Q. How long have you been playing Sunday League? A. Started in 2001 on the GamerTV server, left in 2006. Then joined and left back a forth a million times over the years.
Q. What got you in to Sunday League to begin with? A. A friend I used to go to school with.
Q. Were you on any other servers before the merge on to one server? A. I've been pretty much everywhere at some point. But, I was mainly on Daily Record, ITV, Tiscali, Smokey and Man U's server.
Q. What are some of your biggest achievements on Sunday League? A. I won the very first World Cup on the Daily Record server, as I was there from the start of it. I won the managers table on Tiscali, and to be honest, that was the only reason I joined Tiscali, to get myself one of them goody bags haha. I also won the Super Cup and World Cup on Man U, which is great from a Leeds fans perspective
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However, this year I won the Beer Cup with a bunch of season 1's, which I don't think anyone will match for a long time, so that's a nice bit of history to have on the game.
Q. What are some of your biggest losses on Sunday League?A. All loses are ones you can learn from, unless your team is too weak. However I've had two loses that hurt a lot.
The first is back in the day when prizes were given away on this game, back in like 2002. I was in the Elite Cup final, the prize for the winner was £150 worth of vouchers to spend on a website Sunday League was a partner with.
Anyway, the day of the final was on a Sunday, and that weekend I was away on a family vacation, and I wouldn't get back to the Monday Evening, after leaving on the Friday, as this was 2002 it's not like I could check my phone when being out and about. I set up for the game a couple of days in advance, and couldn't log in to keep my teams morale up or check if I had any AWOL's to sort out. I can't remember what the team line up was, but I lost 2-1. I feel like I would off won if I could have logged in.
The other was the World Cup Semi-Final on the Daily Record server, the draws would happen so CPU teams always got to the final as it was a small server, and it probably meant Sunday League paid out less credits which was smart. Anyway, the person I was playing had won 1 World Cup, to my 1 World Cup as well, we we're playing for who would be the first manager to win 2 on the server. I had a good record against this guy, and I was 100% sure in my head the night before, which tactics I was going to play, I probably re-searched him for like 30 minutes, and I eventually found a pattern in his tactics that I could use against him.
I couldn't put the tactics on the night before, as this was 2004 and these were the days in Sunday League, where you couldn't set up in advance, and I had a league game. I always set up first thing in the morning anyway before I went to go to school, as I tried to do that for this game, my computer wouldn't start. It wouldn't get past the windows screen, when trying to get it to load. I tried 4 or 5 times and I was screwing because I knew these tactics would get me the win. Needless to say, I wasn't happy, I went on to lose the game 5-1 because I didn't set up, and when I got home from school at 3:30pm that day, my computer started no problem, like nothing had happened first thing in the morning and then the guy went on to win a 2nd World Cup against a CPU team...stupid technology
Oh, and looking at the match report, the tactics I had planned, I believe would have got me the win
Q. Who is your biggest rival on Sunday League at the moment? A. I've not really got rivals, but I do have a bogey team in Winter Milan. I've never took any points from him in 2-1-1, but I'm hoping that will change as my team develops
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Q. Why did you choose the team name you have? A. I'll only mention the first two, South Shields is my hometown, and Believeable Tekkers, is the team name of the 6-a-side team I used to play for that won the league
Q. What goals do you have for the future on Sunday League? A. I want a team that has won everything, but I'm sure everyone has noticed on here I have quite a few teams, because I also want to be the first manager that has won every x-1-1 on the game since the merge.
Q. Which Conference would you say is the toughest right now on Sunday League? A. Right now, I'd say conference 4, a few seasons ago I would have said conference 2, but we've lost Marv.
Q. Which Football team do you support and why? A. Leeds United, which is highly influenced by my dad. South Shields too, as they are my hometown.
Q. What is your favourite Football memory? A. That happened this year. South Shields got to Wembley in the F.A. Vase Final against Cleethorpes and won 4-0
. I've never been to a final and watched my team win. I'd expect a lot more success from South Shields in the future though, they have a owner who owns a buisness with a £90M a year turn over, so financially they are in a great position, and his goal is to get South Shields to the national league. We're like 4 leagues below the conference, but I'd hope South Shields can get into the national league within the next 10 years. I think they are currently top by 2 points with like 4 games in hand.
Q. Lastly, If you could change one thing on Sunday League, what would it be?A. Fix the register page. You have to use the "Tab" button to agree to the T&C's right now to sign up, instead of clicking on it. For those that aren't PC literate, it could prevent New Managers from joining the game, and old ones returning.
