Last year I bought and played FIFA, but it was only until PES4 came out on the XB and was such for abit of Live play. All in I played for about a month, I started a career mode, got my team promoted and then took another job as such, it was fun in the begining as Nick says, taking a lower league team and your young players getting better. The first touch system was fun too, taking a ball in your stride was great.
However I bought PES4 and never touched FIFA again, all in it was probably worth about a 7 out of 10, it tidied me over till PES came along, but after seeing how much lag it suffered I played neither of them much.
EA's Live play was alot better than PES, it was a great set up, you could see a percentage beside a players name of how many matches then didnt finish, plus you had a gauge showing how good their connection was. It actually had a lobby, not like in PES were ya hang about and hope to get connected.
Setting up your own control system in a MUST in any game, but in football it's a total necessity, one that EA should learn from. Overall I'll have a look at the review scores, and think about getting it, depending on the time between FIFA and PES released will probably make me decide whether to get it and try it or not.