shannon2007

The Auld Alliance. In effect it was a treaty that made sure that France and Scotland ganged up on the English. If either country was attacked by English forces, the treaty ensured that the other would invade English territory. Whilst it was first and foremost a military agreement, it brought about more obvious benefits, particularly for the Scots as they sought jobs as mercenaries in the French armies and, quite naturally, a plentiful supply of good wine.

The alliance benefitted both nations, indeed Scottish intervention at the Battle of Bauge in 1421 went a good way to saving France from English domination, but like all good things it had to come to an end. With the Reformation in Scotland, such an agreement between a Catholic France and a now Protestant Scotland was impossible and the alliance was officially ended in 1560 by the Treaty of Edinburgh.

Friendly links between the two countries remained though; the Scots could scarcely do without French wine – even after the Union of the Parliaments in 1707, claret continued to be smuggled into Scotland to avoid taxes. To this very day Scots show their affinity to the French by toasting ‘the King over the water’, whilst the dual citizenship guaranteed by the alliance was only revoked by the French government in 1903.

What, you may ask, does all this have to do with an FMS challenge? It’d be a pretty fair question. Your challenge, in the spirit of the Auld Alliance, is to build a squad full of Frenchmen and Scots and take over English football. Starting at any level outside the Premiership (though I suggest Championship or perhaps League One at a push to comply with the ten year timescale) you must take a squad entirely composed of players from France and Scotland and claim two English Premiership crowns and win both the League and F.A. cups once each.

* You must have players from both nations in the squad, but not weighted more than 70%-30% in favour of either.
* Your Premiership title or cup win only counts if, from the very first game of the season, your squad consisted entirely of Frenchmen and Scots.
* Any players promoted from your youth team who do not comply with the nationality restrictions must be released immediately.
* You may change jobs at any point in the challenge, but you must start outside the Premiership.

shannon2007

Congrats to Terk, a rare Scots double \o/

retired_bbcarr

\o/

If you attempt this challenge, could you add (AAC) into your title for easier identification?

Raptor

Yes, yes, THAT would be VERY much appreciated by those trying to sort out forum indexes etc

shannon2007

I'll deffo being doing this, could be fun. Didn't realise you could still have had dual frog nationality till so reasonably recent, that would have been quite cool

retired_embartl

Excellent! I'll be doing this in the not too distant future. Loks a fun one

retired_karamelkel

I'll be doing this one. I've never really used French players in my games, so this will be a first.

retired_elvia castellanos

Can u have different nationalitys in the reserves

retired_bbcarr

You can, but you can't ever sign a player who isn't French or Scottish. But if you have Englishmen/Belgians/Japanese/Whatever in your squad, you can put them into the reserves until such time as you can sell them.

retired_lizm5285

sounds interesting, think i may give it a go.

do u need to have french and scots in the team, or can u have just french or just scots?