Despite being the younger brother of the This Is Football series, World Tour Soccer has been rather lucky in avoiding the inheritance of the family harelip, though it still shows signs of a gammy leg. If you never had the misfortune of playing TIF we need to point out that the players control like hovercraft. Really. This has, thankfully, been rectified and even if all the players do exhibit Peter Crouch’s ungainly strides, it’s possible to play a crisp passing game (provided you elevate the default camera) and make some fairly intelligent plays.

TIF also failed to punish hysterical players that took Ranieri-tinkering that little too far by putting goalies up front and midfielders in goal. You can still do this, but after a season where we’ve seen David James and Robert Huth employed as strikers and Glen Johnson in goal it almost seems authentic.

Our real area of concern is the fact that in an effort to come up with a ‘travel friendly experience’, WTS forces players to unlock even the most basic of options. You can’t even play a quick match between, say, Liverpool and Chelsea, because both teams are locked from the off. Absolutely ridiculous. Sure, the method of unlocking such elements is good fun, with rewards dished out for maintaining possession, cleans sheets and the like, but come on, this sort of thing should never impinge on a game’s accessibility.