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Agreed on the prices. I'm not sure if it's just that kids are more likely to wear football shirts, and I'm not around them much now that I'm not one, but I feel like I don't see nearly as many non-Norwich shirts being worn in the city nowadays.

I was always quite a few years behind on getting consoles so it was often well after their initial release that I played some of these PS1/2 games. In no particular order: PS1 Civilization II Crash Team Racing FIFA 02 FIFA 04 Populous: The Beginning Tony Hawk's Pro Skater Gran Turismo 2 PS2 GTA: San Andreas Sly 2: Band of Thieves Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves PES5 PES6 The Godfather The Sims: Bustin' Out Xbox 360 Football Manager 2007 The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Smackdown vs. Raw 2007 Smackdown vs Raw 2008 Halo 3 Star Trek Legacy Gameboy Colour Pokemon Yellow Pokemon Gold Pokemon TGC Super Mario Land 2 Yu-Gi-Oh!: Dark Duel Stories Gameboy Advance Pokemon Sapphire Crash Nitro Kart Yu-Gi-Oh!: Worldwide Edition FIFA 05 Premier Manager 03/04 Nintendo DS Mario Kart Nintendogs: Labrador Edition Zoo Tycoon DS

You mean that isn't a traditional Australian surname?

I'm a fan of simple kits so I actually quite like the USA home kit. Nigeria away and South Korea home are both pretty good though.

Is your manager's name Fronk Lampard?

Still better than their previous owner...

They clearly took the phrase "winter break" literally.

Barcelona won 3-2 on aggregate despite Madrid getting home advantage three times. Nice.

If Chelsea and Arsenal had been drawn against each other in the FA Cup third round this year, they'd have played three times in three weeks. It does happen sometimes. FM probably just brings attention to it because you get through a season, especially from game to game, more quickly than real life.

I struggle to think of it as a 4-3-3 and see it as a 4-5-1, if anything. Obviously a flat midfield line is a more standard 4-5-1 formation but, to me, 4-3-3 implies three proper strikers.

Never mind that shit, have any of you guys seen that Man Utd are linked with a 35-year old Carlos Tevez xD

No joke on nothing, Colman's moved their production away from Norwich and people were fairly annoyed by it. I think it moved to Burton.

RE: the DDG/VVD incident, is that not a picture perfect example of an 'advantage' being lost leading to the foul being given?

My screen fits CM01/02, FM05, and FM09 to allow for simultaneous play. My missus has titled it "the saddest thing I've ever seen you do". I reckon I could get two more of the older CM games going in the space underneath...

Bit unfair on the other teams that they're allowed to have the entire Valencia squad as right-backs.

Man Utd -> Juventus -> Man Utd -> Juventus would certainly be an interesting career path. Has anyone ever bounced between two clubs like that? I know Kris Boyd comes close with three spells at Kilmarnock and two spells at Rangers, but at least there were a few other clubs involved in the middle of his career.

Discovering that Creeper re-surfaced towards the end of last year and have a new album coming out this year was a nice little find the other day. I'm also hoping that the new Delain and ADTR albums are up to scratch. Not as fussed by the upcoming Breaking Benjamin and Evanescence albums but I'll still give them a go once they're released. The last few years have been a little bit disappointing in terms of new album releases, be it very little to look forward to or looking forward to something which ends up being underwhelming. Let's hope that 2020 breaks that trend.

I'd much prefer Champion's League football to be on free-to-air, but I'm not sure I understand the reasoning of that last sentence...

Another joke of a VAR decision against West Ham. On top of that, wasn't there a Liverpool goal shortly after the ball hit VVD on the arm which counted a week or two ago?

How does Gedson Fernandes compare to Gelson Fernandes? Emile Smith Rowe sounds like an FM regen.

Those were the only two I knew too.

I think it's remained more balanced than Yu-Gi-Oh did. My girlfriend also got me back into the cards a little bit, mainly completing my original set collections but also, to a lesser extent, playing against her with some of my leftover cards and her newer decks. Meanwhile, with Yu-Gi-Oh, my former flatmate reliably informs me that a typical game ends in the third turn if Player 2 can't counter what Player 1 set to start things off.

Maybe it's to show that Italian football isn't racist? Until the inevitable racist chants target him, anyway. I agree that Man Utd need to prioritise offloading Jones, Matic, and Lingard though. They're all the butt of jokes which shouldn't still be a thing.

is #2 Dmitri Kharine?

I saw a Chelsea one and thought I had a chance... searched the player and I've never even heard of him.