Realest Of Football, Realest Of Talk: Football League, Blue Square & Beyond, 2009/10

I love how the title sequence on this mirrors ITV's The Championship in its emphasis on the fans because the players and clubs are, y'know, a bit shit.

steve was looking in rude health imo

Football is nothing without fans (c. some successful Scottish bloke that Manish has probably never heard of)

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_3970000/newsid_3972800/3972827.stm

ITV managed to show all the goals and still have a proper highlights montage of their main match, presumably the Beeb think people watch this shit for pundits and Your Emails.

Ooh, mysterious about her age!

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ITV also had Andy Townsend: Anchorman.

Sorry I'm liveblogging this shit, didn't realise they showed the main match 3rd.

hmm ok she's something of a boring posh bint, less interested, would still smash tho

They also have highlights packages for every game up on the website tomorrow morning, if I read their website right.

Wow. So have the Beeb got internet rights for all non-Premier English league matches then? Cos if I'd paid for a subscription to my club's site to get basically the same footage I'd be well peeved.

The BBC football league show reminds me of the presentation style of Watchdog, with lizzie sitting on desk and reading out texts

Next week's show to feature a bunch of Norwich fans wanting their money back.

"Chris from Newcastle has phoned up to complain about the purchase of an Irish winger"

re: Norwich - I through Delia & Gunny were going to offer up some tasty menus this season, but yesterday was a right Dog's Breakfast

maybe Gunny should go back to his Corporate Hospitality job at Carrow Road?

The club sites getting it first is what keeps Beeb from upping it til Monday, I think. Then again, last season I'm pretty sure Virgin Media had full highlights bobs too, so I'm guessing the Beeb just got their package?

Phil Jones all chasing Danny Wilson to his car, secretly filming Paul Ince agreeing MK Dons shouldn't exist, that sort of thing.

Also, just realised - Peschisolido's the first North American manager in Britain, isn't he?

Presumably. Although he probably qualifies as a Brit by now

Make sure you all watch the Charlton-Wycombe highlights. I can say with absolute certainty that it was the best game of the day. The goals don't tell half the story.

Still trying to think of some random Canadian in the Scottish third division or something, but I think you're probably right.

Lawrie Sanchez

And the second one, Clinton has headed it at knee height. If you're a defender and he heads it that low you take his head off, it's as simple as that.

This will put a dampener on my birthday for sure but Roy Keane's birthday is not, and should not be, important in the grand scheme of things.

Oh, and I forgot to check, so I just found out, but AFC's Conference debut started with a 1-1 draw at home against Luton. Promising, eh?

I can't remember ever having come away from a loss and getting such a positive feeling among our fans. We lost the game to a late goal, but after fifteen or twenty minutes of shocking stage fright, during which we could easily have conceded three, we totally held our own against a moderate Leeds side (and some genuinely astoundingly homer officials). If this is the best we're going to face in the division, the thinking goes, we'll likely be OK. Next up: QPR in the League Cup and Norwich City at ours in the League. Cripes.

Naaarwich fans: Can we (Melbourne) have our keeper back now?

well i never...WBS will be ecstatic at this news

Bristol Rovers striker Rickie Lambert seals £1m move to Southampton
http://bit.ly/qM860

The AFC Wimbledon game was really very promising, both goals were pretty debatable penalties (ours maybe a little more debatable than theirs!) but the general standard of play was a definite improvement to what I have seen from them in previous seasons.

After a bright start from us Luton bossed the first half but the second half was all AFC and if the game had been played for another 5 minutes I reckon we would have won it.

I still think we'll be high mid-table without making the playoffs, 9th or 10th maybe, but then again I also thought we'd get smashed on Saturday so I clearly know fuck all.

Lewis Taylor in our midfield is a league player in the making by the way.

I was out of the country last year so didn't get to many games, but I'll be at most home matches and a few away games this season so I'll hopefully posting more and lurking less...

hopefully *be* etc etc

apparently Exeter City had their biggest away support EVER up at Elland Road - but how many?

2800 odd. Not sure where you heard that it was our biggest away support ever but it wasn't. Might have been our biggest away support for a league game but I'm not even sure about that, tbf.

(That is to say, a regular league game rather than a play-off obv.)

re: Exeter and "biggest away support for a league game"

yep, i was listening to the radio and a journalist at the game mentioned it

Beeb's confirmed Lambert. Holy shit. Did we... did we just get stuff done? I mean, it's not exactly "nothing can stop us now" territory, but it's a pretty huge step forward.

Gasmen not gonna be happy about that imo

rumour Trundle to become a Rover

looks like Pardew has hit Gold, a 6 ft 2 striker that is a goal machine at league 1 level, approaching his peak years at 27 and half, strikers aged 27-30 are often at their peak performance, they have both experience of positioning / tactics and athletic ability.

Two other big deals gone down in the Championship - Joe Mattock's gone to West Brom, and Adam Hammill has signed permanently for Barnsley.

i was enjoying Torquay batter Chesterfield, then saw a woman dropping her knickers in a toilet cubicle

the replay can be watched...
BBC football show kicks off season with embarrassing glitch as highlights cut to shot of woman in a toilet cubicle
http://bit.ly/3p7sYK

The football programme is on much too late, i suppose it's for the morons who have just arrived home from the pub.

- Kathleen, Wakefield, UK, 10/8/2009 14:33
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Kathleen in Wakefield - No, it's on at that time for the people who have stayed at the pub to get away from brittle harpies and their cacophonous prattle, love.

Know what I mean?

- Ade, Brighton, 10/8/2009 17:00
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the british cankles

BBC Sport picture subs outdo themselves again

"nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"

also I am actually quite tickled by the fact we lost to a strike by a player called GODSMARK

further tickled by the fact Andy Gray had a shocker and must now be culled to save his own face

Paul Sturrock, Football Genius:

"We tried to change our whole philosophy of football. We concentrated on passing the football in pre-season and the one key factor for us is that we have forgotten how to defend."

And Martin Ling's back in at Cambridge now chairman George Rolls has resigned.

potential new messiah at newcastle?

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11688_5488215,00.html

GUNN FIRED !

Bryan Gunn wanted to win promotion, but won the sack race instead

the mirror with the scoop

Bryan Gunn fired by Norwich City
http://bit.ly/lLFph

GUNN'S CONTRACT TERMINATED
http://www.canaries.co.uk/page/NewsDetails/0,,10355~1755120,00.html

Now that... that just seems headless. Yes, losing 7-1 at home on opening day is bad, but they then went and won 4-0 in the cup - and looked pretty decent in so doing - against a fellow League One side in midweek. That seemed to have given them a bit of momentum, which has presumably now completely evaporated. Really quite bizarre.

Notts County have signed Kasper Schmeichel on a five-year contract for an undisclosed fee, believed to be a club record.

Sheeeeeeeeee-it.

Re Gunn, a real shot in the dark this bulletin. No barrel of fun for the Canaries. How to gauge what they must be feeling. Hope they don't fire blanks this weekend. I keep clearing my cache to get the latest.