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Back in July I wrote a post 'Teams to Watch out For' and after this weekend's round of fixtures, here is an update:
Money Citeh do not start their season until next weekend, but they did beat Celtic 2-1 yesterday at Eastlands.
This lunchtime, Ipswich lost away at Coventry 2-1 in the Championship.
In League One, Southampton drew with Millwall, 1-1
In League Two, Notts County beat Bradford City, 5-0.
This week, the Carling Cup starts, with games on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
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The REAL LATICS kick off their League One season at Boundary Park this afternoon against Stockport County.Follow me on Twitter.
I was struggling to find something to write about today until I came across this.
Bolton Wanderers used Virgin Trains to take them to Edinburgh for their pre-season match against Scottish Premier side Hearts.
All was well - £4,000 was paid in June for the travel - the players and staff lined up at the station to board the train, only to discover some of their seats had been taken.
Off they got and were told by 'helpful' but uninformed staff that the next train would be able to take them.
When that train arrived, there was no room either.
Eventually Bolton declined Virgin's offer of a third train, they got a bus instead - a journey that would take seven hours.
Manager Gary Megson was less than pleased. He said "The preparation for the trip was disgraceful, courtesy of Virgin Trains.
"We'll have to consider our options in future as we can't trust them.
"We booked the seats in June but people were sat in them."
Megson declined Virgin Trains offer of free seats.
He returned with the squad to Bolton on the bus.
Incidentally the game ended in a 1-1 draw.
Martin Allen, manager of League Two Cheltenham Town, completed a 72 mile bike ride on Sunday morning in order to raise funds for the cash-strapped club.
Allen set off at 6.30am from his home in Maidenhead and arrived at the Abbey Business Stadium (Cheltenham's ground), in time to get into the dug-out to watch his side play a friendly against Premiership new-boys, Birmingham City.
Sadly, Martin's day didn't end happily.
His team was thrashed 4-0.
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On Friday August 14th, the FA Cup, the greatest domestic Cup competition in the world, kicks off with over 400 teams taking part in the extra premliminary round dreaming that come May 2010 they might be one of the teams walking out at 'the home of football.'
For a bit of fun, I want to do a 'Road to Wembley' feature where I am inviting you (via the comments section) to pick a number between 1 - 203.
The number with the highest amount of votes will represent the HOME team who will be the first team picked for this fun adventure.
Once the selected team gets knocked out of the competition, I will follow the new team until that team gets eliminated and so forth and so forth, until the OUR team hopefully picks up the FA Cup in May 2010.
So you have until 12 midday Friday 14th August (UK Time) to vote for any number between 1 - 203. If you want to study a list of teams taking part - click here
If there are no votes cast or there is a tie, the editor's decision is final.
After watching the Reading v Chelsea friendly yesterday which ended in a 2-2 draw, my attention turned the The Emirates Cup tournament being held at The Emirates Stadium.
I missed the first game between Rangers and PSG which Rangers won 1-0, but I saw the last hour or so of Arsenal v Atletico Madrid. Arsenal won 2-1 after a 'crazy' last five minutes when all the goals were scored.
Today, PSG and Atletico Madrid shared a 1-1 draw and finally Arsenal beat Rangers, 3-0.
