Surprisingly awful.

So it turns out I suck at FIFA 12.

I thought I was alright at it, not brilliant, but alright. Wrong; I suck.

On the pre-Tactical Defending FIFAs I was a dab hand. I'd win many more games than I lost, and my pass and move game was unplayable at times.

FIFA 12 is a different story, as I found out to my dismay last week. Thanks to GRTV's Nick Holmberg my confidence has been shattered, and if I want to get it back up and running it's going to take some serious practice.

I've been playing quite a bit of FIFA recently. A friend and I are in the fourth season of a managerial campaign. We've played nearly 200 games together, and I figured that this experience would stand me in good stead when I went up against other players at a recent event. I didn't win a single game. The shame!

Scored some bloody good goals, but they were merely consolations.

What made my awfulness more surprising is that on top of the managerial campaign I have, over the last few months, been playing my best friend online in a series of head-to-head matches. So far it's been a close contest, and I thought we were both pretty good at the game.

It turns out that he must be crap at FIFA 12 too.

I'm not one to shirk away from a challenge though. I've invited Nick to join me for a rematch, and whilst I'm reasonably confident he'll win the next encounter, I'm going to make damn sure that this is one trend that is reversed.