Last month brought along the newest edition in the Championship Manager series. The quintessential football sim, Champ Man is a difficult game to describe as most people tend to either love or loathe it. You really have to be a hardcore sports fan to appreciate a game with no emphasis on graphics or hand-eye coordination. Instead you have to be the kind of masochistic nutter who can endure his team's realistic mediocrity and still be enthralled by gameplay which mirrors the scope and drama of the professional footballing world.

As the lack of recent blogging suggests, I've already spent too many late nights trying to raise West Ham back into the limelight.