SA Footy

EPL
Villa 0 - Arsenal 1
Man C 0 - Chelski 1 (Close the gap but money still on Man U, 1-0 at struggling City not a great result)

CCC

West Brom 2 - Palace 3 (Disasterous result for the Baggies, at home as well Last minute winner to Palace and Albrechtsen sent off and Palace scored from penalty) Big big game v's Brum on Sunday

UEFA

Spurs 3 - Braga 2 (Spurs 6 - 4 on agg. Keep smiling Devilsadvocate)

CCC Table

Brum P37 Pts 70
Rams P38 Pts 70
Cats P38 Pts 67
Preston P37 Pts 65 7 goals better than Wolves
Wolves P38 Pts 65
Baggies P38 Pts 63 6 goals better than Bluebirds is worth a point

Cardiff P38 Pts 63

Excuse my ignorance guys, but how does Promotion from the Championship work .. Is it just the Top 3 after a Minor Round type situation, or is there a finals/playoffs system? (I thought from memory this was the case)

Constance_Perm wrote:Excuse my ignorance guys, but how does Promotion from the Championship work .. Is it just the Top 3 after a Minor Round type situation, or is there a finals/playoffs system? (I thought from memory this was the case)

Top 2 get automatic promotion then next four play off. 3 v 6 home and away, 4 v 5 home and away. Winners play off on neutral ground (Recent years Cardiff Millenium Stadium, but from this year good old (or should I say new) Wembley. Not saying too much about Wembley 3 year delay in completion on hear as it was built by an Aussie company The winners join the other two in the big league.

Hence all attention is to getting into the top six. This is where you won't see the name Burnley

Not always the best format C_P. Remeber about 10 years ago Burnley won the play off final to gain promotion over 3rd placed Stockport. We were fully 12 points away from them at the end of the league games. No need to say we were relegated the next year.

Ah ok, thats a little different, but not too far off what I'd thought .. Thanks for the clarification mate.

The Baggies are slipping a bit which helps Cardiff.

Chelsea's winner came from the spot via Fat Frank. I was hoping City would at least hold them to a draw but they are in terrible form right now.

EPL
Chelski 3 - 0 Sheff Utd
Man U 4 - 1 Bolton (Just over 76,000 at Old Trafford)
Boro 0 - 2 Man City (Might just see them to safety depending on results tomorrow)
Spurs 3 - 1 Watford (CCC for Watford now)

CCC

Derby 3 - 1 Cardiff
Leicester 1 - 3 QPR.
Preston 2 - 0 Burnley Come on you Clarets. 19 without a win. Relegation a real possibility now
Owls 2 - 2 Wolves
Sunderland 2 - 0 Hull (attn 38,500. Huge potential at Sunderland, when they're winning. Extra pressure for BCFC tomorrow

CC1

Bournemouth 1 - 0 Millwall
Orient 2 - 2 Oldham (apologies, I said the O's were in bottom league. They're not, sorry O's fan)

SPL

Rangers 3 - 0 Aberdeen (Sorry granite fan)

S Div 1

Partick 0 - 2 Hamilton

Tables

CCC

Derby Pld 39 Pts 73
Sunderland 39 70 1st time in automatic promotion place this season. Looking very good Stern John on target again
Birmingham 37 70
Preston 38 68 Game in hand. Nugent on target again and made the other. Will be off to EPL next year
Wolves 39 66 Only 1 ponit from last 2 games ??
WBA 38 63 WBA in must win game tomorrow
Cardiff 39 63
Soton 39 60

At the other end

QPR 38 40 Terriffic win today and a game in hand
Southend 39 39
Luton 39 36 Looking a cert to go down
Leeds 39 36 Late equaliser at Southend did QPR, Hull, Barnsley and the Clarets a favour

Note For those not sure, bottom 3 go down.

CCC News

BCFC hit by virus, Danns, Tebily, Vine and Bendtner all struggling to available N'Gotty injured
Steve Howard scored twice for Derby. Looking a good aquisition but whether he can step up to EPL level is another matter.
Man U loan Jonny Evans with 1st for the Cats after 3 minutes, and Stern john with the 2nd in the last minute. Sunderland completely dominated from start to finish.
Andy Keogh scored last minute equaliser for Wolves. Owls down to 10 men.
Southampton (my tip as dark horses hmmmm) lost 2 -1 at home to Colchester. Lot to do now.

JTC

johntheclaret wrote:Sunderland 39 70 1st time in automatic promotion place this season. Looking very good Stern John on target again

Let's hope Sunderland recruit some strikers if/when they get promoted. Fair enough David Connolly, but Stern John and Dwight Yorke aint gonna be tearing any EPL defences apart! Of course, all the Derby youngsters will step up!

BTW - didn't know Ray Parlour was at Hull.

West Ham 2
Blackburn 1

Have wondered that myself about the Black Cats Mac.
Surely we won't be relying on Dwight in the Prem league.
I'm sure there'll be a lot of buying going on over the off season - and Roy's got the rep and the bills to bring the right players to the club too.

Dogwatcher wrote:Roy's got the rep and the bills to bring the right players to the club too.

So did Bryan Robson....

johntheclaret wrote:EPL

Spurs 3 - 1 Watford (CCC for Watford now)

Stunning strike from PAUL ROBINSON - yes the KEEPER!!!!!!!!!!!

Surprisingly, that's actually his 2nd goal in the EPL!

VERY embarrasing for his rival for the England job. Probably the best way to secure your spot as 1st choice keeper - score a goal against your main rival.

Spurs now right back in the mix for Europe in 2007/8!!!!

McAlmanac wrote:

Dogwatcher wrote:Roy's got the rep and the bills to bring the right players to the club too.

So did Bryan Robson....

True. But there seems just a little more substance now.

Feel sorry for anyone who, like myself, sat through the Liverpool v Villa game last night - The most boring error riddled game I've watched all season ... Thank god for the West Brom v Birmingham game beforehand!!

Who won.

Villa and Liverpool ended 0-0
Everton beat Arsenal thanks to a late AJ strike
Charlton beat Newcastle 2-0 to keep their chances of staying up alive

Baggies and Brum drew 1-1

tomorrow morning (our time) is the FA Cup replays... Chelsea and Spurs are on ESPN live followed by United and Boro.

RoosterMarty wrote:tomorrow morning (our time) is the FA Cup replays... Chelsea and Spurs are on ESPN live

Dogwatcher wrote:Have wondered that myself about the Black Cats Mac.
Surely we won't be relying on Dwight in the Prem league.
I'm sure there'll be a lot of buying going on over the off season - and Roy's got the rep and the bills to bring the right players to the club too.

Dont think you will any worries there DW. Guaranteed 40k attendance, huge merchandising and £30m from TV rights next year (assuming they make it there), so they will have a bit of spending power, and the transfer market ain't what it used to be with players able to move on a free at the end of their contract, the cats will be able to negotiate deals directly with the players. It just means the players get richer and the cluds lose out (Especially the little ones)

Constance_Perm wrote:Feel sorry for anyone who, like myself, sat through the Liverpool v Villa game last night - The most boring error riddled game I've watched all season ... Thank god for the West Brom v Birmingham game beforehand!!

Apologies on behalf of EPL for that one C_P. So bad I turned it off and watched re-runs of M*A*S*H*. Much better veiwing.

Just as a side issue, how much soccer do you guys get down there. When I was last there, you were lucky to get the pools results let alone live games. Only the FA Cup final was live.

Sam_goUUUdogs wrote:West Ham 2
Blackburn 1

What a great result. Don't know if you saw any of the game, (I always watch the b4st4rds just to see them lose), Linesman gave the softest penalty I can remember seeing in a long time for the Hammers to equalise and them gave a goal when the ball must have been at least 1 foot short of crossing the line. Even the fans at the opposite goal could see the ball hadn't crossed the line (Classic Comedy). The b4st4rds all went wild, players and fans, even calling for referees to be 'banned' WTF? in the local rag today.
Sooooooooooooooooooooo funny
Sooooooooooooooooooooo Good to Watch.

Not that I am biased of course.

Re my last post, how appropriate that Mark (the b4st4rd) Hughes is on the commentary team for tonights game Spurs v Chelski.
Hope they ask him about yesterday