Special Report :

One of the weirdest, strange and freakish things on SWOS. . . ever?

Well, maybe it is not that freaky but it is interesting.  In a career one of the best features in SWOS 96/97 is the TRIAL player that you get.  It is always exciting when you get a new player with an interesting name.  SWOS makes up the names of these TRIAL players buy taking at random the first and then the second names of players already existing in SWOS.  This means you get some funny and interesting names like "Egil Ravinelli" and "Emile Bergkamp", I even had a player called "Juninho" once and he was inevitably crap.

This report is about a trial player that I had in my team in a recent career with Hartlepool United of England's div. 3.  The career was started with the original SWOS teams of the 96/97 season.  At the very start I got two decent trial strikers.  One was a portugese player called "Craig Nelson", nothing special there.  The other was a striker called "Darren Knowles", nothing special - I thought!

The player "Darren Knowles" turned out to be quite good and is in the first team still after 4 seasons.  The freaky and weird thing is this.  In real life (I found out when I played using 99-00 teams) Hartlepool United signed a right-back called, strangely enough, "Darren Knowles".  This was sometime after the release of SWOS 96/97 so the game could not have known that a player called "Darren Knowles" would eventually play for Hartlepool.

Weird or what?  It is like starting a 96/97 career with Liverpool and getting a good striker called "Michael Owen".   The chances of this happening must be extremely slim, there must be millions of combinations so the chances would be something like 9,999,999 to 1.

Feel free to Email me if something like this has happened to you.

 

Paul Turner - January 16th 2000