Interfering With Play 14/08/07
By The Bolder
After posting several unstructured and random posts, as well as having a lot to get off my chest from the football world, I have decided to start writing a weekly / fortnightly column for PESGaming.com. I am not sure how well, if at all, it will be received so any feedback would be most helpful. Please note these are my views alone and I am sure I will get as many people disagreeing with them as I will people who find my views to be correct. So lets get going.
Return Of The Big One
Firstly, can I say I am delighted by the return of competitive football onto the TV screens, coupled with the start of the new Premier League season. Like most football fans, the long summer weekends of shopping and sleeping in got boring very quickly, so despite only being a week old, I’d like to give praise to some of the performances by this nations club teams. Firstly, the quality in which Reading defended at Old Trafford may have ruined the spectacle of seeing the likes of Nani and Ronaldo running wild against lower class players, but from a coaching standpoint, it proves that no player or team are perfect. Non-household names like Murty and Ingermarson far outshone world stars like Rooney and Giggs so deserve a very big pat on the back. Secondly, a lot of praise must go to the three newly promoted clubs. Birmingham took Chelsea all the way and scored twice at the Bridge, no mean feat in itself, and Sunderland and Derby both did themselves proud, registering respectable results (a win and a draw) against established Premier League sides. But the biggest shout out of all must go to the living legend that is Steven Gerrard. Liverpool, a side that have close to £100 Million worth of foreign talent at their disposal, still rely on England’s best midfielder to get them out of trouble. Ok, it wasn’t a foul for the free kick, but you still have to curl a ball into the top right hand corner of a goal 30 yards away, with a 6ft + agile bloke trying to stop you. The argument of whether Petrov’s toe touched the ball is one that should not detract away from the Scouser’s magic.
Return Of The “Other” Big One
After months of speculation, the news if now is flooding through about PES 2008. And right here sits one very excited Pro Evo fan. With no demo available and very little video footage of the game available at the time of writing this, I can only go on images and features to base my opinion, but it sounds very promising indeed. I have purchased a PS3 this year, and will be looking forward to firing up the top football game on it come the end of October. There are obviously questions that are going to occur and in turn debates that are going to rage on. Which game will be better? Will you be able to play PS3 vs. X Box 360? Why Is XXXX Not at Manchester United? And so on. I have been playing the Konami series since the PS One version, which was the first game to really give players unique personalities (Gazza’s Yellow Hair or the Tiny Mexican Keeper anyone?) and have seen a steady and gradual improvement in each game in the series. I have full faith that Konami will not “Phone it In” and spew out a yearly updated like so many sport titles seem to do, adding buzz words to make their sales increase. (that’s a rant for another article) and the next few months will be filled with much anticipation as I bleed PSP Pro Evolution5 for all its worth!
To start off, for my first column, I am going to leave my views at that. As I stated before, this will be continued, based upon its popularity / views. Any comments or queries are welcome to [email protected]
Thanks for reading
By The Bolder
After posting several unstructured and random posts, as well as having a lot to get off my chest from the football world, I have decided to start writing a weekly / fortnightly column for PESGaming.com. I am not sure how well, if at all, it will be received so any feedback would be most helpful. Please note these are my views alone and I am sure I will get as many people disagreeing with them as I will people who find my views to be correct. So lets get going.
Return Of The Big One
Firstly, can I say I am delighted by the return of competitive football onto the TV screens, coupled with the start of the new Premier League season. Like most football fans, the long summer weekends of shopping and sleeping in got boring very quickly, so despite only being a week old, I’d like to give praise to some of the performances by this nations club teams. Firstly, the quality in which Reading defended at Old Trafford may have ruined the spectacle of seeing the likes of Nani and Ronaldo running wild against lower class players, but from a coaching standpoint, it proves that no player or team are perfect. Non-household names like Murty and Ingermarson far outshone world stars like Rooney and Giggs so deserve a very big pat on the back. Secondly, a lot of praise must go to the three newly promoted clubs. Birmingham took Chelsea all the way and scored twice at the Bridge, no mean feat in itself, and Sunderland and Derby both did themselves proud, registering respectable results (a win and a draw) against established Premier League sides. But the biggest shout out of all must go to the living legend that is Steven Gerrard. Liverpool, a side that have close to £100 Million worth of foreign talent at their disposal, still rely on England’s best midfielder to get them out of trouble. Ok, it wasn’t a foul for the free kick, but you still have to curl a ball into the top right hand corner of a goal 30 yards away, with a 6ft + agile bloke trying to stop you. The argument of whether Petrov’s toe touched the ball is one that should not detract away from the Scouser’s magic.
Return Of The “Other” Big One
After months of speculation, the news if now is flooding through about PES 2008. And right here sits one very excited Pro Evo fan. With no demo available and very little video footage of the game available at the time of writing this, I can only go on images and features to base my opinion, but it sounds very promising indeed. I have purchased a PS3 this year, and will be looking forward to firing up the top football game on it come the end of October. There are obviously questions that are going to occur and in turn debates that are going to rage on. Which game will be better? Will you be able to play PS3 vs. X Box 360? Why Is XXXX Not at Manchester United? And so on. I have been playing the Konami series since the PS One version, which was the first game to really give players unique personalities (Gazza’s Yellow Hair or the Tiny Mexican Keeper anyone?) and have seen a steady and gradual improvement in each game in the series. I have full faith that Konami will not “Phone it In” and spew out a yearly updated like so many sport titles seem to do, adding buzz words to make their sales increase. (that’s a rant for another article) and the next few months will be filled with much anticipation as I bleed PSP Pro Evolution5 for all its worth!
To start off, for my first column, I am going to leave my views at that. As I stated before, this will be continued, based upon its popularity / views. Any comments or queries are welcome to [email protected]
Thanks for reading