Two good wins away at Plymouth and at home to Sheff Wed has done wonders for Tranmere's league position.

Arsenal beat Barcelona in the Champions League.

Talking of Arsenal, not at all pleased that their FA Cup match with Leyton Orient is not being televised on ITV...

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I thought Barca would win that one...well done to the Gunners!

O ye of little faith. I must admit, if Barca had kept playing like they did before half-time we'd have been sunk.

The return match won't be easy, but at 2-1, you have a very live chance

I am not an Arsenal fan but caught the second half at my hotel, and it was really good stuff and very entertaining. Rafa had a face as long as a fiddle. (Incidentally he has decided he will still live on the Wirral as he can fly Liverpool - Barca in an hour and a half, and his wife has got involved with some activities here)

World Cup/Euros to continue to be on free-to-air TV channels

A different country, but I am so happy, I have to share:

FC St. Pauli won against HSV yesterday.
That hasn't happend for 33 years!

Which division are they in?

German Bundesliga

(HSV is Hamburg by the way)

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Guessing this is a local derby

Yep, St Pauli are based in Hamburg too.

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Thanks CE

I apologies for not mentioned all this. May I add, St. Pauli is the team of the working class and HSV the one of the upper class. Beside that, St. Pauli is some kind of lunatic. In their own stadion they play "Hells Bells" when entering.

An interesting article I've just read - believe it or not it's been 9 years since Jose Mourinho last lost a league game at home - that's 147 games unbeaten to be precise.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/9399728.stm

Quite an incredible record...

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We're playing Millwall today and we're going to lose.

A tough one for Tranmere this afternoon , down at Peterborough, but they're on form after two excellent wins, so I hope they can get at least a point ! Maybe all three. They would do Barry a favour if they can !

Darn it ,we were winning but P'bro have just equalised. 1-1 now

One for Millwall, one for Palace and one for us.

FT.

Darn it even more , we lost ! Sorry Barry !

Reading, not surprisingly, have drawn again...

I notice that Strachan and Southgate are pundits again for the Man Utd-Crawley match...

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*Wonders how they would fare at controlling the Millwall fans*

We had bottles thrown at our 20yr-old keeper and they had to stop the game for a bit.

boo

Today hasn't done anything to endear a certain footbal club to me. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...all/9402804.stm

I hope they get charged by the FA.

They didn't manage to force the game to be abandoned (which is possibly what they wanted) and didn't stop us taking all 3 points.

I hope something is done about the incident, and I'm very pleased to see your lot go back to the North East with the 3 points

I was very pleased that we took the points back to Teesside too.

Shame about your result though, and Palace and Preston both got points so we're still extremely vulnerable. We play the league leaders next...

Edit: If they had injured Jason Steele we'd have been screwed because Danny Coyne is out injured and we therefore had an 18-year-old academy goalie on the bench...and whilst he's promising I wouldn't fancy having him as our only goalkeeper for a run of games...

Danny did a great job for Tranmere a few seasons ago.

I know : and we didn't play badly. It was 'one of those days', and I'm glad to see the back of Exeter, who comprehensively outplayed us at their place earlier in the season...

Come on Leyton Orient! We can beat Arsenal!

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If Crawley can run Man Utd that close, yes, you can certainly beat Arsenal

Yes, certainly some encouragement there.

Hopefully they've still got a hangover from that Barcelona victory in mid-week.

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Or they play some fringe players so it's a weaker Arsenal you're up against

(with due apologies to andante_in_c and all the other Arsenal fans here )

With the form that Orient are in at the moment, it'll be tough for Wenger to choose his starting line-up. Mind you, he hasn't got that many players to choose from. Carlos Vela would probably have started, but he's on loan at West Brom. I'd imagine the likes of Almunia, Gibbs, Denilson, Rosicky, Squillaci, Djourou, Chamakh and Bendtner will probably start.

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The FA Cup sixth round draw is coming up. It's the fourth (and probably) final attempt to see whether Reading can draw Leyton Orient...

Although it probably won't matter as I can't see Reading getting past Everton...

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There's just the small matter of Orient getting past Arsenal first...

FA Cup Sixth Round Draw
Manchester United v Leyton Orient or Arsenal
Manchester City or Aston Villa v Everton or Reading
Stoke v West Ham or Burnley
Birmingham v Bolton

So they didn't draw each other, but there's a incentive for Orient...

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Arsenal have Ignasi Miquel in their starting line-up.

Yes, "Who?" I hear you ask...

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I remember saying that about David Beckham once...

Arsenal have just scored

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There's still time.

1-1. 89th minute equaliser!!!



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Replay at the Emirates. A good return, and more money in the Orient coffers.

Well done, CE. Orient played well, and I'm glad they'll get a bigger share of the pot. I'm not too keen on the draw for the next round: I almost feel that you're welcome to it.

And now the players have earned a holiday to Las Vegas Oh cheers!

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Well-played to Orient. A good result for you, and an extra fixture which Arsenal could probably have done without...

We were supposed to be hosting Plymouth on Tuesday week. Instead it's a trip to The Emirates

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It seems to be a bad year to be a 'W' club in the Premier League. The bottom 4 aren't quite in alphabetical order, but nearly...

Had Wolves held on to win in the Black Country derby today, West Ham would've been bottom with 25 points and -18 goal difference, but then amazingly we would've had West Brom (17th), Wolves (18th) and Wigan (19th) all tied on 27 points, and all of whom would've had the same goal difference of -18. As it is, Wolves stay bottom.

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who's scored the most goals out of those three? I *think* that goals scored comes into play after points and GD, although I could be wrong...