CCC Table 25 Feb 2013

Here's the revised table after the weekend's matches:

	Team	Pts	Who	Pence in the pound
1	Cardiff	70	Keith	0p
2	Watford	62	Scott	0.4p
3	Hull	62	Amy	0.4p
4	Crystal Palace	58	Paula	0.9p
5	Leicester	54	Pete	1.6p
6	Brighton	52	Dan	2p
7	Middlesbrough	51	Colin	2.3p
8	Nottm Forest	48	Mick	3.2p
9	Leeds United	46	Dave	3.9p
10	Blackburn	45	Shirley	4.3p
11	Derby	44	Jim	4.8p
12	Burnley	44	Anna	4.8p
13	Charlton	43	Jane	5.3p
14	Bolton	42	Margs	5.9p
15	Birmingham	42	Chris	5.9p
16	Blackpool	41	Lyn	6.6p
17	Sheff Wed	40	Ted	7.3p
18	Ipswich	39	Jan	8p
19	Huddersfield	38	Andy	8.8p
20	Wolves	35	Sue	11.4p
21	Bristol City	34	Kelly	12.2p

Could there be a change at the bottom of the table soon? Sue, hope you have started to save your £1 coins!

Match updates for 23rd / 24th Feb

Play-off hopefuls Blackburn (Shirley) earned their 5^th clean sheet in 9 games when they hosted Dave’s Leeds but a goalless draw suggests that both teams may need to up their games, and create more chances, if they’re to be genuine challengers.  Lyn’s Blackpool played Pete’s Leicester and whilst the game resulted in a goalless draw Blackpool did managed 12 shots on goal with Thomas Ince and Eardley going close.  Despite the result Lyn is still in touch with a cheap curry due to the Shirley/Dave draw.  Amy’s Hull may be chasing automatic promotion but that meant nothing when they visited Marg’s Bolton and had their defence breached three times in the first eight minutes and finally got spanked 4-1.  Bolton appear to be adopting a Welsh recruitment policy with three players called Davies in their match day squad.  Dan’s Brighton maintained their impressive defensive record (conceding only once in the last 394 mins) when they earned a slender 1-0 win over the wife (aka Anna’s Burnley).  Burnley battled well, and were unlucky not to come away with something, but are now 5 games without a win.  A glimmer of hope for Kelly’s Bristol when they hosted Barnsley.  They might be 2^nd from bottom (and hopefully for me they stay there!!) but a 5-3 victory (2 goals by former Tractor boy Jon Stead) halted their opponents six-match unbeaten run, and means they have completed four successive league victories on home soil for the first time since April 2011.  Coleslaw Majewski got back to scoring form when Mick’s Forrest claimed away victory at Jane’s Charlton, which kept them in the mix for the promotion play-off spots.  Charlton weren’t helped when Yann Kermorgant’s petulance resulted in a red card.  Andy’s Huddersfield took on the magnificent Tractor Boys….sadly the same thing can’t be said of the game, which was very ordinary/dire and ended up as a 0-0 draw.  One shot in 90 minutes for the Tractor Boys doesn’t exactly inspire confidence for the end of season run in!!!  Peterborough did nothing to aid their survival hopes when they lost 2-0 to Chris’s Birmingham, who enhanced their survival chances.  On the plus side The Posh have two games in hand and could still increase the cost of someone’s curry!!  Ted’s Sheffield Wednesday extended their 7 match unbeaten run with a late 1-0 victory over Paula’s Crystal Palace, who are now 4 points away from an automatic promotion spot and haven’t won away in the last 10 games.  The yellow mist must have descended too with 5 bookings…  Scott’s Watford took over 2^nd place in the Championship with a 2-1 win over Jim’s Derby and looked good to now boast the best record in the Championship in 2013, with seven wins, one draw, two defeats and 22 points from 10 games.  Sunday’s game saw Keith’s Cardiff visit Sue’s Wolves and continue the inexorable march to title glory with Fraizer Campbell scoring his 5^th goal in five games.  To add to Wolves misery and Sue’s pricey curry Sylvan Ebanks-Blake missed a late 5-yard sitter...

Updated points table 20/2/13

If anyone is interested, the revised table after last night's matches looks like this:

	Team	Pts	Who	Pence in the pound
1	Cardiff	67	Keith	0p
2	Hull	62	Amy	0.2p
3	Watford	59	Scott	0.5p
4	Crystal Palace	58	Paula	0.6p
5	Leicester	53	Pete	1.5p
6	Middlesbrough	51	Colin	1.9p
7	Brighton	49	Dan	2.5p
8	Nottm Forest	45	Mick	3.7p
9	Blackburn	44	Shirley	4.1p
10	Burnley	44	Anna	4.1p
11	Derby	44	Jim	4.1p
12	Charlton	43	Jane	4.5p
13	Leeds United	42	Dave	5.1p
14	Blackpool	40	Lyn	6.2p
15	Birmingham	39	Chris	6.8p
16	Bolton	39	Margs	6.8p
17	Ipswich	38	Jan	7.5p
18	Huddersfield	37	Andy	8.3p
19	Sheff Wed	37	Ted	8.3p
20	Wolves	35	Sue	10p
21	Bristol City	31	Kelly	13.3p

I couldn't be arsed to read any match reports, but the most interesting result looks like Notts Forest's (Mick)  6 - 1 thrashing of Huddersfield (Andy), leaving Andy with the worst goal difference in the table and hovering precariously close to the relegation zone.

Curry points table

Thanks to Lyn for the match updates over the last week.

Following Saturday's matches, the table looks like this:

	Team	Pts	Who	Pence in the pound
1	Cardiff	67	Keith	0p
2	Hull	59	Amy	0.4p
3	Watford	56	Scott	0.7p
4	Crystal Palace	55	Paula	0.8p
5	Leicester	53	Pete	1.2p
6	Middlesbrough	50	Colin	1.9p
7	Brighton	46	Dan	3p
8	Blackburn	44	Shirley	3.7p
9	Derby	43	Jim	4.1p
10	Burnley	43	Anna	4.1p
11	Nottm Forest	42	Mick	4.5p
12	Leeds United	42	Dave	4.5p
13	Blackpool	40	Lyn	5.7p
14	Charlton	40	Jane	5.7p
15	Bolton	38	Margs	7p
16	Birmingham	38	Chris	7p
17	Ipswich	38	Jan	7p
18	Huddersfield	37	Andy	7.8p
19	Sheff Wed	36	Ted	8.6p
20	Wolves	35	Sue	9.5p
21	Bristol City	31	Kelly	13.1p

Match update 18/2/13

So my fellow footie fans only 7 games to catch up on from Saturday as Anna v Andy’s match was postponed due to the cup.

A lucky goal in the 50th minute saw Jan beat Lyn 1-0 taking Ipswich four points clear of the drop zone, a game summed up nicely by Ipswich’s manager Mick McCarthy who said "It was a horrible, scrappy, scruffy, ugly, magnificent 1-0 win." Hmmmm not if you’ve got Blackpool in the ccc!!!

The 0-0 result for Jim’s Derby v Sue’s Wolves gives Sue a sixth game in a row without a win. By all accounts it was a fairly uneventful encounter that failed to help allay Wolves' relegation fears or strengthen Derby's play-off hopes.

Paula well and truly beat Colin with a 4-1 victory at home. Palace went 1-0 up in the 9th minute
and continued to dominate the first half but failed to score, apparently prompting manager Ian Holloway to tell his players they were boring him at the half-time interval. Football boring surely
not??? Anyway clearly the pep talk worked with a further 3 goals in the second half.

Chris’ team were completely dominated at home with Birmingham beaten 4-0 by Watford. Stat wise Birmingham recorded 58% possession so clearly it’s not how much you have the ball but what you do with it!! The 3 point away win takes Scott’s Hornets up to third, while Chris remains in a relegation scrap.

Keith v Kelly was a battle spanning the table with Cardiff at the top and Bristol City all the way down in the relegation spot. Sadly despite Bristol taking some cheer from an own goal from Cardiff’s Ben Nugent in the 90th minute it was a 2-1 victory for Cardiff with Keith retaining top spot.

Mick v Margs was a single point game with the final score all square at 1-1. Mick took the lead just before the hour but in the 77th minute Margs equalised to level the game and earn Bolton a valuable point moving them four points above the drop zone.

And last but not least the mother daughter battle between Jane and Amy. Clearly failing to respect the family hierarchy Amy took 3 points with a 1-0 victory at home. Jane almost saw an equaliser in the last 5 minutes only to be denied by a decent save from the Hull goalie.

So scores on the doors sees Amy 8 points off Keith at the top of the table and Jane only 6 points above the Championship's relegation zone.

(Posted by Jim on behalf of Lyn)

Match Update: 12/02/13

(Posted by Jim on behalf of Lyn)

Well a momentous occasion indeed - my first foray into being a football pundit - here goes my attempt at copying ooops I mean writing about this weeks football matches :-)

Firstly, in general I should point out that the RBS 6 nations is far easier on the eye and in my next life I'd like to be a rugby physio - hmmmmm - sorry got briefly distracted there, so anyway back to the footie. So Tuesday saw 3 matches take place in the Championship: Dan v Shirley, Amy v Jim and last but not least Colin v Dave.

The highlight game was Amy's 2 -1 victory over Jim - one nil after 47 minutes and for the majority of the rest of the match. An exciting final flurry saw Jim's team equalise in the 84th minute before Amy took full advantage of the additional 6 minutes on the clock with Ahmed Elmohamady's late header securing the 3 points to send Hull second in the Championship.  So with Dan and Shirley it was Dan's game pretty much all the way with Brighton narrowly missing 4 chances within the first 12 minutes. Despite Shirley's team also missing a couple of chances they took the lead in the first half only to see a penalty in the second half secure a point for Brighton at home. As for Colin and Dave let's just say 3 points went to Colin following a 1-0 victory - it's a good job Dave's on holiday and hopefully missed the match!! Dave can take small comfort in that it's Middlesbrough's first victory over Leeds on home turf in 11 attempts, the last one dating back to 1992.

Match Reports 09/02/13

The weekend kicked off on the Friday night with Paula’s Palace taking on Scott’s Watford. Watford went two up early on but Palace fought back to claim a point with the game finishing 2-2. At the top of the league, Keith’s Cardiff were held to a 0-0 draw by struggling Andy’s Huddersfield.  However, his margin at the top of the table was extended due to Amy’s Hull losing 1-0 at Dan’s Brighton and Pete’s Leicester losing 2-1 at Peterborough. Colin’s Middlesbrough were given a further dent for their promotion chances losing 3-2 at home to Barnsley.

At the Bottom, Marg’s Bolton claimed a much needed 2-1 win over Anna’s Burnley whilst Kelly’s Bristol City’s remarkable run continued with a 2-0 win over Mick’s Forest to put her in touching distance of safety. The game between Sheffield Wednesday and Jim’s Derby ended 2-2 after a 2^nd half fight back from Wednesday. The game between Sue’s Wolves and Dave’s Leeds also ended 2-2. Chris’ Birmingham scored a last minute equaliser against Jane’s Charlton to end the game 1-1. Lyn’s Blackpool managed to put daylight between herself and the relegation pack with a 2-1 win over Millwall. Finally, Shirley’s Blackburn won 1-0 over Jan’s Ipswich, who incidentally were the only team in the relegation battle to not score a point this weekend.