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Week 15 "I always had belief in myself" Harry Maguire - named Premier Division player of the month in November Del Amitri sung "Nothing ever happens" and indeed that sums up Week 15 of the Chess Fantasy League where low scores abounded and the leaders were by enlarge the same as Week 14. Adrian Mat...

Week 14 "When they get relegated - and they will get relegated - they could do with Paul Heckingbottom to get them back up." - Chris Sutton. Sheffield United sacking their manager. Four days ago in the update, no Premier Division manager had lost their job. Although not officially announced, the Bl...

Week 13 No Premier Managers sacked By this time last year 5 out of the 20 original incumbents had been shown the door. See https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11661/13009561/no-premier-league-managers-sacked-erik-ten-hag-andone-iraola-and-others-benefited-from-sacking-freeze . Turning to our ow...

I am sure you all watch one of the most entertaining shows on television - I refer, of course, to Bluey on cbeebies. A new episode has been screened today "Chest" where Dad tries to teach Bluey (and Bingo) chess - with predictable results. Here are a couple of clips:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Week 12 "The club admitted it was in breach of the PSRs for the period ending season 2021-22" Everton docked 10 points by Premier League. For those of you unfamiliar with PSR, it stands for "profitability and sustainability rules" and not public sector resourcing, payments systems regulator or seve...

And finally to complete the set - Division Four. Two teams were absent whilst Desert Penguins, led by IM Augustin Madin, started with two 6-0 victories.

Play commences tomorrow at 2.00pm at Telford.

A new thread to discuss Division Three Knights which started today along with the two top divisions. This one is going to be really contested - two matches were halved 3-3 and the remaining four all finished 3½ - 2½. The average ratings were all close as well; there was less than 100 points between ...

I has occurred to me that Jonathan has already opened a thread "and so starts the 31st season" - which seems to primarily deal with Division One. He write about Division Two:- Division two looks considerably stronger than it has been for some years. No fewer than five teams average over 2200 over th...

Week Eleven https://www.burnleyfootballclub.com/matches/women/table Burnley top the table! Unfortunately not in the Premier League. :) Week 11 was a diabolical week for most managers; injuries, substitutions, sendings off - it had it all. Consequently there were amazing low scores throughout - only...

Quarter One - Weeks 1-10 The opening quarter was remarkable in that 25 different managers featured in the top five over the first 10 weeks. Most disappeared as quickly as Hale-Bopp and are just as likely to appear again - well at least this season. The fact that even our most successful manager cou...

Brendan O'Gorman wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 07, 2023 8:04 pm

Neil Graham wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 06, 2023 1:54 pm

Looks as though we can put out the light on Othello then.

I thought that one had gone unnoticed.

Looks as though we can put out the light on Othello then.

Week Ten "We will never forget him & nor will all of football." Sir Geoff Hurst mourns team mate Sir Bobby Charlton. For the first time this season, the top five are almost identical to the preceding week albeit in a slightly different order. Quarter Two normally sorts out our long term frontrunner...

A slight correction to the above - Joe Friar was actually not last years winner :lol: Oops - sorry James! Is there going to be a family double this year do you think? Incidentally I have a tidying-up post I need to write about last season. I'll try and do that in the next few days. Finally it's gra...