I had SWOS 96/7 already, snapped up in a GOG sale at some point, the purchase representing a final attempt to give the game one more chance. I wouldn’t replace the original review: instead, I’d use the excuse of a seasonal update to add a second one to the site.
It was always in the back of my mind to revisit Sensible World of Soccer at some stage, and encouraged by moderately successful write-ups of Doom and Speedball 2, I decided the time was right. Out here on the distant edge of games writing, the notion of publishing anything with deliberately controversial intent is vaguely ludicrous, but if anything qualifies, it’s probably my ages-old declaration of extreme antipathy towards Sensible Soccer.