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Posts: 2561 (16-Jun-09 5:39 PM) Simon Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Well, the 1st round draw for the Carling Cup was made today, so may as well start the 2009-10 footy thread with it Key draws: Rotherham United v Derby County Darlington v Leeds United Preston North End v Morecambe local derby! Nottingham Forest v Bradford City Southampton v Northampton Town Reading v Burton Albion - Burton's 1st ever match in this competition, presumably Crystal Palace v Torquay United I also saw on Sky Sports News that Leeds had the highest average attendance of their division last year (then again, Luton came 2nd in theirs, and look what happened to them!)
Sidesk		#1	[-]
Posts: 2563 (17-Jun-09 4:47 PM) Simon Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	You'll be pleased to know that despite the new season fixtures lists being released today, I'm not listing any of them here.
Sidesk		#2	[-]
Posts: 2566 (21-Jun-09 5:22 PM) Simon Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	First Ronaldo, and now Carlos Tevez has decided to quit Man Utd. The coming season could be Fergie's toughest for a while...
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Posts: 2573 (25-Jun-09 2:39 PM) Simon Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Michael Owen is quitting Newcastle United in an effort to stay in the Premiership. The clubs leading the chase to sign him are Hull City and Stoke City. There's something wrong with that picture...
msimpson1964		#4	[-]
Posts: 6931 (25-Jun-09 6:38 PM) Mark Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Would be quite funny if he went to Hull, after they and Newcastle were the two main teams trying to avoid that final relegation place last season...
Sidesk		#5	[-]
Posts: 2580 (28-Jun-09 3:00 PM) Simon Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Sam Allardyce apparently wants to try and bring Ruud van Nistelrooy (remmeber him?) to Blackburn. His rationale is that if he could bring Nicolas Anelka to Bolton, then anything's possible. Stranger things have happened, albeit not often.
Sidesk		#6	[-]
Posts: 2586 ( 3-Jul-09 4:54 PM) Simon Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Motherwell got the season underway by getting stuffed 1-0 at home by those giants Llanelli. Michael Owen might be going to Man Utd instead. Celtic have let Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink go. Maybe he's headed to Old Trafford?
Sidesk		#7	[-]
Posts: 2594 (11-Jul-09 12:24 PM) Simon Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Motherwell picked up the pace in the 2nd leg, winning 3-0 (and 3-1 on aggregate) Blackburn are probably not going to get Van Nistelrooy after all, as his wage demands are so colossal. So the point of all that was..?
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Posts: 2601 (15-Jul-09 7:28 PM) Simon Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Carlos Tevez has joined Man City, probably to be joined by Emanuel Adebayor. More seriously, John Hartson's testicular cancer has spread first to his brain, and now his lungs There was me thinking he had a good chance of being Celtic manager, and he probably might not even see the new season kick off
msimpson1964		#9	[-]
Posts: 6954 (15-Jul-09 7:38 PM) Mark Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Such a shame...
Sidesk		#10	[-]
Posts: 2615 (23-Jul-09 3:32 PM) Simon Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Sven Goran Erikkson is back! At Notts County! He wants to take them to the Premiership. He's not lost his old talent for comedy, has he?
Sidesk		#11	[-]
Posts: 2628 (31-Jul-09 6:06 PM) Simon Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Sir Bobby Robson lost his epic battle with cancer today, at the age of 76 A giant at Ipswich as well as Newcastle, he was also a great England manager too, and for me, one of the greatest managers of all time
msimpson1964		#12	[-]
Posts: 6972 (31-Jul-09 6:39 PM) Mark Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	A true gentleman, respected by everybody who has any interest in football and he will be sadly missed. He also had a successful spell at Barcelona and raised over £1m for his cancer charity, making his final public appearance at the England versus Germany match he arranged last Sunday at St. James Park. A great loss.
Sidesk		#13	[-]
Posts: 2629 ( 1-Aug-09 5:47 PM) Simon Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	There's a 55 minute tribute show on BBC1 tonight. There were 22 pages of comments from people in the game on Teletext last night, and I'm not ashamed to say I read them all. He was much loved, and rightly so.
msimpson1964		#14	[-]
Posts: 6977 ( 2-Aug-09 11:22 PM) Mark Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	A very fitting tribute, with Sir Bobby spending his time with Gary Lineker talking over his life and achievements. Nicely done.
Sidesk		#15	[-]
Posts: 2635 ( 3-Aug-09 4:11 PM) Simon Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I felt quite ill Saturday night, but I stayed up long enough to watch this, and I'm glad because it was very well done. Obviously using stuff from a previous doc helps tell the required job, with the extras. I recall the failure of Euro 88 as much as the near-triumph of Italia 90. Who remembers Andreas Brehme now? But people will remember Gazza, Robson and the others for that semi-final. And he clearly was as successful with little clubs like Ipswich as he was with big clubs like Barcelona. Sometimes, nice guys do come first.
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Posts: 2638 ( 5-Aug-09 8:00 PM) Simon Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I see BBC1 will be showing West Brom's match with Newcastle on Saturday, so I guess there'll be more chit-chat about Robson there. Be interesting to have the Beeb covering the Championship a bit this year.
msimpson1964		#17	[-]
Posts: 6981 ( 5-Aug-09 8:09 PM) Mark Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	They also have a new, late night (11.45 I believe) highlights show for the Championship and Leagues One and Two
Sidesk		#18	[-]
Posts: 2647 (10-Aug-09 1:32 PM) Simon Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	So, yeah, the new season then: Derby County 2 Peterborough 1 (billed as Clough v Ferguson, of course) Preston North End 2 Bristol City 2 - we were lucky to get a late equaliser Reading 0 Nottingham Forest 0 Leeds United 2 Exeter City 1 Norwich City 1 Colchester United 7 (SEVEN) - result of the weekend Torquay United 2 Chesterfield 0 Morecambe 2 Hereford United 2 Chester City start with a 25 point deficit, which makes Southampton's 10 point loss seem manageable. But Livingston being force-relegated 2 divisions with about 2 days before the start of the season has up-ended most of Scotland. Still, I guess it means there's an outside chance that East Stirling could be favourites for the division, since we now don't have Cowdenbeath any more. And Celtic play Arsenal in Europe. Could be close.
msimpson1964		#19	[-]
Posts: 6992 (11-Aug-09 9:46 PM) Mark Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Leeds beat the mighty...erm...Darlington in the League Cup last night, 1-0 away.
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Posts: 2651 (12-Aug-09 4:36 PM) Simon Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Yeah, I forgot to mention I also forgot to check last night's results, though I did note Preston 5 Morecambe 1

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