Emm

Celtic Cup info.

As this is "a series" of 3 competitions, I hopw that this will be included in future FM releases.

Sounds like a great idea. Just a shame that England didn't sugn up once it became apparrant that they would have space available.

retired_blondie38

Sounds like a terrible idea to me. It's almost as if the respective FA's of the four nations are resigned to a fate of "not being able to qualify for a major championship" so they will settle for 3 guaranteed summer matches instead.

From what I gather, it's not as if each tournament will be fair either, seeing as 2 of the nations will get an unfair home advantage, being that they will play at home twice.

The tournament does make sense to me though, as it will be a nice little money spinner for the FA's, albeit the games will be fairly pointless, I can't see too many fans being that excited by it either.

I know it will give a run out to some less experienced players, but I think the format is terrible, and ruins what could have been a good summer event.

But as an England fan, I'm quite glad we aren't participating.

retired_dttyr12

Can you imagine the thoughts of the rugby fans when the 5 Nations idea was drawn out.

It'll never work they said!

djake

The associations probably said, we can't qualify for real tournaments, let's just have one of our own...

mattly

Is it really a shame that the FA has made a good decision for once and spared us the embarrassment of being beaten by Scotland?

I think it's far better that they are going to fill these international slots with friendlies against poorer nations that we might be able to beat.

Emm

Is it really a shame that the FA has made a good decision for once and spared us the embarrassment of being beaten by Scotland?

I think it's far better that they are going to fill these international slots with friendlies against poorer nations that we might be able to beat. </BLOCKQUOTE>

If you do what you have always done,

You will get what you have always got.

retired_tamifc

It's called the 'Celtic Cup' for a reason.

Any English involvement would make it the 'Celtic and Saxon Cup'...which dosen't have the same ring to it.

Personally, I prefer a tournament void of violent hooligans anyway.

bigbelly

I didn't know Turkey had been invited?

retired_judyanl

lol The only reason its called the Celtic Cup is because England didn't want to participate.

retired_amandag13

I think its a great idea, will allow our teams to gel a little before the Autumn qualifiers.