Its that time of the year with Wimbledon coming up and its time to get your racket out or in my case by a tennis game. I had a choice between Topspin 3 and Virtua Tennis 2009. After playing both demos I decided to buy topspin but as I had a 5 pound HMV voucher left over from Christmas I went there and they didn't do Topspin so I got Virtua Tennis.
I don't ask much from a game. Some reasonable excitement and time passing enjoyment. Virtua Tennis is very poor. The career mode is stupidly easy to begin with and it takes ages to go up through the ranks. You start off on the amateur tour at 100 and go up 2 ranks at a time. All the events are repetitive and you can't enter some tournaments because you are wearing the wrong clothes. E.G. Fancy dress How do you get fancy dress on it? Will you have to do these stupid mini games. It's very tacky and very poor. Completely underwhelming and going back to the shop. 45/100. The game only becomes challenging when you get to rank 20 and above but even then its still easy. Bad game. Unlicensed so its even more tacky and tinpot.
Anyway I was doing some thinking about who my idols are. Who I aspire to be like and to be honest its a bit sad. The first one was Neil Smith. A hero and still is. Wore his heart on his sleeve and made me love football for what it is. My second is Ben Foster. He is the best british Goalkeeper. The third is Jeff Stelling. Stelling's wit and warm personality has been the driving force behind the ever-increasing popularity of Gillette Soccer Saturday. The one liner king. Anyway number 4 is Federer because he is the best and most gracious champion. My fifth idol is Jurgen. I want to be as good as him.
Once again I returned to Pirbright and it was a good day. I lost track of time and then from Pirbright cycled straight to 5 a side. I was Cappelo for the day and with a squad of 6 set about toppling second place. It finished 3-3 all and we were quite lucky acctually but we remain set for promotion.
To finish Two videos
Jeff Stelling. The legend.On a show that should be terrible.
Neil Smith, story of a legend:
JD X
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