The Round Ball Game - II

[teamsaint]

Sunday scoreboard

Hearts 1 Partick Thistle 1 Late equaliser,remain 2nd bottom

East Stirlingshire 2 Edusport Academy 1 No details available

Thanks for the round ups ER.
Natives very restless down here, rumours of MP getting the sack this week......

[Lat-Literal]

Is it true that before Arsenal defeated Spurs, the Sky people put just one Arsenal player in their combined Arsenal and Spurs XI? If so, immediately quadruple the BBC salaries of Jason, Martin and Garth. The Ozil and Sanchez Show, as hailed by the press. It's amazing what a desire for a move can do for motivation but alas it was just a bit more fake news. The stage belonged to Mustafi. Congratulations to York City for the 1-1 draw. The next few fixtures are kind which is probably just as well for those wishing to see no slippage from the SIX play-off places in the Vanamara Juniors. Let's just hope that the splendid new stadium in the shopping mall halfway to Malton is being pumped with the region's last remaining life blood. Well done too to England for being the Home Countries World Cup nation. The next question is who might replace Southgate when it all comes crashing. Now that Howe has been proven to be the new Hoddle, this jury says cryptically that Dyche, who is pretty great at Burnley, is far too good for Everton. The most interesting aspect of the football weekend was to note the names in the Scottish Cup and to dig out an atlas. My knowledge of British geography - it's totally brilliant - has always been propelled by our football teams and political constituencies.

[EdgeleyRob]

Latest

Champions League

Sevilla 3 Liverpool 3 Let a 3-0 half time lead slip,remain group leaders
unmentionables 1 Feyenoord 0 Late winner,won the group
Borussia Dortmund 1 Tottenham 2 Came back from a goal down at the break,group winners
Basel 1 Manchester United 0 Conceded on 89 mins,need a point to win the group
Qarabag 0 Chelsea 4 Easy win v 10 men,qualified for the knockout stage

League

Brighton 2 Stoke City 2 Went behind twice,unbeaten in 5 league games
Ipswich Town 2 Sheffield Wednesday 2 2nd equaliser on 95 mins,unbeaten in 5 league games
Wolves 4 Leeds United 1 Scored twice in each half,4 points clear at the top
Oldham Athletic 0 Wimbledon 0 Hard fought point
Crawley Town 3 Exeter City 1 Took the lead,2nd league defeat in 4 days
Stevenage 1 Coventry City 1 Led at half time,6th
Hartlepool United 4 Halifax Town 0 Were 3-0 up after half an hour
Macclesfield Town 2 Tranmere Rovers 2 Went behind twice,secured the point on 90 mins
Wrexham 1 Solihull Moors 0 1st half goal,3rd straight league win,top
Braintree Town 1 Truro City 1 Led at half time,unbeaten in 4 league games,3rd
Havant & Waterlooville 1 Chelmsford City 1 Behind at the break,equalised on 90 mins,5th
Inverness Caledonian Thistle v Brechin City was postponed

[BBMmk2]

Come on Seagulls!!!!

[EdgeleyRob]

Europa League

Cologne 1 Arsenal 0 Won the group despite this defeat

Bit of advance warning,I'm off to Poland for a couple of days this coming Sunday (Krakow/Auschwitz).
If you are looking in ts I will do this Saturday's games,could you possibly pick up the slack please ?(Sunday to Wednesday),back to normal from Thursday

[EdgeleyRob]

Football Pink

West Ham United 1 Leicester City 1 Took an early lead,pegged back by half time
Crystal Palace 2 Stoke City 1 Went behind,won it on 92 mins
Manchester United 1 Brighton 0 Forum derby,own goal on 66 mins win it
Newcastle United 0 Watford 3 4th straight league defeat
Swansea City 0 Bournemouth 0 10 points from last 5 league games
Tottenham 1 West Brom 1 Went behind early on,late equaliser
Liverpool 1 Chelsea 1 Forum derby,Reds Took the lead,Blues late equaliser
Reading 0 Sheffield Wednesday 0 Unbeaten in 6 league games
Wolves 5 Bolton Wanderers 1 Easy peasy,7 points clear at the top
Wimbledon 1 Walsall 2 Went 0-2 down after half an hour,1st defeat in 4 league games
Blackburn Rovers 2 Bristol Rovers 1 Took the lead then conceded 2 in 6 mins
Coventry City 1 Crawley Town 1 Behind at the break,equalised with 15 mins left
Exeter City 2 Accrington Stanley 0 Scored near the end of each half
Aldershot Town 2 Wrexham 0 Both goals in the 1st 33 mins,down to 2nd
Ebbsfleet United 3 Hartlepool United 0 Well beaten,mid table
Maidenhead United 1 Macclesfield Town 1 Took the lead,conceded on 88 mins
Inverness Caledonian Thistle 0 St Mirren 2 Forum derby,a pen and a last min 2nd,Saints 2nd, Caley 8th
Raith Rovers 2 Queen's Park 0 Conceded twice in 3 mins,4th straight league defeat
Edinburgh City 0 Cowdenbeath 0 2 points from last 8 league games
Fort William v Cove Rangers was postponed
Civil Service Strollers 1 East Stirlingshire 3 No match details,3rd straight league win
Gretna 1 Selkirk 3 No match details,remain in 4th

FA Trophy

Lewes 1 Truro City 3 3-0 up by the 38th min
Oxford City 1 Hereford 2 Came back from a goal down
Stockport County 2 Southport 2 Took the lead,needed an 86th min 2nd to earn a replay
Wealdstone 1 Chelmsford City 1 80th min equaliser earned the replay
York City 3 Coalville Town 1 Scored 2 2nd half pens

Southampton,Arsenal,unmentionables and Aberdeen play in Sunday
No game for Partick Thistle and St Johnstone

[johncorrigan]

3 points for the Buddies tonight against the dangerous Livingstone. Saints came back from one down at half-time to score three in the second half and move two points clear of the Arabs at the top of the table.
Good win for Inverness Caley Thistle too who, after their defeat to the Buddies on Saturday (), stuffed Brechin City 4-0 tonight moving them up to fourth from bottom. The fairly new manager's doing a good job.

[BBMmk2]

Not a bad score there, although we lost!

[Lat-Literal]

Introducing the new rule of football:

Matches shall last 90 minutes plus stoppage time except where and when Manchester City are playing.

Then they shall last for as long as it takes Manchester City to win the match.

Any concerns about this rule should be forwarded to Mr Josep "Pep" Guardiola Sala who will consider them carefully.

Allow 28 days as he will be selling Aguero and then not selling Aguero; insisting that there is no way on earth that Aguero can play alongside Jesus when Mendy is absent and then immediately in his selection policy doing precisely what he has said is impossible; ensuring that Sterling is too knackered ever to play for England and Foden is not in a fit position to do so given no Premier League experience; counting up how much money his club has to spend their way to victory whatever the change of rule and all of the other important things that contribute to his genius. Naturally, the latter shall be unchallenged in the mass media along with the fantasy that competition virtually without limits is any sort of competition at all.

[teamsaint]

got to feel really sorry for Saints fans who took a day off work, and did the 400 mile round trip, to see the ref give city just enough time to finally get their goal. video replays and timed games really can't come quickly enough .

Still, the Saints manager has done enough over two games to get the fans back onside, and things look a lot brighter all of a sudden.

[Lat-Literal]

got to feel really sorry for Saints fans who took a day off work, and did the 400 mile round trip, to see the ref give city just enough time to finally get their goal. video replays and timed games really can't come quickly enough .

Still, the Saints manager has done enough over two games to get the fans back onside, and things look a lot brighter all of a sudden.

Quite.

Still, it isn't as if they haven't always had quality supporters:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfupFxNjDnM

[cloughie]

I see Rooney was keen to put on a good show for Big Sam!

[teamsaint]

I see Rooney was keen to put on a good show for Big Sam!

Quite what he was doing on the bench at our place is hard to fathom. Saving him for the more winnable game against WHU, I suppose.....

[cloughie]

Quite what he was doing on the bench at our place is hard to fathom. Saving him for the more winnable game against WHU, I suppose.....

I think he will be very much in Sam's revival plans at Goodison.

[EdgeleyRob]

Catch up

Sunday

Southampton 4 Everton 1
Burnley 0 Arsenal 1
Huddersfield Town 1 unmentionables 2
Kilmarnock 1 Aberdeen 3

Midweek

Brighton 0 Crystal Palace 0 Not just a Forum derby
Leicester City 2 Tottenham 1 Forum derby,Spurs bottling it
Watford 2 Manchester United 4
West Brom 2 Newcastle United 2
Inverness Caledonian Thistle 4 Brechin City 0
St Mirren 3 Livingston 1
Arsenal 5 Huddersfield Town 0
Bournemouth 1 Burnley 2
Chelsea 1 Swansea City 0
unmentionables 2 Southampton 1 Forum derby,Pep time is the new Fergie time
Stoke City 0 Liverpool 3
Rangers 3 Aberdeen 0

FA Trophy replays

Chelmsford City 1 Wealdstone 2
Southport 0 Stockport County 3

Football League Trophy

Exeter City 1 Chelsea U21s 3
Barnet 2 Tottenham U21s 1
Chesterfield 2 unmentionables U21s 2 Lost on pens