Legal Stuff
Its a league based soccer managment game/simulation, with text based commentary.
From a legal standpoint, yes there are issues. I can't use real league, team or player names.
The safest thing might be to have a league based on International teams, England, France, Italy etc and then use random popular names.
All the names can be configured by the user, or maybe peer to peer shared on a forum.
What I'd prefer is to use real team names, and then alter a syllable in the player names. Ive seen this used by a well known PPC title. It seems to be a bit of a grey area, in practice.
If anyone knows more let me know.
I think my game has some unique features. The realism and depth of the text commentary is far better than those of any major title. Im practically resigned to only making a few quid, and then someone else making millions from the ideas. Ah well. At least I can say I invented it first.