hey guys i'm about to begin a football manager inspired facebook application in php/mysql and had a couple of questions:

1) where would be the best place to host the database? any services offered within great britain would be excellent!

2) does anyone have any ideas on how i could use player statistics as part of the in-game match engine? how would php accomodate this? i would like to make the matches as realistic as possible?

3) lastly i wanted to know whether php/mysql would be the best language to code this game in. i am quite confident within this language and can pick up new skills relatively quickly. but i am worried once again (in reference to number 2) about how i would simulate matches using the data from php. i'd appreciate any pointers.

thanks for the help guys!