Lost his belts and now has nowhere to go.
Rematch possible but I don't see him winning that.
Fury won't be bothered about fighting him.
He made his millions, he may as well retire.

Kept looking for Chesterfield-born actor Brian Glover. I couldn't see Dai Bradley. I'd been expecting to see Chesterfield playing football but it looked as though BT was showing an old film instead. I was waiting for the little boy to get sent with a message to the headmaster, but he ends up getting the cane. It wasn't until Scott Loach made a decent double save and failed to climb on the crossbar I realised this was really our game. I recognised Sheffield Road. It wasn't Kes.

If we win any sort of league I'll eat a milliner's entire supply of hats. First half about four of our players appeared to be awake. Second half that number increased. Mandeville had clearly been at the Mandrax, Weston was poor and McCourt plumbed levels not achieved since Gary Caldwell.
Thank the Lord we got Tshimanga who looks keen to score, and Miller and Carline who both seem keen to move in a forward direction.

Somehow the dice rolled us two goals and we looked likely to win, even the weediness of the defending that allowed Holman to set Little up looked to be of no consequence, but I hadn't realised that Scott Loach was suddenly going to start channeling Dai Bradley. Instead of climbing on the crossbar, when a 95th minute corner curled into his six yard box he thought the best policy was to lie down. That is the one time when you need your keeper to come for the ball and win it, ideally catch it, but if not punch it good and hard and try and take out a couple of opposing forwards too. We had a goalie who could come for crosses. He was called Grant Smith.

Get Payne out of the team, come up with a midfield with a plan, wake the defence up and sign a young goalie who wants it! And maybe we'll reach the play-offs. DREADFUL!

Good performance today against a team who came with one aim- park the bus. Hearts have struggled in the past to break these teams down but did it with relative ease today. Several changes in personnel and it worked really well. Aussie lad Devlin looked very good as did Mackay. Loads of positives today including a clean sheet. Tbh, Livi offered nothing but you still have to break these teams down

Anybody watching?

After the Morning Foursomes, USA leads by 3 to 1.

Hibs and St Johnstone "on a high" after progressing to the league cup semis. Hibs unbeaten this season. However, this match v THEM is definitely one of my big targets of the season mainly because they are a huge bogey team at ER Stadium that I was unaware of last season until perusing past results down the years - totally unacceptable and, no disrespect to Saint Johnstone, a footie club of Hibs standing should be beating this particular footie club far more than this amazing record of failure covering over a decade of matches - an absolute disgrace TBF!! I'd expect Jack Ross to motivate the whole team to "kill off" one of the most embarrassing bogeys I've ever seen as well as highlighting they played a big part in Hibs not winning a cup last season. We "buried" the Dons' bogey not so long ago. I wanna see this one buried as well. LETS LAY DOWN A MARKER ON THEM FOR THIS SEASON!! LETS DO IT HIBS!!

GGTTH

MANAGER

LEE BOWYER

Charlton Athletic
On 22 March 2018, Bowyer was named caretaker manager of Charlton Athletic after former manager Karl Robinson left by mutual consent.[63] His managerial career began with a 2–0 win two days later against Plymouth Argyle[64] After winning his first three games, in April he was given the role until the end of the season.[65] His spell in charge ended on 13 May after Charlton were beaten 2–0 on aggregate by Shrewsbury Town in the League One play-off semi final.[66] On 14 June, Bowyer was renamed caretaker manager until further notice,[67] and on 6 September, his role was made permanent on a contract lasting until the end of the season.[68]

In Bowyer's first full season at the club, he guided the side to a third-placed finish in League One, and they faced Doncaster Rovers in the play-offs over two legs. Charlton won the away leg 2–1, courtesy of goals from Joe Aribo and Lyle Taylor.[69] Doncaster's 88th-minute goal meant the second leg finished 3–3 in normal time. Both teams scored in extra time, resulting in a 4–4 aggregate score, and Charlton won the penalty shootout 4–3.[70] They earned promotion to the Championship by beating Sunderland 2–1 in the play-off final at Wembley Stadium, returning to the second tier of English football after a three-season absence.[71]

On 17 June 2019, Bowyer turned down the offer of a contract extension, with the club (and owner Roland Duchatelet) announcing that Bowyer and the club were unable to reach an agreement.[72] However, he later reversed his decision by signing a new year-long deal.[73] In October, he received a three-match touchline ban for "improper conduct and/or questioning the integrity of a match official".[74] Following the club's takeover by East Street Investments, Bowyer signed a new three-year deal on 22 January 2020.[75] Charlton were relegated on the final day of the 2019–2020 season following a 4–0 defeat at his former club, Leeds United.[76]

Bowyer resigned as Charlton manager on 15 March 2021.[77]

Birmingham City
On 16 March 2021, Bowyer replaced Aitor Karanka as head coach of Birmingham City; he signed a two-and-a-half-year contract.[78]

LAST TIME OUT



MYSTIC MACS FORM GUIDE

BIRMINGHAM 10 PNE 11

PNE Team News

Both Connor Wickham and Liam Lindsay will be unavailable for the trip to the Midlands after picking up injuries in Tuesday night’s Carabao Cup tie against Cheltenham Town.

Wickham picked up a muscle injury which he will see a specialist for, while Lindsay’s is not as bad as first feared, according to Frankie McAvoy.

The head coach also confirmed pre-match that this game will come too soon for Ched Evans, Matthew Olosunde and Tom Barkhuizen, while Scott Sinclair, who has had a virus, is back in training.

The Opposition

Birmingham City, known as Blues to their supporters, head into the weekend’s game on the back of defeats to Fulham and Peterborough United.

Before that, though, they took seven points from a possible nine, with that run beginning with a fantastic 5-0 victory away to Luton Town.

Head coach Lee Bowyer has had a largely successful time in charge of them so far since his arrival from Charlton Athletic, where he enjoyed promotion from League One.

Key Stats

Birmingham’s main man in front of goal so far this season has been Scott Hogan, having scored three times in the league, while the rest of their goals have been spread out between seven different scorers.

PNE have enjoyed many of their recent meetings with Blues, with four of the last five games ending in victories.

Birmingham currently sit bottom of the Championship table for possession, averaging just 40.8 per cent of the ball in their games so far this season.

Our Last Meeting


North End came out on top of the last game between these two, with Scott Sinclair’s goal in the 61st minute making the difference.

Jayson Molumby, making one of his first appearances for the club after joining on loan from Brighton, picked the ball up just inside the opposition half before running to the edge of the box, feeding Sinclair to find the far corner.

Man In The Middle

Referee for Saturday’s game will be Matthew Donohue, who has taken charge of four Championship ties so far this season.

He is relatively new to the EFL pyramid, having refereed his first game in the top four tiers in August 2018, while his maiden Championship match came a year later.

This will be his fourth time as the main official of a PNE game, with the last being the 2-0 home victory over Barnsley in the final stages of the 2020/21 season.

MACS VIEW

A trip down the M6 to the second city via a plethora of diversions due to roadworks on the M6 hence the early coach start. City have had two poor league results after a decent start three decent forwards plus a United wonder kid coming up against an improving North End side whose last away game saw us get a point at Sheff United.
Players returning to training after Covid and injuries plus a cup date against Liverpool in the offing. We have won their twice in the last two matches both 1-0 be nice to complete the hat trick.
Tough game although do admire City trying to replicate previous tenants Coventry by having half the ground closed, we've sold over a 1000 so should be a decent atmosphere.

Aldershot Town 0-2 FC Halifax Town
Altrincham 1-2 Notts County
Barnet 0-3 Weymouth
Boreham Wood 2-2 Yeovil Town
Dagenham & Redbridge 4-1 Solihull Moors
Dover Athletic 0-2 Bromley
Eastleigh 0-1 Woking
King's Lynn Town 2-3 Wealdstone
Maidenhead United 1-2 Grimsby Town
Stockport County 0-2 Wrexham
Chesterfield 3-0 Torquay United


League Table After Matchday 7

Amelia = 104
St Charles = 88
Spireitematt = 86
Dancing = 72
Lord Snoots = 72
Devon = 70

THE MATCH

SATURDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER KO 3:00PM

v

LAST MATCH



We started well against Shrewsbury and after taking an early lead, should have put then game to bed but in true Wednesday fashion had to settle for a draw. Berahino took just 6 minutes to gat on the scoresheet with a header from a corner. We had other chances but missed the big one when Bazza put a penalty wide. We got sucker punched when BPF couldn't hold a cross and the ball was bundled in. Onto the 2nd half and we never got going, Gregory putting a header wide the closest we came, while they had a couple of decent chances too which came close.

THE MATCH



Next up, a trip to play Ipswich. Ipswich were many peoples favourite to go up but have made a miserable start to the season and languish in 21st place, although they did win there first game on Saturday. They are managed by Paul Cook, who is a decent manager, so you would imagine should be going in the right direction soon. McCauley Bonne is there leading scorer & they signed Joe Piggott who scored quite a few for AFC Wimbledon last season. Matt Penney is also on there books. Ipswich have yet to win at home in any competition, cue Sheffield Wednesday, the gift that keeps giving    

CURRENT FORM

OWLS               -                                         

IPSW               -                                                                                                     

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

ANDY DAVIES
Nigel Lugg and Graham Kane
Fourth Official : Robert Whitton

THE TEAM

Peacock-Farrell
Hunt Hutch Iorfa Johnson
Bannan Byers Adeniran
Berahino Gregory Shodipo

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-1 Berahino

BML STANDINGS

Pei 2
SCO 1
SS 1
Kev 1
Wash 1

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Plymouth Argyle v Doncaster Rovers
Rotherham United v Crewe Alexandra
Shrewsbury Town v AFC Wimbledon
Sunderland v Bolton Wanderers
Wigan Athletic v Cheltenham Town

HHAHH

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE

PEIOWL




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