Over at Insert Credit, definitely Scottish person Mathew Kumar discusses the new Sensible Soccer game, Sensible Soccer 2006, for which there is now a PC demo available.

Actually developed by a former employer of mine, Kuju Entertainment, in conjunction with key Sensi employee Jon Hare, the game has been reviewed pretty darn positively by Eurogamer, who comment: "The most charming thing about Sensible Soccer 2006 is that it's one of those rare everyman games that casual footy fans and hardcore PES-philes can embrace with equal enthusiasm."

Kumar's IC post also notes of the demo: "Top Tip: When installing, choose the language of the team that you want to play as. So french, if you want to see Zidane’s cute wee bald spot." Nice! Of course, chances of a U.S. console release for this seem a little bleak, tragically - but we can hope?

(And here's background if you're wondering what Sensible Soccer is/was - a tragically addictive top-down soccer game, especially beloved of Amiga geeks, now 3D-ized correctly.)