FIFA 11 - Playing Games

It appears that following the release of FIFA 11 from EA Sports (http://www.ea.com/nl/voetbal/fifa) sales in Oxford are booming!

A friend from north Oxford told me that the reason for this is that despite being in different ‘real world’ leagues, the Us fans can now get to arrange fixtures against local rivals Swindon for the first time in about five years.

My friend has now had his edition for the best part of one week and moaned to me:

“Unbelievable. I’ve played Swindon five times and lost each game. If that wasn’t bad enough, Charlie Austin keeps scoring for them and he’s supposed to out injured!”

I haven’t had the pleasure myself, but apparently once you log in and name your favourite team the game automatically sets up your local rivals as a default (i.e., Oxford/Swindon, Newcastle/Sunderland, Spurs/Arsenal, etc). What happens if you’re a Wycombe fan? I asked my friend. He paused briefly and then replied:

“Dunno. It probably defaults through to a porn site so they can play with themselves.” Cruel, but funny.