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MILLERS 8 PNE 11

MANAGER

Matthew James Taylor (born 30 January 1982) is an English professional football manager and former player who played as a centre back. He is the current manager of EFL Championship side Rotherham United.

Matt was born in Chorley

Celeb

Rebecca Lucy Taylor (born 15 October 1986), also known by her stage name as Self Esteem, is a British musician.[1] First known as one half of the band Slow Club, she launched a solo career as Self Esteem with the single "Your Wife" in 2017, followed by the albums Compliments Please in 2019 and Prioritise Pleasure in 2021. A multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter and theatre composer, she is winner of the 2021 BBC Music Introducing award and Prioritise Pleasure was nominated for the 2022 Mercury Prize.

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Oxford United have appointed former Milton Keynes Dons boss Liam Manning as their new head coach.

The 37-year-old takes over from Karl Robinson, who was sacked last month following an eight-game winless run.

The U's have picked up one point since beating Ipswich on 21 January leaving them three points above the League One relegation zone in 18th place.

Manning led the Dons to a third-placed finish in League One in his first season at Stadium MK.

The club lost to Wycombe Wanderers in the 2022 play-off semi-finals but were 23rd in League One after a run of one of 11 league games when Manning was sacked by the Dons last December.

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Chairman Grant Ferguson told the club website: "Liam has a fantastic reputation as a coach and for helping to develop young players.

"His sides play with a sense of identity and purpose and play attacking football and that is something that Oxford United have always tried to do.

"We had an outstanding list of candidates and as promised we went through a rigorous recruitment process but Liam was our unanimous choice."

Oxford, who have not disclosed the length of Manning's contract, said he would take up the role on Monday, with Craig Short taking charge for Saturday's home game with Derby County.

Short will remain as part of Manning's coaching staff, as well as Leon Blackmore-Such and Wayne Brown, while Chris Hogg will join the U's as assistant manager.

"I thank the board for showing faith in me and I want to repay that, first of all by ensuring the team pull away from any immediate danger and then by being part of a very exciting period in the club's history," said Manning.

"Oxford has amazing fans home and away, there are big plans for the future of the club and I can't wait to get started."

Analysis: Manning must 'arrest alarming slide'
Jerome Sale, BBC Radio Oxford sports editor

High risk. High reward. I have heard those four words spoken about Liam Manning a lot since it became apparent he would be getting the Oxford job.

Many say it sums up the style of football he insisted on while he was MK Dons manager, but it is also said of the appointment itself.

Despite pressure to act swiftly, Oxford have been determined to run a thorough recruitment process since sacking Karl Robinson and Manning has swept the competition aside.

The club will be hoping that in a year's time he is leading them towards their goal of reaching the Championship, but in the here and now Manning has to quickly arrest an alarming slide - the momentum of which is taking Oxford in quite the opposite direction.

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Celtic not at their best, but clinical enough to put Hertz "back in their box" after the past two fixtures that seen them conceding six goals while scoring only one in reply. Preceding this match, Neilson professing the home crowd could play a big part in winning this cup tie for Hertz? One can only assume he had to say something positive while conceding that fans located in stadia don't actually kick any football to win any match - the word "desperation" comes to mind and the end result was never in any doubt. Celtic started the game well and vg in the first half. Second half, not so good, but kept the game secure until Carter-Vickers finally finished them off with a fine headed goal. So Celtic progress fairly comfortably to the Scot Cup semi-finals again on their quest to attain another domestic treble.

Put these games up but doubt if any of them will be played.


Chesterfield 2-0 Yeovil
Eastleigh 1-0 Oldham
Torquay 1-2 Wealdstone
Woking 3-1 Maidenhead United
Wrexham 5-0 Southend
Notts County 2-0 Dorking

League Table After Matchday 47
Devon - 853
St Charles Owl - 793
SaltergateBorn - 781
Lord Snoots - 733
Spireitematt - 716
Dancing - 699
Amelia - 635

Dagenham & Redbridge have appointed Ben Strevens as their new manager.

The former striker, 42, won promotion to the Football League in 2006-07 as a player with the Daggers, for whom he scored 35 goals in 125 appearances.

The National League club parted company with Daryl McMahon on 24 February, after two wins in nine games.

"It was immediately clear [Ben] has the right mix of passion and skillset," executive chairman Peter Freund told the club website.

The Daggers, who entertain Oldham Athletic on 18 March, are 11th in the National League, six points outside the play-offs.

"After a thorough search conducted over the past two weeks, I am delighted that one of our own has come back to coach the club," Freund added.

Edgware-born Strevens took over as manager of Eastleigh, who currently occupy the final National League play-off spot, in October 2018.

The former Brentford and Wycombe Wanderers player won 61 of 154 games with Eastleigh but departed in January 2021 after a run of three consecutive defeats.

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FORM GIDE

PNE  9 CARDIFF CITY 6

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MANAGER

Sabri Lamouchi (born 9 November 1971) is a French football manager and former professional footballmidfielder. He is currently manager of EFL Championship club Cardiff City.

THE JOY OF EX



His dad is a decent bloke



Unlucky with us injured after 7 minutes on debut never seen again

In The Dressing Room

Andrew Hughes is back in training after missing the previous three matches through injury, and his fitness will be monitored prior to Saturday.

Aside from the long-term absentees, Ali McCann and Emil Riis, there are no fresh injury concerns to worry about heading into the weekend.

Daniel Johnson is set to play his 327th game in a Preston North End shirt, which will see him go joint-22nd in the club's all-time appearance list.

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Cardiff City are in their fourth consecutive Championship season, following relegation from the Premier League in the 2018/19 season.

Arriving at Deepdale with just six points separating them from a place in the relegation zone, Sabri Lamouchi’s side have no doubt taken confidence from their 2-0 Severnside derby victory over Bristol City last Saturday.

Despite the bragging rights and the all-important three points, they lost their starting ‘keeper Ryan Allsop due to a straight red card, meaning the Bluebirds will require Jak Alnwick’s help at Deepdale.

Going Head To Head


Games played: 100
PNE wins: 36
Draws: 25
Cardiff City wins: 39
Last victory: Cardiff City 0-1 PNE, 29th December 2017

One To Watch


Jaden Philogene has been a young talent proving his worth through Cardiff City’s tough season, since joining on loan from Premier League side Aston Villa in the summer.

The England youth international has already netted four goals in all competitions, with his most recent strike coming last weekend to clinch a 2-0 Championship victory over rivals Bristol City.

A 21-year-old winger, who can also operate in the midfield on either flank, Philogene possesses the turn of pace and chance creation which can keep any defence on their toes.

Match Officials

David Webb is the referee in charge of Saturday afternoon’s game, having overseen both sides on one previous occasion this season.

Webb gave five yellow cards and a penalty to the hosts when PNE beat Reading 2-1 away from home in November, while his Cardiff City game ended in a 1-0 victory to Hull City, despite the Bluebirds missing a crucial penalty.

In total this season, he has taken charge of 30 matches, showing 90 yellow cards and three reds.

MACS VIEW

As we head towards mid table mediocrity we welcome a Cardiff side just above the drop zone if all go well we shall donate points to them to ensure Blackpool take their rightful place in next season's Papa John's trophy.
They won last week will be interesting to see if they change their style of play under the new manager although won't see it until next season.
We are unbeaten in five although 4 were draws, two more games both away next week then the International Break probably be a draw.

West Bromwich Albion v Huddersfield Town
The Sky Bet Championship
Saturday March 11th - 15:00 ko
at The Hawthorns

As for the Baggies, Carlos has been picking a young goalkeeper ahead of a much more experienced custodian, much like we were doing until the poor young Aussie, Nicholas Bilokapic, shipped in eight goals in two matches. They have 21 year old Josh Griffiths in between the sticks, after Carlos recalled him from a loan spell at Portsmouth. He's keeping David Button on the bench.

They have ex Millwall star, Jedward Wallace, who scored twice in the game at our place earlier in the season. And in midfield, the satirical author and Lilliput international John Swift, who played for Reading against us at Wembley. By 'eck, that seems a long time ago now.

Ah well. You never know. If only we could score a goal.

Old Mr Copynpaste has been out again, so apologies if you've read most of this before. There are some new bits though.

Anyway.....Big Ron got them to their highest League finish for 20 years, finishing 3rd in 78/79, qualifying for the UEFA Cup. They reached the quarter finals, losing to Red Star Belgrade. In that season they won 5-3 at Old Trafford, being the last team to have scored five away at Man Utd, before Liverpool did it last season.

Albion under Atkinson were one of those teams that neutral fans loved for their style of football. However, Cunningham was transferred to Real Madrid for a club record fee and despite 3rd and 4th finishes in the league and a couple of FA Cup semi finals, Ron didn't think he was getting the backing he deserved and so when Man Utd came calling, he fecked off to Old Trafford in 1981.

Ronnie Allen returned and the Board allowed Big Ron to steal star player Bryan Robson, the Baggies struggled and had to win their last match of the season to stay up. Those neutral fans were all cheering the Albion on again and there were celebrations all over the country as they beat Leeds United 2-0, not just to stay up but also to relegate the White Shite instead. 

The struggles continued though and at the end of 1985/86, they were relegated to the 2nd division with the worst record in the club's history, only 24 points. Ex Villa boss Ron Saunders was in charge and the Board kept faith with him, but soon lost patience and re-appointed Ron Atkinson. Love the Rons there, don't they?

However, it didn't work out for Big Ron this time and by 1989, with Bobby Gould in charge, they slumped to the Third Division for the first time in their history. They had a couple of seasons at the 3rd level and with Argentinian ace, Ossie Ardiles at the helm for the second of those, they won promotion back up with a Wembley win in the Play Offs. They beat Port Vale 3-0 with goals from Andy Hunt, Nicky Reid and ex Town player Kevin Donovan.

Head to Head



Town lead the head to head with 31 wins to West Brom's 26, with 19 draws.

Our paths didn't cross for many years in this century, but since we did meet up again when we won promotion to the Premier League, we have had the upper hand. We've won four times and only lost once to the Baggies in that time. The two games we played in the PL were both Town victories, with the legend Rajiv van La Parra being the star player. He scored in a 1-0 home win and then opened the scoring at their place, with Steve Mounie adding a second in a 2-1 win.

Their only win came in our first meeting back in the Championship. They beat us 4-2 at the Hawthorns, after Lewis O'Brien had scored his first Town goal to open the scoring. Matt Phillips equalised, but we went in to the interval with a 2-1 lead after Karlan Grant scored. But they went and scored three times in the second half.

We got our own back towards the end of that season though, goals from Chris Willock and Emile Smith Rowe giving us a 2-1 win that condemned the Baggies to another season of Championship football. Well it would've done if Brentford hadn't gone into the meltdown which allowed them to sneak up as runners up to the bums from Bellend Road.

They came back down again after just one season and it was the Terriers on top again last season. We beat them 1-0 at home with an early goal from Danel Sinani, but then in the away game, we cocked up a 2-0 lead. Dimwit Town head coach Carlos Corberan was outsmarted by the brilliant, experienced Baggies boss, Steve Bruce. We led through two goals by Danny Ward, but then Bruce brung on Andy Carroll and it changed the game. Karlan Grant scored against his old team from the penalty spot and Carroll equalised a minute later. They should've won it but Grant missed a sitter late on.

This season, after getting shut of Corberan, we had Danny Schofield in charge. They still had the genius Bruce. Town stormed into a first half lead through Tino Anjorin, in one of the few games he's turned up to between injury spells. But the Throstles came back again and two goals from Jedward Wallace denied Danny a second win as Town manager.

So what new tricks are going on down Jack Halfords Lane? Managed nowadays by Carlos "Judas" Corberán, the former assistant of Marcelo Bielsa.

He was born in Cheste, in the comarca of Hoya de Buñol in the Valencian Community in Spain, in 1983. He will be celebrating his 40th birthday next month. No doubt Marcelo Bielsa, such a big influence on his career will be wishing him well that day.

Having played for Valencia reserves as a goalkeeper, he decided to quit his playing career at the age of 23 to take up coaching. Quitting early will become a mark of his footballing life.

He hadn't met Marcelo Bielsa yet, but after a few months as fitness coach at Valencia, he quit that job to take on a similar role with a Saudi Arabian club in 2012. He quit that job after a year to go back to Spain with AD Alcorcón, but soon quit that job to go to Saudi Arabia for another year.

In November 2016, he quit that job to move to Cyprus where he had his first Head Coach role at another club I've never heard of. But still Marcelo Bielsa, the man who would have such a massive influence on his coaching style, hadn't come into his life.

Less than two months into this job, he was on the move again. He didn't quit this one though, he was sacked. Not out of work for long though, he was taken on by another Cypriot club I've never heard of. And he quit that job after five months.

He quit to come to England and a chance to coach the under 23s team of the Champions of Europe. Marcelo Bielsa, the man who had such an influence on his coaching style wasn't the man to appoint him. That particular Jack Duckworth lookalike hadn't yet arrived at Bellend Road and Carlos was doing alright with his own coaching style as he and Danny Schofield coached the u23s to the Professional Development League title.

And so that was when new BellEnders boss Marcelo Bielsa decided to promote him to the first team bench. Initially Carlos was in charge of looking after the bucket which Marcelo Bielsa liked to sit on, but as time went on and Leeds ended up winning promotion, dopey Huddersfield Town director of football, Leigh Bromby somehow got the idea that this graduate of the Marcelo Bielsa school of pigeon english would make a good Head Coach at the Millers Oils High Perfomance Complex.

What a dumb idea that turned out to be. Replacing the popular Cowley brothers, his first season at Huddersfield was disastrous, culminating with a 7-0 defeat at Norwich, which should've ended up with him getting the sack, but somehow ended up with him getting a contract extension for the next season.

The football being played was utter tosh, but for one reason or another, positive results started coming along. The main reason being the fact that Carlos had spent half a season sat quite near Marcelo Bielsa. Or so the commentators at Sky Sports would tell us every time the Terriers were featured on there.

Then, after taking the Town to Wembley for the Play Offs, he quit again to go manage another unknown club in Greece. That didn't last long and he was sacked after six games. Obviously the Greeks didn't know how much Carlos had been influenced by the genius Marcelo Bielsa.

But luckily for him, somebody who knew all about Marcelo Bielsa and what a great coach he was, was the head of recruitment at West Bromwich Albion, who were looking for somebody to replace the legendary Steve Bruce as Head Coach at the Boilerman Stadium. Bruce had taken the Baggies to within 18 places of a Play Off spot before he was harshly dismissed, but Carlos endeared himself to the Throstles faithful by inspiring his team to beat National League side Chesterfield in an FA Cup 3rd round replay.

The West Brom board were so grateful for the extra cash earned by making it to the 4th round that they offered Carlos a contract extension, which he eagerly signed.

Here's hoping he hasn't quit before I get around to posting this.

Club connections: How many of these do you remember?

1. Barron Coracles
   
2. Rik Deadly
   
3. Decoy Farley
   
4. Clear Skinned
   
5. Horny Goods
   
6. Arises Soiled
   
7. Leonard Flash
   
8. Barny Osborn
   
9. Therese The Edger
   
10. Scilly Gerrie
    

Premier League

Minizin        13pts 2CS 4CR 5GB -3BB 1SB
Blue Baggie 13pts 1CS 3CR 5GB 6BB 0SB
SCO            11pts 0CS 5CR 5GB -3BB 1SB
Derby          10pts 1CS 5CR -3GB 3BB 0SB
Snooty          8pts 1CS 3CR 5GB -3BB 0SB
Sanjay          7pts 2CS 4CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
Zinman        7pts 1CS 4CR 0GB -3BB 0SB
Stairs            5pts 1CS 3CR 0GB -3BB 0SB

A return to normal this week with a relatively close set of scores. Surprisingly nobody scored a maximum on the Gamball and, somewhat less surprisingly, the bonus ball once again proved to be difficult. Ironically the 2 players who chickened out on the gamball, both sit at he foot of the table - though they would have both been worse off if they'd played it.

Minizin and Blue share this week's top spot, both gaining points on the Gamball and though Blue only got 3 results correct - sharing the lowest number of the week - his correct score was his bonus, a rarity which certainly helps! Minizin's consistency will see him stretch his lead at the top of the table - he was helped by 2 correct scores.

SCO and Derby aren't far behind, both reaching double figures. SCO was the only player not to predict a correct score but he made up for it with a high of 5 correct results including the Gamball. Derby also scored from 5 games but missed out on the Gamball, though he wa the other player to get his bonus correct. Snooty sits 2 points further back, his Gamball saving him from bottom spot and he's a point ahead of Sanjay and Zinman.

Stairs props up the table with just 5 points, scoring on just 3 games and missing out on the balls he did play.

Minizin 260
Derby 241
Zinman 240
Stairs 225
Blue 199
Snooty 190
Sanjay 190
SCO 183

Just the one positional change with Derby edging ahead of Zinman into 2nd place with Minizin now enjoying a healthy lead at the top. Stairs loses a bit of ground on those above him but the battle to avoid relegation is hotting up as Snooty draws level with Sanjay while SCO is creeping closer to them both.

Zin


Championship

BBB 21pts 3CS 2CR 5GB 6BB 0SB
Dingle 14pts 0CS 5CR 5GB 3BB 0SB
AAA 11pts 1CS 5CR NPGB -3BB 0SB
BaggieOne 4pts 0CS 5CR -3GB -3BB 0SB
Themaclad 3pts 2CS 0CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
Twerton 2pts 1CS 2CR -3GB -3BB 0SB
Amelia 2pts 0CS 4CR -3GB -3BB 0SB
Lady Jane 1pts 1CS 1CR -3GB -3BB 1SB

Down to earth with a bit of a bang for most this week after last weeks season best!!  Avoiding that drop is BBB, who recorded his second highest score of the season a week after posting his best last week!!  The week he ended up with 21 points, scoring a max on the Bonus, a CR on the Gamball and scoring on 7 games in total.  A bit of a drop to Dingle in 2nd spot with 14 points, he will be happy with this though after being in a bit of a slump, he along with BBB were the only players to score positive points on the Gamball and Dingle backed that up with 4 other CRs.  If he could have converted a couple of them into CSs then he would have been closer to BBB.  AAA rounds out the top 3 with 11 points, he scored on 6 games, wisely bottled the Gamball but missed on the Bonus to keep his score lower than he would have liked.

The rest of the league had a poor week, scoring only 12 points between the 5 of them!!  For all of them it was a tale of woe when it came to their balls with each one of them scoring -3 on every Gamball and Bonus and only two scoring the solitary Scoreball point!  Just shows the damage that missing on the balls creates, BaggieOne score on half the games, same as Dingle, yet was behind him by 10 points and Themaclad has the second highest number of CSs but was miles off the top 3!!  I will save them some face by not repeating any of their scores on this occasion!!

270 Dingle
252 Lady Jane
245 BaggieOne
231 AAA
227 BBB
173 Themaclad
153 Twerton
146 Amelia

For about the last month we have seen no changes in position but just when it seems to be closing up at the top Dingle chucks in a good week while the chasing pack stumbled!!  His lead is back up to 18 points as he outscored LJ by 13 points and B1 by 10 points!!  BBB and AAA are closer again to the top 3 so as we stand it is a 5 way race for the potential promotion spots as we head into the home straight!!

Cheers
SCO

THE MATCH

SATURDAY 11TH MARCH KO 3:00PM

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LAST MATCH

 

1-0 to the Wednesday Boys as we made it 21 unbeaten and remained top of the league. It wasn't a pretty first half but we did come  closest to scoring when Windass hit the bar following a corner. Onto the 2nd half and we upped our game. Flint and Windass tested there keeper but it was third time lucky when Bannan fed Brown and his cross come shot found its way past the keeper. Brown then made a good challenge to deny Poku a equalizer. We saw the rest of the game out fairly comfortably.

THE MATCH



Next up and a long trip south to play Portsmouth. We drew with these on the opening day of the season, 3-3, when our defence went AWOL in the second half. Pompey had been in good form but lost to Barnsley Tuesday night and are 9 points off the playoffs so look like staying in L1 for another season. Colby Bishop is there main threat, with 19 goals so far this season. John Mousinho was appointed on the 20th Jan and they have won 6 of their 11 games with Mousinho in charge

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 27
PORTS 27
DRAWS 16

CURRENT FORM

OWLS              -                                                                         

Ports              -                                             

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

BEN TONER
Adrian Tranter and Ollie Williams
Fourth Official : Stuart Butler

THE TEAM

Dawson
Famewo Iorfa Flint
Palmer Bannan Byers Vaulks Brown
Windass Smith

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-2 Smith

ATTENDANCE

N/A

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

26

BML LEAGUE

Owlskev 25
Stateside 22
Imre 120
Wash 19
SCO 17
Maddix 15
Peiowl 12

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Leeds v Brighton
Birmingham v Rotherham
Barnsley v Plymouth
Barrow v Sutton
Eastleigh v Oldham

ADDAH

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE

WEREHAM




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

Gamball:
Everton - Brentford

Others:
Leeds - Brighton
Leicester - Chelsea
QPR - Watford
Reading - Millwall
Sheff U - Luton
Swansea - Middlesbrough
Portsmouth - Sheff Wed
Fulham - Arsenal
West Ham - Villa