Grass Roots Footie 2017/18

[BobHelm]

Bristol City 15:00 Leeds United
Scunthorpe United 15:00 Peterborough United
Cheltenham Town 15:00 Lincoln City
Exeter City 15:00 Port Vale
Stevenage 15:00 Forest Green Rovers
Leyton Orient 15:00 Macclesfield Town

[Adhoc]

3 - 0 away to Bristol City, LUFC back on track, or a dead cat bounce?
I'm hoping it's the former.

MOT

[valiant]

Great win for Port Vale.3 on the bounce

[BobHelm]

The 'other' grass roots results..

Scunthorpe United 2 Peterborough United 1
Cheltenham Town 1 Lincoln City 0
Stevenage 1 Forest Green Rovers 2
Leyton Orient 0 Macclesfield Town 1

The Iron now back up to 8th. after a mid-season slump saw them start to fall away.
Town back up to 14th. after a mini slump of their own, while Vale are climbing out of relegation danger & are now within points touching of those immediately above. Rovers have also narrowed the gap on those above, while Chesterfield are now 6 points adrift at the bottom..
Maccesfield's strong run of form continues & they have now developed a 3 point cushion from the chasing pack!!

[Zidane]

Every one of our teams won ! Has that ever happened before ?

[BobHelm]

EFL Cup 4th. round tonight..

With a couple more tomorrow..

fixtures 1.png (6.71 KiB) Viewed 1240 times

& a Championship derby on Friday..

Leeds 19:45 Sheffield United

[stattointhailand]

Not just Palace having a bad start .....

BENEVENTO MAKE A CHANGE

Benevento have sacked Marco Baroni and named Roberto De Zerbi as their new head coach after becoming the first team in Serie A history to lose their first nine matches of the season.

They are also the only team in Europe's five major leagues without a point.

[BobHelm]

Most results with the form book - & that probably includes Bristol City against Palace!!
Citi were probably given their toughest game of the season so far by high flying Wolves. Indeed their best player was probably goalkeeper Claudio Bravo as Wolves put a break on Citi's free goalscoring style. The end result was rather disappointing for the visitors, given their efforts...

[BobHelm]

I didn't know where to put this didn't want to start another thread & this is about the best place I could think of..

20:24
FULL-TIME

England 3-1 Brazil

Yes, England under 17s are in the World Cup Finals. A considerable victory against a very good Brazilian side who didn't lose a match in the group stages.
They will meet either Spain and Mali.
Makes me wonder what happens to these young players. The choices that the senior squad manager has is anything but earth shattering (a couple of strikers aside) so what happens to these under 17 players (& even the under 19s) to turn them 'average'.....
Unless the England senior squad is suddenly going to turn into world beaters???

[panmotor]

Great minds Bob - see world cup qualifying thread!!

[stattointhailand]

Was watching one of the footie shows a few days ago (might have been Keys & Gray) and they had a section on the fact that virtually all Bundesliga sides are watching /scouting the English "kids", as they know that they will not get a chance to play in the Prem and they are far better than what is available in Germany. Prime example being Jadon Sancho, recalled from this tourny by club Dortmund and getting minutes from the bench at the weekend

[stattointhailand]

Grass roots results from last night .......... psst I've kept the print small Zid

[stattointhailand]

"In a bid to increase exposure for the Carabao Cup, today’s draw will be conducted by two familiar faces from British sport, 2003 Rugby World Cup winner Matt Dawson and former England cricketer Phil Tufnell."

Will someone please explain how on earth bringing some guy from squashedball and a "cricketer" to do a football draw is doing anything apart from making the organisers of the competition an even bigger laughing stock than they have already managed to become?

[stattointhailand]

Draw delayed after pep has complained about the balls they are using for the draw

22:21

BREAKING NEWS...

The official Carabao Cup Twitter feed has said this:

"Draw delayed: Carabao Cup Round Five Draw will now take place at 5pm following a minor technical glitch at Twitter HQ."

Couldn't organise a p*ss up at day&night


Am I the only one wondering why a glitch at twitter hq has anything to do with 2 guys pulling 4 balls each out of a bag, They used to manage it without any help back in the day, but then again if youve got a Rugby player and a cricketer there

[BobHelm]

The Carabao Cup quarter-final draw paired Bristol City with Manchester United after technical problems kept fans waiting almost two hours in a failed attempt to broadcast on Twitter.

Arsenal will face West Ham, Leicester City are at home to Manchester City and Chelsea host Bournemouth.

To say that the draws for the Carabao Cup have not gone smoothly would be an understatement - no matter who they got to do them..
The whole Twitter thing for these quarter finals was a totally unnecessary complication.

[BobHelm]

Tonight
Leeds United 19:45 Sheffield United

Saturday
Oldham Athletic 15:00 Scunthorpe United
Forest Green Rovers 15:00 Morecambe
Port Vale 15:00 Swindon Town
Wycombe Wanderers 15:00 Cheltenham Town
Macclesfield Town 15:00 Eastleigh

[Adhoc]

A thunderous game in store at ER tonight.
Leeds - Sheffield United games are always a bit feisty, and I'm sure this one will be no exception.
Come on you mighty whites. 3 points, please.

MOT

[Zidane]

Chris Wilder has done a great job at Sheffield United.I remember him managing Halifax and Oxford United in the Conference.In fact,he got Oxford United back into the Football League.
A bit of a surprise he got the Sheffield United job last year but he has more than justified his appointment.

[stattointhailand]

The Carabao Cup quarter-final draw paired Bristol City with Manchester United after technical problems kept fans waiting almost two hours in a failed attempt to broadcast on Twitter.

Arsenal will face West Ham, Leicester City are at home to Manchester City and Chelsea host Bournemouth.

To say that the draws for the Carabao Cup have not gone smoothly would be an understatement - no matter who they got to do them..
The whole Twitter thing for these quarter finals was a totally unnecessary complication.

Seems to me that TWITTER is the main problem .........

The only time I ever hear of the thing is when someone has posted something that they have to post an apology for, and fiascos like this ........... The world would be a far better place without these twits

[goodison]

Well "The Blades" sit atop "The Championship" Feisty affair as predicted or a Yorkshire Derby, good to have live football back, some good games this weekend courtesy of #14 (your home of Championship football.) NO, I am not planning for next season before you ask!