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LAST TIME OUT
Birmingham City 0 Preston North End 1

MANCHESTER CITY 8(EIGHT) WATFORD 0


In the 50 plus years that I have been watching North End this is only if I am right the third competitive meetings between the sides at Deepdale although given the demolition City carried out on Watford on Saturday by 10pm tomorrow night the phrase competitive may not be required. Previous two visits ended 2-1 PNE with Macken tapping one in from 45 yards City later bought him and a 1 all draw.

CITY'S TRANSFERS IN
RODRI 63 MILLION
CANCELO 58 MILLION

Both of these slightly dwarf our record fee for Tom Bayliss.

Until the arrival of Pep, City had started to collect titles but the Spaniard now seems to be on the way to trying to win them all however he comes up against the best other bald manager in the league Alex Neil. Who when interviewed after Saturday's win did seem to have a wry smile when asked about the City score.


Always though City must have had an irrational hatred of us based on two players they sold to us, neil Young, we thought we were getting the man who scored in the Cup Final in 1969 instead we got this man,


we also got Dave Connor who had the nickname of Boils given he missed a couple of matches due to the fact he had boils.

Given Pep will not want to lose tomorrow he will no doubt put out a side that will be strong and contain several youngsters, already said he is playing Garcia, no doubt Foden wil play might even see the Nmecha brothers but given ther schedule having played Shakatak in Ukraine last week were they beat the English Jazz funk band 3-0 then the walkover against Watford with them playing Everton on Saturday and another European game next week the main players will not be at Deepdale.
Lee Mason is the referee so we will get sod all then

Listening to Solskjaer after United's latest away debacle, 2-0 to West Ham U and I'm beginning to wonder if we just let him get on with it because they don't strike me to be heading in the right direction - all that money spent in the pre-season/early season transfer biz and injuries arise and they are not progressing at a rate that we could call positive. It is gonna take time to improve things effectively! Is OGS a good or a bad manager? Or is it a fact that managing and handling the probs of such a huge footie club is the issue?

The Hoops survived a "scare" after Killie took the lead with an Eamonn Brophy goal and Odsonne Edouard proving again what a quality striker he actually is - that's why Celtic paid out £7M for his services! Ryan Christie again one of the top performers and rewarded with a goal as well. Job done.

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Weekend games 12 pm
Midweek games 7:30 pm

Just a reminder that you can use your on any fixture, but its not compulsory!! Get it right and you will score double points but getting it wrong will result in -2 points, so the reward and risk are there for all!!

AFC Fylde 1-1 Wrexham
Aldershot Town 1-2 Yeovil Town
Boreham Wood 3-1 Notts County
Bromley 2-2 Woking
Chorley 1-2 Barrow
Ebbsfleet United 0-4 Barnet
FC Halifax Town 3-1 Harrogate Town
Hartlepool United 5-1 Chesterfield
Maidenhead United 1-1 Dover Athletic
Solihull Moors 2-2 Stockport County
Sutton United 1-2 Dagenham & Redbridge
Torquay United 3-0 Eastleigh

League Table after Matchday 12
Amelia = 170
Theo = 156
Dancing = 138
SaltergateBorn = 126
Lord Snoots = 120
St Charles = 108
Spireitematt = 102
Devon = 98

Surely its time now. Take Gerrard, your lad, McKay, Weir and Weston with you.
Completely lost the plot or suffering from advanced stages of Dementure. Reckons he played the same team as the one that won last week ??? Where were Maguire, Mandeville and Denton? Think he forgot to keep a copy of the team sheet that won and just took a flier.
He hasn't played the same team 2 games in a row.
How about Pemberton for a replacement if he would come back? Doing ok at Kidderminster with one of our youngsters starting regularly. At least he knows the names of our own young players.

In the 1st Group A match, as expected, Scotland well beaten by Ireland and it is fine being beaten by a better side but the nature of this defeat is debatable as Scotland just did not "show up" for this match and the Irish boys did not have to do too much to ensure such a comfortable victory. Too many handling errors by the Scot players - very unimpressive! There are still three group matches to contest but I think many Scotland fans must already be questioning Gregor Townsend's position as head coach because his team was well "found out" today. A case of COME BACK VERN COTTER - ALL IS FORGIVEN!! I also wonder if Scotland should just "chanced it" in fielding some non-Scottish players under the flimsy WRU regs that lotsa other rugby-playing countries have been "taking advantage of" for years - no different from the cricket "anomaly" re player status and nationality in a specific country! I notice Japan has conveniently signed up a good number of SA and Aussie players for their WC campaign.

If you do your predictions after these specified times, they will not be accepted.

Weekend games 12 pm
Midweek games 7:30 pm

Just a reminder that you can use your on any fixture, but its not compulsory!! Get it right and you will score double points but getting it wrong will result in -2 points, so the reward and risk are there for all!!

Aldershot Town 2-1 Wrexham
Boreham Wood 1-3 Stockport County
Bromley 0-1 Notts County
Chorley 0-4 Woking
Ebbsfleet United 0-2 Barrow
FC Halifax Town 1-2 Barnet
Hartlepool United 3-1 Dover Athletic
Maidenhead United 2-2 Harrogate Town
Solihull Moors 1-2 Yeovil Town
Sutton United 0-2 Chesterfield
Torquay United 1-2 Dagenham & Redbridge
AFC Fylde 1-1 Eastleigh

League Table after Matchday 11
Amelia = 168
Theo = 148
Dancing = 128
SaltergateBorn = 122
Lord Snoots = 114
St Charles = 100
Devon = 98
Spireitematt = 96

How excited can you avoid being by such an international coup?

Until yesterday Sheridan apparently thought Curacao was just a drink.

I'm glad to see he hasn't left his comfort zone - Oldham, drink, loanees ………..