I tried a as a slovakian player against various opponent several times (one was always the UK) and year was set to 2007. However it happened with all formation and company structures I tried to purcase, with even using different countries as player and opponent altogether.
Game is a download version, patched directly on WinSPMBT v2.51
My computer is
AMD Duron 700Mhz
256mb RAM
32MB Prophet II MX graphics
Sound Blaster 16
Windows 98SE
Keyb SU
Nationality maybe: Finland???
No internet connection
(Yes I know itīs old

)
I may have only 100MB of free hard disk space left though, so maybe Iīll try to free up some space to see if it works at first.