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Oliver Collyer

Oliver Collyer

@ovcollyer.com

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Family man, Everton fan, co-founder of Sports Interactive Ltd, inventors of Championship Manager, makers of Football Manager. PA to two daughters, apparently. Personal account.

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Oliver Collyer @ovcollyer.com · 1d

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Oliver Collyer @ovcollyer.com · 1d

And then her eyes glazing over as I calmly and as concisely as I can try and explain the difference between “WiFI” and “the Internet”.

Oliver Collyer @ovcollyer.com · 1d

The most important thing I’ve learnt about teenagers is that despite their lack of experience of the World, they are absolutely the expert on everything and it is “not the same now as when you were this age, Dad” 😂

Oliver Collyer @ovcollyer.com · 1d

Yup I’ve had the opposite - she was on limited data and turned off the wifi (despite it working perfectly) because a specific site didn’t work, forgot to turn it back on, used up her data

Oliver Collyer @ovcollyer.com · 1d

Nothing competes with the verbal abuse from a 17 year old daughter blaming me and “whatever I’ve done with the WiFi” for AWS taking down her social media.

Oliver Collyer @ovcollyer.com · 2d

Four defeats in a row. How sad.

Oliver Collyer @ovcollyer.com · 2d

“Pragmatic” as in if you’ve a crap squad he’ll play awful safety-first football but keep you solid. Forest have a good squad though, so if you’re them you surely wouldn’t want Dyche anywhere near it.

Oliver Collyer @ovcollyer.com · 2d

I’ll watch it precisely because it’s a no-lose game for me - whatever the result I can take a nice dose of satisfaction 😂

Oliver Collyer @ovcollyer.com · 2d

The performance in the first half gave me hope yesterday. More than had we started slowly and gone 2-0 down and then woke up as City eased off, an all too familiar scenario. Beto takes one or both of those chances and it changes the game and gives us a real chance of one or all three points.

Oliver Collyer @ovcollyer.com · 2d

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Oliver Collyer @ovcollyer.com · 2d

It’s so morally wrong it’s off the scale. Anyone who knows the hoops that you have to jump through and £££ in fees to get ILR will understand how wrong it is to then turn round and fundamentally rewrite the contract.

Oliver Collyer @ovcollyer.com · 2d

Yup small margins but what £150m+ difference in value? Our improvement is evident, time to get behind the strikers we have, give them confidence. Upgrade when the opportunity arises.

Oliver Collyer @ovcollyer.com · 3d

Fuck sake. Sorry.

Oliver Collyer @ovcollyer.com · 3d

So we just need to exchange Beto for Haaland so we can win games like that.

Oliver Collyer @ovcollyer.com · 3d

We’re not going to lose today.

Oliver Collyer @ovcollyer.com · 4d

Heh perhaps you’ll have better luck than we did when trying to get something useful of ours. That said, you’ve kept yours in that pristine air lock as opposed to Mum’s dusty house!

Oliver Collyer @ovcollyer.com · 4d

The realisation that after thirty years they are essentially now blank is usually a bit of a downer though 😥

Oliver Collyer @ovcollyer.com · 5d

Co-making it helped me get through my late teens and 20s 😂

Oliver Collyer @ovcollyer.com · 5d

Heh pretty much! With a padded brown envelope as the “security”.

Oliver Collyer @ovcollyer.com · 5d

Great news. It’s encouraging that first JB and now JP have committed their futures to EFC; it shows the current appeal and positive future they see for the club.

Oliver Collyer @ovcollyer.com · 5d

There was something beautiful about the simplicity of the match back then, Simon, those little phrases - often borrowed from Radjo 5 - to invoke the imagination!

Oliver Collyer @ovcollyer.com · 5d

Always nice to find a stash of old CM2 source code and data disks. These would’ve been backups I sent to Mum for safekeeping back in 1994!

Oliver Collyer @ovcollyer.com · 8d

No it’s not. We’re going to go there and give them a game, get a point and be disappointed it’s not three.

Oliver Collyer @ovcollyer.com · 9d

Does anyone have a link for the full exchange without the running commentary? Well-intentioned as it is, it makes it frustrating to watch when you want to form your own conclusions. Haven’t found it on YouTube yet.

Oliver Collyer @ovcollyer.com · 10d

I don’t necessarily agree with everything in the Green manifesto but it’s great to have a proper alternative to the stale Cons and Labs in particular, why not have a strong rival from the other side to Reform? Go for it I say!