Tag Archives: English Premier League

Ready

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As I start to make time for playing sports games again, I feel that it’s time to go back to some games that I’ve ignored for some time, specifically APBA Golf and APBA Soccer.

I remember trying APBA Soccer out something like 8 years ago, and while I was able to get through a complete game, I found that I liked the quicker play of other soccer games like Soccer Blast and later Dice United.

Same thing happened with golf, to a lesser degree.  I was a bit intimidated by APBA Golf, especially after playing a similar game, ASG golf, which led me to History Maker Golf, another quicker game than the others.

Fast forward to now, with more than a few dozen soccer games and a couple of golf games rolled, and I finally feel ‘ready’ to tackle what I consider the ‘big boys’ of the respective games.

That’s not to take away from anything that I’ve played, the PLAAY games are still my favorites, for example, but I just feel ‘ready’ to take on something a bit more complex.

I also feel that I have a richer appreciation for soccer now than I did 8 years ago, having watched 4 more World Cup tournaments (men’s and women’s), Olympic soccer, and of course living and dying through Tottenham Hotspur in the EPL.

As for golf, I’m still as interested in it as I was before, which was not total indifference, but rather an appreciation for it as one of my Dad’s favorite pastimes long before he passed on.  I still don’t watch it on TV as much as I did when Mom and Dad were both more interested.

For golf, I’ll probably still play History Maker more than APBA or ASG, simply because of the larger number of players and courses I have for HMG compared to the others.  I don’t intend to start a full season of golf, either.

Soccer, on the other hand, has me thinking that I can start Yet Another Season Replay™, so with APBA Soccer I’m going to replay Tottenham’s 2015-16 campaign, a season I don’t own in any other soccer game that I play.  This was the year Harry Kane first scored with the top team, and saw Spurs finish third behind Leicester City and Arsenal in the final standings.

Tottenham 5 - Sunderland 1: Black Cats stay bottom as Kane bags in league debut for Spurs | Football | Sport | Express.co.uk

All the reaction to Leicester City's title win - Eurosport

We’ll see if I can change history in my replay.

Stay tuned!

2020: Ted Lasso Finale Replay

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I picked up a new copy of Soccer Blast, and the first match I played was the final game of the fictional 2020 Premier League season as shown in the finale of Ted Lasso Season 1.

Final from Nelson Road Stadium:

RIC 1 – 1 MCI

46′ – RIC – Rojas (PK)
88′ – MCI – Tartt

AFC Richmond ties Manchester City, which allows the Greyhounds to stay in the Premier League instead of relegation to the Champions League!

Better result that the other fictional result, sure, and I wonder what Season 2 would have been like with this ending?

2011-12 EPL

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Since I tend to play more Dice United than any other of my soccer games, I’m going to start the 2011-12 Tottenham Hotspur English Premier League season.

That season came with the game in the first place, or more specifically, 4 top teams from that season, and the remaining 16 were available as a separate purchase.

My first sample match, Spurs v. Arsenal, which was actually the 6th game of the season, resulted in a 2-nil win for Spurs.  I’ll throw that result out and play it in the correct order.

First up for Spurs:

edit: Away against Manchester United.

I see that this is listed as the first played game, but round 2 of the 2011-12 season.  Everton was supposed to be the first match, but for some reason it was actually the 20th.

Stay tuned!