Final Day Predictions

A Playoff place for Town? I Doubt It 46 hard fought games all boil down to today, with ours proving to be one of the most important going into the final day. However, I expect the pre-kick off excitement to be fully out of steam by full time with T ...

Dave Bassett: the master becomes the apprentice

It may not be quite that dramatic, but 63-year old Dave Bassett is Dennis Wise's new assistant manager. I'm not sure if there's a Freudian way to interpret the decision to appoint as your assistant the man who was your first manager, but I'd like to think

Weekend Review

Fairly ho-hum weekend in the Coca Cola Championship this past weekend, and rightly so with the focus being on the rugby in France, where the Springboks got it done for their second RWC title. A few results did stand out on the round ball side of th

Reserves/Ladies

Rovers reserves drew at Middlesbrough on Tuesday. A late Boro equaliser cancelled out Maceo Rigters early goal to send Rovers home with a point. Bruno Berner returned to the side for the game. Since my last update the ladies have scored 12 goals!

Youth and Ladies update

It was a bad week for Rovers other sides who both tasted defeat for the first time this season. Rovers Academy suffered a 3-0 defeat at Aston Villa. Villa, who look in good shape this season after hammering Liverpool 5-0 last week, played four overage

Pride of the Shirt -- Watford (Home) 07/08

The Hornets will look to bounce straight back into the Premiership wearing these fine efforts.

Anfield Banter: Hammill to be loaned, Luis Garcia got married?, & Malouda is definitely not coming

* My man-boy crush will not be wearing a Liverpool kit next season, and will most likely end up on a Championship side. The top candidates to receive his services are Birmingham, Watford, Southampton, Crystal Palace, and Leicester I was hoping he'd end

Today's Terrace Talk

*Coventry City look close to being the latest US backed club... *Takeover talk in surrounding Southampton has cooled... *Sheffield United are being backed to avoid Football League... *Darlington's future looks a little uncertain at the moment...

MK Dons Continue to Get No Respect

The Milton Keynes Dons (aka Franchise FC) are a unique club. For those unfamiliar with the story, the MK Dons actually used to be Wimbledon Football Club. The very same Wimbledon that beat Liverpool in the 1988 FA Cup Final in one of the biggest upsets in

Adam Hammill: What the future holds...

After watching the Scottish Cup Final today, I've come to the conclusion that Hammill is just not ready for the Premiership. He's an electrifying prospect and I was a bit surprised with the amount of responsibility that Dunfermline had placed on him in s

In the End United Were Just Too Strong...

Your eyes do not deceive you -- Kieran Richardson did indeed score.

RESERVES v Aston Villa BLOGGED LIVE AND RESULT

FINAL SCORE: CHELSEA 1-2 ASTON VILLA COME ON CHELSEA 2 mins of injury time called Villa sub: Collins off, Roome on 2mins to go with about 2 extra mins 87mins: But no final product. Villa defending very deep - just like parking the bus

Bruised Goliath Holds Off Long Ball Specialist David

The prospect of being in the first Cup Final at the expensively assembled 'Church of Football' is a decent one - but is it really worth losing another player in the process?. Simply put, no. We could have really done without this game, compounded by R

FA Cup Semi-Final v Blackburn at Old Trafford

I am going to keep this simple, sweet and straight to the point. Last season against the scum of Liverpool at exactly the same stage and at the same venue and in the same competition, I wasn't worried. Chelsea lost 2-1. Scumpool went on the lift the FA

Aidy Boothroyd's Hornets Looking to Sting Confident United

On paper this game is simply no contest. But the game ain't played on paper, so Watford certainly have a chance to provide the upset. And after United's demolition of Roma - a Watford win would go down in the history of upsets. With United loanee Ben

Watford 0-1 Chelsea

Meet the man who has kept Chelsea's title charge in check, scoring the only goal of the game deep, deep, deep into injury time. Watford lost possession in their own half and the ball was fed out to Shevchenko on Chelsea's right, he sent in a pin-po

Dismal England!!!!

So England failed dismally in Israel on Saturday and really were you surprised? McClaren is not an International manager, to be fair he just about became a manager at 'Boro... England NO!!! What I don't like is that the press and media seemed to be

Ben Foster -- Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place

You have to feel just a little bit sorry for United loanee Ben Foster. Not only was he to blame for Spurs keeper Paul Robinson's long range punt finding the back of the net on Saturday - but a bad break was compounded by United's progress in the FA Cup.

Match Preview- Spurs V Watford

Home against Watford this Saturday, and it would certainly appear that we have a good chance. A win, along with minimal points from Everton and Reading, puts us in sixth place. Robinson and Jenas are back for us, and I would have to say that Berbatov wi

Watch and Weep Sir Elton John

Lloyd Doyley Achieves His Dream of Scoring For United (D'oh!)

Cruise Control

They came in on the back of two wins, but surely doomed Watford left Old Trafford battered and bruised, having provided limp resistance in the end. You have to admire their travelling support though - they never stopped singing the whole match. And it's

In Come Watford

Quite why Watford have a moose in their badge (when their nickname is the Hornets) is a little beyond me. Perhaps he's a moose who really believes he's a hornet. It's not like anybody can tell him otherwise. Regardless, the Premiership's bottom club c

Full Time: Watford 1-2 Arsenal

The Gunners have taken all three points thanks to a second-half winner from van Persie. As Liverpool lost earlier, Arsenal are now back in third place. Lots of chances for Adebayor, who has looked pretty good since Henry was sidelined. Lehmann had

Watford Host Best Team in England

At least, that's what my good friend Robin van Persie says. Objectively, Watford will entertain the Arsenal on this fine Boxing Day. The Gunners will still be without eight players due to injury in this, the twentieth meeting between the two near-neig

Chelsea Round-Up

All three of the Chelsea teams - 1st Team, Academy and Reserves - have now played their round of matches this weekend and all have suffered different results. With that 'wonder' free-kick from Right-Back and Cameroon International Geremi, Chelsea o

Your Choice of Right-Back - Ferreira, Boulahrouz or Geremi?

Since Glenn Johnson left to join Portsmouth on a season long loan, and Willie G departed to Emirates XI (Willie G can and has played at right-back) Jose and Chelsea have struggled to fill what could be described as a 'vacant' right-back position, alth

Drogba 3, Shevchenko 1 v Watford 0

You know it is a sobering thought watching a football match. Four days earlier Chelsea bumped off Aston Villa in the Carling Cup 4-0 and Villa's manager Martin O'Neill was truthful in his post-match interview that Chelsea fully deserved their win and

Lager, Vintage Champagne, Bitter

There was nothing 'lagerish' about Chelsea's performance in last night's Carling Cup tie against Aston Villa at Stamford Bridge. The performance was more 'vintage sparkling champagne' and the result helped to wipe away the 'bitter' defeat by Tottenham

Chelsea v Barcelona SHEVA OUT

Chelsea flew out from Gatwick on Sunday afternoon for their Group A meeting with Barcelona with a squad that consisted of the following: A Cole, Makelele, Essien, Carvalho, Shevchenko, Lampard, Boulahrouz, J Cole, Drogba, Ballack, Geremi, Robben, B