If a football team is to stand a chance of success then, at the very least, its players must respect one another. Without unity, even the most talented collection of individuals will struggle. Like children, they must learn to play together nicely or, like John Terry and Wayne Bridge, they shan't play together at all.

Strangely prescient, then, that in among the more obvious positives to this year's must-have Fifa add-on (half the price of last year's UT download, with a wider choice of players and leagues), EA Sports has now decided that "chemistry" is a huge factor in how successful a team can be. Individual ability will carry your squad(s) only so far in online competition. Without that elusive chemistry (am I playing in my preferred position? Do I like the players in front or behind me?) that is now needed all over the park, they're done for. It won't come as a massive surprise that few managers have so far found room for Craig Bellamy in their UT teams…