David Bentley for Tottenham Hotspur (v Arsenal), 29 October 2008

Anyone want to come to Notts County with me tomorrow? You'd have to sit in the away end as they are playing my beloved Bury in a game of vital mid table mediocrity. Anyone? No?

Chelsea 3-0 Sunderland
Everton 2-1 Fulham
Man Utd 3-0 Hull
Middlesbrough 1-0 West Ham
Portsmouth 2-1 Wigan
Stoke 1-2 Arsenal
Tottenham 1-1 Liverpool
West Brom 1-1 Blackburn
Bolton 0-1 Manchester City
Newcastle Utd 1-2 Aston Villa

and some Derby wildcards, including of course the big Derby derby this weekend...)

Derby County 1-1 Nottingham Forest
Southend 2-1 Colchester
Chelsea Ladies 3-0 Fulham Ladies

Rory Delap for Stoke City (v Tottenham Hotspur), 19 October 2008

There's not much going on, football-wise, is there? A takeover of Charlton Athletic has fallen through? *yawns*

Anyway, I have updated the predictions table. Stewards enquiry for ST's score, I think....

Blackburn 2-1 Middlesbrough
Everton 1-2 Man Utd
Sunderland 1-1 Newcastle
West Brom 2-0 Hull
Chelsea 1-0 Liverpool
Man City 2-0 Stoke
Portsmouth 2-1 Fulham
Tottenham 2-0 Bolton
West Ham 1-2 Arsenal
Wigan 1-1 Aston Villa

and some wildcards from the Homecoming Scottish Cup (whatever the f*** that is!)

Brora 1-3 Forfar
Clachnacuddin 1-1 Crichton
Forres Mechanics 2-1 Keith (I always think he does a really good job, Keith. Someone should sign him, I reckon. And Barry Town, as well.)

Wayne Rooney for England (v Belarus), 15 October 2008

Hello - I promise I will update the table in due course. Credit crunch, innit.

Arsenal 2-0 Everton
Aston Villa 2-1 Portsmouth
Bolton 1-1 Blackburn
Fulham 2-1 Sunderland
Liverpool 2-0 Wigan
Man Utd 1-0 West Brom
Middlesbrough 1-2 Chelsea
Hull 1-1 West Ham United
Stoke 0-1 Tottenham
Newcastle Utd 1-2 Manchester City

and some wildcards from the Irn-Bru League

Dunfermline 2-1 Partick Thistle
Raith Rovers 1-1 Ayr United
East Stirling 1-1 Berwick Rangers

Wayne Rooney for England (v Kazakhstan), 11 October 2008

A propos nothing in particular, I received this comment on an old CUAS post the other week. It's so beautifully random and non-football, I couldn't help but share it.

Thanks for my rolex.x ps you were terrible in bed and have a white sized willy.

Sigh. I can't believe the ingratitude of today's women. They'll take your Rolex and then criticize the size of your member, on tinternet where all can see.

What's a "white sized willy" anyway.....?

Gerald Sibon for Heerenveen (v Ajax), 5 October 2008

I was going to wrote about Joe Kinnear's hilarious rant but then he galvanised a dishevelled Newcastle into coming back from 2-0 down to steal a draw with (thus far incredibly disappointing) Everton.  I also heard a grest story that when he was appointed as Nottingham Forest manager, he was late for the press conference as he "couldn't find the City Ground" (despite having been there on countless occasions as an away manager).  In the end, the club had to turn the floodlights on in order that he could find the place....

International Weekend again.  Anyone care?  No?  Thought not.

Bulgaria 1-1 Italy

England 3-0 Kazakhstan (My name-a Borat. Is nice!)

Estonia 0-1 Spain

Germany 1-1 Russia

Holland 2-0 Iceland (or the New Russian State of Iceland, should you prefer)

Poland 2-1 Czech Republic

Romania 1-1 France

Scotland 0-0 Norway

Sweden 2-1 Portugal

Ukraine 2-1 Croatia

and wildcards featuring clubs off of "not their original name, like"

MK Dons 1-2 Carlisle

Macclesfield Town 1-2 Aldershot

Kidderminster 2-0 Ebbsfleet United

[Not sure what's happened to the formatting here. Blame Blogger!]

Richard Butcher for Notts County (v Aldershot), 27 September 2008

As we drove past a misty Meadow Lane at 10.45am on Saturday morning, the small child person looked at it and suggested that we might perhaps go to a football match later that day.

A quick check of the fixture list later, we spent the afternoon in the Family Stand at Notts County v Aldershot. We had quite a good time - County won 2-1, we had some crisps and a hot chocolate, got a sticker to promote a new Football League drive and sat in the sunshine paying tribute to Jimmy Sirrel and watching County fluke a narrow win.


And you can't beat a huge hug from a Magpie, can you? (unless it's Mark Viduka of course. Ha ha ha.)


Anyway. Predictions:

Blackburn 1-2 Man Utd
Sunderland 0-2 Arsenal
West Brom 1-1 Fulham
Wigan 2-1 Middlesbrough
Chelsea 2-1 Aston Villa
Everton 2-0 Newcastle
Man City 0-1 Liverpool
Portsmouth 2-0 Stoke
Tottenham 2-0 Hull
West Ham 2-1 Bolton

and some Rangers wildcards:

Birmingham 2-0 QPR
Stafford Rangers 2-1 Harrogate Town
St Mirren 1-3 Rangers