after 18 years of shitting on him is pretty funny.

This is the first non-tournament England match I've watched in maybe five years, and I've seen no reason not to extend it another five.

Possibly. They warn you against doing it and there is the option to turn back or carry on. I've never selected 'carry on' so I don't know what that does. It would strike me as odd to let you go through with it given the other story elements though.

Episode Aigis Reload leak looks great.

The internet seems obsessed with this Frieren anime, including apparently scoring it above FMA:B on something, and I know nothing about it except that the characters look profoundly uninteresting. I would give it a try, but I'd need to work on shaking off my "pfft yeah right" bias first.

Vanillaware strike me as a very horny bunch with their character designs in general. In 13 Sentinels this was restricted to one character, but in UO good lord they've really gone for it.

Heather Gonzalez (Yukari) = Chloe Allegrs Clark (Mitsuru) = Liza (and also the dead queen Ilenia, because OF COURSE) Suzie Yeung (Fuuka) = Primm Alejandro Saab (Akihiko) = Ithilion You won't have the latter three yet. The last one I unlocked was Ithilion at around Lv18-20. Something about the way he yells "DIE!" made me think "...that's Akihiko" (😂) and I went on this VA investigation thereafter. Dawn. M. Bennett (Aigis) also voices a character called Amalia, who is a) not going to be available as a party member for a LOT longer, and b) the total opposite of Aigis' voice anyway.

Tried creating a 'S.E.E.S.' squad in Unicorn Overlord using the characters with the same VAs as those of Yukari, Fuuka, Mitsuru and Akihiko from Persona 3 Reload. The squad is garbage. Never do this. 😂

lol okay nevermind. At least going out in the semis will be less grim than another final loss.

It's a tricky freekick to take that close, but holy shit Sterling just fails SO spectacularly. Mudryk taken off rather than Sterling and the home fans are audibly livid.