g'day all. I am going to write about the A-League, in due course. Ooh. I bet you can't wait.

Arriving in Brisbane at midnight on Tuesday, I slipped into a borderline coma before jetlag awoke me at 6am the following morning. I made a cup of tea and flicked the telly on to watch the local programing, and was faced with the spectre of Arsenal v Wigan in the Carling Cup. Click to continue reading...

Predictions time again..... I'm sure I'll think of something else to put up here at some point. Maybe. I would write about Wolves, but I'm not sure I want to jinx them......

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

Wildcards from the 2nd round of the FA Cup

Bournemouth 2-0 Blyth Spartans
Fleetwood Town 0-2 Hartlepool
Kidderminster 2-0 Curzon Ashton
Scunthorpe 3-1 Alfreton Town Click to continue reading...

Predictions time again then....

Not only have I actually remembered to put the predictions up, but I have also managed to put them up on a Wednesday too. How's that for organisation?

Average at best? I'll settle for that.

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

Wildcards from Serie A this week, I think. Click to continue reading...

Better had do some predictions then, eh?

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

wildcards from Spain

Getafe 1-1 Sevilla
Atlético 2-1 Deportivo
Betis 1-0 Racing

Someone remind me to do it early next week, eh? Click to continue reading...

Hello all. Sorry it's a bit late - I was in Oceana at 1am with the boss last night and a heady cocktail of nasty overpriced drinks....

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

and some wildcards from the first round of the FA Cup:

Blyth Spartans 1-2 Shrewsbury
Sutton United 1-1 Notts County
Havant and Waterlooville 0-2 Brentford

I'm off to Australia for three weeks (I do get to see the Rugby League World Cup semi final - hopefully it'll be England v New Zealand barring freak results) and so I will leave you in ST's capable hands until I get back. Click to continue reading...

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. Click to continue reading...

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! Click to continue reading...

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 Click to continue reading...

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. Click to continue reading...

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). Click to continue reading...

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. Click to continue reading...

It Could Only Happen At Newcastle Utd: Part 854,219

They hire a temporary manager to look after the team until the end of October - someone serving a touchline ban from their last football mangement job and who therefore cannot actually sit on the bench until 20 October.

Genius. Click to continue reading...

Predictions time again, already......

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

And wildcards from the FA Cup Qualifying, 2nd Round:

Belper Town 1-0 Redditch
Hinckley Utd 0-2 Solihull Moors
Kingstonian 2-1 Braintree Town
Winterton Rangers 1-1 Newcastle Benfield (are they better run, do you suppose? Click to continue reading...

You might have seen this already, but it makes me giggle every time I watch it. I think it's taken a couple of years off Sir Alex's life.....



Brilliant. Click to continue reading...

[Scroll down for predictions - they are in this post!]

At the risk of upsetting the few lovely and loyal Newcastle supporters that frequent this site, I did find myself nodding at this article written by Matthew Syed in this weeks Times.

"The only way that Newcastle fans are ever going to be truly happy is when they have formed a collective to buy the club and have made a pig's ear, as they inevitably would, of a kind that would make Freddy Shepherd's last remaining strands stand on end. Click to continue reading...