Berwick Rangers: An English Club in Scotland

what a lovely story! keep up the good work dude!
 
Scottish Cup Final and Team Announcement for Champions League

This isn’t the Champions League post… that will be here tomorrow.

It is the Scottish Cup final post though…. And we’ve managed to win it for the second year in a row!

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Only two players who will start in the Champions League final started and we still managed to beat Hearts when we were down to 10 men for more than half the game. It just shows how much better we are than other Scottish teams.

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We’ve got the domestic treble for the second year in a row… can we make it a quadruple?

Well Man City’s key striker is out of the final with injury so that’s a good start. But their other key player is not. Pierluigi Chirico looks incredible.

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And Man City are favourties for the final.

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Anyway enough about them. Here’s our team and formation for the game.

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GK – Carlos Chavez

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Signed for £10m and has been at the club for 4 seasons.

DR – Alejandro Alaniz

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Berwick’s record signing at £15.5m from Lille and only been at the club for 6 months. How he only has one cap for Argentina I’ll never know.

CB – Luiz

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Brazilian centre back. Previously our record signing at £13.25 from Santos.

CB – Pedro

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One of our best players and I have no idea why Las Palmas let him go for free.

LB – Lebogang Mokoena

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World class left back in his 5th​ season at Berwick. Cost us £350,000!

DM – Jose Ramon Montero

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Another Spanish star that we got on a free. In his first season at Berwick and dictates the play in the holding midfield role.

CM – Sindri Snorrason

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Club captain and Berwick’s longest serving player. Would never have thought when I signed him for £70,000 that after 9 seasons he would lead the team out in the Champions League Final!

CM – David Herrera

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One of if not our best player. World-class midfielder and we could do with him not getting sent off after 57 seconds like he did against Chelsea last season.

AMR – John Florez

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Has made the inside forward position his own this season with 22 goals. Bit of an unsung hero as he is overshadowed by our other 2 attackers.

AML – Hector de Anda

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Can’t emphasise how important he is. 34 goals and 35 assists this season and has almost single handedly dragged us to the final.

ST – Vebjorn Aure

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Been at the club for 5 years and has scored some crucial goals for us in the Champions League this season. If we’re to win we need him and de Anda to play well.

And there we have it.

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Time to make history.
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CL FINAL TIME! Might have just ****** myself a little in excitement, good luck man!
 
I'll put my suit on tomorrow night for you as well!
 
2031 Champions League Final

It’s time. The 2031 Champions League Final between Berwick Rangers and Manchester City.


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Man City lined up with a 4-4-1-1 formation whereas we went with a 4-3-3.

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And it didn’t start great.

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We gifted Man City the easiest goal in existence, allowing Luis Angel Valencia to run the length of the pitch and put in a simple cross to Fabian Fiezzi who’s not a bad back up striker to have.

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Then we had our typical ‘Berwick player doing something stupid in a crucial game’ moment.

Here’s Alejandro Alaniz attempting a back pass.

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And here’s the result of that

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In fairness City probably deserved to be leading, but not 2-0. We had created very little and the second goal spurred some tactical and personnel changes.

Firstly we went with 3 strikers, rather than 2 inside forwards and a striker.

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We also brought on Scottish duo George Neil and Kyle Campbell (who replaced Alaniz at right back).

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And it was surprisingly Campbell who made an impact.

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It was his cross that set up the main man Hector de Anda to give us some hope of pulling off an amazing comeback.

Then it happened.

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Hector de Anda, after 89 minutes, was 1 on 1 with the keeper. The stage was set.

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Yes...

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...No...

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...Nooooooooo!

My heart sank when the ball trickled past the post. Why Hector? Why?

And that, I’m afraid, was our chance.

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We beat Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Arsenal but failed at the last hurdle to Manchester City.

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We only really applied any pressure when we were 2-0 down and switched to 3 strikers but to limit City to 3 shots on target and still lose is a bitter pill to swallow.

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What’s that? I’m not crying…. It’s hay fever!
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Ah man I can't believe it! However on the plus side I'm pretty sure this whole ordeal has reignited your passion for this story
 
ChrisDCFC said:
Gutted for you mate
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Couldn't believe it! Well actually the more I think about it the more I could believe it... it had to be a mistake that gave them a win! But hopefully the experience helps us in our next Champions League final whenever that may be.

TheNotSoSpecialOne said:
Ah man I can't believe it! However on the plus side I'm pretty sure this whole ordeal has reignited your passion for this story
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You might be right...
 
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What happens now then?

I’m debating whether to continue the save for a number of reasons…

1) Firstly Scotland is too easy, so if we were not to win the treble it’d be annoying because we’re far too good to not do the treble.

2) There’s also the ongoing situation of the Scotland job not being available. At some point in the save I was hoping to takeover but Steve Clarke has been in charge for 11 years.

3) And there’s the big one… are we going to get so far in the Champions League again?

I’ve taken into consideration all these factors and made a decision.

The show must go on.

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I will win the Champions League with Berwick!


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I was going to say it doesn't matter and the Champions League is overrated anyway! But glad to see your sticking around until you win it!
 
You put too many hours to throw the towel in now.

I had a Millwall save a few years back and finally got into the Champs league final after about 12 season (after being screwed over a good few times).

Playing Real at Wembley (practically home turf ;)). Winning 2-0 up until the 88th minute when an old old Ronaldo comes off the bench to score hat-trick as it ends 3-2 in normal time.

I never continued the game after that, wasting a good week's worth of continuous play. Missed being jobless, wifeless and kidless XD
 
Just caught up, Im not going to lie, I am gutted for you!! Pleased you are carrying on though!
 
So gutted for you!!!!

Love how you put up screenshots of your starting XI - Colombia always seem to get amazing regens.
 
neavie pops23 said:
I was going to say it doesn't matter and the Champions League is overrated anyway! But glad to see your sticking around until you win it!
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scousegin said:
You put too many hours to throw the towel in now.

I had a Millwall save a few years back and finally got into the Champs league final after about 12 season (after being screwed over a good few times).

Playing Real at Wembley (practically home turf ;)). Winning 2-0 up until the 88th minute when an old old Ronaldo comes off the bench to score hat-trick as it ends 3-2 in normal time.

I never continued the game after that, wasting a good week's worth of continuous play. Missed being jobless, wifeless and kidless XD
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TurboCarrilero said:
Cracking story mate. Glad you've decided to continue it!
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JamesScott2908 said:
Just caught up, Im not going to lie, I am gutted for you!! Pleased you are carrying on though!
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KLIPPYBO said:
So gutted for you!!!!

Love how you put up screenshots of your starting XI - Colombia always seem to get amazing regens.
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Cheers for the support everyone, I'm glad some people sympathise with me!

After coming so far there's no way I could've left it like that. I was having doubts about the save as it seemed like we'd never get further than the 1st Knockout Round but that season showed that we have what it takes to take on the elite clubs in Europe... is just a case of us doing it all over again this season!
 
2030/31 Season Review

Our most successful season to date was completely overshadowed by the heartbreak of losing in the Champions League final. I still feel a bit sick from losing it to be honest…

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Aside from us winning it for the fifth year in a row, in the SPL Rangers toppled Celtic for the first time in the save whereas Hamilton finished 5th​ and will play European football next season for what I think is the first time.

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Another first for the save was that a non-English club won the Europa League with RB Leipzig beating Liverpool.

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The other Scottish clubs failed to make a meaningful impact in Europe. I’m hoping that one will be able to get to the latter stages of the Europa League soon.

Dundee - Europa League 4th​ Qualifying Round
Hearts – 4th​ in Europa League Group Stage
Hibs – Europa League 2nd​ Knockout Round
Celtic – 3rd​ in Champions League Group Stage, Knocked out in Europa League 1st​ Knockout Round

Here are the squad stats from the season

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Hector De Anda was undoubtedly player of the season and broke Lionel Messi’s assist record in the Champions League.

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The finances are looking good but we’ve only been given £11m to spend in the summer because the board announce the budgets when we confirm Champions League qualification.... which normally happens with half of the season still to play!

I can confirm now that we will be spending more than £11m. A lot more.

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The upcoming summer transfer window is all about keeping our best players and buying one or two star players, if we can, to give our team that extra bit of quality that may see us get over the line in the Champions League.
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Hampus Silverholt said:
The upcoming summer transfer window is all about keeping our best players and buying one or two star players, if we can, to give our team that extra bit of quality that may see us get over the line in the Champions League.
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It will be interesting to see whether players will want to come after your success in the Champions League or if the SPL will still hold you back.
 
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