What?????!!!!!
The only time we'e lost like that was in the UEFA Cup Final.

Or when you played Arsenal.

I loved the silence last night everytime Arsenal scored.

Where were all the Arsenal fans?

I predict Leicester will get relegated

The ticket allocation was tiny, Zagreb is a long way, and a lot of football fans are on holiday until the season starts next week.

Results for 09/08/06

The Coca-Cola Football League Championship
Southampton 2 - 0 Coventry
Sunderland 0 - 1 Birmingham

Coca-Cola Football League One
Chesterfield 0 - 0 Carlisle

Coca-Cola Football League Two
Boston Utd 0 - 1 Peterborough

CIS Insurance Cup
Arbroath 0 - 1 Elgin
Ayr 2 - 0 Berwick
Montrose 1 - 3 Peterhead

Friendly Matches
Chelsea 1 - 1 Celtic
Halesowen 3 - 3 West Brom
Northwich 0 - 3 Man City XI
Rosenborg 1 - 2 Wigan
Sparta Rotterdam 1 - 0 Blackburn

UEFA Champions League Qualifying
AC Milan 1 - 0 Crvena Zvezda
CSKA Moscow 3 - 0 SCP Ruzomberok
Dynamo Kiev 3 - 1 Fenerbahce
FC Copenhagen 1 - 2 Ajax
Galatasaray 5 - 2 Mlada Boleslav
Hamburg 0 - 0 Osasuna
Hearts 1 - 2 AEK Athens
Levski Sofia 2 - 0 Chievo
Liberec 0 - 0 Spartak Moscow
Lille 3 - 0 Rabotnicki Kometal
Liverpool 2 - 1 Maccabi Haifa
SV Red Bull Salzburg 1 - 0 Valencia
Shakhtar Donetsk 1 - 0 Legia Warsaw
Standard Liege 2 - 2 Steaua Bucuresti

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Result for 11/08/06

The Coca-Cola Football League Championship
Wolverhampton 1 - 3 Preston


Results for 12/08/06

The Coca-Cola Football League Championship
Cardiff 1 - 0 Coventry
Colchester 1 - 2 Barnsley
Hull 1 - 2 Derby
Leicester 3 - 1 Ipswich
Norwich 3 - 2 Luton
QPR 2 - 0 Southend
Sheff Wed 1 - 1 Burnley
Southampton 0 - 0 West Brom
Stoke 0 - 0 Birmingham
Sunderland 2 - 3 Plymouth

Coca-Cola Football League One
Blackpool 0 - 1 Rotherham
Bradford 4 - 2 Gillingham
Brighton 2 - 2 Brentford
Cheltenham 0 - 1 Port Vale
Chesterfield 5 - 1 Millwall
Doncaster 0 - 0 Tranmere
Huddersfield 2 - 1 Bristol City
Leyton Orient 3 - 2 Bournemouth
Northampton 0 - 1 Nottm Forest
Oldham 1 - 0 Swansea
Scunthorpe 2 - 2 Crewe
Yeovil 2 - 1 Carlisle

Coca-Cola Football League Two
Accrington Stanley 2 - 1 Barnet
Boston Utd 4 - 1 Darlington
Bristol Rovers 1 - 0 Grimsby
Bury 1 - 2 Shrewsbury
Hereford 2 - 0 Chester
Macclesfield 1 - 2 Milton Keynes Dons
Mansfield 1 - 1 Stockport
Notts County 1 - 0 Wycombe
Swindon 1 - 0 Rochdale
Torquay 1 - 2 Lincoln City
Walsall 2 - 0 Hartlepool
Wrexham 0 - 0 Peterborough

Nationwide Conference
Aldershot 3 - 2 Gravesend
Altrincham 2 - 1 Stevenage
Cambridge Utd 0 - 1 Northwich
Crawley Town 1 - 0 Rushden & D'monds
Forest Green 0 - 1 Dag & Red
Grays Athletic 1 - 1 Stafford Rangers
Kidderminster 1 - 3 St Albans
Morecambe 0 - 1 Burton Albion
Oxford Utd 2 - 0 Halifax
Southport 0 - 0 Woking
Tamworth 1 - 3 Weymouth
York 0 - 0 Exeter

Nationwide North
Alfreton Town 2 - 1 Lancaster City
Farsley Celtic 0 - 3 Droylsden
Gainsborough 1 - 0 Hinckley Utd
Kettering 1 - 0 Hyde
Moor Green 0 - 1 Harrogate Town
Nuneaton 0 - 0 Workington
Redditch 0 - 2 Blyth Spartans
Stalybridge 2 - 2 Hucknall
Vauxhall Motors 2 - 1 Leigh RMI
Worksop 0 - 0 Scarborough

Nationwide South
Basingstoke 1 - 1 Thurrock
Bedford Town 1 - 1 Eastleigh
Bognor Regis Town 2 - 4 Bishop's Stortford
Braintree Town 0 - 1 Sutton Utd
Dorchester 4 - 1 Farnborough
Eastbourne Borough 2 - 0 Yeading
Fisher Athletic 3 - 3 Newport County
Havant and W 2 - 3 Cambridge City
Hayes 1 - 3 Histon
Salisbury 1 - 1 Lewes
Welling 1 - 0 Weston-S-Mare

Bank of Scotland Scottish Premier League
Celtic 2 - 0 St Mirren
Hearts 0 - 0 Falkirk
Inverness CT 0 - 0 Hibernian
Kilmarnock 0 - 0 Dundee Utd
Motherwell 0 - 2 Aberdeen

Scottish Football League Championship First Division
Hamilton 1 - 0 Dundee
Partick 4 - 2 Airdrie Utd
Queen of South 0 - 1 St Johnstone
Ross County 0 - 3 Livingston

Scottish Football League Championship Second Division
Alloa 1 - 1 Peterhead
Ayr 0 - 4 Cowdenbeath
Brechin 0 - 1 Stirling
Raith 0 - 0 Forfar
Stranraer 0 - 3 Morton

Scottish Football League Championship Third Division
Albion 0 - 1 East Fife
Arbroath 0 - 1 Berwick
Dumbarton 2 - 0 East Stirling
Elgin 1 - 2 Queens Park
Stenhousemuir 5 - 0 Montrose

Highland League
Buckie Thistle 4 - 1 Fort William
Clachnacuddin 5 - 0 Brora
Fraserburgh 0 - 2 Cove Rangers
Keith 2 - 1 Huntly
Nairn County 4 - 0 Forres Mechanics
Rothes 2 - 0 Lossiemouth
Wick Academy 0 - 3 Deveronvale

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Look who is siting pretty in third place!

I know it's early days yet, but am I finally going to get a prediction vaguely correct?

Have we had season predictions yet? I reckon:

Prem:
Champions - Chelsea
Runners-up - Arsenal
3rd place - Liverpool

18) Wigan
19) Sheff U
20) Watford

Championship:
1) Crystal Palace
2) West Brom
Play-off winner: Southampton

22) Coventry
23) Colchester
24) Southend


I'm playing safe as you can see.

I did a similar post earlier, but I'll put my predictions in a slightly better form here.

Premiership : 1. Chelsea, 2. Arsenal, 3. Liverpool, 4. Manchester United

18. Manchester City, 19. Middlesbrough, 20. Sheffield United (Aston Villa should be OK I feel with O'Neill as manager, Everton I think will just survive).

Championship : 1. Crystal Palace, 2. Leeds United, Plymouth Argyle up through play offs.

22. Sheffield Wednesday, 23. QPR, 24. Colchester United.

In the absence of CE: England are leading Greece 4-0 at half-time.

Noooo! I completely forgot about that match!

And that was the final score as well.

A pity England couldn't have beaten Portugal 4-0 a few weeks ago........

Reading are now winning!

Will do my predictions soon...

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Reading are 3rd in the table ... for now...

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Now they're 4th!

Barclays Premiership
Arsenal 1 - 1 Aston Villa
Bolton 2 - 0 Tottenham
Everton 2 - 1 Watford
Newcastle 2 - 1 Wigan
Portsmouth 3 - 0 Blackburn
Reading 3 - 2 Middlesbrough
Sheff Utd 1 - 1 Liverpool
West Ham 3 - 1 Charlton

The Coca-Cola Football League Championship
Barnsley 2 - 2 Southampton
Birmingham 2 - 1 Crystal Palace
Burnley 0 - 1 Wolverhampton
Derby 0 - 0 Norwich
Ipswich 0 - 0 Hull
Leeds 0 - 1 Cardiff
Luton 2 - 2 Stoke
Plymouth 1 - 2 Sheff Wed
Preston 1 - 1 QPR
Southend 3 - 1 Sunderland
West Brom 2 - 1 Colchester

Coca-Cola Football League One
Bournemouth 2 - 1 Cheltenham
Brentford 2 - 2 Huddersfield
Bristol City 2 - 4 Blackpool
Carlisle 3 - 1 Leyton Orient
Crewe 0 - 3 Bradford
Gillingham 0 - 1 Northampton
Millwall 1 - 0 Oldham
Nottm Forest 2 - 1 Brighton
Port Vale 3 - 2 Chesterfield
Rotherham 2 - 1 Scunthorpe
Swansea 2 - 0 Doncaster
Tranmere 2 - 1 Yeovil

Coca-Cola Football League Two
Barnet 3 - 0 Hereford
Darlington 1 - 2 Swindon
Hartlepool 1 - 1 Torquay
Lincoln City 2 - 2 Walsall
Milton Keynes Dons 2 - 0 Bristol Rovers
Peterborough 3 - 1 Macclesfield
Rochdale 0 - 1 Notts County
Shrewsbury 5 - 0 Boston Utd
Wycombe 3 - 0 Bury

Nationwide Conference
Dag & Red 4 - 0 Tamworth
Exeter 2 - 1 Altrincham
Gravesend 0 - 1 York
Halifax 0 - 2 Grays Athletic
Northwich 0 - 1 Kidderminster
Rushden & D'monds 2 - 0 Forest Green
St Albans 3 - 5 Aldershot
Stafford Rangers 1 - 0 Southport
Stevenage 2 - 3 Crawley Town
Weymouth 2 - 1 Cambridge United
Woking 1 - 1 Morecambe

Nationwide North
Blyth Spartans 3 - 0 Alfreton Town
Droylsden 4 - 2 Nuneaton
Hinckley Utd 2 - 1 Farsley Celtic
Hucknall 1 - 3 Barrow
Hyde 1 - 2 Worksop
Lancaster City 0 - 1 Gainsborough
Leigh RMI 0 - 0 Redditch
Scarborough 0 - 1 Vauxhall Motors
Worcester 0 - 1 Moor Green
Workington 2 - 0 Kettering

Nationwide South
Bishop's Stortford 1 - 0 Eastbourne Borough
Eastleigh 1 - 3 Welling
Histon 3 - 0 Dorchester
Lewes 0 - 1 Braintree Town
Sutton Utd 3 - 3 Basingstoke
Weston-S-Mare 0 - 1 Fisher Athletic
Yeading 2 - 1 Bedford Town

Bank of Scotland Scottish Premier League
Dundee Utd 0 - 0 Dunfermline
Falkirk 1 - 2 Kilmarnock
Hibernian 3 - 1 Motherwell
Rangers 2 - 0 Hearts
St Mirren 1 - 1 Aberdeen

Scottish Football League Championship First Division
Airdrie Utd 2 - 2 Queen of South
Gretna 2 - 1 Ross County
Livingston 2 - 2 Partick
St Johnstone 0 - 0 Hamilton

Scottish Football League Championship Second Division
Cowdenbeath 1 - 3 Brechin
Forfar 0 - 2 Alloa
Morton 0 - 0 Ayr
Peterhead 0 - 1 Raith
Stirling 3 - 3 Stranraer

Scottish Football League Championship Third Division
Berwick 0 - 1 Stenhousemuir
East Fife 2 - 1 Arbroath
Montrose 2 - 0 Elgin
Queens Park 1 - 0 Dumbarton

Scot-Ads Highland Football League
Brora 2 - 0 Fraserburgh
Cove Rangers 1 - 0 Inverurie Locos
Deveronvale 1 - 1 Buckie Thistle
Fort William 0 - 5 Rothes
Huntly 4 - 0 Lossiemouth
Keith 1 - 0 Clachnacuddin

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You must be pretty happy CE. Reading did well. OK, some of the goals were a little sloppy but it's still good.

If I don't look at yesterday's Charlton result any more, maybe it'll go away.......

Same for Plymouth! Although I do think we both deserved better to be fair. Maybe not wins but both scorelines were a little flattering to the respective victorious sides.

Stanley beat Forest! Definitely the shock of the season so far!

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The unluckiness continues for Sunderland - they go down to 10 men against Bury after four minutes; could we be in for another shock victory?

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Leciester fans will be pleased to know that they have scored (against Macclesfield).

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Who's Stanley? He must be a very clever man to beat a whole football team all by himself.

(before we get another reply, I know CE means Accrington! )

Leicester - scoring! *shock horror*

Not seen since the days of Lineker.

Quite a lot of League 2 sides beat Championship sides in the Carling Cup!

Results for 23/08/06

Barclays Premiership
Tottenham 2 - 0 Sheff Utd
Watford 1 - 1 West Ham

Nationwide North
Alfreton Town 2 - 2 Hyde
Kettering 1 - 2 Hinckley Utd
Nuneaton 0 - 1 Leigh RMI
Redditch 1 - 2 Hucknall

Nationwide South
Bedford Town 3 - 1 Bishop's Stortford
Bognor Regis Town 3 - 0 Thurrock
Dorchester 1 - 0 Eastleigh
Eastbourne Borough 2 - 0 Sutton Utd
Hayes 1 - 4 Lewes
Salisbury 2 - 1 Newport County
Welling 2 - 4 Histon

Carling Cup
Birmingham 1 - 0 Shrewsbury
Blackpool 2 - 2 Barnsley (Barnsley win 4-2 on penalties)
Bournemouth 1 - 3 Southend
Bristol Rovers 1 - 1 Luton (Luton win 5-3 on penalties)
Burnley 0 - 1 Hartlepool
Bury 2 - 0 Sunderland
Cardiff 0 - 2 Barnet
Carlisle 1 - 1 Bradford (Carlisle win 4-3 on penalties)
Cheltenham 2 - 1 Bristol City
Crystal Palace 1 - 2 Notts County
Doncaster 3 - 2 Rochdale
Grimsby 0 - 3 Crewe
Hereford 3 - 1 Coventry
Huddersfield 0 - 2 Mansfield
Hull 2 - 1 Tranmere (After Extra Time)
Leeds 1 - 0 Chester
Leicester 2 - 0 Macclesfield
Millwall 2 - 1 Gillingham
Milton Keynes Dons 1 - 0 Colchester (After Extra Time)
Peterborough 2 - 2 Ipswich (Peterborough win 4-2 on penalties)
Plymouth 0 - 1 Walsall
QPR 3 - 2 Northampton
Rotherham 3 - 1 Oldham
Scunthorpe 4 - 3 Lincoln City (After Extra Time)
Stockport 0 - 1 Derby
Stoke 1 - 2 Darlington
Swansea 2 - 3 Wycombe (After Extra Time)
Swindon 2 - 2 Brentford (Brentford win 4-3 on penalties)

CIS Insurance Cup
Alloa 2 - 1 Ross County
Ayr 0 - 0 Dunfermline (Dunfermline win 7-6 on penalties)
Brechin 0 - 3 Livingston
Dundee Utd 1 - 0 Airdrie Utd (After Extra Time)
Hibernian 4 - 0 Peterhead
Motherwell 3 - 2 Partick
Queen of South 1 - 2 Kilmarnock (After Extra Time)
Queens Park 0 - 0 Aberdeen (Queens Park win 5-3 on penalties)
St Johnstone 4 - 0 Elgin
St Mirren 3 - 1 Stenhousemuir

UEFA Champions League Qualifying
Benfica 3 - 0 Austria Magna
Crvena Zvezda 1 - 2 AC Milan
Maccabi Haifa 1 - 1 Liverpool
Osasuna 1 - 1 Hamburg (Hamburg win on Away Goals Rule)
Valencia 3 - 0 SV Red Bull Salzburg

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I think this season is gonna be another good one for Chelsea and S######horpe! I'm also very pleased that Stanley toppled Forest, I'm rooting for Stanley because it's about time they got back into the mix.

Arsenal are losing, Hearts are down to 10 men, Aston Villa equalised...

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and Reading are down to 10 men CE.

Look what happened at the weekend when the same thing happened to Charlton...

Just noticed that...

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2-1

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We lost

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Fulham equalised in the last minute, Middlesbrough scored and took the lead in the last minute, will it be Arsenal's turn?

EDIT 09:56PM: What a prediction! What's my prize?

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ITV4 lost the picture when Arsenal scored their first.

Walcott played very well again - his cross led to the second goal.

2 games , 2 heavy defeats, zero points.

Oh dear.

I've checked the league table - there is currently no team in the Premiership that is worse than Charlton.

Oh well, I guess the only way is up *keeps fingers crossed*

Compared to last season!

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West Brom have scored

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Awww.

Hope Leyton Orient do what they did to Fulham last season *fingers crossed*...

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A thought CE - what will you do if Leyton Orient and Reading are drawn together in a cup competition?

Oooh, never thought about that one...

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.......a good reason to have one, and only one team to support, through thick and thin (this season, looks like lots and lots of thin...... )

3-0

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This is bad , isn't it?

Yep. Oh well, there's always the FA Cup!

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Charlton won! Amazing! Makes a change from losing heavily!