Here is a football game which is free where you play people all over the web. You play as a single footballer like be a pro from fifa kind of game.

I find it fun, Have a look

http://www.staggan.com/

is there a town/city or anything or just the football pitch?

Its a football pitch, the online play is quite good, but i found it hard to get connection

Still worth a try though as its free

It looks funny