LAST TIME OUT



Will not say anything about the outrageous dive

Transfer dealings

http://www.sportsbabble.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=11457

There were rumours they were going to sign Mezut Osil although this has not yet materialised



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OWNER

Ali Acun Ilıcalı (Turkish pronunciation: [aˈdʒun ɯˈɫɯdʒaɫɯ]; born 29 May 1969) is a Turkish broadcaster, entrepreneur, international TV producer and businessman. He is the owner of the TV channels TV8 and TV8.5 [tr], Turkey's digital platform Exxen, and production companies in several countries, including United States, Mexico, Romania, Hungary, Brazil, Colombia and Greece. He is the founder and member of directors Acun Media Group, which does productions for leading television channels worldwide, and he develops broadcasting strategies for the channels he works with. He is also the owner of the format of competition program Exatlon, which is the first sports reality format in the world.

Several documentaries and programs have been made about Ilıcalı's life, covering his career from sports reporter to media mogul.[2][3]

He has been awarded more than 1000 prizes in various categories and has been described as one of the most reliable names in Turkey. In the period 2018 to 2021, he was listed among the 500 most influential businessmen in the media and entertainment sector by Variety magazine.[4]


Similar to the above but Turkish

First of many Deja Vu fixtures all being played at roughly the same time as they did last season. Played Tigers first game at home last season, the initial introduction of Frankie Ball to the fams, by December Frankie's balls had gone didn't exactly uphill after being mauled by the Tigers in this one

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62377416

FT and a 2-0 defeat in Belgium by Union Saint-Gilloise, Rangers massively jammy to avoid a 4-0 or 5-0 "skelping" v a team that is clearly far better than them with fast penetrative attacks and the Belgian winger, Lynen, a class above the rest with some scintillating wing play that Rangers defenders just couldn't handle at all. USG also defensively solid with Sykes, who previously played for Accrington Stanley in lower league English footie, having a vg game v Rangers.

Sunderland say they are "extremely disappointed" about the alleged conduct of a "small minority" of Coventry City fans during Sunday's Championship game.

Several incidents were reported by supporters of both clubs at the Stadium of Light, according to the Black Cats.

They said objects such as pyrotechnics, bottles and coins were allegedly thrown towards home fans in the North Stand.

In a statement, Sunderland said police had started an investigation to identify the people responsible.

Coventry City commended the good behaviour of the vast majority of fans of both sides at the match, but made clear their stance against flares.

They also stated that the incidents were "isolated" on what they described as a "very successful day in general for Sunderland's matchday operation".

The Sky Blues' statement ended: "We will be conducting investigations with relevant authorities privately and take the appropriate action against any individual that is identified as a perpetrator."

Bristol Rovers fined over promotion crowd trouble
The incidents happened just days after the Premier League and the EFL introduced new measures to clamp down on fan disorder going into the new season.

These followed a rise in anti-social behaviour last season, which included a number of pitch invasions and the increased use of pyrotechnics and smoke bombs.

Individuals who come on to the pitch or are seen carrying or using pyrotechnics will receive an automatic club ban.

Nottingham Forest FC
The play-off semi-final between Nottingham Forest and Sheffield United in May was one of a number of high-profile pitch invasions last season
'A small minority'
Despite this, there were a number of incidents this weekend.

A Crewe Alexandra supporter required "urgent medical attention" after a flare was let off in the away end during their 2-1 victory at Rochdale on Saturday.

The use of flares was also seen amongst Liverpool supporters in the Community Shield at Leicester's King Power Stadium, and by Rayo Vallecano fans during the Spanish club's friendly with Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday.

Sunderland stressed that the alleged misconduct had been caused by a "small minority of visiting supporters" who had caused problems, from a contingent of close to 2,000 Coventry fans in an overall crowd of 40,851.

The Wearside club issued an apology to any supporters who may have been affected and reported that they are "in dialogue" with supporters' groups to ensure such incidents are not repeated.

A group of United States-based investors have bought a 20% stake in League One side Plymouth Argyle.

The £4m investment from Argyle Green, LLC will see Florida-based businessman Michael Mincberg become a director.

The investment comes after talks for almost a year between Argyle chairman and majority shareholder Simon Hallett and the new investors.

Hallett and existing minority shareholder Richard Holliday have diluted their stake in the club.

Among the 12 individuals and three organisations that make up Argyle Green is four-time NHL All Star, and two-time Stanley Cup-winning ice hockey player, Victor Hedman.

"This investment comes at an opportune moment for the club, with Argyle seeking further to improve its facilities, and with investment required to fund those aims," a club statement said.

'Partners who are in alignment with our approach'
Simon Hallett
Lifelong Plymouth Argyle fan Simon Hallett has been the club's owner since 2018
Hallett became chairman in October 2018 after taking majority control from former owner James Brent - and the Plymouth-born, US-based businessman pledged one final "substantial amount" of money to the club in June 2020 after the Covid-19 pandemic.

"It is a rare thing in football to find a group of investors who wish to support an existing majority owner by taking a minority stake in a club to aid the fulfilment of the vision and strategy already in place," Hallett said.

"We are fortunate to have found that here with partners who are in alignment with our approach, share our values, and believe in the people that we have in place.

"Neither my role, nor the role of any member of our existing executive team will be diminished, and we are gaining additional resources to help us execute our long-term strategic plan."

Argyle missed out on a play-off place on the final day of last season, with manager Steven Schumacher describing it as "an overachievement because of financially where we were at".

Hedman says he can see similarities between Argyle and the Tampa Bay Lightning, from his time in the NHL.

"I have been a football fan my entire life and I am very excited to join Argyle as an investor and as a supporter.

"What Simon and the team are building at Argyle is remarkable and reminds me of what we have built in Tampa with the Lightning.

"It is a dream come true to be part of two organisations that are focused on achieving success at the highest level and sustaining that success for years to come."

Bristol Rovers have been fined £16,500 by the Football Association for fan disorder during their 7-0 final-day win over Scunthorpe last season.

Rovers secured automatic promotion to League One in the match on 7 May.

The FA cited incidents of a fan assaulting Scunthorpe goalkeeper Owen Foster, smoke devices being thrown and an 85th-minute pitch invasion which sparked a 20-minute delay to the match.

Rovers admitted the charges and have also been given a warning by the FA.

The report by the regulatory commission stated that while the club had prepared for the risk of a pitch invasion at the end of the match, they had "no adequate plan" for such an incident during the game.

It added the steps taken - such as deploying an additional 22 stewards for the match - "fell some way short" of sufficient.

A lack of supporter searches entering the ground was cited, given the number of smoke devices used, while the commission were "concerned" that requested CCTV footage had been deleted by the club.

Police look into alleged disorder by Coventry fans
Spectators first ran on to the pitch following Elliot Anderson's goal, which made the score 7-0 and moved Rovers above Northampton into an automatic promotion spot.

Fans then invaded for a second time at full-time, when Joey Barton's side were confirmed as having returned to League One.

Foster, 17, told referee Charles Breakspear he was "pushed by a spectator and a clenched fist made contact with his neck/jaw", the report stated, with a boy later cautioned and banned from attending games for a "fixed period" after admitting to the assault.

Breakspear also reported being abused, and that a spectator "attempted to grab him".

Rovers are having to play their first two home matches of the season at reduced capacity, because of crowd trouble both at the Scunthorpe game and the match against Forest Green in April.

The club have received three previous fines, dating back to November 2018, for breaches of the FA rule E20. The most recent, a £7,500 fine in November 2019 for homophobic chanting by spectators, led to an action plan for the club to review the quality of its stewarding.

But because of the Covid-19 pandemic and lack of any issues or complaints, the FA had not returned to audit the club.

Everton, Huddersfield and Port Vale are still waiting on the outcome of charges relating to incidents of fan disorder, which occurred towards the end of last season.

Birmingham City v Huddersfield Town
The Sky Bet Championship
Friday August 5th - 15:00 ko
at St Andrew's

Huddersfield Town travel to Birmingham to St Andrew's on Friday night for a game brought forward because of the Commonwealth Games. Apparently they can't get enough stewards for a Saturday afternoon game.

Gil Merrick

Head to Head



Town lead the head to head with 43 wins to City's 39, with 35 draws.

That's 117 matches between the two clubs, which I think makes them our most played opponent. Sadly, not many memorable games in there.

Last season, we beat them 2-0 at their place. It was the one where they changed their name to Small Heath Alliance for some reason to do with the television programme, Peaky Blinders. A bit strange seeing as they dropped that name in 1888 and the first series of the tv programme was set in 1919. 

Anyway, Levi Colwill scored from a corner and then Lewis O'Brien added the second just before half time. The home game was goal less, adding to the number of games without a home win against them. The last six home games have been drawn and it's now 13 home league games without a win.

I say league games, because we did have a famous win at the McAlpharm against them in 2008 in the FA Cup. They were a Premier League team then and we were in League One, but goals from Luke Beckett and Chris Brandon gave us a 2-1 win. That was the last FA Cup win against a top flight side until last season when we beat Burnley.

Going back to the start of our Football League life, we broke our club scoring record twice against Birmingham. The first season, 1910/11, we set the record with a 7-1 win. James Macauley got a hat trick in that one.

Then three seasons later, we went and beat that by winning 7-0 at Leeds Road. This time Thomas Elliott scored a hat trick. He's on the front row, second from the left on this old photo of the 13/14 squad.

Last week's line up at Luton:

21 John Ruddy - a one cap England keeper, signed from Wolves recently.
28 Dion Sanderson - defender on loan from Wolves.
4 Marc Roberts - Ex Barnsley and Halifax defender.
5 Auston Trusty - Defender from USA, signed for Arsenal, got sent on loan.
2 Maxime Colin - French full back, signed from Brentford in 2017.
6 Ryan Woods - Ex Brentford midfielder, signed from Stoke last year.
19 Jordan James - 18 year old midfielder.
17 Przemysław Płacheta - Polish winger, on loan from Norwich.
7 Juninho Bacuna - Brilliant or garbage, depending on what mood he's in.
9 Scott Hogan - Ireland international striker, ex Halifax and Rochdale.
8 Troy Deeney - Likes a goal against us.

Subs:
1 Neil Etheridge - London born keeper, captain of Philippines national team.
3 George Friend - Ex Boro full back.
10 Lukas Jutkiewicz - Likes a goal against us.
11 Jordan Graham - winger, signed from Gillingham last year.
14 Jonathan Leko - winger, signed from the Baggies last year.
27 Jobe Bellingham - 16 year old younger brother of Jude.
42 Alfie Chang - 19 year old midfielder.


Club connections:

Goalkeepers Neil Freeman, Nico Vaesen and Ian Bennett. Barry Horne. Paul Barnes. Pat Beasley. Mike Hellewell. Ned Barkas. Dave Mangnall. Ernie Islip. Lukas Jutkiewicz. Lee Clark. Lee Novak. Adam Clayton. Steve Bruce. Alex Bruce. Simon Charlton. Dennis Clarke. David Edgar. Chris Holland. Emyr Huws. Steve Jenkins. Dennis Jennings. Damien Johnson. Chris Marsden. Seymour Morris. Paul Moulden. Peter Ndlovu. Phil Robinson. Phil Summerill. James Vaughan. Peter Withe.

Any more. Probably. Hey, don't forget this bloke......

Frank Worthington is a legend at both clubs. He was one of a kind. Well one of a few of his kind actually. There were some right flamboyant players around in the 70s. George Best, Stan Bowles, Tony Currie, Rodney Marsh, our Elvis impersonating Frank was one amongst them.

He scored the only goal of the first match I ever went to. I was hooked. I used to sulk when he wasn't playing and as a consequence, I couldn't stand Paul Aimson or Brian Greenhalgh. A bit harsh probably, but I'd gone to watch Frank.

Anyway, his goals fired us to the Second Division title and probably the best performance of his Town career came in the FA Cup 5th round win over West Ham, which led us to that match against Birmingham in 1972.

He scored 48 goals for us, placing him now in 26= spot in our all time goalscorers chart. After us, he went to Leicester, Bolton, Philadelphia Fury and then Birmingham City in Division Two. He won promotion with them and so played another couple of seasons at the top level. He scored 29 goals for the Blues.

Frank is the only man to have scored goals in 21 successive Football League seasons. Sadly, he was another footballing victim of Alzheimers and died last year. Have a read of his obituary in the Guardian.....

https://www.theguardian.com/football/202...es-aged-72

Quote:Note that for the Brum game return train tickets from Snow Hill and Moor Street to Bordesley are now available for a few quid that will save you at least half of your shoe leather and a bit of sweat for getting back to somewhere close to New Street after the game. Whether or not you can get a train home from there is another matter.

You could cozy up to the "Floozy in the Jacuzzi" in Brum for the night, the waterfall and fountain has been resurrected for the C G's for about £5m quid, plus the damage when someone added a few drops of mild green fairy lipsqid that got her all in a right lather, but it might be a tad damp and she's been known to give the (stone) cold shoulder to those that try to give her a hug-an'kiss for the night.

Thanks to the C G's, hotel accommodation will likely be at a premium for miles around. You might be able to pitch a tent on the halfway-line at St. Andrews and they probably wouldn't notice, might be best to leave it until after the game though. Then again ..... 

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Hey all! 

Wondering if anyone is an avid skiier and practices regularly in the UK, as I'm looking for any recommendations for good venues. I know of Chill Factore, which of course is brill but a little far away for me - I'm midlands based. Any recs much appreciated.

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2 points for a correct result
4 points for a correct score
2 points for each correct scorer
Correct joker doubles your score      
Wrong joker result gives you minus 2
Correct Random Badger gives you 2 points

The random badger is used for any random prediction used once in each matchday sequence. For instance, a scorer at a particular match, the number of red cards in the matches or yellow cards or own goals or owt you want really within reason, I do need to be able to check whether it's correct or not. Please don't put stuff like....."Commentator says...."  
The joker   is played for one match in each sequence and if correct you get double points. So if you've predicted 1-0 and it finishes 2-0, you get 4 pts, but if you've predicted 2-0, that's 8 pts. But if you get it wrong, it's minus 2.
Jokers and badgers are optional. You don't have to play one if you don't want.

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. Similarly with the badger, if your random prediction is affected by this, it'll be half the points.

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.  

End of season Play Offs: The one who finishes top of the league will still be champion, but after the season finishes there will be Play Offs between the top 4, with 1st v 4th and 2nd v 3rd. This will take in stuff like the EFL Play Offs, FA Cup Final, final day of Prima Donna League, European Finals etc. It will be one matchday for the semis and one for the Final. It will be the individual scores for each matchday against the allotted opponent, with some kind of tie breaker for a drawn match.

The prize for winning will be enormous. Another rep point.

Quick reminder that the EFL Cup games have a result on the night. No extra time up until the semi finals, with drawn matches in the first 5 rounds going to penalties after 90 minutes. So if you're predicting a drawn match, you could possibly earn an extra point by predicting the eventual winner.

Friday August 5:
Birmingham v Town
Town scorers:
Brum scorers:

Saturday August 6:
Norwich City v Wigan Athletic (12:30)
Bristol City v Sunderland
Burnley v Luton Town
Preston North End v Hull City
Queens Park Rangers v Middlesbrough
Reading v Cardiff City
Sheffield United v Millwall
Stoke City v Blackpool
Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers

Sunday August 7:
Coventry City v Rotherham United (15:00)

Monday August 8:
West Bromwich Albion v Watford

EFL Cup:
Tuesday August 9:
Town v Preston
Town scorers:
PNE scorers:

Bradford City v Hull City
Charlton Athletic v Queens Park Rangers
Norwich City v Birmingham City

Wednesday August 10:
Sheffield Wednesday v Sunderland
Coventry City v Bristol City

Thursday August 11:
West Bromwich Albion v Sheffield United

Table after Matchday 1:

1. jjamez = 18 pts
   
2. themaclad = 16 pts
   
3. St Charles Owl = 12 pts
   
4. theo_luddite = 12 pts
   
5. Amelia Chaffinch = 10 pts
   
6. Lord Snooty = 10 pts
   
7. SHEP_HTAFC = 10 pts
   
8. ritchiebaby = 9 pts
   
9. Devongone = 8 pts
   
10. WakeyTerrier = 8 pts
    
11. Baggiebob(BBB) = 6 pts
    
12. neonfoxinthebox = 4 pts

Welcome to the Chesterfield Prediction League 2022/23


Past winners of the Chesterfield Prediction League include:

2021/2022 Lord Snoots
2020/2021 Lord Snoots
2019/2020 Amelia
2018/2019 Devongone
2017/2018 St Charles
2016/2017 Lord Snoots
2015/2016 Spireitematt
2014/2015 Amelia

Rules:
1. Anybody can enter
2. I will update the table after each matchday

That's it those are the rules.

Scoring:

4pts = Correct score line
2pt = Correct outcome

Bonus Scoring

Each matchday 10pts will be awarded to participant's who guess the most correct score lines and in the event of a tie then both or more participant's will receive the 10 pts.

5pts will be awarded each matchday to the participant's who score more than 10pts in the predictions.

There will be no jokers this season in the prediction league.

LIONESS'ES


Made us proud, bought the trophy home, didn't go defensive.

Lions take note ... The guys throw away a world cup and a euro's

The Lioness'es ...... Battled and played to score.

IT'S COMING HOME.

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