Sensible World of Soccer 96/97

The gameplay is fun, don't get me wrong, but whoever it was at Sensible Software who was bright enough to only allow 16 players per squad with THIS frequency of injuries is a moron. Simply put, and I wish I was kidding, I started a career with AFC Wimbledon and 4 games in, I'm unable to continue. Three of my guys were injured already and with the 300k I have available, I can't afford enough healthy players on the pitch/bench to start a game. Result? Career over cause of insane injury frequency and idiotic design choices. I would perhaps still recommend this game because it is fun to play, but this is a MASSIVE flaw that is gamebreaking.

Unfortunately I won't be buying it here without control pad support. Needlessly difficult w/ keyboard and mouse.

Is there any way to play it using a pad? I have one from PC/X-360 but doesn't work at all and playing using the keyboard is a nightmare.

Game was fun before upgrading to Windows 10. Now i barely get to the title screen (crawls), it starts switching back and forth between resolutions, and then crashes, no mather what settings I use. Dont get this if youre under Win10

Does anyone know if it's possible to use Steam to launch this (map the executable file as a non Steam game) rather than via the GOG launcher, allowing the player to use a Steam controller to map the keys to the joypad ? I sucked at this the first time around but it could be fun for parties if we can work out how to remap the controls to pads :-)