THE MATCH

SATURDAY 4TH OCTOBER KO 12:30PM

v

LAST MATCH



We were denied a second win as the Brummies equalised in the 99th minute to steal a point. After a quiet start, Birmingham took the lead when Stansfield blocked a Amass clearance and was quickest to react and finished well. Birmingham had a lot of possession but didn't create much and then we levelled things up when J Lowe capitalised on a Brum error and scored. 1-1 at the break. Onto the 2nd half and the pattern continued with Brum possession but Horvath wasn't having too many shots to save. with 15 minutes to go Bannan swung in a free kick and George Brown guided the ball into the net. We defended heroically but were denied 3 points when Grey smashed one in from about 12 yards.

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THE MATCH



Next up and high flying Coventry make the trip north to Hillsborough. The Sky Blues have made an excellent start to the season, wining 4 and drawing 4 of there first 8 games, and currently lie in 2nd place and are scoring goals for fun, 22 so far in the league. If they can keep that up they will have a serious chance of making one of the auto slots. They are of course managed by Frank Lampard, who took over in November 2024 and took them to the playoffs only to lose out to Sunderland. There leading scorer so far this season is Hadji Wright who has 7 goals in 8 starts.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 30
COVE 37
DRAW 24

CURRENT FORM

OWLS   D D W L L D                                                           

COVE    W W D D D W

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

Adam Herczeg
David Harrison and Hristo Karaivanov
Fourth Official : Martin Coy

THE TEAM

Horvath
Palmer Iorfa Weaver M Lowe Amass
Valery Ingelsson Bannan
Brown Cadamarteri

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-3 Brown

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

56

ATTENDANCE

22112

BML LEAGUE

SCO 3
Maddix 2
Owlkev 1
Imre 1
Washington 1

BMPL

Stateside 5
Pei -6
Wereham -11
Southey -12

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Chelsea v Liverpool
Portsmouth v Middlesboro
Huddersfield v Stockport
MK Dons v Gillingham
Scunthorpe v Carlisle

DAHAH

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




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Cheltenham Town have reappointed Steve Cotterill as their new manager 23 years after he left the club, on a deal until the summer of 2028.

Cheltenham-born Cotterill spent five years in charge of his hometown team, winning three promotions and the FA Trophy as he took them from the Southern Premier Division to the Football League for the first time.

He was most recently sacked from Forest Green Rovers in June and returns to Whaddon Road 10 days after Michael Flynn was sacked with the club bottom of the table.

"I am very pleased to confirm that Steve Cotterill is returning to us as manager," said chairman David Bloxham.

"Those are words many people never thought they would hear, but having held discussions with Steve and his agent over the past few days, we all believe that the time is right for him to return.

"Steve is a manager with vast experience and a record of success going back many years.

"I think it's fair to say that we would not be able to attract someone with his record of success unless he wanted the opportunity to rejoin his hometown club and the place where it all began for him."

Assistant manager Aaron Downes - who took interim charge of the team and oversaw Saturday's 7-1 defeat by Grimsby - is to step down from his role.

Cotterill is a popular figure, having overseen the most successful period in Cheltenham's history, having been in charge of the Robins from 1997 to 2002.

The 61-year-old took them from the sixth tier through the National League up to League Two in four campaigns and also won the FA Trophy in 1998.

In 2009, he turned down the chance to return to the club saying, his "heart told me 'yes', but my head told me 'no'."

The appointment links him up with new Cheltenham owner Mike Garlick, who took over the club on 23 August and who Cotterill worked with when he was manager of Burnley, during Garlick's 17 years on the board at Turf Moor.

Cotterill has worked across the EFL during his time away from Cheltenham, also winning promotions with Notts County and Bristol City - the latter the League One and EFL Trophy double in 2015.

He has also worked at Nottingham Forest, Portsmouth, Birmingham and Shrewsbury.

Cheltenham have endured a difficult start to 2025-26, winning just one of their 10 matches so far and scoring only four goals, and sit at the foot of the Football League.

Director of football Gary Johnson also resigned from his role three days before Flynn's exit.

Bloxham said he wanted to thank fans for their "patience" and "forbearance".

"The directors and former principle shareholders have worked really hard over the past few months to bring new ownership to Cheltenham Town and to restructure the football management in order to give us the best chance to improve and move forward," Bloxham said.

"We have all been bitterly disappointed by our start to the season, but positive action has been taken, and there are still a lot of games left for us to turn things around."

Solihull Moors have named former Halifax Town boss Chris Millington as their new manager.

The 50-year-old replaces Matt Taylor, who was sacked four weeks ago after a winless start to the National League season.

Solihull have since won three of their six league games under caretaker boss James Quinn, who will stay on as part of Millington's coaching team, which includes his former Halifax assistant Andy Cooper.

"Both Andy and I are looking forward to working with Quinny," Millington told the club website., external

"I have always admired the way the club is run and the way it has competed in recent years. We are fully committed to driving the team forward."

It was at the end of last season, after Halifax's play-off exit, that Millington stepped down as boss of the Shaymen.

That was the second time since taking the job in 2022 he had led the club to a top-seven finish.

He also guided Halifax to FA Trophy glory in 2023.

"They [Millington and Cooper] did an outstanding job at Halifax and both have a wealth of experience at this level and across the game more generally," said Moors chairman Darryl Eales.

"From our first meeting, I was impressed with Chris's vision and ambition and his excellent fit with Moors as a club and our culture."

Group A

Twerton 12
Zinman 10
A.A.A. 7
Minizin 6
BaggieOne 3
Stairs 1
B.B.B. 1
BaggieVicar 0

Worst week of the season in Group A with just 40 points in total. It would have been just 20 points had Arsenal not scored that late, late winner at Newcastle. Multiple season records were broken this week, most of which were the bad or low ones but there was a couple of good ones as well. Every Bonus Ball prediction was incorrect, something which really hurt one player!!

Twerton leads the way with 12 points, his highest score and position since week 2. He scored on 6 games including his first positive points won on the Gamball with a CR. Zinman scored his highest score of the season to finish second on 10 points. Like Twerton he scored his first points on the Gamball but he managed to get it spot on. He added another CS and with him being able to play 2 Bonus Balls had a chance of a very good score, unfortunately for him he managed to get both of them wrong robbing him of 12 extra points!!

AAA had his best score for 4 weeks with 7 points and his highest weekly position of the season in 3rd place. Minizin ended on 6 points, his lowest score of the season so far despite a CR on the Gamball. League leader BaggieOne had his 2nd worst score this season with just 3 points, that Gunners win cost him 6 points!!

The bottom 3 had a week to forget - Stairs and BBB on 1 point and BaggieVicar ending of a big fat zero!! For him and Stairs this was their lowest scores of the season so far, BBB had that honor last week.

96 BaggieOne
75 Minizin
72 Stairs
61 Twerton
52 BaggieVicar
46 A.A.A.
44 B.B.B.
30 Zinman

Every player bar the leader and the wooden spoon incumbent changed paces this week!! BaggieOne was over 100 points at one point but fell back to 96, giving him a 21 point lead over the new 2nd spot owner, Minizin. Stairs drops to 3rd place, his lowest position so far this season. Twerton rose one place, as did BaggieVicar and AAA which means BBB drops 3 places to 2nd bottom. Zinman will need a few more weeks like this one to catch up but its a start and a move in the right direction for him.

Cheers
SCO

Group B

Lady Jane 11
Snooty 9
Amelia 8
Derby 8
SCO 6
Themaclad 4
Salop 2
4eva 1

A below average week for Group B with just 2 correct scores and 2 positive Gamballs. It could have been a lot worse with the final match of the weekend providing the highest return thanks to Arsenal's very late comeback.

Lady Jane tops the table for the first time this season, matching her score from last week as the only player to reach double figures. Her total included one of the 2 correct scores and also a positive bonus. Snooty was just a correct score behind in 2nd place. Derby and Amelia share 3rd with 8 points, Amelia with a correct gamball and the other correct score while Derby got just 3 correct results but did score with his 2 scoreballs having carried one over from last week.

SCO and Themaclad both scored on 4 games without a correct score. SCO's extra points came from the 2nd correct gamball result though for the second week running he played his scoreball on a scoreless game. Salop scored on one game less and also had a blank on his balls to collect just 2 points from the weekend - 1 more than 4eva who was heading for a negative score until that late Arsenal winner!

63 Themaclad
62 SCO
53 4eva
49 Snooty
48 Lady Jane
41 Derby
32 Salop
25 Amelia

No positional changes though Themaclad's lead is cut to just 1 point. A special mention for SCO as the only player yet to record a positive scoreball, actually managing a cumulative minus 2 points from this ball!

Just a quick note that next week's scores may be delayed as I'm travelling and will probably be busier than when I'm at work.

Zin

Gamball:
Blackburn - Stoke

Others:
Leeds - Spurs
Chelsea - Liverpool
Hull - Sheff Utd
Derby - Southampton
Millwall - WBA
Portsmouth - Middlesbrough
Swansea - Leicester
Everton - Crystal Palace
Wolves - Brighton

2 points for correct result
4 points for correct score
2 points for each correct scorer
Correct joker doubles your score   (correct score on a joker would give you 8 points)
Wrong joker result gives you minus 2
Correct Badger gives you 2 points

The prize for winning the league is one rep point.

Cup games: In the event of a draw, it's half the points if you've predicted a draw when it gets to 90 mins and the full points if it's still a draw after extra time. Half the points will be awarded for correctly predicting the winner of the match if it goes to penalties. However, if you do predict a draw and it's a match that won't be going to a replay, you can get a possible extra point by stating which of the two teams you think will eventually win.

Random score generator: I will be using the random score generator again for those who miss predicting, so we shouldn't get some people too far behind that after missing a couple of weeks they lose all interest, because I know it's not easy getting on here every week.
To be fair to everybody, this is going to be like, say if three people in one week miss their predictions, the first one in the table will be given all 0-0, the second one down the line will get 1-0 and the third will get 0-1 and so on, like if there's four missing the 4th will get 1-1, then 5th 2-1, 6th 1-2. and if there are so many missing, might as well pack in.
And if you miss two weeks on the trot, I'll stop until you come back on again. Not doing it for half a season like I did t'other year.  


At the end of the season, the winner of group 2 and the bottom of group 1 will swap places in what is commonly known as "promotion" and "relegation". It's something that most football fans will be familiar with, unless you're a fan of Liverpool or Arsenal or one of those other fashionable clubs.

The second placed player in group 2 will then have a play off with the player who finishes second from the bottom in group 1 to decide whether they will be going up, down or staying where they are.

We're going to have two seasons in one though, just to try and make it a bit more interesting and not so long drawn out. The first season will end on the Boxing Day fixtures, with the play offs being on the dates of the Twixtmas fixtures and the NYD fixtures.

The second season will start the following week, which is usually the FA Cup 3rd round, finishing on the last game of the League One season. Then another period of relegation/promotion play off games, taking in such fixtures as the EFL play offs, FA Cup Final, UEFA finals and such like.

Each group will have it's own set of fixtures. Both groups will have the Town games, with scorers to predict as before. Then it will be a split of League One fixtures and bonus matches, hopefully around ten, eleven or twelve games per Matchday.

The random badger is restricted to three goal scorers in any of the fixtures in your group.

Here's how that will appear at the end of the fixture list. All you have to do is fill in the blanks.......


*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***

Any of those will score two points if correct. No minus points for getting it wrong.

Postponed matches will only count if the match is re-played before the next Matchday is under way. Abandoned matches will be awarded half the points for the score at the time of abandonment, so 1 point if you have the correct result, 2 points if you have the correct score.

Substitute or scorer in one of the Town games:- These will be only be allowed if you change them before the match involved has kicked off.

Prediction League Archive: https://www.sportsbabble.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=12830

Division One table after Matchday 9:

1. Baggiebob(BBB) = 151 pts
   
2. jjamez = 141 pts
   
3. neonfoxinthebox = 134 pts
   
4. SHEP_HTAFC = 127 pts
   
5. Lord Snooty = 120 pts
   
6. ritchiebaby = 119 pts
   

Saturday 4th October:
Premier League:
Leeds United v Tottenham Hotspur (12:30)
Manchester United v Sunderland

Championship:
Millwall v West Bromwich Albion

League One:
Town v Stockport
Town scorers:
Stockport scorers:

Wycombe Wanderers v Barnsley (12:30)
Blackpool v AFC Wimbledon
Plymouth Argyle v Wigan Athletic
Port Vale v Northampton Town
Reading v Mansfield Town
Stevenage v Luton Town

Scottish Premiership:
Hearts v Hibernian (17:45)

*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***

1. themaclad = 160 pts
   
2. theo_luddite = 138 pts
   
3. Devongone = 137 pts
   
4. St Charles Owl = 109 pts
   
5. WakeyTerrier = 107 pts
   
6. Amelia Chaffinch = 106 pts
   

Thursday October 2nd:
League One:
Rotherham United v Bradford City (20:00)

Saturday 4th October:
Championship:
Sheffield Wednesday v Coventry City (12:30)
Preston North End v Charlton Athletic

League One:
Town v Stockport
Town scorers:
Stockport scorers:

Doncaster Rovers v Burton Albion (12:30)
Blackpool v AFC Wimbledon
Bolton Wanderers v Peterborough United
Cardiff City v Leyton Orient
Lincoln City v Exeter City

League Two:
Colchester United v Chesterfield

Premier League:
Chelsea v Liverpool (17:30)

*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***

THE MATCH

TUESDAY 30TH SEPTEMBER KO 7:45PM

v

LAST MATCH



We managed to get our first point at Hillsborough as we shared the spoils with QPR. We played OK in the first half and we took the lead when Bannan's free kick was headed in at the back post by Iorfa, our first league goal at Hillsborough this season. We had a few other chances but we went in 1 up. QPR made 3 changes at the half and were rewarded when Palmer handled in the box, harsh but the rules and Madsen fired in the spot kick. Both sides had chances to win the game the game but the game ended in a draw, probably a fair result overall.

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THE MATCH



Next up and back on the road as we travel down to the Midlands to take on Birmingham. The Brummies had started the season well but have lost 3 of there last 4 games and currently lie in 11th place in the table. It will be interesting to see if they can mount a playoff challenge come the end of the season, but with a board who seem willing to splash the cash (Jay Stansfield for £10m in League One) they could be thereabouts when playoff time arrives. They are managed by Chris Davies who took over in June 2024 and took the Brummies to promotion in his first season, as Birmingham amassed 111 points, the most in the world. There leading scorer so far this season is Stansfield with 2 goals.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 36
BRUM 40
DRAW 27

CURRENT FORM

OWLS   D W L L D L                                                             

BRUM L W L L W W

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

MATTHEW DONAHUE
Jacob Graham and George byrne
Fourth Official: Oliver Langford

THE TEAM

Horvath
Valery Iorfa Otegbayo Amass
Fusire Ingelsson Bannan
J Lowe Cadamarteri Ugbo

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

2-1 Cadamarteri

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

56

ATTENDANCE

N/A

BML LEAGUE

SCO 3
Maddix 2
Owlkev 1
Imre 1
Washington 1

BMPL

Stateside 5
Pei -6
Wereham -12
Southey -12

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Bristol C v Ipswich
Sheff Utd v Southampton
Middlesboro v Stoke
Blackpool v Luton
Solihull Moors v Woking

ADHDH

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




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