If football is 'a funny old game' then the Footballer Of The Year is presumably the best comedian around. However, to achieve this honour you must score goals instead of telling jokes.

Starting the season with the team of your choice you get to play in League and various Cup matches and, if you're good enough, internationals. Before each match you can select up to three goal cards which allow you the possibility of scoring.

The manoeuvres for each attempt are shown on a blackboard - you must try and emulate your part in the following arcade sequence. Extra goal cards can be bought with hard cash, earned by scoring goals or from correctly answering footy trivia questions.

If you're playing much better than the rest of your team you can buy a transfer card so another team can scout you (and perhaps buy you). And that's about it. Before we go, just lone late result: Liverpool have trashed Spurs 4-0 with super striker Alexei Sayle scoring all the goals!