I'm playing FIFA on a computer that is well able to run the game (dual core 2Ghz, 2GB RAM, and a decent vid card), but the menus are *extremely* slow. Since it only happens horribly in manager mode, i'm starting to think that the reason for this is the scrolling bar at the bottom telling scores of games/fixtures. Is there a way to disable this bar or to make my comp lag less at these menus?

change the screen resolution to a lower setting.

Have you got newest Graphics drivers?