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Make 'em sweat!. That's the solution for any football team that loses by six goals or more, and believe me at European Super-league level this can happen. As manager of a top European side, you must lead your team to championship victory in the face of massive odds and three difficulty levels in this challenging football management sim.

During the course of the year you must deal with the press, your team fitness and morale, game tactics, the stuffy old club chairman, a nagging secretary, hawking opposition managers, the skulking groundsman, an over cheerful trainer and a team that looks tougher than a squad of Italian riot police. Phew! what a task.

Make no mistake folks, this is an office bound job. In the main screen you are behind a desk with your very own diary, telephone, intercom and picture of the family. Other objects in the office include a filing cabinet where team reports are stored and a door which gives you access to the outside world. Control is exercised, (press-ups and sit-ups ten times a day), by using the keyboard to position an arrow over the symbol you want to use, then activating a range of options.

There is a lot happening in this game so even if you haven't anything pencilled in your diary to do, make sure you keep busy, remember there's more to being a manager than wearing a sheepskin coat. The problem is that slow gameplay means there is a great temptation to skip off home early, however this type of play will leave the team in trouble and get the manager fired!.

The graphics are competent without being stunning, your secretary is no Betty Boo just tough as diamond boot studs! The same faces keep appearing throughout the game and the main office graphics are quite clear and pretty.

The Superleague management routine can get monotonous unless you really understand (or really want to) what you are doing. Each week passes very slowly unless there's a midweek game, while computer controlled home and away matches take place quickly and without any on screen play.

CDS have obviously put a lot of effort into designing European Superleague as an in-depth management game, thus it takes time to figure out and then even more time to master. As such it might be viewed as a long term investment, but only if you're a dedicated fan of sports management sims.

Here your big chance to follow Gazza into Europe and kick some butt. European Superleague will appeal to soccer strategy maniacs who are keen on EC integration. It will probably dribble past most real time action fans though.