I'm shite at the Sims mate, SimCity I can do (have a casino and everything) but the Sims is just too trivial - you get to play with people's lives, and I have you lot for that. Next Thursday I'm going to get you to entertain Genghis with a puppet. (A particular move in the Sims which I've never impressed anyone with yet.)

And f*ck you all, cos I'm just writing the document which is going to translate the FIFA 2004 website into all the necessary different languages, and I've got the wallpaper on my desktop and the screensaver and I'm going to be one of the first people in the UK to play it, at work, getting paid for it.

Couldn't join in last night cos I'm a little ill, but to show that I'm fair I've also sacrificed the place on the bench I was going to give myself this week because of it.

Genghis, people obviously like feeling sick at training, that's a new benchmark we've reached.

Cool.