The Round Ball Game

[Beef Oven!]

Current Everton joke: ‘It’s taken David Moyes 11 years to get Everton above Manchester United in the table!’

At least we held the mighty Shakhtar Donetsk to a 1-1 draw this evening

[EdgeleyRob]

Good luck to our forum teams this weekend.

Results service will be tomorrow I'm afraid folks,off duty for the rest of the day.

[BBMmk2]

Thanks as ever Rob!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

A quiz.

1. Identify the player and the occasion.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

2.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

3.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

4. (more difficult)

[Anna]

Well, it's obviously Man City. I'll take a guess (because I think he was discussed here) that the chap in Pic 1 was Bert Trautmann who played with a broken neck?

[BBMmk2]

Really?

Newcastle won today! Result! 11th in the tables and National Brass Band Championships next weekend!

[antongould]

.......and the monkey hangers won 4-1 away beggars belief.....

[johncorrigan]

.......and the monkey hangers won 4-1 away beggars belief.....

...and bloomin' 'eck, FIRST WIN OF THE SEASON FOR THE SAINTS 2-0 against the Jam Tarts.....YA DANCER!!!!!

[BBMmk2]

Seagulls lost 3-1 to forest!! :(

[Anna]

And the Wrexham manager: "We were comfortable for 70 minutes, no problems, no issues, then one sloppy back pass and they're in behind us and they've headed in our net and then we're under pressure. Everything that can go wrong is going wrong."

Bristol Rovers: We lost. No comment

[EdgeleyRob]

Sorry it's late,another family birthday bash last night.

Cardiff City 1 Newcastle United 2.Toon up 6 places to 11th.
Liverpool 3 Crystal Palace 1.Eagles still finding it tough.
Doncaster Rovers 1 Leicester City 0.Surprising defeat,Foxes remain 3rd.
Sheffield Wednesday 1 Ipswich Town 1.Draws not enough for the Owls,still in the bottom 3.
Brighton 1 Nottingham Forest 3.Took the lead,couldn't see it through.
Colchester United 0 Wolves 3.Good run continues,3rd.
Stevenage 0 Coventry City 1.Clear of relegation zone.
Wimbledon 0 Northampton 2. Poor result v the 2nd bottom side.
Bristol Rovers 1 Fleetwood Town 3.Heading for a point but conceded 2 very late goals.
Mansfield Town 1 Hartlepool United 4. WOW super result against a top 6 team.
Torquay United 0 York City 3.Great result against fellow strugglers,York now 16th.
Hearts 0 St Mirren 2. A win at last.
St Johnstone 4 Inverness Caledonian Thistle 0.Bad day at the office,knocked off top spot.
Cambridge United 1 Hereford United 0.Conceded very early goal,now 15th.
Salisbury City 2 Wrexham 1. Ahead at half time but let it slip,can't seem to get going this season.
Chelmsford 1 Bath City 0.Welcome 3 points,up to 17th.
Stockport County 4 (YES FOUR) Worcester City 0.YaaaaHoooo,Worcester were very poor though.
Truro City 3 St Albans 7. Blimey,not a lot one can say about that.

Southampton and Chelsea play today,Partick Thistle tomorrow.

[aeolium]

Thanks as ever, ER.

Truro City 3 St Albans 7. Blimey,not a lot one can say about that.

Yes there is - it's the same score as in the 1960 European Cup final at Hampden Park in front of 127,000 spectators. Real Madrid beat Eintracht Frankfurt with Puskas scoring 4 and di Stefano 3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_717RCKR1us

One of the best things listening to the football results yesterday was Charlotte Green reading the names of the clubs in the Scottish Cup: Auchinleck Talbot, St Cuthbert Wanderers, Buckie Thistle, Dalbeatie Star, Deveronvale, Formartine United, Inverurie Locos, Gala Fairydean, Whitehill Welfare, Turriff United....It sounded like a cross between a Scottish shipping forecast and a list of abandoned stations on a line closed by Beeching.