Football Manager 2005 is the new game from Sports Interactive(SI) the creators of the Championship Manager(CM) series. Eidos the publisher bought the rights for CM but SI retained the rights for the game code used in the last CM, therfore the game is very like the last CM.
That paragraph sounded like a SI press release
So, it is a text heavy game like CM. It's the best manager game out, all the others are second class compared to it. Matches aren't in 3D but are shown in 2d.
Now I'm off to try and get Sevilla in the Champions League! Lost out on a Champions League place by 1 point last season it really pissed me off!