Football. America call it soccer, the rest of the world call it football. I go along with the world. Australia has footie, sadly, despite spending four years here in australia, i don't know anything about footie. But today's topic is on football, so it doesn't really matter if i don't know anything about footie, the australian 'american football'... you get my drift.



Never in my life have i loved football this much. years have gone by with me knowing nothing about football. david beckam, michael owen etc, they might as well have been posh spice and michael jackson. But watching the recent euro 2004 together with my housemate and a recent series of football management games have seen an increasing fascination in the ball from the bandit camp.



Just a couple hours ago, i've the sudden urge to kick some football in a field, all to submerge in a moment of football glory. But i guess it'll be much longer before i really get to kick some football. its so difficult to find people to kick ball with you these days.



The teams i usually play in football manager games are liverpool, everton and ac milan. Love liverpool coz my housemate is a die-hard liverpool fan. Love everton coz my brother used to support the team. Not sure if i love ac milan, but the club sounds kinda cool. and they've got maldini, whose name is also kinda cool.But never have i played man u, dunno why, juz don't like 'em.



The thing with football manager games is that i can still manage to play them without knowing a single thing about football. Football formations are relevant in the sense that games calculate defense, ball possesion from the formation chosen, and from ball possession, the chances of scoring goals is derived. well, this is the generic formula of most football games though. so it shouldn't come as a surprise that the favorable formation in games is 3-5-2.



But some football games count goal scoring chances by number of strikers. The side effect is that lopsided formations like 1-0-9 works extremely well. But anyone would be crazy to play 9-0-1 formations. Even if such a formation works wonders, i won't play it. to me, defensive football is not that interesting. i'm sure plenty of people who watch real football agree with me.



well so much for football. this is just to say that i love football.

well... football management games that is.