Come On You Whites!!

I always knew that playing through this many games would be a tough slog. There were always going to be stretches where I didn’t get to play very much. I thought that setting myself the task of playing one game of FIFA a week to coincide with the real life Premier League season would enable me to slowly eat away at that title while concentrating on others at the same time. I fully anticipated that I’d be making excuses and apologies for not having played that much or completed any games for a while. I’d hoped it would be further down the track, not a mere two months into my journey.

So I’m sorry I haven’t been updating the weekly results of my virtual Fulham FC. The reason is that I’ve been enjoying playing FIFA so much that I couldn’t contain myself to one game a week! The more I played, the more I enjoyed it, and the more I learnt. I steered the murky waters of its myriad menus. I plumbed the depths and managed to find controls that had previously remained hidden. I enjoyed trying out skill moves and shooting with finesse. I mastered the lobbed through-ball. I raced ahead and completed my season. Here’s how the table ended up.

9th. A top ten finish. Not that bad really! The season had it’s lowlights, losing 2-1 to Wolves at Craven Cottage was a notably shameful occurrence, but it had it’s highlights too including winning 3-0 at Old Trafford, and putting five past Liverpool at Anfield. I ended up joint top in terms of clean sheets, and if you look closely at the picture of the table you can see that two of my players were in the top four scorers for the season with 21 goals. I found that I played much better once I’d turned off the repetitive and annoying commentators. I also performed better with the best part of a bottle of red inside me. All in all I thought I did The Mighty Fulham proud for a FIFA noob.