Its Play-Off Season!

Play-off season is upon us. Conference to League Two, League Two to League One, League One to the Championship and finally The Championship to the Premiership (and when you get into the Premiership, don't upset UEFA, you might get shafted). Oh and don't forget the money.

Last night, two games play-off were played. Shrewsbury Town lost at home to Bury 1-0 and Rochdale drew 0-0 with Gillingham.

Tonight Preston take on Sheffield United and Scunthorpe United take on MK Dons - results will be in the comments section later.

Gerrard a 'Cheat' as well as a 'Hypocrite'

Check out the video above which shows the recent 'dives' of Liverpool's Steven Gerrard and read the quotes from his autobiography (the dive against Atletico is not included) but what is interesting are the words from the gob of Gerrard.


Cheat or hypocrite - OR BOTH?


Incidentially the referee from Tuesday's game at Anfield has admitted he made a mistake. Martin Hansson from Sweden said "From my angle, I am not convinced that it is a penalty but according to UEFA rules I'm not allowed to make any comment on specific match incidents."

The Road to European Glory: Intertoto Cup

The first round of the Intertoto Cup was completed this weekend and teams like Bohemians who beat Rhyl 9-3 on agg and Honved who beat Zhetysu 6-3 on agg and Elfsborg who beat HB 4-1 on agg along with others move on to next weekend on their Road to European glory.

Click for a full list of 1st Round results.

Teams joining the second round stage include Hibernian (Scotland), Rosenborg (Norway).

Click for a full list of fixtures.

Fixtures are due to be played 5th/6th July and 12th/13th July

Intertoto Cup

With Euro 2008 taking up everybody's attention the 2008/09 Intertoto Cup kicked off this weekend.

The Intertoto Cup is a Summer competition that allows clubs from all over Europe to qualify for the UEFA Cup, joining the competition at the 2nd Qualifying round.

Due to a complete reformat of European Competition next season this is the last season of the Intertoto Cup in its present format. As the competition started this weekend, there are a further five weekend's of successive competition and the 2nd legs of the first round take place next weekend, June 28th/June 29th.

There are some BIG club names that will be entering the competition between now and the end of the third round, which takes place in July (1st leg - 19th July/20th July, 2nd leg - 26th July/27th July).

Honved - Hungary
Hibernian - Scotland
Deportivo La Coruna - Spain
Napoli - Italy
SC Braga - Portugal
Stuttgart - Germany
Aston Villa - England

Here are a few names of clubs that have started their route to European glory that you may have never heard of:

Bnei Sakhnin - Israel
Ethnikos Achnas - Cyprus
Etzella - Luxembourg
MIKA - Armenia
Nitra - Slovakia
Saturn - Russia
Shakhtyor Soligorsk - Belarus
Tiraspol - Moldova
TPS - Finland
Zhetysu - Kazakhstan
Erkanas - Lithuania
Renova - FYR Macedonia
FK Riga - Latvia
Teplice - Czech Republic
Fylkir - Iceland
HB - Faroe Islands
Rijeka - Croatia
and the list goes on and on.

For a Full List of last weekend's results, click here.