The Round Ball Game - II

[johncorrigan]

Falkirk 1 St Mirren 0 Conceded on 85 mins,won the league by 12 points

Thanks Rob. Great round up as always. A pleasure most Saturdays. That's me off to the beach...see you next season.
Only joking; I'll be following all the twists and turns over the next few weeks. I just won't be getting stressed about them. Come on our teams!!! I assume they'll be dancing in the streets of Crystal tonight, by the way!

[BBMmk2]

Thank you ER, as ever! What sterling work you have done again this season! I think my teams, The Toon and Seagulls will be ok this season.

[antongould]

Thank you very, very much Rob for your superb roundups ..... and to ts for coming off the bench when required. Hope the saints survive and Stockport triumph in the playoffs .... you and the loyal band deserve to play the Hangers .....

[cloughie]

Thank you very, very much Rob for your superb roundups ..... and to ts for coming off the bench when required. Hope the saints survive and Stockport triumph in the playoffs .... you and the loyal band deserve to play the Hangers .....

Indeed so, I agree with all that and maybe either Truro or Chelmsford will also be there, mind you if Truro do it that will create a new record mileage for the ties, although if Truro do not then they will have a new shortest journey with Torquay slipping down to NLS. Good also to see that the Hangers hung in, Anton.

[Stanfordian]

Football Pink

Aberdeen 2 Hearts 0 1st half goals,back to back league wins,2nd
Liverpool 0 Stoke City 0 Off day but bigger fish to fry
Burnley 0 Brighton 0 Winless in 6 league games,5 points clear of the drop zone
Crystal Palace 5 Leicester City 0 Forum derby,Eagles all but safe,Foxes 1 point from last 4 league games
Newcastle United 0 West Brom 1 Conceded in the 1st half,mid table
Southampton 2 Bournemouth 1 Forum derby,Saints 1st win in 9 league games,remain 3rd bottom,Cherries winless in 5 league games,6 points clear of danger
Swansea City 0 Chelsea 1 Led from the 4th min,3rd straight win,2 points outside the top 4,good result for Southampton
St Johnstone 1 Partick Thistle 1 Forum derby,Perth Saints led at the break,Jags late pen,2 points clear of the bottom team
Wolves 0 Sheffield Wednesday 0 Forum derby,champions now on 99 points,Owls safe in mid table
Bristol Rovers 1 Gillingham 1 Took the lead on 86 mins inly to concede on 94 mins
Wigan Athletic 1 Wimbledon 1 Led at half time,unbeaten in 5 league games,3 points clear of the drop zone
Cheltenham Town 1 Coventry City 6 4-0 up at half time,a point on the last day will secure the play off place
Stevenage 3 Exeter City 1 Late consolation goal after going 3 down just after the break but play off spot guaranteed
Fort William 3 Turriff United 7 Usual stuff

Last regular fixtures of the season for the teams below

Macclesfield Town 2 Dagenham and Redbridge 0 Late goals,won the title by 10 points
Tranmere Rovers 1 Hartlepool United 2 1st half pen and a late 2nd,finished 15th
Wrexham 0 Fylde 0 Inly 1 win in last 9 league games,finished 10th
Brackley Town 2 York City 0 Conceded twice in the 2nd half,finished 5 points outside the play offs
Stockport County 1 Darlington 1 Behind at the break,crowd of 6163 a record for this level,finished 5th,Chorley at home on Wednesday in the play off quarter final,trouble is I'll miss the final if we get there because I'll be on holiday
Eastbourne Borough 0 Chelmsford City 3 All the goals in the 2nd half,finished 3rd so straight into the play off semis
Hampton and Richmond 1 Truro City 1 Took the lead early,finished in the last play off spot,so the same team away on Wednesday in the quarter final
Falkirk 1 St Mirren 0 Conceded on 85 mins,won the league by 12 points
Greenock Morton 0 Inverness Caledonian Thistle 3 Easy win,finished the season with a 12 game unbeaten run,missed the play offs by 2 points
Queen's Park 3 Arbroath 0 1st league win in ages,finished 2nd bottom so now face a relegation play off
Peterhead 2 Edinburgh City 1 Lost it on 90 mins after getting back level 1-1,finished 8 points clear of bottom spot
St Ives Town 0 Hereford 2 Won the league with 113 points,36 wins,scored 133 goals conceding only 33

Manchester City,Arsenal and Manchester United play tomorrow
Tottenham play on Monday

No game for Selkirk
East Stirlingshire have completed their fixtures

In the Blackpool area our football paper that came out on Saturday tea-time was 'The Green'.

Who would have thought that both Morecambe (2007) and Fleetwood (2012) would have joined Blackpool and Preston in the football leagues. My father died just before Morecambe joined the football leagues with Fleetwood, who he once played for, coming later. So in our smallarea of West Lancashire: Blackpool, Preston, Morecambe and Fleetwood might even be joined by AFC Fylde who have been soaring up the leagues and yesterday clinched a play-off place in the National League. For those who don't know AFC Fylde are situated between at Wesham, just of the M55 motorway, between Blackpool and Preston. I thought that many of the thousands of disillusioned Blackpool fans who stay away from the club's home games in protest would have defected to watch ACF Fylde but I don't think too many of them have.

[DracoM]

And Liverpool missed at least two sitters - scarily casual!

[Lancashire Lass]

Excellent stuff, including:

The colonisation of the working class game has long been considered as a given. Someone important should issue a formal apology.

And hang their heads in shame. But the FA are too busy pimping the England team and the League, including its cuckoo-in-the-next child the Premier League, to global greed.

The football authorities lost their integrity years ago.

The FA Cup -- "it will be 'sponsored by Littlewoods', not the 'Littlewoods FA Cup'" -- is now the Emirates FA Cup.

The Football League's nomenclature was Americanised into Championship and Leagues One and Two after Coca-Cola demanded it as part of their sponsorship -- I still remember then-chair FL Brian Mawhinney claiming it actually strengthened the FL's history and traditions!!

And of course the franchising deal to eclipse them all, the 70-mile move by Wimbledon FC to satisfy the "football frenzy" waiting in Milton Keynes.

Funny how things turn out. Yesterday the said plastic franchise was officially relegated to League Two :-) while the upstart fans' club (how dare they start THEIR OWN CLUB) which was attacked in the report by the FA's infamous three-man commission as "Not in the wider interests of football" has taken a mere 16 years to finish above them. Hopefully we'll get the extra point we need to stay up for next season.

Of course, you won't find the FA holding their hands up and saying "We wuz wrong".

[BBMmk2]

How will the FA get another stadium built?

[Stanfordian]

I'm watching the Old Firm derby and Celtic are up 3-0. Celtic could easily win 6-0 at this rate. I've not seen too many Rangers sides as poor as this one. Weak mentally and physically, Steven Gerhard, should he take over, has a big rebuilding job on.

[johncorrigan]

I'm watching the Old Firm derby and Celtic are up 3-0. Celtic could easily win 6-0 at this rate. I've not seen too many Rangers sides as poor as this one. Weak mentally and physically, Steven Gerhard, should he take over, has a big rebuilding job on.

Rangers are a mess on and off the park, Stanfordian, destroyed by a greedy bunch of would-be investors just interested in asset stripping the club. I can only think that they think Gerrard might build their young players and bring through a new generation, but I reckon Stevie's on a hiding to nothing if he takes it.

[antongould]

Indeed so, I agree with all that and maybe either Truro or Chelmsford will also be there, mind you if Truro do it that will create a new record mileage for the ties, although if Truro do not then they will have a new shortest journey with Torquay slipping down to NLS. Good also to see that the Hangers hung in, Anton.

..... and I agree with all that ......

[cloughie]

And hang their heads in shame. But the FA are too busy pimping the England team and the League, including its cuckoo-in-the-next child the Premier League, to global greed.

The football authorities lost their integrity years ago.

The FA Cup -- "it will be 'sponsored by Littlewoods', not the 'Littlewoods FA Cup'" -- is now the Emirates FA Cup.

The Football League's nomenclature was Americanised into Championship and Leagues One and Two after Coca-Cola demanded it as part of their sponsorship -- I still remember then-chair FL Brian Mawhinney claiming it actually strengthened the FL's history and traditions!!

And of course the franchising deal to eclipse them all, the 70-mile move by Wimbledon FC to satisfy the "football frenzy" waiting in Milton Keynes.

Funny how things turn out. Yesterday the said plastic franchise was officially relegated to League Two :-) while the upstart fans' club (how dare they start THEIR OWN CLUB) which was attacked in the report by the FA's infamous three-man commission as "Not in the wider interests of football" has taken a mere 16 years to finish above them. Hopefully we'll get the extra point we need to stay up for next season.

Of course, you won't find the FA holding their hands up and saying "We wuz wrong".

I hope you get your point to stay up. As a Wimbledon supporting Lancashire Lass - I still can't quite get my head round that but its better than supporting Chelsea, Arsenal or the Wembley squatters Spurs - I hope you will be pleased to see replacing the Franchise in Div One is good old Accrington Stanley. Personally I think the selling of Wembley to Grid Iron is an appalling idea unless they use the money to build a National Stadium somewhere which is more accessible to the rest of the country as they should have done when Wembley was rebuilt! But there's sweet FA chance of that!

[EdgeleyRob]

Thanks guys,I intended to mention the plastic dons franchise relegation but it slipped my mind.
Wimbledon have 2 games left to secure the point,I really hope they do it.
Special mention for Hereford,a sort of 2nd team for me,storming through the leagues since reforming and now in the 6th tier,not cleat yet whether they will be North or South though

[EdgeleyRob]

In the Blackpool area our football paper that came out on Saturday tea-time was 'The Green'.

Who would have thought that both Morecambe (2007) and Fleetwood (2012) would have joined Blackpool and Preston in the football leagues. My father died just before Morecambe joined the football leagues with Fleetwood, who he once played for, coming later. So in our smallarea of West Lancashire: Blackpool, Preston, Morecambe and Fleetwood might even be joined by AFC Fylde who have been soaring up the leagues and yesterday clinched a play-off place in the National League. For those who don't know AFC Fylde are situated between at Wesham, just of the M55 motorway, between Blackpool and Preston. I thought that many of the thousands of disillusioned Blackpool fans who stay away from the club's home games in protest would have defected to watch ACF Fylde but I don't think too many of them have.

Turning into a hotbed of football up there Stan,
I believe the Fylde owner is a disgruntled Blackpool fan.

[teamsaint]

Turning into a hotbed of football up there Stan,
I believe the Fylde owner is a disgruntled Blackpool fan.

Or Blackpool fan, as they are also known.

I read an interesting stat yesterday, which put Saints ( and others) relegation struggle into perspective.
Since 2007,only the big 6 plus Everton have been ever present in the PL.

Are any of the conference playoffs on sky?