It is possible to play the actual groups in EURO 2000, only thing is you have to play as the Netherlands or Belgium. They automaticly qualify for EURO 2000, and the groups are shown with the teams from the real tournament.

Is it possible to randomise the draw, i havn't actually checked that one out yet..

Yes you can. Only thing needed now is to find out if you can change the team to play with, maybe low level debug the saved file???

ah, so it now looks like more digging and tweaking is required to the game, but thats ok, if it's "In the game, it's in the game"
a pity that Ea don't live up to expectations and provide the alteratives....