FA Cup Round 2 - this weekend

Reminder that it is also FA Cup weekend this weekend. Bizarrely my brother would rather have my team and me his but by the end of it only one of us will be in. To make it more interesting we are going to visit him on sunday when the match is being played :-)

Friday 30th November 2012
Bradford		v	Brentford	Christine
Saturday 1st December 2012
Harrogate Town	Dave B	v	Hastings Utd	Kelly
Lincoln City	Kate	v	Mansfield
Accrington Stanley	Pete L	v	Oxford Utd	Gillian
Barrow	Chris S	v	Macclesfield	Dave H
Bury		v	Southend	Ted L
Carlisle	Amy	v	Bournemouth	Dan
Coventry		v	Morecambe	Jane
Crawley	Mick	v	Chelmsford	Jan F
Crewe		v	Burton Albion	Scott
Fleetwood		v	Aldershot	Maddie
Luton		v	Dorchester
Oldham	James L	v	Doncaster	Jon
Preston		v	Gillingham
Rotherham	Kev	v	Notts County	Lyn
Sheff Utd	Darren	v	Port Vale
Tranmere		v	Chesterfield
Sunday 2nd December 2012		v
MK Dons	Margs	v	Wimbledon	Andy West
Alfreton	Keith	v	Leyton Orient	Anna
Monday 3rd December 2012		v
Cheltenham	Pete B	v	Hereford

Team of the Week - Sue's Wolves featuring Bully

Team of the week is becoming a curse, so my idea was to feature Bolton's opponents and therefore ensure a win for me but sadly we had already featured Ipswich and I am sure we all remember that because of the fact about the nets.  So instead I will so with my original plan of Sue's Wolves - Kelly you may benefit?

My main memory of Wolves is in fact that it was Steve Bull's team. I must have visited Molineux a couple of times and seen Wolves at Fratton several times with Pompey and in the same way that we had Alan Knight, they had Steve Bull. He was their Legend. (which is the real Steve Bull?)

Having left school in 1981 (Amy surely this counts..) Steve joined non-league Tipton Town and held down a succession of factory jobs in addition to playing local league games.  He began his professional career, aged 19 at West Brom in 1984.  In November 1986, he was sold to local rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers, along with Andy Thompson, for £65,000 where he remained until the end of his professional career in 1999. 

In over 13 years at Wolves, Steve known by his fans as 'Bully' broke no less than four of the club's goal scoring records.

a) He became their all-time leading goalscorer with 306 goals in competitive games

b) 250 of them in the Football League

c) became their highest goalscorer in a single season when he scored 52 goals in competitive games during the 1987–88 season.  Wolves won the Fourth Division championship and was the first of only three teams to have been champion of all four divisions – Anna’s Burnley was another!

d) he scored a club record of 18 hat-tricks between May 1987 and August 1996

He went on to make 464 league appearances for the club, 561 appearances in total.

He is regarded as such a legend at the club that one of the main stands at their home ground, Molineux, is named after him. This commemoration was made in June 2003, with the stand having previously being known as the John Ireland Stand. Who was he?  In 1988-89, he inspired Wolves to a second successive promotion, this time as Third Division champions, with 50 goals — marking a tally of 102 goals in two seasons. At some point he also score four against Bristol City in the Sherpa Van Trophy  - anyone remember that?  During his final two seasons at Molineux, his chances of first-team football were reduced by a series of knee injuries. He reached the 300-goal milestone on 18 February 1998 and his final goal for the club came against Bury on 26 September 1998

 As for the current Wolves team (Wolverhampton Wanders in full) they are new to the CCC this year, Wolves having become eligible after their relegation from the Premiership last season.  Founded in 1877 they were founder members of the Football League along with Accrington, Aston Villa, Everton, Notts County, Preston, Stoke, West Brom and fellow CCCers Blackburn, Bolton, Burnley and Derby.

They won the FA Cup twice before the outbreak of the First World War and after the Second World War they went on to win the League three times and the FA Cup twice between 1949 and 1960.  At this time that the European Cup (later UEFA Champions League) competition was established, after the English press declared Wolves "Champions of the World" following their victories against such top European and World sides as South Africa, Racing, Spartak Moscow and Honved in some of football's first live televised games.  That’s better than Leed’s Champions of Europe!

CCC Weekend Fixtures

Friday 30th November

Chris

v

Colin

Saturday 1st December

Andy	v	Dave
Margs	v	Jan
Kelly	v	Sue
Paula	v	Dan
Millwall	v	Jane

Peterborough	v	Lyn
Scott	v	Barnsley
Pete	v	Jim

Match of the Day - it was tempting to have the setter rivalry of Kelly V Sue but then there is more rivalry in the Sheppard house-hold...

Mick

v

Amy

Sunday 2nd December

Anna	v	Shirley
Keith	v	Ted

Match Reports & updates

Keith's Cardiff made hard work of retaining their position at the top of the table with a second half equaliser for his 10 man team at Jim's Derby to earn a point in a 1-1 draw. Jim was unlucky not to be awarded a penalty.  Paula's Palace failed to overtake Keith after just a 0-0 draw away at Amy's Hull, a game which apparently the home team should have won.  Colin's Middlesborough had a convincing 3-0 win at home to Andy's Huddersfield.

Meanwhile at the other end of the table, Ted's Sheff Wed took an early lead against Colin's Watford at home but true to their recent form the home team lost 4-1 and Kelly's Bristol City lost 2-0 away to Dan's Brighton.  Curse of Mick's comments happened again (although no doubt he would have predicted the right score) and Jan's Ipswich had a 'comfortable' win over Mick's Notts Forest to move off the bottom again.

For those in between there were 1-1 draws for Anna away at Barnsley and Lyn's Blackpool at home to Chris' Birmingham.  Jane's Charlton left it late to start scoring in their 2-0 win over Peterborough and the away team had looked most like scoring till then whilst a former player scored against Sue's Wolves in her 0-1 home defeat.

In the Match of the Day - Dave's Leeds scored a 3rd minute penalty which secured them the three points against Pete.

On Wednesday Margs's Bolton managed a 2-1 away win at Shirley's Blackburn.

	Team	Pts	Who	Pence in the pound
1	Cardiff	38	Keith	0p
2	Crystal Palace	37	Paula	0.1p
3	Middlesbrough	35	Colin	0.3p
4	Leicester	33	Pete	0.7p
5	Hull	32	Amy	0.9p
6	Brighton	31	Dan	1.3p
7	Watford	30	Scott	1.6p
8	Nottm Forest	29	Mick	2.1p
9	Blackburn	28	Shirley	2.6p
10	Huddersfield	28	Andy	2.6p
11	Burnley	27	Anna	3.2p
12	Charlton	27	Jane	3.2p
13	Derby	27	Jim	3.2p
14	Leeds United	26	Dave	4p
15	Blackpool	25	Lyn	4.9p
16	Bolton	22	Margs	7.8p
17	Wolves	22	Sue	7.8p
18	Birmingham	21	Chris	8.8p
19	Ipswich	17	Jan	13.4p
20	Bristol City	15	Kelly	15.8p
21	Sheff Wed	15	Ted	15.8p

Weekend Match reports

The Team of the week proved a curse for Paula’s Palace as she lost 2-1 away at Dave’s Leeds.  Despite being down to 10 men, Keith took the opportunity to go top and gain the free curry after a 2-1 win away at Barnsley. Pete’s Leicester won 2-0 away at Ted’s Sheff Wednesday leaving Ted in the expensive part of the table and Pete moved into third.  Bottom placed Kelly’s Bristol City had been suffering their worst start in 32 years and hadn’t won for 1 matches but they stopped Colin’s Middlesborough’s three-match winning home run with a 3-1 win away.  It was a foggy second half with Middlesborough claiming that the officials had been unable to see the ball cross the line to give them a second.   Jan’s Ipswich managed to score a penalty in the second half to earn a draw 1-1 against Peterborough but is back to being bottom of our table.

For those in the middle of our table, there were away wins for Anna’s Burnley 0-1 at Amy’s Hull, although Amy still hovers near the top of the table and Mick’s Forest 2-1 away at Sue’s Wolves (although Sue had taken the early lead)  and in both cases the winning goal was scored by a former player. Jim’s Derby was the only other person to gain three points with a 3-2 win over Chris’s Birmingham scoring the winner in the 84th minutes after Chris had drawn level twice.

Dan’s Brighton drew 1-1 with Margs’ Bolton and Jane’s Charlton had a similar score line against Andy’s Huddersfield. In the first of the two fixtures, Dan hit the woodwork three times and missed a penalty before Margs got a 96th minute equaliser whilst in the second Andy’s 10-man Huddersfield salvaged the point with a 88th minute penalty. In their away fixture at Lyn’s Blackpool, Scott’s Watford squandered a 2-0 lead to give Lyn a share of the points.

CCC - update & midweek fixtures

Match reports to follow, but here are the important things - how much Jan is paying for his curry and who everyone is playing next.

	Team	Pts	Who	Pence in the pound
1	Cardiff	37	Keith	0p
2	Crystal Palace	36	Paula	0.1p
3	Leicester	33	Pete	0.5p
4	Middlesbrough	32	Colin	0.6p
5	Hull	31	Amy	0.9p
6	Nottm Forest	29	Mick	1.5p
7	Blackburn	28	Shirley	1.9p
8	Brighton	28	Dan	1.9p
9	Huddersfield	28	Andy	1.9p
10	Watford	27	Scott	2.5p
11	Burnley	26	Anna	3.2p
12	Derby	26	Jim	3.2p
13	Blackpool	24	Lyn	4.7p
14	Charlton	24	Jane	4.7p
15	Leeds United	23	Dave	5.6p
16	Bolton	22	Margs	6.6p
17	Wolves	22	Sue	6.6p
18	Birmingham	20	Chris	8.8p
19	Bristol City	15	Kelly	14.6p
20	Sheff Wed	15	Ted	14.6p
21	Ipswich	14	Jan	15.8p

Tuesday night fixtures...

Barnsley	v	Anna
Lyn	v	Chris
Dan	v	Kelly
Jane	v	Peterborough
Jim	v	Keith
Amy	v	Paula
Jan	v	Mick

Colin	v	Andy
Ted	v	Scott
Sue	v	Millwall

Match of the NIght - brotherly love / rivalry...

Dave

v

Pete

Wednesday 28th November

Shirley

v

Margs