Season 24 week 1 processing ... new season ...

Welcome to the new season and the very best of luck to everybody.

And so it begins .....again.

I have orders from Man City, Arsenal, Newcastle, Chelsea, Birmingham, Leicester, Plymouth, Watford, Charlton, Fulham, Inter, Real, Barcelona, Schalke and Inverness

no orders from Man United.

Has the Watford order not arrived Paul?

Has Hayden bit the dust already?

Jamie@Watford wrote:

Has the Watford order not arrived Paul?

arrived okay thanks Jamie.

Cheers Paul

I've PM'd Hayden

a couple of you seem to be entering both parent and feeder club into the european champions cup and you cant have 2 teams in the same competition, so unless I hear otherwise I will enter the feeder clubs into the europa cup. if you'd rather they weren't in the europa cup then let me know here today thanks ( tuesday ).

games will most likely kickoff wednesday afternoon, will keep you posted, still got lots to do

International sides worked out like this ( some teams were requested by more than one manager so I used the international success rate as a priority )

World Cup
italy-rob  spa-iain por-richmedley arg-ben bra-geoff ger-matt greece-john
fra-phil nor-colin hol-will pol-ivan eng-tom usa-brandon bel-richallen
rus-nobody uru-nobody

Copa America
brab-geoff mex-mark peru-me para-mattrose

World Youth Cup
eng-tom bra-geoff spa-rob ger-matt ita-paul fra-alain hol-greg

Home Internationals
engB-les ni-colin sco-dave wal-mattbackley

Internationals
sui-zvenger aut-wendell scoB-steve rom-pete cro-john

African Nations - Beta test trial run
gha-david

European Champions Cup teams are

manc arsenal newc brum leic plymouth watford charlton
fulham napoli juve inter real barca bayern schalke

Europa Cup teams are

chel acmilan rangers celtic ajax feyenoord gornik valencia
inverness betis sevilla lyon nantes ancona berlin lille

Copa Libertadores teams are

saopaulo santos flamengo boca catolica milonarios estudiantes necaxa nacional emelec caracas riverplate penarol palmeiras olimpia cristal

Confederations Cup teams are
cosmos galaxy chicago harrisburg newyorkcity

Paul Hemmings wrote:

European Champions Cup teams are

manc arsenal newc brum leic plymouth watford charlton
napoli ac juve inter real barca bayern schalke

Wow. There isn't going to be a group of death this year.

There will be 4!!!

Tom@Charlton wrote:

Paul Hemmings wrote:

European Champions Cup teams are

manc arsenal newc brum leic plymouth watford charlton
napoli ac juve inter real barca bayern schalke

Wow. There isn't going to be a group of death this year.

There will be 4!!!

yep should be a great competition, sorta champions of champions almost, with everybody who's anybody in it.

Sorry Paul,

Had a bit of a traumatic Wednesday-Thursday  last week and so sending the turn was a bit of an after thought

I was meant to enter Fulham into the champions league and feyanoord into the Europa , I may have also forgot to post some money to u.

Are u ok to sort out accordingly and ill square up with u next turn.

Appologese, back on it now

Have pm'd u the same message just in case u don't see this til it's too late

kickoff wednesday 1300 hours.

Good luck everyone for by the looks of it one of the most competitive seasons ever in the game

Iain@RealMadrid wrote:

Good luck everyone for by the looks of it one of the most competitive seasons ever in the game

Agreed and seconded... I've never known it so competitive. My target is to stay up!!

Looking at England surely everyone should have the same target .... possibly win the title/avoid the drop. There's so many good teams it has to be hard picking out what your toughest game will be. I reckon the champions will be one of .... 10. That means a potential title winner will get relegated. Every game a 6 pointer.

Possible lowest tally of points ever will win the league. There are gonna be plenty of ups and downs, that's for sure!

The first game of the season is notorious for it's shock results too, so it'll be interesting to see which of you prepared your teams the best for this opening fixture.

players are out and we're almost ready...

and we're off ... best of luck to everybody ...

first goal of the afternoon on 2 minutes

Wolves 1 Man United 0 Guedioura

and Brian McDermott informs he has a goal already in the game at Betis, so let's go there now...