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"The Final Whistle" (Sponsored by Romford Dog Stadium)

A Week in the Life in Lineker (Sponsored by "The Wife")

Someone once said a week is a long time in football, well they`ve never played FML then!! It's been long week for me, I've been off sick from work all week and I've forced myself to dig the laptop out of the spare room and while away the days playing FML (it's been tough honest). The good thing is I've not had to endure the travel into London from the Suburbs of Essex this week, No cattle class on the tube for me! The only disappointing thing is not seeing the Dog Track as you arrive back in Romford and having to put the laptop and mobile BB away, as the next stop is mine! Sunny Gidea Park, what a place!! And Home!

I think I've cracked this game; you can win it with kids! I'm sure someone said that you couldn't once, ask John Batty or Tony McCall (who by the why was pretty close to the mark this week with some poor Leeds and Yorkshire gags) and not even a warning!! Outrage!

So to season 2, the usual frantic purchase of players in the inflated Lineker game world took place and the build up too season 2 was firmly underway, its approaching 8pm and the climax is building then all of a sudden the mails arrive...we have officially started season 2 of Lineker!! Oh is that it? I was expecting singing and dancing girls and a brass band...

Into my first two games which I lost by the way and I thought...I've actually just wished this guy good luck!! Why do we do that? When all we really want to say is I'm gonna thrash you and i hope you loose! Then crazily at the end of the game when uve just been handed a 4-0 tonking u say Good game!! Well it bloody wasn't a good game for me chump!! But alas that wouldn't be in th community spirit!

There were the usual moans and groans from the usual suspects around wage auctions. ..Aguero Springs to mind and our resident Lineker Wage moaner had his usual column piece in the discussion emails.

I found myself fending off the poachers.You want to go fishing you go to the lake! I'm turning into Terry Tibbs, who for much of the week has been absent, Much Love Terry! (Don't worry they`ll fix the 451 "bug", Matt Payne will answer all your queries on thesubject though, what a nice chap).

So to the Real World (i thought i was in the real world anyway), Paul Ince is sacked after only winning 3 in 17 games, if you put this into context in FML how many would have been sacked i asked myself. I reckon i would have been for arguing with my chairman! Theres a manager in Lineker who`s 3 year old Son is his chairman, every day at breakfast he give his manager a grilling, "Are my team winning Daddy?" I wonder if the Blackburn chairman had the same conversation.

In other News the most amusing video of the week has to be the `lets chuck a shoe` at George Bush!

It was the funniest thing I've seen in the news for a while and it deflects from the usual redundancy and credit crunch stories... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7783325.stm. My thoughts go to anyone who is struggling at the min with the Credit Crisis, and I'm not talking about the FML one either!

The most amusing conversation i had this week was with a manager in a PM who was moaning that he couldn't find any decent players to `pep` up his team about, after a brief discussion I discovered that he had £6m to spend...Jog on Pal!

The 451 Debate
I quote from the HELP area:

"my point is that when you start playing this game, no doubt you have a idea have how the game should be played out in a tactical sense, many players who joined the game with many of their own ideas, have simply given up on those in a favour of a quick win formation exploit, they have seen the top teams success and got fed up with getting hammered every game and jumped on the band wagon! i don't blame them really, but what are they doing except picking players to fit into a formation and that they is unrealistic, they are not managing"

I think he`s gotta point!

Christmas and beyond..

If you purchased the 3 month subs..Soon your time will be up...will you carry on or will you dance off with Paul Ince into the sunset or jet off to Madrid with Diarra? Or maybe even go on a cricket tour with the England team?

If none of those appeal to you then sign on for another few months...you know you`ll want to!!

SO have a great Christmas and a Happy New Year, I'm off to Cornwall for 10 days as of the 27th but don't worry, my laptop and Mobile BB will be coming with me!( and I've checked the 3 map and they have signal down there!! No running water but hey I can get my mobile bb!! I couldn't be without FML for that long it would drive the wife mad!


Cheers All

Swiss Toni (AKA Kev Flack)

Final Whistle..musing from a week in Lineker!

On the blog we will be featuring a weekly post from kev on his thoughts of the week from gw Lineker.

Some musings from a Week in the World of FML and some amusing comments from the London Paper which i read on the way home today to relieve the boredom of yet another train journey from
London in to the Market Town of Romford which as it happens is in Essex no matter what people say!!

As I sat on my laptop in a Car Park in Hendon a couple of weeks ago plugged in my mobie BB and it suddenly dawned to me that i was being taken over!! Not by aliens but by FML, even a fellow work colleague has been caught up in the drug!
IT was all about the wage auctions this week, the will he go for 100k+ vote came out and lo and behold Jo, is now on 100k a week! I’m not sure Mark Hughes would have paid that much for him...nice hair though!
Then came the usual banter in the Lobby which resulted in me being shown a yellow card!! I’m not really a bad boy! Honest, I’m led astray by all these 18&19 year olds arguing in the lobby, just can’t resist joining in! Even the legendary Terry Tibbs was told off...a classic quote from Terry at the start of this week.....”You want to buy a player, you talk to Terry. You want to loan, you goto blockbusters” classic!!
Midweek now and the ever popular Kim Kallstrom came up for wage auction, i myself bid a fair offer of 42k which temporarily left me paralyzed on the transfer market...but hey I began to realise that 42k which never going to be enough....he eventually went for 80+k! Lots of the usual moaning and groaning from the European managers, hey guys don’t forget you can now get a £ for a Euro! So it can’t all be bad!
Towards the end of the week there were various posts about the state of the transfer market..we appear to being having our own credit crunch...this did not stop Shev from Aefa from purchasing a winning line-up- the likes of Owen , Robben, Babel....trust me they do look good together....
I was on a train going home and i came across some articles on the REAL world of sport from the past week
“Following Wednesday`s defeat in Port, Eboue took off his shirt to reveal a vest emblazoned with the words `GOD IS GREAT`...God was later seen wearing a similar vest which read: “Eboue is so-so”
This made me chuckle...the guy has a good point..
“The world darts championships will be shown on Sky HD for the first time this year. Phil the power Taylor and Wayne Mardle in High Def?? Gotta get me that upgrade!!
Ah, I’m ashamed to say David Beckham is an Essex boy. I hold my head in shame:
He was spotted in New Zealand bungee jumping or as he calls it, “the uppy-downy string”
And finnaly this had the biggest chuckle as I approached the Market town of Gidea Park which is even further into Essex than Romford...the great Avram Grant makes some classic comedy statements about his time at Chelsea..

“he said the he “improved” Chelsea. He then took the credit for saving the world economy, bringing joy and laughter to albert Square and having a quite word with Robbie Williams about Take That.

SO to next week..the start of Season 2...Good luck to one and all. Im aiming for a play off place, oh sod it no im not i want to WIN of course!

Cheers
Swiss Toni (aka Kev Flack)

Look forward to the next one where Swiss tell us blogging is like making love to a beautiful woman ;)

Yes I am alive.

Been a quiet time patiently waiting for my gw to open. The Tradesmen will be running a mock in gw Toms during the new year. But until that I have I have a side in the Lineker gw. So I decided to try something different in this gw since I knew I wouldn't be in the for a long period.

So I selected a squad and went with a youth policy. I picked my whole squad of players being under 21 players. I managed to pick up a couple of relatively well known players in Danny Welbeck and Kazenga Lua Lua. Now one thing that is has been a debated alot on SI's forums is that people need to be in a gw the minute it launches. Now I picked my side 24 hours after the gw had gone live. I still picked a decent squad of u21s.

The next thing I did was frantically learn as many coaching skills as I could to improve these group of players I had coem rain or shine. Alot of them are progressing nicely according to the mails I get in game.

Your coaching staff have indicated that, aided by your excellent coaching techniques, flamboyant Congolese attacking midfielder has been showing remarkable improvements recently.

They added that they believe the player's exposure to first-team football has definitely been a major factor in his development.

Is an example of mail I received theres several variences of these.

One thing you do find with youth route is that it can be big business to buy and sell youth players its quite another to actually spend your time to improve the players though and if I was in the gw for a longer period I would actually use my cxoaching skills to improve other peoples superstars.