McLaren named as England manager

Hooray!

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Indeed! He has the experience in the position at least, having worked with Sven for so many years. I'm not though convinced that we will win anything massive in his reign, we will see!

Results for 4/5/2006

Barclays Premiership
Man City 1 - 3 Arsenal
Sunderland 2 - 1 Fulham

Reserves
Swansea 1 - 7 Yeovil
Woking 1 - 6 Brighton

YA
Colchester 2 - 5 Preston

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Right. I'll be singing 'I'm forever blowing bubbles' from now until Sunday in order to inspire the Hammers.

Barry-clari, I'm trusting the Addicks will prevent Man U from coming second.

Hope so.

If I know Charlton the way I think I know Charlton though, I think we've already gone on our summer holidays...

Results for 5/5/2006

Coca-Cola Football League Championship Play-Off
Leeds 1 - 1 Preston

Highland League
Inverurie Locos 3 - 4 Forres Mechanics

Carnegie Irish Premier Division Play-Off
Donegal Celtic 3 - 1 Institute

Reserves
Man Utd 2 - 0 Tottenham

Youths
Birmingham 2 - 3 Watford

YA
Rochdale 1 - 0 Macclesfield

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Can't wait to see what will happen in League 1 and 2!

Up the O's!

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Pardon?

In other words, I'm hoping Leyton Orient (my local team) will get automatic promotion.

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I'm sure football results are copyright.. Bonkers I know, certainly the fixture list is....

I was more concerned about what 'Up the O' meant .

Is it? Quite a lot of people use that phrase at school - there's some posters around the school saying "Up the O's", and even my Head of Year said that in afternoon registration.

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NO!!! OXFORD HAVE SCORED!!!

Good! That lead didn't last for long!

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2-1!

2-2!

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Great! Grimsby have scored.

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Leyton Orient are going up, Oxford are going down......

I knew Orient would get a last-minute goal, and they did! Hooray!

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Oooh, your predictions seem very accurate!

Can you now predict that Charlton will win the Premiership next season please CE, as your predictions are so good?

I'll say they'll make the UEFA Cup next season.

My dad and I have been doing predictions for each game since the beginning of 2006 (apart from the lower leagues, Scottish & Irish leagues and most League 1 games), and 2 weeks ago, we were level-pegging, but at the end of this week (haven't entered today's results yet), I'm 23 points ahead!

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Well done CE, and thank you for your optimistic prediction!

I'm now 26 points ahead! Yay!

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Results for 6/5/2006

FA Vase Final
Hillingborough 1 - 3 Nantwich Town

Coca-Cola Football League Championship Play-Off
Crystal Palace 0 - 3 Watford

Coca-Cola Football League One
Blackpool 3 - 3 Gillingham
Bournemouth 2 - 2 Brentford
Bradford 1 - 1 Nottm Forest
Chesterfield 0 - 4 Swansea
Hartlepool 1 - 1 Port Vale (Hartlepool are relegated)
Oldham 1 - 1 Scunthorpe
Rotherham 0 - 0 Milton Keynes Dons (Milton Keynes are relegated)
Southend 1 - 0 Bristol City (Southend are champions)
Swindon 0 - 0 Huddersfield
Tranmere 0 - 2 Doncaster
Walsall 1 - 2 Barnsley
Yeovil 0 - 0 Colchester (Colchester are promoted)

Coca-Cola Football League Two
Bristol Rovers 2 - 3 Macclesfield
Chester 0 - 1 Shrewsbury
Darlington 1 - 1 Wrexham
Grimsby 1 - 1 Northampton
Lincoln City 1 - 1 Rochdale
Mansfield 0 - 5 Cheltenham
Notts County 2 - 2 Bury
Oxford Utd 2 - 3 Leyton Orient (Leyton Orient are promoted; Oxford United are releagted)
Peterborough 0 - 2 Wycombe
Rushden & D'monds 1 - 2 Barnet
Stockport 0 - 0 Carlisle (Carlisle are champions)
Torquay 0 - 0 Boston Utd

Nationwide Conference Play-Off
Halifax 3 - 2 Grays Athletic

Nationwide North Play-Off Final
Droylsden 1 - 1 Stafford Rangers [Stafford Rangers win 5-3 on penalties]

Ryman Premier League Play-Off Final
Fisher 3 - 0 Hampton & Richmond

Bank of Scotland Scottish Premier League
Dunfermline 0 - 1 Inverness CT
Falkirk 1 - 0 Livingston
Motherwell 1 - 1 Dundee Utd

Bell's Scottish Football League Championship First Division Play-Offs
Partick 1 - 2 Stranraer
Peterhead 1 - 0 Morton

Bell's Scottish Football League Championship Second Division Play-Offs
Alloa 1 - 0 Arbroath
Berwick 0 - 0 Stenhousemuir

Highland League
Fort William 0 - 4 Keith

Youths
Nottm Forest 0 - 1 Newcastle

YA
Oldham 2 - 0 Wigan
Tranmere 1 - 3 Carlisle
Wrexham 2 - 3 Stockport

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YESSSSSSS!

An Henry hat-trick to say goodbye to Highbury.

Spurs' cunning plan to get Sheringham to take the penalty against them didn't come off.

And no-one saw me sneaking into the Spurs hotel with some undercooked chicken last night.

Well done Arsenal!
But bad luck to Charlton!

Can someone tell me what the Intertoto Cup is please? Newcastle have reached this cup competition and I've only just heard of it.

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It's kind of a pre-season friendly Competition with other International teams. Newcastle have been in it a few times and have one it in the past. Think they deserve better. I wonder what Alan Shearer will do next?

Thanks for the definition!He said he'll have a break for a few years. I hope he becomes manager of Newcastle after that!

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You and 900,000 Geordies! My Gran says they're holding a special Newcastle Day for him where everyone's got to dress in Black and White for the day.

Also, the winner of the Intertoto gets qualification to the Uefa cup, I think that's how Middlesborough got into the Uefa cup this season, by winning the Intertoto last season.

Results for 7/5/2006

Barclays Premiership
Arsenal 4 - 2 Wigan
Aston Villa 2 - 1 Sunderland
Blackburn 2 - 0 Man City
Bolton 1 - 0 Birmingham
Everton 2 - 2 West Brom
Fulham 1 - 0 Middlesbrough
Man Utd 4 - 0 Charlton
Newcastle 1 - 0 Chelsea
Portsmouth 1 - 3 Liverpool
West Ham 2 - 1 Tottenham

Nationwide Conference Play-Off
Morecambe 1 - 1 Hereford

Nationwide South Play-Off Final
Histon 0 - 2 St Albans

Bank of Scotland Scottish Premier League
Aberdeen 2 - 2 Celtic
Kilmarnock 3 - 1 Hibernian
Rangers 2 - 0 Hearts

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Woo Hoo! Well done Arsenal!!!

Thank you very much West Ham!

Yes, Charlton have gone on their summer holidays early.

Again.

Middlesbrough lost 4-0!

Other News

1. Peterhead have beaten Partick 2-1, which means they have an advantage going into the second leg of the play-off final. Looks like they might follow Gretna to promotion for the second season in a row!
2. Alloa look like they will regain their Division 1 status after a 4-0 thrashing of Berwick.
3. Halifax are in the Conference play-off final after a 2-2 draw at Grays (4-5 on aggregate).
4. (yesterday) Watford are in the Championship play-off final after a 0-0 draw at Crystal Palace (3-0 on aggregate), which means they will meet Leeds for a place in the Premiership next season.

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Wow what an incredible cup final. 3-3 after normal time and extra time before Liverpool won 4-2 on penalties. Feel so sorry for West Ham!

Yes, it was a really good game. Bad luck to West Ham - it would have been good if they won it.

And bad luck to Gretna. So near, yet so far...

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Football News

1. Grays Athletic have won the FA Trophy after a 2-0 win over Woking.
2. Swansea have reached the final of the League 1 play-off final after a 2-0 win over Brentford (agg: 3-1). Looks like Brentford and Sunderland won't meet again next season.
3. Partick Thistle have been promoted to Division 1 after beating Peterhead on penalties.
4. Alloa have retained their Division 2 status, despite losing 2-1 to Berwick in their 2nd leg of the play-off final. Their 4-0 win in their first leg kept them in the division.
5. Tamworth have avoided relegation to the Conference North after Canvey Island have pulled out of the Conference. They will be playing in the Ryman Premier League next season.
6. (Yesterday) In the first leg League 2 play-off semi-finals, Grimsby beat Lincoln 1-0 and Cheltenham beat Wycombe 2-1.

Just to let you know I'll be posting a poll for the top 20 football matches on Thursday (after the Barcelona-Arsenal champions league final).

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Arsenal have just gone 1-0 up.

And they're also down to 10 men! Impressive!

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I want Arsenal to lose *hides*

Go Barcelona!

Barcelona have hit the post!

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The replay showed it was a fantastic save from Almunia.

Shame on you, Nicki and hellokitty.

One fingernail gone - nine still to go.

Just to be different...

I've been a Gooner since 1971. I'm used to being different...

Wasn't '71 a league championship winning season for Arsenal? Was that the catalyst for you supporting Arsenal Andante?

No, it was when they signed Alan Ball, who'd been my favourite player since 1966.

....a World Cup winner no less!

Oh dear!

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1-1!!

Not again!

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2-1 to barcelona!!