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As mentioned by Lipe in another topic, you can download a demo off the Sports Interactive site, which gives you all the English and Scottish leagues to play with for the first 6 months, which isn't bad at all.
You get some weird results though - I just beat Arsenal 6-1 with Chelsea (we can only hope, hey?) and also it's generally pretty hard to score.
Good fun though, looking forward to the full game.
Got it with the latest patch and finding it a bit too easy with Man utd than it usually is. I started off really crap though. Losing 3 games in london in the early part of the season to Spurs, Chelsea and Arsenal...but then went the rest of the season unbeaten with a 14 game winning streak in there and turned around a 14 point deficit behind arsenal!
During my crap start i went out of the champs league in the group stage (first time that has ever happened to me with a decent team) but won the uefa cup.
Had some major fixture pile up in the first season towards the end becasue i had so many cup replays and was still in all comps. Ended up playing games on wednesday, thursday, friday and sunday! Had to call on the reserves! didnt lose any of them so was quite chuffed.
hooked it on it. Into 2nd season and signed D'Alessandro, Cassano, Van bommel, Jankulovski and Kehl so far. Got gilardino, corvia and Eto coming in the summer on free. Eto and corvia just to sell on for profit methinks.
> Vampyr wrote:
> i am waiting till my mates get CMnew and this and then see which is
> better, and get that one copied. i mean buy that one.
>
> People have played the demo, and have come away absolutely disgusted.
> Some have gone far enough as to suggest it's the worst football
> management game ever.
>
> Stick with the good old formula, in Football Manager 2005. It's a top
> game anyway, and is worth buying even if CM5 does turn out to be
> good. Which it won't.
u wanna play fm2005 add me [email protected]
> Got it today, but apparently the disc is corrupt so I'm going to have
> to take it back and get a replacement.
>
> Bah.
u wanna play
Pompey are third in the closing stages of the season, my star buys have proved their worth and may even get the title, Arsenal (2nd) and Liverpool (1st) play each other soon, t'shall be interesting.
I have no problems. Such a good game.