Bass players, book covers, and computer games

The bass player quiz

Six out of ten, me. I got Hooky (New Order), Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads), and John Entwhistle The Who), emphatically and definitely. I got the Chic guy on an educated guess, and I've forgotten the other two.

I would've got Phil Lynott, Lemmy, and some others, but they didn't ask those.

Bang on the national average. I would've liked to do better than that.

The detective novel quiz

Match the book (title) with its cover.

My first ever maximum, 10 / 10.

I'd gladly swap it for a better score in the bass player quiz.

Football Manager 2014

It isn't exactly Grand Theft Auto XIX (California double drugs 'n' supa-ho's add-on pack).

It isn't exactly fast paced.

In the X-Box 360 advert, with Jessie Pinkerman out of Breaking Bad, the advertising guys decided against the slow, sedate unfolding of a Football Manager session, with a lot of text and little else wow-factor stuff, in favour of a first-person shooter (how that for gamer jargon?) with loads of guns 'n' bullets and stuff exploding all over the place.

I'm new to this, so it isn't exactly glamorous yet. I started at Southend, but got the sack halfway through my first season. To be fair, I didn't have much to work with, and no budget, either.

Weston Super-Mare then offered me the post, and after a season and a bit of mid-table mediocrity, again with no money and some pretty poor playing resources, in came the big ticket offer:

Boston United, in the Skrill First Division (North).

Yep.

I know.

Isn't that just too amazing. Well, better still...wait for it...I got Boston promoted. Through the play-offs. We're now in the Skrill Premier. 2015 / 2016 season. After a batting away draw in the first game, we've been stuffed by York and Newport County, and are in the relegation zone, 21^st in the league table. Booed off the pitch by the home fans. Nothing positive from the coach. This was his summary:

• Attack: crap
• Midfield: crap
• Defence: crap
• Goalkeeper: bloody awful

The question is where to go from here?

I think the options are:

1. Get our heads down and do what we can with the resources we have at our disposal.
2. Stop playing balanced passing football and go for the up-n-at-'em long ball, shitkicker methods that served Stoke and a succession of Sam Allerdyce teams so well.
3. Look online for cheats to get loads of money / loan players from Barca / sudden interest from Arsenal in terms of taking over when Wenger retires.
4. Call it a day and take up driving around running people over, tottin' guns 'n' selling drugs.