Cheslea 0, Coventry City 3
The random numbers cruncher at the dark heart of PES2008 threw me a great fixture to start season 2012: Chelsea away.
I groaned at first, then I realised it was an early Championship six-pointer (hopefully). If I’m not challenging for the title this season it’ll be because of carelessness. Better to get this game out of the way while the team is still fresh and hungry.
Having Jansen and Kaiser in the team seems to have made an instant difference. Jansen is marginally the best left-back I’ve played with yet (he’s only just better than Braafheid), but that difference is enough. Jansen was stopping everything down the left side, and making dangerous runs forward.
Kaiser is strong, reasonably quick, and sublimely skilful. Within the first 15 minutes of the game starting, he’d created two good chances and had one himself. Then he went one better, going on a nice little run to score his debut goal and my first goal of the season:
Shortly after, he was kind enough to get another goal – a scuffed kind of shot from the edge of the box – that made it 0-2 to me at half time. Schwarz nodded in the third from a corner late in the second half.
And that was that. Chelsea hardly had a shot on goal. I’m top of the league by goal difference after one game. I am satisfied with how season 2012 is going so far…
When I moved back to Kansas and started supporting the Wizards (Kansas...
Chelsea? Who are ya?
If you want to be the treble-winners, you’ll beat anyone, at any ground, any fixture.
Ah, but this is PES2008, the least sim-oriented version of our beloved game ever. What’re the chances Derby County will thump me 3-0? Pretty good.
Maybe the Rams are Seabass’ favorite Championship side.
Nice drubbing of West Brom yesterday IRL. If the Football Gods are good, City’ll get a Leeds-like positive bounce from the point deduction and stay up this season.
Then, once my lotto number comes in, Ian Dowie can be the Benitez to my Gillete and Hicks. No player too expensive for us! Hell, we’ll buy Titus Bramble!
^ And Younes Kaboul while we’re at it. Then if we can get Robinson between the sticks, we’re sure to win a European spot be entertained!
^^^ An optimist speaks ^^^
Sadly, I am so embittered by decades of watching CCFC’s slide that I fear the worst. I always thought the annual relegation battles in the top division were as bad as things could get. Then I thought being in the second tier was as bad as things could get. And now this! This!
If City go down to League 1 I think the remote chance of seeing them back in the Premier in my lifetime would be completely gone. There are plenty of bigger clubs than ours stuck down there.
We need another Jimmy Hill figure – a charismatic leader with vision and daring!
I really hope not. I think that hardship can create the comraderie and esprit de corps that a side like Coventry would need to stay up this season.