Ooooh, a relegation! Hehe!

Close call between Brighton and Forest. As for the Saints match, how ironic that their goal glut machine gets sent off and lose with the consequenting penalty!

Not only that... Wright-Phillips is banned for a league match when we return to League action.

Bloody hell, not only are we going to get relegated in real life, we're going to get relegated on here as well...

You still have hope.

It looks like this:

Basically the team that'll be relegated is whoever fairs better in the Bognor - Shrewsbury games... God foribid a 0-0 draw..

Criteria to decide league positions:

1) Points won, most to least
2) Goal-difference, most to least
3) Goals scored, most to least
4) Goals against, least to most
5) Games won, most to least
6) Games lost, least to most
7) Games drawn, least to most
A play-off on neutral ground, 90 mins + extra time & penalties

I think we might have a problem when it gets to number 5... Having said that, at the moment we've got a problem when it gets to number 1...

Well the Cup may as well be decked in red and white already with either Sunderland or Liverpool almost dead certs to go on to be champions. Anyway...


Sunderland: Stokes 80, 90+6, Caldwell Sent Off 90+2
Liverpool: Gerrard 43, Crouch 49
Sunderland win 6-5 on penalties

Sunderland played a 7-2-1 formation to try to keep Liverpool out of the way. It almost worked until GERRARD's free kick on 43 minutes curled neatly over the wall and over the surprised Darren WARD in goal. Second half, second goal as CROUCH fired in a bullet header with barely five minutes of the second half gone. Sunderland seemed to think they needed to attack if they were to get anything from this game, and switched to a 4-2-4. As the clock ticked down, a Sunderland corner from MURPHY was powered in by STOKES from 20 yards after a goal-line scramble in which REINA tried to blast it upfield. 1-2, 80 minutes gone, Liverpool switched to a much more defensive formation. Sunderland started to get desperate as the fourth official flashed up 5 minutes added on, and even more so when CALDWELL recieved his marching orders for a vicious tackle on CROUCH. The Liverpool big man blasted the penalty into the Stretford End, and the resultant goal-kick bounced all the way to MURPHY, who blasted his shot just wide in the dying seconds. That was it. Game to Liverpool. Or so everyone thought until the resultant goal kick was sliced by REINA and found its way to STOKES who nipped round HYYPIA, collected the ball and had an easy tap-in to frustrate 35,000 Scousers making the short trip to Manchester. Extra time came and went with nothing of note, bar an amazing save by WARD from GERRARD at close-range. Penalties. Every penalty successfully converted, and it was 5-5 coming into sudden death. WHITEHEAD stepped up for Sunderland and dummied the shot, Reina guessed wrongly and 6-5. Next up, John Arne RIISE. 70,000 pairs of eyes upon him. He has to score. He looks confident. He steps up to the jeers of the Black Cats' faithful. He powers it to the right. WARD powers his body to the right. The keeper manages to scoop it away just before it crosses the line. No goal. Sunderland go through.


Wolves:
Brighton: Kazim-Richards 36

Another hard-luck story for football, this time it was Championship side Wolves' turn to lose to some lower league opposition. Wanderers started the game well, forcing a first-minute corner nearly turned in by BOTHROYD. Wolves, with a 4-3-3 that worked quite well, were always testing Albion during the opening stages, KEOGH nearly scoring in the seventeenth minute and BREEN thought he'd got the first of many for Wolves on the half-hour mark, but the goal was ruled out due to a foul in the area. Then it was Brighton's turn to shine, CLYDE's sloppy pass picked up by REHMAN, who slotted it to KAZIM-RICHARDS, who tucked it neatly away in the bottom left-hand corner. Half-time and Wolves' team talk couldn't have been pretty. Then Wolves got their chance. Penalty. BOTHROYD hammered it against the post and followed up with a great goal to just elude HENDERSON in goal. 1-1. Except that it was disallowed - BOTHROYD played the ball twice from a penalty. Wanderers could see the game slipping away from them, and despite all their best efforts (Brighton only had one shot all second half), POTTER hitting the post just before the end, HENDERSON kept goal brilliantly and Albion were through to the final.

Sunderland vs. Brighton HA, Wembley, 14 November, 19.00 KO

League program resumes on 17th November

Maybe you should do agragate score between the two teams as a number 4.5.

Just realised I made a mistake - the Final should in fact be tomorrow.

DOND CUP FINAL
Wembley Stadium


Brighton HA: Kazim-Richards 2
Sunderland: Murphy 4, 87, Whitehead 19, 28, 45+3, Stokes 58, 63
The Cup Final started well for Albion when KAZIM-RICHARDS fired in a mistimed clearance by CALDWELL and there was hope for the League One side. It was not to last, as MURPHY recieved a through ball from HYSEN and easily slotted it home. Fifteen minutes later, it was WHITEHEAD who put the Black Cats in front, and it was him again who pounced on a high clearance by FULOP. But he wasn't done, and struck on the stroke of half-time to claim his hat-trick. The second half kicked off, and it was all Sunderland, with WHITEHEAD missing a chance for his fourth straight from the restart. He was able to play STOKES through for 5-1, and the Black Cats were totally safe. STOKES made sure five minutes later, and then Sunderland just treated it as a kickabout, the game passing pretty much without incedent until MURPHY slammed home a superb volley from twenty yards following HYSEN's cross. 7-1, and in the dying seconds MAYO was booked for a vicious tackle on HYSEN, who unfortunately missed the resultant penalty and couldn't add his name to the scoresheet. It was the last kick of the game. Sunderland were Cupwinners.

FIX!!

Terribly outdated - Kazim-Richards is at Fenerbahce now!

Hehe I know it's a year old game lol - agreed with Tom though, FIX!!!

Shrewsbury play Bognor in eight weeks.

Back on track with the League now...

Fixtures
Bognor Regis vs Crystal Palace
Brighton HA vs Plymouth
Manchester U vs Wolves
Nott'm Forest vs Ipswich
QPR vs Tottenham
Shrewsbury vs Newcastle
Southampton vs Everton
Sunderland vs Liverpool

Here's hoping Shrewsbury can win for the first time.

Results.


Bognor: Rowlands Sent Off 17, Nolan Sent Off 35
Palace: Wederson 24(p), Kuqi 35(p), 36, 41, 42, 48, Morrison 45+3, 53, 59, 60, 67, 81, Scowcroft 79, 80, Cranville 84
It was 17-0, this isn't a rehash of the Forest-Liverpool thing


Brighton: Robinson 5, 48, Christie 51
Plymouth: Chadwick 12, Samba 74


Man Utd: Rooney 4, 26, 60, 61, Saha 36(p), Vidic 59, Scholes Sent Off 28
Wolves: Borgetti 67(p), 72(p)


Forest: Holt 82
Ipswich: Macken 7, Currie 46


QPR: Blackstock 14, Baidoo 70, Rehman Sent Off 88
Spurs: Keane 12, 15, 33, 44, 75, 88(p), Zakora 72


Shrewsbury: Drummond 62
Newcastle: Luque 3(p), 23, 32, Parker 15, Dyer 59, Sibierski 69, 77


So'ton: Wright 86, Skacel Sent Off 46, Baird Sent Off 56
Everton: Johnson 22, Cahill 61, van der Meyde 76, Cahill 78


Sunderland: Elliot 16, Elliot Sent Off 62
Liverpool: Gonzalez 64, Gerrard 67, 73, Bellamy 72

Bognor are bottom.

You know I am really starting to like this league

17-0!!! That would be almost as bad as losing 7-1 to Everton, wouldn't it Noel_Blobby? Oh, hang on...

LMAO!!! Was watching it this morning on MOTD repeat - if I was a Black Cats fan, I'd wanna drown myself!!!

Can't see Noel_Blobby anywhere today...wonder where he is...