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This Is Football 2005

2004 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ3224680 ↗
Source-derived summary

This Is Football 2005, known as World Tour Soccer 2006 in North America, is a sports video game developed by London Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2.

In-game match commentary is provided by Peter Drury and Chris Kamara. As evidenced in the game's instruction manual, Drury worked at ITV Sport and Kamara worked at Sky Sports respectively at the time of the game's release.

Reception

This is Football 2005 received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “This Is Football 2005” is 2004 video game. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Football, video and game, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2004. For this dossier, Football, video and game is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “2004 video game” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3224680. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2005 and 2006.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “This Is Football 2005” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.