Gamball:
Everton - Villa

Others:
Bournemouth - Brighton
West Ham - Spurs
Charlton - Millwall
Preston - Middlesbrough
Sheff Wed - Bristol City
Stoke - Birmingham
WBA - Derby
Wrexham - QPR
Bradford - Huddersfield

Indycar driver Jack Harvey has bought a stake in his hometown football club Lincoln City.

The 32-year-old, who was born in the Lincolnshire village of Bassingham, and his family are said to have put a "modest investment" into the League One side.

Harvey, a former British Formula 3 champion who has been based and raced in the United States since 2014, most recently featured in the open-wheel Indycar Series for Dreyer & Reinbold Racing/Cusick Motorsports this year.

"This has been a very organic thing," Harvey told the Lincoln City website., external

"It means a lot to be an ever-so-tiny part of my hometown team, but also to show everybody that we're prepared to give back to our local community, where the club does so much.

"A lot of my family go to every game, so this becomes another way to unite and bond even when I'm having to follow from overseas via Imps+ or on social media."
Harvey says his move to invest in the Imps "grew out of a conversation" he had with the club's majority shareholder Harvey Jabara.

"I know it sounds cheesy, but first and foremost I consider them [Jabara family] just great friends - I'm lucky to have people like them in my life," Harvey said.

"They are race fans and I'm sure they were surprised when they first saw me at a game. They're great people to learn from, are involved in lots of cool projects and I'm delighted to share in this adventure with them."

Harvey's investment in the club coincides with the American quartet of Ken Maurice Newcomer, Mark Talarico, Dan Marolis and Alexander Schreck becoming involved as 'club patrons'.

The new stakeholders have put money into the club just weeks after Imps chairman Clive Nates said Lincoln was looking for further investment in their efforts to reach the Championship.efforts to reach the Championship.

Group A

BaggieOne 21
Stairs 14
Minizin 12
A.A.A. 6
B.B.B. 5
Zinman 4
Twerton 2
BaggieVicar 0

For the second week in a row we have a results table that is split into two distinct halves. The Gamball turned out ok for most with 12 points being scored on that but the rest of the balls saw very few positive scores. The Oxford v Coventry game produced a seasons low score with -11 points due to 4 incorrect Bonus balls but this was offset by 3 other games scoring double figures.

Easily leading the way this week is league leader BaggieOne with a very good 21 point haul. He scored 2 CSs including the Bonus and 4 CRs including the Gamball as well as the added point from the Scoreball. In 2nd spot is Stairs on 14 points, he scored on the same number of games as BaggieOne but missed on his Bonus causing the difference. Third was Minizin with 12 points, the last one to score double figures this week. He managed 2 CSs but missed on the Gamball.

Big drop to the rest!! AAA with 6 points and BBB with 5 points at least managed to get a CR on the Gamball but little else. Whereas Zinman, 4 points, Twerton, 2 points and BaggieVicar, 0 points, missed on all their balls and backed that up with very little else!!

61 BaggieOne
52 Stairs
42 Minizin
37 Twerton
36 A.A.A.
36 B.B.B.
30 BaggieVicar
13 Zinman

Some gaps now appearing in the table. BaggieOne has a nice 9 point lead over Stairs, who in turn is 10 points ahead of Minizin in 3rd. Interestingly Minizin is the most consistent player so far with only 2 points separating his highest and lowest scores for the first 4 weeks. Twerton drops to 4th, just a point ahead of the alphabet boys. Bit of a gap to BaggieVicar in 7th and then the 17 point chasm down to Zinman in last place. He is now 48 points off top place, so it looks like at best the Playoffs for him!!

Cheers
SCO


Group B

SCO 9
4eva 9
Themaclad 8
Derby 7
Lady Jane 6
Salop 6
Snooty 5
Amelia 5

A very tight week for Group B with just 4 points separating all players. The Gamball proved fruitful, 6 players gaining points from it, while Sheffield Wednesday's demise (sorry, SCO) was correctly predicted by all but one player and yielded 21 points. Four fixtures proved to be less predictable, with the results at Sunderland, Stoke Blackburn and Oxford all generating negative returns thanks to a number of blown bonus balls. For the 2nd consecutive week, nobody reached double figures.

SCO and4eva share top spot with 9 points made up the same way - 5 correct results including the gamball but no correct scores and misses on both the bonus and score balls. Themaclad sits just a point behind with 3 correct results, one correct score, a gamball and scoreball point. Derby nearly matched Themac but missed out on the scoreball. Lady Jane and Salop are together with 6 points - Lady J scored on more games, 4, but failed with all her balls while Salop had 3 correct results, no correct scores but did get his gamball correct.

Snooty was the only player to get his bonus correct - and he scored a maximum 6 points from it! Unfortunately that was all he got right so shares bottom spot with our late arrival, Amelia who scored on 3 games including her gamball. So she's nearly level with me!

44 Themaclad
35 4eva
34 SCO
26 Lady Jane
25 Derby
13 Snooty
10 Salop
5 Amelia


Unsurprisingly no positional changes this week. Themaclad still enjoys a healthy lead with gaps beginning to open up between 3rd and 4th, and 5th to 6th. Slow starts for Snooty, Salop and, obviously Amelia, but it's still very early (as I keep telling myself).

Enjoy the international break and I'll post the next fixtures towards the end of the week.

Zin

Grimsby Town have been fined twenty grand for fielding an ineligible player against Manchester United.

A fine! A fine?

Isn't this an automatic disqualification?

What do poor old Man Utd have to do these days to get an even break?

It's two tier justice.

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 5:

1. Baggiebob(BBB) = 99 pts
   
2. neonfoxinthebox = 92 pts
   
3. jjamez = 89 pts
   
4. ritchiebaby = 77 pts
   
5. SHEP_HTAFC = 77 pts
   
6. Lord Snooty = 76 pts
   

World Cup qualifiers:
Thursday 4th September:
Kazakhstan v Wales (15:00)
Luxembourg v Northern Ireland (19:45)

Friday 5th September:
Denmark v Scotland (19:45)

Saturday 6th September:
League One:
Town v Peterborough
Town scorers:
PishPosh scorers:

Bolton Wanderers v AFC Wimbledon
Doncaster Rovers v Bradford City
Lincoln City v Wigan Athletic
Plymouth Argyle v Stockport County
Port Vale v Leyton Orient
Rotherham United v Exeter City
Wycombe Wanderers v Mansfield Town

World Cup qualifiers:
Tuesday 9th September:
Serbia v England (19:45)

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

1. themaclad = 110 pts
   
2. Devongone = 83 pts
   
3. theo_luddite = 80 pts
   
4. Amelia Chaffinch = 74 pts
   
5. St Charles Owl = 61 pts
   
6. WakeyTerrier = 61 pts
   

World Cup qualifiers:
Thursday 4th September:
Kazakhstan v Wales (15:00)

Saturday 6th September:
England v Andorra (17:00)

League One:
Town v Peterborough
Town scorers:
PishPosh scorers:

Bolton Wanderers v AFC Wimbledon
Doncaster Rovers v Bradford City
Lincoln City v Wigan Athletic
Plymouth Argyle v Stockport County
Port Vale v Leyton Orient
Rotherham United v Exeter City

League Two:
Walsall v Chesterfield

World Cup qualifiers:
Sunday 7th September:
Germany v Northern Ireland (19:45)

Monday 8th September:
Belarus v Scotland (19:45)

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

York City have appointed Stuart Maynard as their new manager.

The Minstermen parted company with Adam Hinshelwood despite him taking them to second place in the National League last season and beginning this campaign unbeaten, with one win and three draws.

Maynard, who had a nomadic non-league career as a player, began his coaching career as assistant to Dean Brennan at Hemel Hempstead Town, Billericay Town, Kingstonian and Wealdstone.

When Brennan resigned as manager after taking Wealdstone to the National League, Maynard took on his first senior role and led the club to their highest league placing for 35 years - 16th in the fifth tier.

After taking them to 13th in 2022-23, Maynard landed the Notts County job in January 2024 but was sacked at the end of last season after losing to AFC Wimbledon in the League Two play-off semi-final.

In a statement , externalon the club website, York co-chairs Matt and Julie-Anne Uggla said: "He comes with a high pedigree of football knowledge and holds the same ambition as ourselves in taking this football club to the EFL."

THE MATCH

SATURDAY 30TH AUGUST KO 3PM

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LAST MATCH



Our youngster did us proud as they knocked out Premier League outfit Leeds on a penalty shoot out. Nine of the starting line up were 20 or under with only the keeper and Lowe as senior pros. Leeds had most of the ball but we defended very well with the keeper made several comfortable saves, while Lowe put a free kick just wide. Onto the 2nd half and the pattern continued but we took the lead when Darlow couldn't deal with Lowe's cross/shot and the ball squeezed over the line. Leeds then put on there first team players and there pressure was rewarded when Bodle fired past Horvath. The game finished 1-1 and went to penalties where we scored 3 and they missed 3 as went through to round 3 to face Grimsby Town.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

THE MATCH



Next up and Swansea make the journey north to Hillsborough. Its been a mixed start to the season for the Swans, with a win, draw and a loss so far although there win was against the Blunts I don't think they will be troubling either end of the table and a mid to lower half finish looks reasonable. They are managed by Alan Sheehan, who was caretaker manager for a while but was then made fulltime head coach at the end of April this year. Not many noticeable names in the Swans squad, Liam Cullen is a decent player and racked up 12 goals last season. 

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 14
SWAN 10
DRAW 15

CURRENT FORM

OWLS     D L L                                                            

SWAN     L W D

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

ANTHONY BACKHOUSE
Matthew Smith and Darren Williams
Fourth Official : Ben Atkinson

THE TEAM

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

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-1 Cadamarteri

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

56

ATTENDANCE

18971

BML LEAGUE

SCO 3
Maddix 1
Owlkev 1
Imre
Washington

BMPL

Stateside 2
Wereham -12
Southey -12
Pei -12

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Sunderland v Brentford
Oxford v Coventry
Barnsley v Huddersfield
MK Dons v Walsall
Halifax v Yeovil

HAAHD

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




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