Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

I'm playing tennis with the Saints kitman on Thursday. I smell free tickets.

 

Who would that be now..? Used to be long serving... blimey, can't remember his name. Nicknamed Woggy..!

 

Mark Forbes.

 

Well that's not a very PC nickname.

 

What a terrible shame.

 

No, I realise that, but he'd been around as long as the Robertson's Gollywog. And because he didn't resemble it in any way shape or form, the players gave him that nickname. It was a simpler time.

 

Does he appear in the Uncovered videos..?

 

When people address him now, do they have to make sure there are no black people in the vicinity before doing so?

 

It's a different bloke now, so the question doesn't arise. I may have forgotten the older kitman's real name but it was certainly not Mark Forbes.

EDIT: Here's the older guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAI0NdYYjLI

 

Malcolm Taylor, the old guy was. I believe.

 

That's the man..! Well done SFCJ.

 

I just got a bid of £19m for Clyne on FM. Told Chelsea to piss off.

 

PS4 more then doubled it's record sales in Canada.

 

Speaking of FM, I went on my FM12 save and resigned from my dominating Napoli team to manage Saints. It's the 2030s, their chairman is some English guy, and they have no money. I've just pulled them clear of the relegation zone. It's like old times!

Also Roman Abramovich is the Real Madrid owner and just offered me the job with a £450m budget. Told him to **** himself because I'm with cash-strapped Saints now!

 

That is priceless. £450m!

 

I'm tempted to make a second save and take that job just to mess around and see what sort of a team I can build. The squad they have now is a mess but in a couple of seasons I'll have a squad of "Galacticos" for sure.

 

Galacticos saves are a lot of fun. Me and a mate did a Liverpool-Tottenham network game on FM13 over the summer to see who could build the best squad. By the end of the game, I had a team which included the likes of Hulk, Aubemyang, Yarmolenko, Witsel, M'Vila, and I was starting to become a teeny tiny bit insane.

On the other end of the scale, my "stop myself from going crazy in Final Year" save with Cambridge United sees me 4th in L2 in my second season of playing. I got promoted from the BSP at the first time of asking, and my two starting strikers were in the top 3 for Top Goalscorers, with 29 and 28 respectively. My backup striker somehow managed to get 17 in 22 as well...

 

Lower-division saves are great in terms of comedy goal-scoring totals. My favourite was a Telford Utd save where I had a leftback get 6 or 7 goals in a season, all the same way: he was an absolutely woeful crosser, and I had it set to 'cross from deep' to take advantage of my fast strikers and the general incompetence of defenders. He'd miss the crosses horribly, but because the keepers had such **** positioning, they would end up in the net with some regularity.

 

Xbox One voice commands and chat will be region locked. So say you are french but live in the uk, you won't be able to talk french while on the Xbox One or it won't understand you.

 

That seems unnecessary and idiotic. Curious how it behaves in the places where there are not only multiple official languages, but additional common ones.