The sentiment illustrated within this article for the former is something which resonates with me, also. In terms of pure playability I will put my neck on the line by saying that, in this regard, it has never been surpassed – even by PES.

Sensi, as it was endearingly-termed in my household, was a game for a generation, and whenever articles/discussions like this come along, I can’t help but recall evenings spent watching Gamesmaster and listeneing to Dominic Diamond!

However, despite my warm memories, the game itself belongs in the past. I remember buying an Amiga 600 from eBay in 2001, tracking down a copy of SWOS, and attempting to re-create the magic. I’m afraid to say the magic had gone – past, if you like. I also felt that Jon Hare, the co-creator of Sensible Soccer, damaged the brand (and my memories), somewhat, with the different reincarnations of Sensible Soccer which surfaced in the early noughties – I remember the SNES version being truly awful.

Still, this tinkering was not enough to destroy what I already knew to be true: Sensible Soccer was, for its time, the greatest football computer game of them all.