Can I take this opportunity to wish GENTLEMAN BIG DAVE the best off luck in today's play-off final, hoping to see his big smiling face back at The Hawthorns soon.

Albion still 11th in the All-time League*, and unlikely to move up/down for a few Years. (W*lves unlikely to overtake in my lifetime!)

1    8,744 Liverpool
2    8,677 Arsenal
3    8,554 Everton
4    8,523 Manchester United
5    8,307 Aston Villa
6    8,122 Manchester City
7    8,012 Newcastle United
8    7,922 Tottenham Hotspur
9    7,883 Chelsea
10  7,677 Sunderland
11  7,532 West Bromwich Albion
12  7,264 Blackburn Rovers
13  7,229 Wolverhampton Wanderers
14  7,158 Derby County
15  7,093 Middlesbrough
16  7,087 Sheffield Wednesday
17  7,055 West Ham United
18  7,050 Sheffield United
19  7,049 Leicester City
20  6,941 Bolton Wanderers
21  6,931 Leeds United
22  6,917 Birmingham City
23  6,911 Nottingham Forest
24  6,785 Stoke City
25  6,514 Burnley
26  6,417 Southampton
27  6,038 Preston North End
28  5,753 Fulham
29  5,659 Huddersfield Town
30  5,631 Portsmouth
31  5,497 Charlton Athletic
32  5,363 Blackpool
33  5,360 Coventry City
34  5,309 Norwich City
35  5,084 Queens Park Rangers
36  5,021 Ipswich Town
37  4,986 Crystal Palace
38  4,930 Cardiff City
39  4,763 Bristol City
40  4,666 Barnsley

No consideration is given to points accumulated, games won, or goals scored.
*  Based purely on League position since The Football League's.
inauguration (1888) these are the top 40 Clubs.

The League champions are awarded 92 League pts, runners-up 91, etc
and the bottom team in League 2/Div 4 get 1 point.
(Between 1924 and 1950, there were only 88 Clubs in the League,
and so the League champions get 88 League pts.)
Between 1888 (12 Clubs) and 1923 (86 Clubs) there were varying
nos of League members. The Champs get 12 pts (for example) for
winning the 1888-89 season,
When there were 2 Division 3s (North & South), the winners would have
each received 49 pts, whilst the runners-up both got 47.

1951 to present 92
1924 to 1950: 88
1922 to 1923 86
1921         66
1920         44
1906 to 1915 40
1899 to 1905 36
1895 to 1898 32
1894         31
1893         28
1892         14
1888 to 1891 12

Name Changes have been taken into account and combined -
(eg Swansea Town and Swansea City )

Bury FC



The start of hopefully a more happier future for Bury FC and we are there at the beginning of it

Only one of Everton, Leicester or Leeds can survive the drop today, the last day of the Premier League season. Who's it gonna be?

Obviously as a Huddersfield Town supporter, I want Leeds to go down after they tried to steal our club a hundred and four years ago.

But of the other two, I'd like Leicester down. Arrogant twats!

Who do you want?

So the season ends with a 1-1 draw at the PBS. And again i'm left thinking it should have been better.

As far as i'm concerned 3rd was a definite possibility this season, 4th should have happened but instead we ended 5th.

Hertz played total anti-football again, constant fouling, diving and time wasting, some of their fans were also an absolute disgrace. That said our response was panic, and launching of endless high balls forward. I know the hertz keeper made a couple of good saves but our tactics and game management were really poor again. Zero in the way of composure and quality.

As for the melee at fulltime, Naismith being a snide wee dick had a lot to do with it. I hate that prick with a passion, no doubt in my mind he told Shankland to do what he did early on. I really wish one of our guys had smashed him one.

A sour end to whats been a pretty strange season.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65654944

Celtic celebrating their Scot Prem title win on a sunny Saturday afternoon in their final league fixture of the season and they did it in style - a "brace" of goals for the deadly Kyogo and ditto for Oh plus a vg headed goal for Carl Starfelt. All in, a stunning performance by Ange's prob Scot Cup final team and all Hoops' players trying to justify their inclusion in next Saturday's showpiece Scottish Cup final-"treble" fixture with the traditional KO time of 3.00pm disgracefully amended to 5.30pm (because of a clash with the FA Cup final!!? Money talks eh!!) despite protestations from Celtic FC, ICT and various fans' groups. Kyogo injured during this match, but confirmed later to be a minor prob.
So the league season is finally over with the SFA being the subject of severe criticism. I'd luv to see this criticism of the SFA pushed a step further by lotsa clubs also asking the question, "Why Rangers FC have hardly been impacted negatively by SFA refs (or VAR in recent times!!) after 100s and 100s of hours of footie"???????? There are serious questions to raise re this Govan footie club and the damning stats that seem to indicate that their players behave/are treated differently from other normal players in the SPFL!!!!! It's high time the relative footie clubs and Scot fans' groups started challenging the SFA re such highly questionable ref officiation that has dragged on for a number of years and renders RFC a huge beneficiary after said 100s of hours of footie and yet UEFA ref decisions/stats show far more realistic ref data against Rangers compared with said domestic stats. This issue has been ignored for too long and really should be sorted for the overall good of the game up here.

MK Dons have appointed former Motherwell boss Graham Alexander as their new head coach.

The 51-year-old replaces Mark Jackson, who was sacked following the club's relegation from League One.

The former Scotland international defender guided Motherwell to a place in the Europa Conference League in 2021-22, but left last summer.

Alexander told the Dons' website he was grateful for a "fantastic opportunity" at a club with "great potential".

"Coming off the back of a difficult time, I fully understand what the supporters will want and expect from their team," he added.

"We want them to be able to look forward with positivity and belief. For all of us, nothing gets better than winning on a Saturday and we will work every single minute to give the MK Dons supporters a team that can be successful.

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Alexander, who is joined at Stadium: MK by assistant head coach Chris Lucketti, added: "I am a head coach who is adaptable in my approach. It's the players who go out onto the pitch and win games so it's about analysing what they are best at and creating a framework which allows them to flourish.

"Ultimately, though, I've always set my teams out to score goals - without doubt that's something we'll be looking to bring to this job."

Alexander made more than 1,000 professional appearances during a playing career with Scunthorpe United, Luton Town, Burnley and Preston North End and has also managed Fleetwood Town, Scunthorpe and Salford City.

Lucketti is a former defender who played more than 600 career games and has worked with Alexander in all his managerial roles.

Dons chairman Pete Winkelman said the new managerial team "ticked all the boxes".

"This is a start of a new chapter for us," he added. "Graham brings with him the football experience and success, both as a player and as a manager, that we demanded of our next head coach.

"He knows exactly how he is finding us and is fully aware of the task in hand. We, as a club, will give him every bit of support we can and I have no doubt that our supporters will do the same."

Mk Dons reached the League One play-offs under Liam Manning in 2022 before losing to Wycombe.

But following just one win in 11, and with the Dons next to bottom of the table, Manning was sacked in December after 16 months in charge - and Jackson's reign only lasted five months.

Our first two friendlies have been announced We play Salford at the Peninsula Stadium on Wednesday July 19 July.

Followed by Burton Albion at the Pirelli Stadium on July 22.

I have mentioned before about the difference a good owner can make,

The same day we play Salford, Wrexham AFC are playing Chelsea in North Carolina, USA. Then the same day we play Burton Albion, they are playing L.A. Galaxy in Los Angeles.

On the 25th July, they play Manchester United in San Diego, California,

Also between the 1st - 4th July, they are taking part in a 7v7 tournament in Cary North Carolina, $1 million winner takes all.

Jonson Clarke-Harris, the joint-leading scorer in League One this season, has been transfer-listed by Peterborough.

The 28-year-old scored 26 goals as Posh reached the play-offs, losing to Sheffield Wednesday in their epic semi-final.

He is one of nine players made available for sale, with the club following their policy of listing those in the final year of their contracts.

Defenders Ben Mensah and Nathan Thompson have been released.

Peterborough have announced the news less than 24 hours after Darren Ferguson agreed a new three-year contract - after returning to the club for a fourth spell in charge in January.

Clarke-Harris, who joined Posh from Bristol Rovers for £1.2m in August 2020, only once went more than three games without scoring this term and grabbed Posh's final goal in their 4-0 win over Wednesday in the first leg of their play-off semi-final.

Despite being overwhelming favourites to reach Wembley, Posh were denied in sensational fashion by the Owls' record-breaking comeback in the second leg.

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Clarke-Harris is joined on the transfer list by goalkeeper Christy Pym, defenders Frankie Kent, Josh Knight, Joe Tomlinson and Dan Butler and midfielders Oliver Norburn, Jeando Fuchs and Ben Thompson.

Former captain Thompson, 32, leaves Posh after four seasons, having been part of the squad that won promotion to the Championship in 2020-21.

Meanwhile, long-serving right-sided player Joe Ward has been offered a new three-year contract.

The 27-year-old has made more than 200 appearances for Posh since signing from Woking in January 2018.

This lot have hit hard times over recent years

The future of 1990s FA Cup giantkillers Hednesford Town is under threat after a failed takeover.

The Staffordshire club released a statement on Thursday to say a deal for a new owner to take over the Pitmen has fallen through.

They will not now take up their place in the eighth tier Northern Premier League West for the 2023-24 season.

The club said: "All options will now be explored to try and ensure Hednesford can restart for the following season."

"It is with huge sadness that we write to confirm that the prospective new owner and chairman has withdrawn from the takeover late this afternoon.

"Due to recent meetings with the league and the FA, the timing of this means that unfortunately, Hednesford Town FC will be unable to play in the 2023-24 season."

The peak days of the Pitmen
Hednesford were the top non-league club in the Midlands when they finished 10th in the Conference in 1988-99, having finished seventh in their first campaign at fifth-tier level the year before.

They spent four seasons at fifth-tier level before being relegated in 2001.

They also made national headlines when they reached the FA Cup fourth round in 1997, beating fellow non-league side Southport and winning 1-0 at Blackpool thanks to a late Joe O'Connor strike before victory over York City at Keys Park.

They then lost 3-2 at Bryan Robson's Middlesbrough, the eventual finalists, only going down to two late goals from Jan-Aage Fjortoft and Fabrizio Ravanelli.

Hednesford were top of Conference North when they last reached the FA Cup first round in November 2013, narrowly losing 2-1 at home to Crawley Town.

But they dropped away to finish fourth, behind champions Telford, and were then relegated to the Northern Premier League just two seasons later in 2016.

And they have been in the Northern Premier League West since it restructured in 2020.