Going OK for England so far...

Wayne Rooney's been shown a card the same colour as Charlton's home shirt...

Montenegro have equalised, but thankfully, it's full-time...

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We can see what teams like Spain would do to us...whoopee, we've qualified to be embarrassed by Europe's finest next year...

Can't wait

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I forgot about the England match, but in any case would prefer the Rostropovich programme

Under the circumstances...you did the right thing!

The real football highlight of the weekend of course is tomorrow at the Valley

Commentary of the Charlton-Tranmere match is on BBC Radio 5 live. Tranmere, somewhat upsettingly, are 1-0 up...

Aw, never mind, still ages to go

Indeed... (with due apologies to f#m )

Gee we nearly 'did' you. Stupid penalty in 80 th min.
An honourable draw Barry !

Your lot did very well. We we very lucky to get anything there : an honourable draw - certainly!

First league defeat of the season for Boro...

Car Expert v stetenorve ended 2-2. Unlike at the weekend, no 99th minute winning goal for us this time...

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Oooops - didn't realise we were playing tonight!

I was hoping that we'd stay unbeaten for longer than Newcastle.

Deserved to lose. We are now without a win in 5 matches, which is pretty rubbish despite our current league position. Derby and then Southampton next, so I doubt if points will be very forthcoming...

Boro have by all accounts had a good start to the season. The thing that really worries me about them though is that I fear many rivals have now worked them out : and it seems as though it's very easy to stop them scoring. Which means, not withstanding a fine defence, that you'll be struggling for goals...

Haven't mentioned yet that Charlton also suffered their first league defeat on Saturday. One of those days, really, we played OK, but Stevenage scored, and we didn't. Hopefully we'll defeat Carlisle on Saturday...

Hmm. I like Carlisle.

The other teams sussed us out a while ago, and Steve Cotterill had already had a match against us. The problem isn't really teams stopping us scoring goals - we don't really have players who can score them in the first place.

Edit: We deserved to lose a game as we really haven't been playing well the past few games and it will hopefully give the team a bit of a wake-up call. I'm more cross about who we lost to... there are 4 teams who I dislike with a passion...

Marvin Emnes usually knows where the net is...

He had an unusual start to the season - scored more goals in the first 4 games or so than he did in the entire season last year. Hasn't scored for a while now...

So how many people here think that the idea of scrapping promotion to/relegation from the Premiership is a bad, bad idea...

I do.

I think what these owners fail to get is that a US style franchise system won't work here : it will sanitise the whole league, meaning many of the lesser lights in the Premiership in particular will quite possibly get less money from things like gate receipts then they do now.

And that's before we get to having no representation in the current league from large swathes of the UK (notably Yorkshire and the south coast of England)...

Depends who is there when they pull up the drawbridge...

Don't say 'when', andante_in_c...that's scary!!!!

4-0

Leyton Orient are out of the relegation zone

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Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City

maybe money can buy you titles. Before the got their current owners they were a championship level team and within 3 years they have become one of the big PL teams just by spending silly amounts of money.

And if anyone was still doubting Man City's title credentials...

The BBC are reporting that Sven has been sacked by Leicester.

Ditto Sky Sports News. The current owners I feel want success now. That means several miles out the front of the Championship...

Parted my mutual conset. They and Forest are expecting big things and, sadly for the managers, anything short of the promotion places is seen as a failure.

Darlo have sacked Cooper. They haven't been doing well recently and I think some new life needs to be injected.

Who is going to be the Premier League's first departure? Bruce, Kean or Martinez?

Doubt it'll be Martinez. Of the others, Kean seems the most likely, but I wouldn't say Mick McCarthy is at all safe at Wolves...

I could be wrong, but I think he's safer than Bruce and Kean. Blackburn's owners want to buy instant success, and I'm surprised that Kean has lasted this long in the post. Living in a Mackem area, I can tell you that their current hostility towards Bruce is very palpable...

One of my main suppliers office is by Hartlepool Utd ground. They play Tranmere tonight and both have won last two matches, also are 7th and 8th in league. Come on Rovers !

Wycombe Wanderers away tonight...

Charlton beat Wycombe 2-1, and with other results largely going our way, we're three points clear at the top of the division now...

Yeah youre going great guns Barry, but thats three wins in a row for Tranmere too ! Weve reached the play off zone. Were we the last team to take a point off you ???

Nope, Stevenage took all three off us the following weekend...

We've won the last two games though

Tranmere do look to have a good side this season, and certainly a much, much improved side compared to the last couple of seasons...

Result from the Blue Square South on Tuesday:

Truro City 8-2 Farnborough

Farnborough initially took the lead, but Truro made it 7-1 by half-time. Could've been a much bigger scoreline if the second half was anything like the first half...

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I couldn't watch. I had the match on in the next room and dashed in whenever I heard a goal go in - at least I got a fair amount of exercise. What a way for Arsene to get his 500th Arsenal victory!

Chelsea 3-5 Arsenal - didn't see that one coming...

Reading drew 0-0 at Palace. Orient go seven games unbeaten after winning at Rochdale - pretty much a parallel to last season...

It's the FA Cup first round draw tomorrow, where the likes of Charlton, Tranmere and Leyton Orient enter. The non-league contingent in the draw include Arlesey Town, East Thurrock United, Stourbridge and AFC Totton.

In terms of local derbies, there is the potential of seeing Redbridge v Dagenham & Redbridge, or Bradford Park Avenue v Bradford City, or Oxford City v Oxford United, or even Sheff Utd v Sheff Wed of course...

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Aaaaagh . Tranmere twice leading, then fell apart in second half with their Everton loanee sent off for a filthy tackle.

FA Cup First Round Draw
FC Halifax Town v Charlton Athletic
Leyton Orient v Bromley
Tranmere Rovers v Cheltenham Town
Darlington or Hinckley United v Tamworth
Sutton United or Leatherhead v Kettering Town
Chelmsford City or Gloucester City v AFC Telford United
Cambridge United v Wrexham
Droylsden or Blyth Spartans v Gateshead
AFC Totton v Bradford Park Avenue
Salisbury City v Arlesey Town
Redbridge v Oxford City
Dagenham & Redbridge v Bath City
East Thurrock United v Macclesfield Town
MK Dons v Nantwich Town
Brentford v Basingstoke Town
Plymouth Argyle v Stourbridge
Maidenhead United v Aldershot Town
Luton Town v Northampton Town
Barrow v Rotherham United
Newport County v Shrewsbury Town
Southport v Barnet
Port Vale v Grimsby Town
Bristol Rovers v Kidderminster Harriers or Corby Town
Alfreton Town or Lincoln City v Carlisle United
Mansfield Town or Fleetwood Town v Wycombe Wanderers
Morecambe v Sheffield Wednesday
Sheffield United v Oxford United
Swindon Town v Huddersfield Town
Preston North End v Southend United
Bury v Crawley Town
Crewe Alexandra v Colchester United
Hartlepool United v Stevenage
Oldham Athletic v Burton Albion
AFC Wimbledon v Scunthorpe United
AFC Bournemouth v Gillingham
Bradford City v Rochdale
Notts County v Accrington Stanley
Exeter City v Walsall
Hereford United v Yeovil Town
Chesterfield v Torquay United

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Charlton Athletic.

That is all.

They are 3rd now.

No we're not : we're 1st

I have just learned that Edward Elgar was a Wolverhampton Wanderers supporter !
I wonder if other composers were football fans ????. I am sure some of you have some answers, though I doubt Delius was a Bradford City supporter ! How about RVW, and Willie Walton for example ?

Andrew Lloyd Webber is a fanatical Leyton Orient fan...

Poor thing Inferior to Charlton and Tranmere !