I will belatedly comment on an item from a December ’06 copy of MCV (www.www.mcvuk.com/index.php), having just found the page that I tore from the paper. Page 12 of issue 415 (1st Dec ’06) featured an announcement by Ian Livingston (Director of Acquisitions) that Eidos are keen to create a Championship Manager game using Sony’s buzz peripheral. Seems to me that they are waving the white flag and surrendering in the Football Management wars. Champ Manager was the football management brand back when Sports Interactive were developing it. To describe its fans as die hard would be something of an understatement. It is also safe to say that Football Management games are something of a niche market (albeit a lucrative one) and that fans of a management game are unlikely to buy just any old Champ Man branded product. Yet here is Eidos announcing a Buzz quiz game – something much more likely to appeal to the casual FIFA/PES footy game fans (or just football fans in general). Maybe it will turn out to be a smart move that widens the brand out to the mass market but somehow I doubt it. It seems more likely that Eidos have realised they can’t compete with Football Manager and so want to transform the brand into a dumbed down quiz.