The Round Ball Game

[EdgeleyRob]

Have you noticed the names of our goalscorers - a pub quiz question for years to come?

Spooky,even spookier if Hartley had scored first.

[teamsaint]

Have you noticed the names of our goalscorers - a pub quiz question for years to come?

Excuse me while I crank up the roflcopter.

[EdgeleyRob]

so on we go to citeh next week.....

An' al tell you somethin',I'd luv it,luv it............

[aeolium]

Thanks for the round-up, ER. Generally a good few days for the forum teams - 11 wins, 5 draws, 5 losses. Hereford came back from 0-2 with 15 minutes left and have yet to lose a league game this year (and yet to win one ).

Odds shortening on Benitez being the next managerial casualty....

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Odds shortening on Benitez being the next managerial casualty....

oh i do hope so!

thank you ER great round up ..... Fulham seem imprisoned by playing MU again and again etc ....

[BBMmk2]

If you don't want to know the results then you know what to do.

Thursday.
Leicester City 2 Wolves 1

Friday.
Sheffield United 1 Coventry City 2
Bristol Rovers 2 Barnet 1

Today.
QPR 0 Norwich City 0.Rangers have stopped conceding but can't score.
Newcastle United 3 Chelsea 2.Forum derby,didn't expect that result.
Wigan Athletic 2 Southampton 2.Saints must be due a win,maybe next week
Fulham 0 man united 1
Crystal Palace 2 Charlton Athletic 1
Sheffield Wednesday 3 Brighton 1
Hartlepool United 2 Notts County 1
Wimbledon 1 Burton Albion 1
Port Vale 3 Accrington Stanley 0
York City 1 Morecambe 4
St Mirren 2 St Johnstone 0
Forest Green Rovers 0 Wrexham 0 :
Hereford United 2 Southport 2
Stockport County 3 Nuneaton 2.Some tippy tappy football too,nearly blew it though.
The New Saints 3 Aberystwyth Town 0
Chelmsford 6 Hayes & Yeading 2.
Dover 3 Truro City 2
Partick Thistle postponed

Yay!! Best news all week!!!!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

enjoy bbm thought the magpies well worth their win! Sissoko looks a bargain!

somehow 'alles les villes' doesn't cut it any suggestions for a suitably French slogan for Newcastle?

[johncorrigan]

St Mirren 2 St Johnstone 0

Well, I never signed up to that all those zillions of years ago when I got lifted over the turnstyle at Love Street. Three wins in three separate competitions within seven days - had to go and take a lie down and await today's draw.
Lennon signed a Portugese striker, Esmael Goncalves, just before last weekend's magnificent victory over the 'tic. Esmael scored the opener at Hampden, got one in the league victory midweek and slotted home two yesterday. Lookin' like a top signing.

Partick Thistle postponed

Thistle and Scotty in mourning at the loss of their rather fine manager to the Arabs who then went on to kick the Teddy Bears oot the Cup.

[Mr Pee]

I borrowed Jack Dee's autobiography from the library the other day, and thought I would share with you his thoughts on Football:-

It will come as little surprise to you that I do not attend football matches. My default position is that if I want to watch a bunch of violent retards running around a pitch for 90 minutes then I'll apply for a job in the PE department at Parkhurst.

[scottycelt]

Well, I never signed up to that all those zillions of years ago when I got lifted over the turnstyle at Love Street. Three wins in three separate competitions within seven days - had to go and take a lie down and await today's draw.
Lennon signed a Portugese striker, Esmael Goncalves, just before last weekend's magnificent victory over the 'tic. Esmael scored the opener at Hampden, got one in the league victory midweek and slotted home two yesterday. Lookin' like a top signing.


Thistle and Scotty in mourning at the loss of their rather fine manager to the Arabs who then went on to kick the Teddy Bears oot the Cup.

Yes, young Jackie was a good player but I never foresaw him as management material, tbh, John. He's done a good job with us and very good luck to him! 3-0 against the 'Gers (in any league) is the perfect start for him, I'm sure.

As for the Jags, I'm sure many world-renowned candidates have already put in their applications for the most prestigious managerial vacancy in football ...

[scottycelt]

I borrowed Jack Dee's autobiography from the library the other day, and thought I would share with you his thoughts on Football:-

If I wanted to be in the company of really good comedians I'd much rather go to any football ground in the country than have to listen to the distinctly unfunny likes of Jack Dee ...

[teamsaint]

I thought Dee was a game show host...

I have to translate these Scottish footy discussions...the teams aren't called where they come from, then they have bizarre and unrelated nicknames.And , sadly, I have never heard of most of the players, not even in a "Saints might be interested in" way.

But one day I would love to go to a game up there, nonetheless !

[cloughie]

I thought Dee was a game show host...

I have to translate these Scottish footy discussions...the teams aren't called where they come from, then they have bizarre and unrelated nicknames.And , sadly, I have never heard of most of the players, not even in a "Saints might be interested in" way.

But one day I would love to go to a game up there, nonetheless !

ts How are you adapting to your new manager? - is Nigel a candidate for Huddersfield - mind you their board appear to move in an unpredictable way. I see D I Canio is in the frame!!!

[johncorrigan]

I have to translate these Scottish footy discussions...the teams aren't called where they come from, then they have bizarre and unrelated nicknames.And , sadly, I have never heard of most of the players, not even in a "Saints might be interested in" way.

But one day I would love to go to a game up there, nonetheless !

Sorry ts...Rangers, Gers, Teddy Bears....Govan rhyming slang...others would say, Rangers, Gerrs, Huns, Cream Buns...East End Glasgow rs.
Dundee Utd - Arabs reputedly because of the heavy sanding they did to their pitches in the early sixties. Folklore says that in the days before the undersoil heating, in an attempt to make Tannadice playable the directors brought in a tar burner, which left the pitch grass-free, so they got lorry loads of sand and then painted white lines on the sand, the match was declared playable and the fans afterwards dressed as Arabs.

http://www.arabtrust.co.uk/uploads/cms/arabs-invading-europe-since-66-tshirtsquare-23052012-1710.jpg

[scottycelt]

I thought Dee was a game show host...

I have to translate these Scottish footy discussions...the teams aren't called where they come from, then they have bizarre and unrelated nicknames.And , sadly, I have never heard of most of the players, not even in a "Saints might be interested in" way.

But one day I would love to go to a game up there, nonetheless !

Didn't you not so long invest in some SPL players like Fox, Hooveldt and Davis ... ? I think Hooiveldt hardly ever managed a full game for Celtic and now you probably understand why. Fox has a sweet left foot from what I remember and Davis can be pretty decent on his day.

Fortunately, there is some fresh, promising talent emerging after a couple of decades of virtual drought. We live in hopes for the future.

Remember football tradition north of the border is as least as old and romantic as yours and, yes, we have our bizzare nicknames like 'baggies' and toffees' as well ...