[Devongone]

I can't understand why no-one predicted that Matchday 7 would need to be abandoned.

Ironically I got a score right and at least two goalscorers ........ I now predict that this week will be another major disappointment which I'll wish had been abandoned.

I'm left wondering if things are not recoverable, where did they go that is beyond the reach of mankind. Might they re-form in some black hole in the space-time continuum to become a biblical part of some strange alien cargo cult to be featured in 10years time on Blaze TV?

Saturday 20th September:
Premier League:
Liverpool 2-2 Everton

Championship:
Derby County 0-1 Preston North End
Portsmouth 3-0 Sheffield Wednesday

League One:
Huddersfield 4-2 Burton Albion
Town scorers: May, Castledine, Taylor, Alves
Burton scorers: Webster, Beesley

Blackpool 0-2 Barnsley
Bolton Wanderers 2-0 Wigan Athletic (12:30)
Reading 1-0 Leyton Orient
Stevenage 1-0 Exeter City:
Wycombe Wanderers 1-0 Northampton Town

League Two:
Bromley 1-0 Chesterfield

Tuesday 23rd September:
EFL Cup 3rd round:
Lincoln City 0-5 Chelsea

Wednesday 24th September:
Huddersfield 0-3 Man City
Man City scorers: O'Reilly, Bobb, Doku

Newcastle United 2-0 Bradford City
Port Vale 1-2 Arsenal

Woltemade scores for Newcastle
Keillor-Dunn scores for Barnsley
Nwaneri scores for Arsenal

[Lord Snooty]

They'll be floating around on some cloud somehwere, Dev. Not that I've any idea how these things work.

[St Charles Owl]

Saturday 20th September:
Premier League:
Liverpool 3 v 1 Everton (12:30)

Championship:
Derby County 1 v 2 Preston North End
Portsmouth 2 v 0 Sheffield Wednesday

League One:
Town 3 v 1 Burton Albion
Town scorers: Wiles, May, Kane
Burton scorers: Beesley

Blackpool 1 v 3 Barnsley (12:30)
Bolton Wanderers 2 v 2 Wigan Athletic (12:30)
Reading 1 v 2 Leyton Orient
Stevenage 2 v 0 Exeter City
Wycombe Wanderers 1 v 2 Northampton Town

League Two:
Bromley 1 v 2 Chesterfield

Tuesday 23rd September:
EFL Cup 3rd round:
Lincoln City 0 v 3 Chelsea

Wednesday 24th September:
Town 1 v 4 Man City
Town scorers: May
City scorers: Bobb, Lewis, Foden, Gundogan

Newcastle United 3 v 1 Bradford City
Port Vale 0 v 2 Arsenal

Badger Keillor-Dunn scores for Barnsley
Badger Reid scores for Stevenage
Badger Burstow scores for Bolton

[theo_luddite]

Generally speaking (and with no knowledge of what the issue was on here), the IT professionals at any business have a system to manually or automatically back-up each days "transactions" to try and ensure what comes in (e.g. "Purchase Orders, Raw Material deliveries, Customer Payments") and what goes out ("Invoices, Deliveries, Purchase Orders, Wages, Tax & Pensions") so that if there's a system crash, the power goes off, a bad-actor tries to disrupt something, they can restore the system to it's last known stable state as quickly as possible. They used to be 7 day rolling back-ups (to a physical storage such as a tape for each day, CD-ROM's, or a remote hard drive) but these days they might use other storage methods.

The seriously bad actors that try to disrupt systems (and grab folks login/password/bank details) don't just affect the businesses own "servers" whether internal or in a big warehouse full of servers somewhere that they call "The Cloud", they can also infect much of the hardware attached to it (your laptop, production equipment, etc) either physically (internal network) or remotely (internet). See JLR/Coop/Marks and Sparks as recent examples. More often than not that's how they get in by sending an email (or breaking a weak password) to someone who uses a laptop for "other" business.

That inevitably, on a system that can be accessed by customers (e.g. us) 24 hours a day and it's determined that the system was "destabilised" at some time over the weekend, regardless of whether weekend back-up's were available or not, after investigation, you don't reinstall what might turn out to be an unstable back-up and leave yourself open to the same problem, whatever that was.

Based on what you've told us Snoots, it seems that last Friday's back-up was the most stable so it makes sense for Mark to roll that back in and start again from there, as frustrating as it is for all of us. That back-up overwrites anything we've input since that back-up was saved so whilst there may be some of our stuff in those unstable back-up's, they'll be overwritten when this weekends back-up roll, assuming it's a 7 day rolling back-up and not a 28 day or 1 month rolling back-up. At that point they will practically disappear from the ether though there might still be a fingerprint on the "Cloud" somewhere that someone can access with the right software until the physical space is more thoroughly overwritten.

Hope that's not baffled you even more.

[Lord Snooty]

I read all of that, theo. And thanks for it. But you lost me in the first line. Think I got as far as Generally speaking.

[St Charles Owl]

I read all of that, theo. And thanks for it. But you lost me in the first line. Think I got as far as Generally speaking.

I was wondering why he had missed off his three scorers for this week!!!

[Devongone]

I'm going to keep reading Theo's explanation. It seems very clear. I understood every individual word as I read it. Then afterwards I realised as I had taken in just as much as Snoots, which in itself is encouraging as electricity is indistinguishable from magic in my mind.

[theo_luddite]

As a footnote, it turns out M&S, The Coop and JLR have more in common than I realised. They all outsourced their IT and support to TATA Motors IT division. The same TATA who, er happen to own JLR. You'd have thought they'd have "changed the locks" after the first two.

[theo_luddite]

PS - I think I had more points last week than I've got this week but I'm guessing I can't swap them - and that's before we batter the Blue Mancs on Wednesday. I mean, they couldn't win at Arsenal, but why would they when they took their top scorer off in the 2nd half. Obvs preserving him for Wednesday.

[theo_luddite]

No surprise that Citeh didn't pick all my goalscoring picks.

Changes as below please Snoots.

City scorers: Silva, Aké, Rodri, Bobb, Foden

I know Silva is on the bench for them but I reckon he'll stay there unless we're causing them some problems.
My Town picks are both on the bench but there's every chance of them coming on in the 2nd half, so I'll leave them as is.