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Career Foxy’s United Nations - The Final Part


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12 hours ago, Rob said:

Lovely going Mr Fox. Getting the results too, with some ‘interesting’ players. Great stuff.

 

12 hours ago, Woody said:

Those are some obscure players for sure. 

Still scratching them off mate, well done.


Cheers lads.

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Season 2 - Part 5

 

We currently have a 3pt lead at the top of the table but Liverpool do have a game in hand and Spurs aren’t too far back either although they have played 1 game more than us. We are into the FA Cup semi final and we moved into the Quarter final of the Champions League with a win over Zenit.

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Match 96 v Cardiff

Our cup run continued with a pretty straight forward win over Cardiff. Having been 2 up inside 10 minutes I would have liked more goals though.

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Switzerland 🇨🇭- Switzerland had one of the highest rates of gun ownerships in the world due to all able bodied citizens serving in the citizen militia but almost no gun related crime as they aren’t all a bunch of twats - Gold Omotayo

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Sudan 🇸🇩- Sudan was once the site of the Kingdom of Kush a civilisation on a par with the ancient Egyptians. In fact Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt - Mohamed Eisa

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Match 98 v Spurs

This was a crucial win with Spurs riding high in the table and we put in a decent performance after going 1 down.

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Guatemala 🇬🇹- Guatemala is literally the land of tree as that’s what the name means in the Nahuatl language - Marcelo Saraiva

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Match 102 v WBA

We were very wasteful in this game with plenty of shots but not many actually threatening the WBA goal. We left it very late to get the winner but better late than never.

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St Kitts & Nevis 🇰🇳- The islands of St Kitts and Nevis were formed by volcanos which are now long extinct - Rowan Liburd

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Match 103 v Aston Villa

The cup run carries on as we put in an efficient display against Aston Villa to move onto the Quarter Finals.

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Suriname 🇸🇷- Many Dutch footballers have Suriname heritage including Ruud Gullit, Edgar Davids, Clarence Seedorf and Gini Wijnaldum - Marcelencio Elia

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Match 105 v Zenit

We were heading out on away goals in this game before one of the shitters I have been trying to get a goal from since the very start of this save popped up and scored in the final moments of the game.

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São Tomé 🇸🇹- São Tomé and Príncipe are a set of volcanic islands off the east coast of Africa and very near to the equator - Ivonaldo

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Match 107 v Leeds

Full back Aguilar was the centre of attention in this game as he missed two penalties befor them pouncing on the rebound of the 2nd one to take us into the cup semis.

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Peru 🇵🇪- Potatoes originate in Peru and the country grows over 3000 different varieties - Kluiverth Aguilar

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Matches Played - 107

Nations Completed - 89

Nations Left - 60

Nations per Match - 0.83

 

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Some more cracking facts in amongst a great season with a mixed bag of players. Sudan having more pyramids than Egypt though…

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On 26/05/2021 at 09:04, Rob said:

Some more cracking facts in amongst a great season with a mixed bag of players. Sudan having more pyramids than Egypt though…

 

On 26/05/2021 at 12:11, Rich said:

Some of these players look so bad, brilliant going Fox, very enjoyable read.

Cheers fellas.

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Season 2 - Part 6

 

The end of the season is here but in the end we were only fighting for one trophy and that was the league which we won by 2 points from Liverpool. Our defence was the key because we only scored 54 goals which must be the lowest I have ever scored whilst winning a league.

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Roma ended our Champions League attempt at the quarter final stage as they came from a goal down in the first leg to win 2-0 and progress. Chelsea ended our FA Cup run with a semi as we lost to them on penalties.

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It’s all about ticking off nations though and things like winning the league are just to keep me in a job.

Match 108 v Chelsea

A narrow league win here although we were good for the 3pts and scored all three goals in the game.

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Tunisia 🇹🇳- Tunisia is the site of the ancient city of Carthage where Hannibal set off with his elephants to fight the Romans -

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Match 110 v Roma

This looked like a solid win in the first leg but in the end it wasn’t enough for us to progress.

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Tanzania 🇹🇿- The Serengeti National Park is in Tanzania and in fact about 30% of the country is National Parks - Adi Yussuf

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Match 111 v Wolves

A rare comprehensive win for us as we stuck three past Wolves although I only ticked off 1 nation in the process.

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Guinea 🇬🇳- Guinea has large natural reserves of minerals such as gold and diamonds but also 25% of the worlds bauxite (whatever that is) - Julian Jeanvier

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Match 113 v Chelsea

This was an entertaining game but we couldn’t get the job done in the shootout unfortunately.

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Grenada 🇬🇩- Grenada is known as the “spice island” due to the wealth of herbs and spices that are grown on the island - Kairo Mitchell

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Match 115 v Liverpool

This win effectively won us the league in the end with a few games remaining.

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Indonesia 🇮🇩- The Republic of Indonesia is made up of over 17000 different islands - Nevy Escobar

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Match 117 v Aston Villa

A straight forward win and even better two nations ticked off.

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Faroe Islands 🇫🇴- If you don’t like hot weather then the Faroe Islands might be the place for you as the highest temperature ever recorded was only around 20 to 22C - Sonni Nattestad

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Slovenia 🇸🇮- Slovenia is renowned for the quality of its honey and approximately 5% of the population are beekeepers - Matej Poplatnik

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Matches Played - 118

Nations Completed - 96

Nations per Match - 0.81

Nations Left to Complete - 51

I’m not going to get all 147 nations ticked off in 147 games or less but another good season should see this nearly finished.

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1 minute ago, Rob said:

I want to know what bauxite is and 17,000 islands? You what?!?

Winning the league with 54 goals is genius.

Bauxite is what you get Aluminium out of and most of the Indonesian islands are tiny.

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3 minutes ago, geordiekrispy said:

Bauxite is what you get Aluminium out of and most of the Indonesian islands are tiny.

Wow. The most educational career on here. 

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1 hour ago, Rob said:

Winning the league with 54 goals is genius.

It’s strangely impressive especially as the record lowest goals total in real life was 67 by Man Utd in 1992/93.

1 hour ago, geordiekrispy said:

Bauxite is what you get Aluminium out of

Good knowledge that.

56 minutes ago, Rich said:

Great update again Fox and you’re doing awesome. Loving the facts.

Cheers matey.

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31 minutes ago, FuddledFox said:

It’s strangely impressive especially as the record lowest goals total in real life was 67 by Man Utd in 1992/93.

Good knowledge that.

Cheers matey.

You’ve answered my comment with yet another fact! You are Facty Fox.

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2 hours ago, Rob said:

I want to know what bauxite is and 17,000 islands? You what?!?

Winning the league with 54 goals is genius.

If you think 17,000 islands is a lot, Scandinavia will make you shit yourself. 

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Season 3 - Part 1

Before the new season starts it was time for the WCC which I had qualified for because of my Champions League win in season 1. It wasn’t a successful campaign as we lost to Bayern in the quarter finals but we had some easier games in the group stage that yielded some good results.

The league campaign has made an ok start with 3 wins and a loss.

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Match 119 v SAN (I’m assuming Santos)

This was a comprehensive win to start the WCC but just the one nation ticked off in the process.

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South Africa 🇿🇦- South Africa has the largest verifiable meteor scar in the world called the Vredefort Crater - Percy Tau

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Match 120 v Auckland City

Another big win and this time there was 4 nations completed which must be a record.

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Cyprus 🇨🇾- Cyprus is the 3rd largest island in the Mediterranean and has the 3rd highest island  population in the Med as well - Ruel Sotiriou

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Guinea Bissau 🇬🇼 - Guinea Bissau is the 6th largest producer of Cashew nuts in the world - Panutche Camara

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Russia 🇷🇺- Russia is so big its landmass makes up about 1/8th of earths land - Artem Dzyuba

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Sweden 🇸🇪- Sweden is the 3rd largest exporter of pop music after the US and UK. In fact most English speaking pop music has either been written or produced by a Swede - Osman Sow

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Match 122 v Leicester

We are back in domestic action and so that means tight matches won by the odd goal.

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Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 - The limbo originated in Tobago - Gavin Hoyte

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Match 124 v Everton

This was an unusually free flowing performance from us with 2 goals and plenty of chances created as well. We always look to play like this but it rarely happens.

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Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 - The name Sierra Leone means “Lion mountain” - Amadou Bakayoko

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Match 126 v Norwich

Good old Norwich are always good for a hiding and although it was just 2 nations ticked off one I had been trying to do for 2 seasons and the other was a GK so happy days!

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Comoros 🇰🇲-  These islands off the east coast of Mozambique are the 2nd largest producer of Vanilla in the world - Fouad Bachirou

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US Virgin Islands - If you go to the US Virgin Islands you can swim in the Caribbean Sea on one side of the islands and the Atlantic on the other side - Andreas Brown

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Matches Played - 126

Nations Completed - 104

Nations per Match - 0.82

Nations Left to Complete - 43

 

Thanks for reading.

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Season 3 - Update 2

 

It’s been a great start to the season both in terms of results but also getting a decent number of countries ticked off in a short amount of time. This is helped as I have completed a lot of the tricky countries where they only have 1 player and they are complete shite. A lot of the countries left have at least one average player that is affordable and can get the job done quickly although there are still a few dodgy players out there I need to use.

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We have made a good start in the league and unusually sit top early on.

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Match 127 v Liverpool

The Scousers have been my main competitor for the league the last two seasons so it was great to strike a blow against them early in the season with a good win.

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South Korea 🇰🇷- The busiest air route is in South Korea between Seoul and Jeju international with on average 178 departures each day - Ji Dong-Won

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Norway 🇳🇴- Norway has the longest road tunnel in the world with the Lærdal tunnel being 15 miles long - Martin Odegaard

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Match 128 v Wigan

A nice straight forward win in the League Cup which yielded two more nations being completed.11

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Somalia 🇸🇴- Somalia has the longest coastline on mainland Africa - Mohammed Sagaf

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Jamaica 🇯🇲In 1994 Jamaica became the first Caribbean nation to launch its own website - Ricardo Morias

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Match 129 v WBA

We were behind in this game for a large proportion of it but a couple of subs turned things round to get a win and they scored for there nations as well

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Slovakia 🇸🇰- Slovakia has the most castles per person in the world - Ondrej Duda

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Nigeria 🇳🇬- The Nigerian football team won gold at the 1996 Olympics becoming the first African nation to do so - Samual Chukwueze

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Match 131 v Leicester

Just 9 shots from both teams in this game and we only managed 3 and just 1 on target which is weird as we scored two goals. If one of them was off target and it deflected then it would have been a OG surely?

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Romania 🇷🇴- According to Jeremy Clarkson the best driving road in the world called the Transgagarasan Road is in Romania - George Puscas

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Matches Played: 132

Nations Completed: 112

Nations Completed per Match: 0.84

Nations Left to Complete: 35

 

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Great going mate. There must be some truly horrible players yet to come though!

BTW, I've gone ahead and deleted my bookmark for Wikipedia and bookmarked this thread instead - it has all I need in an encyclopedia!

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Season 3 - Update 3

 

The improved quality of the players I am getting to use now is showing in the results as for the first time in this save we have a fairly comfortable lead early on in the league. We were less convincing in the Champions League group but we still got through to the knock outs.

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Match 133 v Derby

This was a clinical victory with both CCC’s we created being converted. We also never gave Derby a sniff as they couldn’t manage even 1 shot on goal.

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Morocco 🇲🇦- Despite much of the country being covered in the Sahara it is possible to ski in Morocco on the Atlas Mountains - Abderrazak Hamedallah

 

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Montserrat 🇲🇸-  In 1995 a previously dormant volcano erupted on Montserrat leading to much of the south of the island being made an exclusion zone - Lyle Taylor

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Match 135 v Bristol City

This was just as good a defensive performance as Bristol City only had the 1 chance at our goal.

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Luxembourg 🇱🇺- Luxembourgers own the most cars per capita in the world with 647 cars for every 1000 people in the country - Gerson Rodrigues

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Match 136 v Man Utd

This was the first of a Manchester Derby double header with this game in the League Cup and going our way in the end with the goals coming late on.

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Mali 🇲🇱- Mansa Musa ruled the Mali empire for approx 1312 to 1337 and he is almost certainly the richest man to have ever lived with an estimated wealth in today’s money of $400 billion - Moussa Marega

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Match 137 v Man Utd

We made it two wins in two games over the neighbours in what wasn’t a very exciting match for the neutral.

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Montenegro 🇲🇪- Montenegro is home to a flock of over 500 wild flamingos - Oliver Sarkic

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Match 140 v Inter

We had this game won before the player who completed Turkey for me pounced and scored with just seconds of the game left.

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North Macedonia 🇲🇰- North Macedonia gained independence from Yugoslavia in 1991 without a single drop of blood being spilt and it managed to not get involved in the Balkan wars or the 1990’s after that as well - Darko Churlinov

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Match 141 v Leeds

Leeds have been a productive team for me and every game I seem to play against them gets me a nation completed and again we got the job done.

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Malta 🇲🇹- Malta is one of only 4 European nations that drive on the left hand side - Dylan Mallia

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Match 142 v Bayer Leverkusen

Our usual solid defence went AWOL in this match meaning we finished the CL group stage with a loss although we still progressed.

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Northern Ireland - Three US presidents had fathers born in Northern Ireland and another seven have family ties to the north of the Emerald Isle as well - Liam Boyce

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Matches Played: 142

Nations Completed: 120

Nations per Match: 0.84

Nations Left to Complete: 27

 

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Quite a few knocked off there mate.

I remember Churlinov from a few years back. Always picked him up at start of save on a free and look at him now. Nuts.

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Season 3 - Update 4

Thanks for the comments @Woody and @Rich

With just 27 nations left to complete I’m hoping I can get this done in this 3rd season although we are well into January now so I might run out of games and enter a 4th season.

We dropped 4 points during this update in the league and that has allowed Liverpool to close the gap to 2pts although we have 2 games in hand. We are also into the League Cup Final and the FA Cup 5th round.

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I have also missed out on getting at least a nation a game as we pass game 147 in this update.

 

Match 143 v Chelsea

We play Chelsea twice in this update and the first game was in the league where we dropped 2 of the 4pts this update.

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Kenya 🇰🇪: Every year in the Serengeti over a million Wildebeest, Zebras and Antelope migrate to find more food. It is the largest animal migration on earth - Jonah Ayunga

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Match 145 v Wigan

The FA Cup 3rd round gave me a nice simple game and a chance to tick off a couple more nations.

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Poland 🇵🇱- Poland is home to Europe’s heaviest land animal the European Bison and they can be found in the Białowieża Primeval Forest - Bartosz Cybulski

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Costa Rica 🇨🇷- Approximately a quarter of Costa Rica is made up of protected tropical forests - Ronald Canales

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Match 148 v Chelsea

We managed to beat Chelsea in our 2nd meeting and even better is both goals came from players with nationalities I need to complete.

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Lebanon 🇱🇧- The Lebanese are big fans of 🚬 and have the third highest number of smokers per population in the world - Omar Bugiel

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Latvia 🇱🇻- Latvia has the tallest women in the world with an average height of 5ft 7in or 170cm’s - Deivids Dobrecovs

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Match 149 v Southampton

It was the old Man City classic 1 nil win that we have seen a lot in this save as we shut out Saints and then scored our 1 CCC.

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Malawi 🇲🇼- Lake Malawi has more fish species than any other lake in the world with somewhere between 500 and a 1000 different species - Henri Kumwenda

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Match 150 v Preston

We booked out place in the League Cup final with a narrow win over Preston. We went 2 up but just couldn’t finish them off and they scored in the 51st minute to make it interesting although we saw the game out.

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Moldova 🇲🇩- Moldova contains many vineyards and also the worlds largest wine cellar which contains nearly 2 million bottles of wine with some of its most expensive bottles costing nearly £500 - Artur Ionita

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Match 151 v Swansea

We completely nullified Swansea in this game as they couldn’t muster one single shot on goal whilst we got two in the first half and then cruised through the rest of the game.

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China 🇨🇳- Toilet paper was invented in China back in the 6th century AD - Alan

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Czech Republic 🇨🇿- The Czech’s are the worlds largest consumers of beer - Matej Vydra

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Matches Played: 151

Nations Completed: 131

Nations per Match: 0.86

Nations Left: 16

 

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Season 3 - Part 5

This should be the penultimate update as I close in on completing all 147 nations.

We are very comfortable in the league this season based solely on our defence which has only conceded 11 goals in 25 games. We have been helped by the fact I have been able to use better players for the most part to complete nations as I have done a lot of the worst ones although there are still a few shockers in this update.

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Match 152 v Arsenal

Not the most convincing win over a team that ended up with just 9 men on the pitch. It was also annoying that one of my last really bad players missed a penalty.

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Pakistan 🇵🇰- Pakistan has the worlds 5th largest population with over 225 million people living there - Tabish Hussain

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Match 153 v Wolves

Stormin’ Norman made up for that penalty miss in the previous game by scoring here nice and early and he is probably the final really horrendous player I need to get a goal from.

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Belize 🇧🇿- Belize has the worlds 2nd largest and the northern hemispheres largest Barrier Reef - Norman Thurton

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Match 154 v Norwich

A very rare big win in this game with us running in 4 goals although annoyingly I forgot to take one of the players off after he got a goal so I might have ticked 3 countries off if I was paying more attention.

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Philippines 🇵🇭- The Philippines is the worlds 2nd largest archipelago (group of islands) with approximately 7500 islands of which more than 5000 don't even have names - Yrick Gallantes

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New Zealand 🇳🇿- New Zealand are currently the worlds best test cricket team having beaten the might of India to take the title - Ryan De Vries

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Match 156 v Bournemouth

This game was as easy as could be and the only shame was we didn’t score more goals with the chances we had.

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Finland 🇫🇮- The Finnish language is in the Uralic family of languages meaning it is more closely related to Hungarian than its neighbours such as Swedish which is a Germanic language or Russian which is Slavic in origin - Joel Pohjanpalo

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Match 158 v Leicester

Another easy win and pleasingly two more countries ticked off.

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Ireland 🇮🇪- The Irish don’t drink the most Guinness in the world and that honour goes instead to Nigeria - Adam Idah

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Ivory Coast 🇨🇮- The 2 medals the Ivory Coast won at the 2016 Olympic Games doubled there medal total from every other Olympics they had competed in since 1964 - Armand Gnanduillet

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Match 159 v Liverpool

It made a change for this save to go into a game against Liverpool that wasn’t vital to our league hopes as we have a good lead already.

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Congo 🇨🇬 - The Congo river is the deepest in the world at depths of up to 220m - Dylan Bahamboula

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Match 160 v Brighton

Certain teams have been very productive for getting countries completed and Brighton have been one of them as we tick off another nation in a match against them.

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Curaçao 🇨🇼- Guus Hiddink is the currant manager of the Curaçao national side - Gervane Kastaneer

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Matches Played: 160

Nations Completed: 138

Nations per Match: 0.86

Nations Left: 9

 

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Season 3 Part 6

We finally come to the end of this career as I get the final 7 nations ticked off.

There was plenty of the season left to complete with about 20 games left depending on what I did in the CL which turned out to be nothing. We did win the League Cup though and if I had carried on till the end of the season I would have got a 3rd league title but once I had the final nation done so was I.

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My manager profile makes interesting reading at the end of the career as well with plenty of reds. The fact I was miles under my wage budget because most of the players I used were on low wages boosted my financial control but for some reason buying players and then releasing them a few weeks later really hit my transfer acumen.

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My reserve team is quite amusing as it is just full of the players that were too expensive to release or no one wanted to buy and it seems a bit top heavy.

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Match 160 v Leeds

We won the League Cup but Leeds made us work for it. The extra time paid off though as I completed an extra nation.

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Greece 🇬🇷 - Greece is famous for its beaches and islands but the country is actually about 80% made up of mountains - Klaidi Lolos

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Egypt 🇪🇬- Ancient Egyptians used mouldy bread to heal infections and although they knew it could work they didn’t know about penicillin - Trezeguet

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Match 162 v Brighton

My favourite team to play in this save came up trumps again.

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Estonia 🇪🇪- Estonia is home to the World Championships of wife carrying - Erik Hein

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Match 164 v Bristol City

We have finally looked quite good up front in this save in season 3 so it’s a shame it’s coming to an end after the grind of results in the first couple of seasons.


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Iceland 🇮🇸- Iceland was one of the last places on Earth to be settled by humans with human activity on the island only going back around a 1100 years - Arnór Sigurdsson

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Match 165 v Everton

Annoyingly Raul joined me with an East Timor nationality and then was called up for the Dutch U21’s but as he’s the only player in the game at the moment he counts as East Timor for me as he was bought with that nationality.

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East Timor - East Timor was the first new nation of the 21st century when it gained independence from Indonesia on the 20th May 2002 - Raul Gusmão

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After this game I had just two more nations to complete which were Hungary and Georgia but unfortunately both players were injured and didn’t come back to any of kind of fitness for 4 matches.

 

Match 171 v West Ham

When they did come back they both did the decent thing and score in there first matches.

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Hungary 🇭🇺- Hungary has won 465 Olympic medals making it the 2nd most successful nation in the games history based on number of medals won and the size of the population - András Bénes

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Georgia 🇬🇪- The nation of Georgia doesn’t get its name from St George but in fact it’s an anglicised version of the Russian name for the country which is Gruzia. That said St George is the patron saint of Georgia - Giorgi Chakvetadze

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That bring it all to an end and here are the final figures.

 

Matches Played: 171

Nations Completed: 147

Nations per Match: 0.85

Nations Left: 0

 

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Great work mate! It's amazing you got through all the nations and still manage to keep winning etc. Some real interesting players in there too. 

Took me a long time to get through it as I'd read just one fact a day. It became a very important part of my morning routine - a coffee and a Foxy Fact... I'm a bit gutted it's over to be honest... Actually, if you're not using it at the moment, could I borrow your Encarta CD? 

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