Football Manager 2010
5 Weeks Ago
Those who read these irregular journals who are unfamiliar with the Football Manager game franchise will find the following quite boring. You have been warned.
Last year, I posted to the FM 2009 forums with details of the Lancaster City squad, as the squad in the game was incomplete and out of date. I was then asked by the Unibond League head researcher of I fancied keeping the Lancaster squad up to date myself. I said ok, and ahead of the January 2010 update of the game and in the summer ahead of the new season, I researched (through going to games and befriending on Facebook), the details of the squad.
My (not very) hard work means that I am now receiving a free copy of the 2010 version of the game, and have my name in the credits. All in an attempt to make it easier to manage a club that is probably only of interest to me amongst the games players (i have no idea how many of City's 200 fans play the game, but probably not THAT many).
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Sep 9, 2009
Ok, so I've been busy.
Hello h2g2, how are y'all?
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"A famous person has died" by John Campbell
Jun 30, 2009
http://laughingsquid.com/a-famous-person-has-died-by-john-campbell/
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Egon's fortnight of sport
Jun 19, 2009
I've got two weeks of work. I shall spend it watching wimbledon on the television, plus a bit of actual live, in the flesh sport.
Tomorrow:
Liverpool international tennis, calderstones park.
Vince Spadea v Mardy Fish (Mens singles final)
Laura Robson v Michelle Larcher de Brito (ladies singles final)
Barry Cowan v Anders Jarryd (veterans)
Michael Stich v Younes el Ayanoui (veterans)
Saturday 27th June:
Tennis:
Wimbledon Court Three
Friday 3rd July:
Cricket:
Day 3, England Lions v Australia
New Road, Worcester
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Musings on the British National Party
Jun 9, 2009
There has been much analysis in the British press recently over why people vote for the BNP, who have gained two MEPs, one in my area, the North West and the other in Yorkshire and Humberside.
Some claim that the public are taken in by the BNP's attempts to seem more mainstream and less racist than previously. Others say mainstream parties are "driving voters into the arms" of the BNP, that they don't appeal to the working classes and are out of touch with their constituents,
The underlying assumption of these theories is essentially that the masses, the working classes, the great unwashed, call them what you will, are stupid and therefore incapable of knowing whether they're voting for a bunch of racists or not. This is rather patronising.
Have they not considered that maybe the reason the BNP got 6.2% of the vote (8% in the NW, 10% in Yorkshire and Humberside) is not that people don't understand what the BNP stands for, not that it's a protest vote against the mainstream. Maybe the truth is that 6.2% of the 34.5% turnout actually support what the BNP REALLY stands for? maybe there really are 943,598 racists in the country. Would that really surprise people, in a country where the Daily Star, Daily Mail, Daily Express and the Sun get combined circulation figures of 6.7 million?
The thing about democracy is that applies to everyone, no matter how unpleasant. As much as I would like nothing more than to see Nick Griffin punched in the face very hard, 132,094 of my fellow north-westerners voted for his toxic cancerous tumour of an organisation, and so he is one of our elected representatives.
Also, lets not overstate the BNP's success. From one of the weakest turnouts ever, and at a time that public faith in mainstream politics has tanked, they were the sixth most popular party, behind the conservatives, UKIP (who despite being a fringe party from the right wing got nearly three times as many voters as the BNP), the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party.
One more thing. Andrew Brons, winner of the Yorkshire and Humber seat, portrayed himself in his acceptance speech by saying "I am not what you would have been led to expect as a BNP candidate. i am a lecturer in politics and government".
He was also a member of the National Socialist Movement, an organisation founded on Hitler's birthday and based on the lines of the original national Socialist (Nazi) party in germany. He stood for parliament for the National Front four times and proudly stated that he would not allow blacks to attend National Front meetings.
Sounds exactly like what I would expect from a BNP candidate.
Sources:
http://www.natfront.com/some_of_our_boys.htm#Andrew_Brons
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/...ns/euro/09/html/ukregion_999999.stm
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story...p?sectioncode=1&storycode=43611&c=1
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co....wins-Yorkshire-Euro-seat.5343062.jp
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news...over-abuse-conviction-of.5329019.jp
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/p...illy-teenage-nazi-past-1700175.html
http://bnp.org.uk/2009/03/andrew-brons/
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