If the World Cup wasn’t enough for you, and the Premier League starting again this month still doesn’t fill your football fantasies, how does the new FIFA 19 sound?

A new FIFA for the new season is always a treat, right? Incidentally, does anyone remember FIFA ’94?

Anyway. The good news is that FIFA 19 is arriving shortly, and if rumours are to be believed, it’s going to have some great new features, as well as bringing back some absolute classics.

Check out the trailer here:

One of the biggest new features in the game will be the arrival of a Champions League mode. However, there’s one new addition which, if true, will definitely excite FIFA fans new and old.

Images are surfacing online of the highly anticipated 5 v 5 mode. If you’re anything like me and you’ve often thought there’s simply too many people on the pitch, this new feature is really going to butter your bread roll.

The 5-a-side feature looks like it’s taking its cue from the 2005’s FIFA Street, in which famous players were matched against one another in a fast-paced, old-school environment, with an emphasis on skill and tricks.

It has also been rumoured that the new mode will have a ‘last man standing’ feature, in which every goal scored results in a player on the opposing team leaving the pitch until, you guessed it, you’re left with the last man standing.

As well as the usual option of customising players, the updated career mode in the new game will feature an option to customise managers too, and even have them host press conferences.

In an interview with USGamer, FIFA’s creative director Matthew Prior spoke about what to expect from the game’s new features.

He said:

I think this time, career mode is the most authentic it’s ever been. So that in itself is a big update, and not just the fact that it’s in there, but the way we’ve implemented it.

The whole UI takeover, the cinematic scenes within the UI showing the Europa League draw. It’s not just Champions League, it’s Europa. So I think the integration of that, just in and of itself, is all we can really talk about right now.

It is a sufficiently big change to career mode that people will kind of love it because it is now 100 percent authentic.

One of the big changes to the playing of the game itself is the ‘active touch system’, which, according to EA Sports:

Fundamentally changes the way you receive and strike the ball, providing closer control, improved fluidity, more creativity and increased player personality.

The new game will be available in ultimate, champions or standard edition, as well as a Nintendo Switch edition.

FIFA 19 will be out on September 28 for PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Switch.

Happy gaming!

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Former world champion boxer David Haye has hailed the marriage of the new Duke and Duchess of Sussex as a defining moment for Britain.

The Hayemaker, 37, who has a Jamaican dad and English mum, said the country was ready for someone of colour to be part of the royal family.

Haye said:

To have someone of colour entering the royal family is amazing. I never thought I would see that happen in my lifetime.

But society is diverse and that should be reflected everywhere, in the workplace, in schools, in sport and in the Royal family.  It is nice to see, as a mixed race man.

I think it’s great Meghan is from a mixed family. My dad is from Jamaica and my mum is English.

I honestly haven’t heard one person say a negative word about the wedding.

Maybe 50 years ago, or even 20 years ago there would have been a few raised eyebrows, but now society is so multi-cultural, the world is changing.

Haye also enjoyed US minister Michael Curry’s sermon, adding:

It was great. I loved it, it put a bit of flavour in it.

Everything happens for a reason when it’s ready to happen, and I think now is the time for the royals to be doing what they’re doing.

It felt natural and it felt right, and it was amazing to see everyone celebrating. For me, Harry and Meghan got everything just right. It was lovely to see.

It was also heart warming to see the reaction of everyone. We have already welcomed Meghan to our royal family and taken her to our hearts.

I didn’t cry when I watched it, but I did have a warm smile on my face. I am even more proud to be British now.

He was speaking after braving the Living Nightmare Extreme Walking Dead maze at Thorpe Park in Surrey.

After emerging unscathed he said:

The future doesn’t scare me – but that lot did.

Around three dozens actors dressed as zombies pounced on the 6ft 3in boxer in the maze, parts of which are in total darkness.

He added:

If your idea of fun is to be scared, like if you love horror movies and you love The Walking Dead then I could not recommend it more highly.

People were jumping out of the darkness at me.

It was way more terrifying than the bush tucker trials. Nothing really got my heart pounding in Australia like the maze did.

Having cockroaches thrown at you is different to having zombies coming out of nowhere and getting in your face in the dark. There were hands coming through holes, and people appearing in doorways.

It was funny because my natural instinct is to throw a punch so I had to rein that in!

He also joked:

I have watched a few seasons of The Walking Dead so I know the potential repercussions of being bitten by a zombie.

So I spent the whole time trying not to get bitten, not that they were trying to bite me, but I managed to get out in one piece.

I’m sure you’ve faced scarier opponents in the boxing ring, right Dave?!

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