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With this being the first round of the World Cup qualifiers, it's time to head off to foreign climes for this week's games...


Azerbaijan v Wales
Austria v England
Northern Ireland v Poland

[No, I'm *not* completing the line up and putting in the Scotland match. They're playing away to Spain on the Friday evening, and it just doesn't seem fair to make light of their forthcoming humiliation.]

Clyde v St.Mirren - a tasty top of the table clash
Airbus UK v Cwmbran - with a name like 'Airbus UK', it just *had* to be done


Closing date 12noon, as per usual, on Saturday 4th September.

Is Northern Ireland technically foreign?

Well I'd better get these in before I head off on holiday...

Azerbaijan 0-3 Wales (Bellamy)
Austria 1-3 England (Beckham)
Northern Ireland 1-1 Poland (Olisadebe)

Clyde 2-3 St Mirren (Kean)
Airbus UK 2-1 Cwmbran (Thomas)

Now, I'm not sure how many internationals my saved game of CM will have covered, so you might get some of me in these predictions...

B

Ok, clue me in - who were Airbus UK formerly known as?

They're the works team from the Airbus factory in Broughton, North Wales.

And here's what the Airfinance Journal has to say about them - http://www.airfinancejournal.com/default.asp?page=7&PubID=44&ISS=10636&SID=424157

Pyscorp603 Northern Ireland are technically home.
England now that is foreign.

Azerbaijan 1 Wales 2 SAVAGE
Austria 2 England 2 HAAS
Norn Iron 2 Poland 0 McVEIGH
Clyde 1 St Mirren 0 HARTY
Airbus UK 1 Cwmbran 1 TUPPY

OK, CM predicted everything but the Norn Iron score, which I had to do myself.

Azerbaijan 1-3 Wales (Koumas)
Austria 0-2 England (Owen)
Northern Ireland 0-2 Poland (Krzynowek)
Clyde 3-2 St.Mirren (Twaddle)
Airbus UK 0-1 Cwmbran (C Hughes)

B

I don't know quite what it says about the state of Northern Irish football, that Championship Manager can predict a factory works team's result, but not that of an international squad

It's mean we have turned the corner.

Azerbaijan 1-4 Wales (Bellamy)
Austria 2-2 England (Owen)
Northern Ireland 1-2 Poland (Healy)
Clyde 1-0 St.Mirren (harty)
Airbus UK 0-4 Cwmbran (fernquest)

If you really want to know (and I'm sure you don't), I set the game up with several likely leagues to run through the season, including all the British Leagues, Italian, German, French and Spanish. Unfortunately, CM doesn't play along with international fixtures and tends to arrange its own. Very fortuitously, there was a result for the other two matches on the database, but there's no way the player can schedule international matches to suit.

B

A bad predictor always blames his tools.

Azerbaijan 0-4 Wales (Rob Earnshaw)
Austria 1-2 England (Jermain Defoe)
Northern Ireland 1-1 Poland (David Healy)
Clyde 1-2 St Mirren (Mixu Paatelainen)
Airbus UK 2-1 Cwmbran (Andy Thomas)

Azerbaijan 0-2 Wales - Hartson
Austria 1-2 England - Owen
Northern Ireland 1-2 Poland - McVeigh
Clyde 1-1 St.Mirren - O'Neil
Airbus UK 0-0 Cwmbran
Bottletop

Azerbaijan v Wales 1-3 (Bellamy)
Austria v England 1-2 (Owen)
Northern Ireland v Poland 1-1 (Healy)
Clyde v St.Mirren (O'Neil)
Airbus UK v Cwmbran (Thomas)

Just finished writing this from terminal 2 Arrivals lounge, nearly didn't get them posted this week. Have had next to no sleep, as we got Natinal Express Coach which stopped every five minutes to pick someone up, not an express line in my eyes.

Yak.

Had no idea with the last two so copid others, oh well.

Hmm, I need to get predicting at some point methinks.

Azerbaijan 1 Wales 2 Earnshaw
Austria 0 England 2 Smith
Northern Ireland 1 Poland 2 Gillespie
Clyde 2 St Mirren 0 Harty
Airbus UK 0 Cwmbran 3 Jones (there's got to be at least one in the two teams!!!!)

SBE