by Iain Wilson

Created on: February 22, 2010

This is an online football management simulation game, which is free to play for anyone.

Firstly you'll have to register an account, which is quick and easy. You just have to enter all the normal details and go through the normal process.

Once you're registered and logged in you can set about picking the team you want to manage. There are hundreds of different "worlds", each containing various teams in a super league format. There are more than one team within the game, but only one per world.

You could either just go into a random world or you can use the search function to look for a specific one if you have friends already playing.

As a free member you can manage up to 2 clubs, although I prefer to just take control of one. I don't see the point in managing two clubs; I would just be trying to buy the same players. The only reason to manage two teams would be to make your manager stats better; this could backfire though and make your stats worse.

You can pay a membership fee to become a 'gold member'. The advantages of this include:

International Management
Create your own game world
Support tickets prioritised
More tournaments to play

You can buy various levels of gold membership, these are:

£1.99 - 1 month
£14.99 - 1 year
£19.98 - 2 year

There are multiple payment methods including the usual credit / debit cards. Paypal is also an option, which I always think is good.

Once you have got your club(s) picked you set about doing the normal management things.

There are plenty of various formations, which you can use, and you can set instructions to players like who is the playmaker and who takes the penalties, etc

Selecting your team works much in the same way as Football Manager, by simply dragging players onto the tactics board, but you will have to confirm the changes or it will just go back to the way you found it.

You don't actually get to see the game being played, so you can set instruction for certain periods in the game, such as to defend if winning or to bring on a substitute at half-time. Creating subs can be a good idea since players do tire and will have to be rested at times.

Once you have the tactics sorted out you can start thinking about buying and selling some players. The transfer market is a lot better than I expected. You search for the player you are looking for and then make a bid for the player.

This can be quite frustrating if you make a bid for someone and the manager of the team hasn't logged in for a few days and

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