With all the talk of C64s and old football games recently, I thought some of you may be interested in this:
http://www.maxim.co.uk/entertainment/games/19042/top_10_retro_football_games.html#I remember playing Virtua Striker in the arcades as a kid, would always get to the final and get thumped by Brazil. I won once and played a Galaxy 11 which was a team made up of aliens. I never knew anybody who could complete that level.
Sensible Soccer is the daddy of football games and there was one game called Football Glory where it was like Sensible Soccer but if the ref sent you off you could chase him off the pitch and you could also punch players.