Sports Interactive and SEGA have today announced that this year's incarnation of the ever popular Football Manager series has now gone gold, a demo is expected to be released in the early hours of this coming Sunday in the the the usual formats for both PC and Mac.

The strawberry version of the demo includes player pictures and club badges, with quickstarts for the world’s biggest leagues, giving players a chance to try out their skills in leagues from multiple countries. This version of the demo will also include all language translations for the game. The strawberry demo will be available to download from midnight on Sunday 2nd November from Steam (PC only) at http://store.steampowered.com and via http://www.sigames.com as a torrent or direct download, with bandwidth for the direct download provided by GameShadow.

The vanilla version of the demo is English language only, and features the English and Scottish leagues, with no player photos or club badges in order to reduce the size of the download. The vanilla demo is being released exclusively from midnight on Sunday 2nd November via the News Of The World website at (http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk).