The new review is up, as indicated by my handy del.icio.us RSS feed on the left. The lazy or the incompetant can just click here for the review, though.

Accumulatively over the years, I have spent many hours, days and weeks on the Football/Championship Manager series, so it feels nice to put nearly a decade’s worth of wasted time into something (semi) constructive. Amongst the most memorable of the moments playing the game, was when I discovered that one of the older versions (I forget which one) used your manager’s name when creating new players. As I’d maturely named my manager ‘Roger McTodger’, this led a whole generation of Nigerian (I have no idea why Nigerian and not any others) footballers to share my comedy surname. I still have the screenshot of a defensive midfielder called ‘Lucky McTodger’ who’d accumulated an impressive 4 caps and 1 goal.

I guess my avatar must have been quite promiscuous to have such a large clan represented around the world. Lucky fella.

Hi there, first post - snatched on a brief moment in my lunch hour. I’m Alan (as the URL suggests) and am currently an SEO copywriter. As if filling 45 hours a week with writing weren’t enough, I have taken to doing some freelance reviewing for two websites: Allgigs and Acegamez. I intend to aggregate it over this blog, with a little more personality than I feel able to in the reviews themselves.

Not that I feel over edited, you understand - these are my self imposed editorial restraints. Indeed, thus far, my editors have been a picture of ‘laissez faire’ restraint, barring one review where a surprising number of exclamation marks slipped their way into my prose. I didn’t mind too much, but as a good friend of mine pointed out, it did make me ‘come over all Timmy Mallet’, which, as mental images go, is nothing short of ghastly.

Timmy Mallet: Zany.

Anyway, this ‘hello world’ is rapidly in danger of overshadowing my lunch hour, and the BBC news website doesn’t read itself, so I shall draw this opening missive to a close. Thanks for reading.