Thursday, July 28, 2011

FM2011 Predicted Bradley Firing

Granted, FM2011 is usually a BizarroWorld when it comes to coaching changes, but it really did predict this in a way...

A couple of weeks ago, I was playing FM2011, coaching York City in England. I'd gotten them promoted to League 2 and was going through the offseason. Anyway, on July 23, 2011, the game said that due to a bad performance at Copa America, Bob Bradley had been fired. Here's hoping, though, that the rest of the scenario does NOT play itself out. The game then said that Bruce Arena would replace Bradley and Bradley would replace Arena in L.A. We've already tried Bruce Arena as head coach and I don't want to do it again. But, the game was only 5 days off on Bradley's termination as USMNT head coach.

The other coaching "cascade" if you will (in this game "universe") went this way: Mourinho gets fired by Real Madrid. He gets replaced by Arsene Wenger from Arsenal. Arsenal then hires David Moyes from Everton, who hires Alan Shearer to replace him. Talk about Looney Tunes...

In other real world news, defender Aurelien Collin will be out for 4-6 weeks following an injury to his lower back. He suffered a nondisplaced fracture of the transverse process of both the L2 and L3 vertabrae. That means that they're cracked, but didn't break off. Peter Vermes, in making the announcement during the weekly press conference, said that he'd suffered the same injury, but his was displaced, necessitating surgery. Vermes said that he's challenged Collin to get back in the same time he did. He was told he would be out 6 months, but was back doing two-a-day sessions on the field in 4 weeks. Good luck to Aurelien and hope he feels better soon.

That's all for now... See you soon...

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