another thing in 07 which I guess counts, not so much a team making an achievement but a draw. I was doing a side-game with a friend, deciding that italy and france in the same euro qualifying group made for a great short 2 player challenge, which it was. he failed to qualify with france which was funny, but the draw featured a group A with spain, Holland, germany and england, while the other 2 good teams, myself as Italy and portugal were in group B, which meant facing whoever survived group A, which meant a quarter final exit (to spain, who in FM actually are as good as the quality of their players suggests) for me while my friend picked up scotland after his failure with france, and also reached the quarter finals, the thing is while i faced the group of death survivors and the best teams not in the group of death, he was beaten by ireland after just sqeaking through a group featuring the likes of norway and switzerland. normally I am 100% behind open draws and hate seeding, but in this case it's just ridiculous, especially when you consider the strict seeding of the euro championship groups.