"It's just an understrength England, as some players are unavailable, and the side was a bit unbalanced. Out of season as well, so a lack of sharpness. A UK team isn't really feasible as it would be England plus one or two Welsh and 1 Scot. I think the Scots and Northern Irish would be very aggressively against combining the sides as well."<br/><br/>Czechs and Scots. "This one is equally mad, as the first team of the Czechs is quarantined. Scotland just aren't much good."<br/><br/>With that, I listen as Jaclyn considers how to make bird love potion, or that's what it sounds like. "Some kind of fluffifier? Parroty Plumage Polisher?"<br/><br/><br/><br/>OOC: A big crowd of 292 (according to Wikipedia), strung out around the pitchside fence. There was a Covid cap of 300, so basically a full house. Not many with masks as it was open air. It was pleasing that the reffing was iffy, with two goals looking like they shouldn't have been allowed, one each in a 3-2 home win.<br/>This was the earliest round with 9th and 10th level sides from a very complicated pyramid, the Preliminary round is this weekend, then 4 qualifying rounds, all of which are non-league (levels 5 and below filtering in steadily). Up to this point the rounds are segregated into 'north' and 'south' according to the leagues (odd promotions and relegations can lead to a 'north' team which is 20 miles from London). Then First and Second Rpunds Proper with 3rd and 4th level sides (which for reasons are called League 1 and League 2), and the Third Round in January when the top two divisions join in.<br/>Premier League should be closer this season, but the best American player Pulisic (at Chelsea) is probably injured to start with.