Reviews

The documentation for this game didn't state so but the game can be played with the Sinclair interface 2 Joystick by pressing the number 4 key on the main screen (Where you view the league table).

the lack of configuaration information made this game difficult to get into.

Quite advanced for the specy game as you could save your game on a blank cassete tape.

The actual in match game play I find to be bizare at times.

Lurking beneath a bizarre and unwieldy control system lies an enjoyable game. Unfortunately there's just no getting around the controls. A bar slides left to right and back again. To shoot upwards you have to wait until the bar is on the left (or is it right?) and vice versa. Pressing shoot when the bar is in the middle will shoot straight ahead. This means that once you get into a scoring position you have to wait until the bar is in the right place for your desired shot. By which time you'll most likely have lost the ball.
I bet Gary Lineker never had this much trouble!

A poor effort of a soccer game with a fine example of how it shouldn't be played. They tried to "enhance" the gameplay and overcomplicated it. Thankfully Lineker's other games are better.

I was about to give a 5, but it is excessive for what I had expected.
The game consist on two stages:
stage 1: Footbal simulator. Not very brilliant, with a trick easy to learn that will allow you to beat any team. It reminds me the world cup football of Artic with better graphics

Stage 2: This is a football manager simulator, with a good speed, this is the most enjoyable part of the game, you fight to promote your team to 1st division and to win the CUP.

It is a pity the game does not contain some special screen for these milestones instead the simplistic message "Cincinatti won de Cup"

Only with the PC, hard disks and etc. I found more enjoyable footbal manager games.

1987 Gremlin Graphics Software (UK)
by Chris Kerry, Colin Dooley and Marco Duroe

This soccer game mixes action with team management. The action part is by far the worst, like other reviewer said it's like Artic's World Cup Football with better graphics. The shooting feature is too complicated and spoils the spontaneity of a soccer match, because you have to wait for the bar (the small moving one below) to move to a certain position so to shot a certain way, this just kills the memento. Then you have the management part which is better, but not groundbreaking, you do the same like in some many other soccer strategy games, struggle to promote your team to the 1st division and at the same time try to win the Cup. Nothing special.