The aim is to manage your team through to winning the WORLD CUP FINAL. Unlike previous Football manager games there is no requirement to deal with any thing other than team tactics, positioning and individual player management.

What makes this game uniquely brilliant is the fact that you now have total control of each player in terms of instructing him on things like passing forwards, backwards, long kicks, short kicks etc.

Another major factor is morale. This subtly affects your teams performance. So what you say to the newspaper press is important. If the reporters believe and support what you say, they will print positive information about your team and it will boost their morale.

You can also affect your team's morale by what you say to them before and halfway through a game.

LOADING

CPC Cassette: Load in your cassette. Type RUN" (RETURN). Press PLAY then hit any key.

HOW THE TEAM GROUPS AND LEAGUES WORK

The World Cup is split into 2 parts:

A. The qualifiers. This is split into 6 regions:

1 European
2 South American
3 Oceana/Israel
4 Asia
5 North and Central America/Carribbean
6 Africa

Depending on which teams you wish to be, you have to play in accordance with the qualifying systems of that region. Also, if you choose Italy or Argentina. you will automatically go straight through to the finals.

B. The Finals.

These start with league groups and progress to knock-out competitions.

THE GAME VIEW

THERE ARE TWO GAME VIEWS, BALL ON-VIEW AND SCROLLING VIEW, WHICH YOU CAN CHANGE FROM ONE TO THE OTHER AT ANY TIME DURING THE ACTION SEQUENCE BY USING FIRE, LEFT MOUSE OR RETURN KEY.

HINTS AND TIPS

1. Player types. Strikers are better at scoring goals. Passers choose more intelligent passes. Runners can run faster. Sweeper players are better at sweeping up opponents' attacks. The more passing options you allow a player, the more likely he is to pass than run with the ball.

Please read the instructions carefully. I hope you enjoy the game. I believe this is my best one to date. Enjoy yourself, Good Luck, Kevin Toms.

MOUSE/KEYBOARD CONTROL

The game is controlled by mouse (except for PC versions which can also use the numeric pad cursor keys).

WHAT TO DO BEFORE YOU PLAY A MATCH

You have a squad of 22 men from which you must select 11 players, 5 substitutes and 6 reserves. As a manager, you can manipulate your team as follows:

1. Positioning. You do this by pressing "POSITION" (The player will be highlighted on the screen) and moving that player to where you want him, using keyboard or mouse for left, right, up or down, after clicking the "Passing" position bar then click the pointer on the new position of the pitch display.
2. Playing, substitute or reserve,
3. Directions and lengths of passes and kicks for example backwards, forward, long, short, etc.
4. Type of play: thru runs, sweeper play, find space, positional, wing play.

The player type, i.e. tackler. passer, striker, runner and goalie: and skill values are fixed.

You can also view the values and positions of your opponents players by clicking the top bar. Please note you cannot change them.

You also have a menu option to see the complete teams in their formation. This shows for each player, including the opponents. the type of player, the skill value and playing tactics.

For example: S5W = STRIKER, SKILL VALUE 5 AND WING PLAY.