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It has been noticed that the woadish peeps from above the Roman Wall have been going on and on, and even on again, about the various football clubs in the the Northern Colony (thanks for the quote Ellie-May). Obviously they need something to be proud off in the insularity they foster, however as even the Coca Cola fizzy pop Div 2 is rated above the SPL it is surprising that another thread has seen fit to copy the present standings of some of the clubs.

In order to balance the situation here follows a brief interlude of sanity showing a few of the clubs from the, more senior, Div 2, but before you relish in the statistics can I also add the following sentiment:

Come on County!!! (Mansfield who!?!?)

                            Home                Away             
  Team                    P W D L F A W D L F A GD PTS
1 Notts County         6 3 0 0 5 1 1 2 0 4 3 5    14
2 Darlington              6 2 0 1 4 2 1 2 0 6 5 3    11
3 Wycombe              6 1 2 0 5 1 1 2 0 5 4 5    10
4 Rochdale                6 1 1 1 5 4 2 0 1 6 3 4    10
5 Cheltenham            6 2 1 0 6 2 0 3 0 3 3 4    10
6 Grimsby                  5 1 1 1 3 2 2 0 0 3 1 3    10
7 Barnet                   6 1 1 1 2 2 2 0 1 6 5 1     10
8 Leyton Orient         6 1 0 2 3 6 2 1 0 4 2 -1    10
9 Chester                 5 0 2 0 6 6 2 1 0 3 1 2      9
10 Northampton        6 1 1 1 4 4 1 2 0 3 2 1      9
11 Wrexham             6 2 0 1 5 2 0 2 1 2 3 2      8
12 Peterborough       6 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 4 4 1      8
13 Carlisle                 6 1 0 2 2 4 1 2 0 2 1 -1     8
14 Lincoln City           6 1 2 0 3 2 0 2 1 4 5 0     7
15 Oxford Utd           5 1 2 0 4 3 0 1 1 2 3 0     6
16 Rushden & D'mds  5 0 3 0 3 3 1 0 1 1 2 -1    6
17 Shrewsbury          6 0 2 1 2 3 1 1 1 2 3 -2    6
18 Mansfield             6 1 0 2 5 4 0 2 1 4 6 -1     5

Mansfield - BOTTOM.

You can never find that Junior when you want him, eh?

Shhh I left a couple of teams off the bottom to make it look even worse, sort of playing with statistics  ;)

Its like housemaid's knee, but it affects more people

Junior cant support mansfield .....  he should be supporting ..BOYSfield :)

pah!
or is it eff off you ****'s? - its one or the other!

all together now.... "i had a football team, their wheels fell off",

That's my wheelbarrow you're talking about!

you're a magpie robert? I never knew. Great stadium, about time the good times returned.

I'm a fox. good times a   long   way   off

used to pass darlingtons stadium on the way to do some work down south...glad to see they look as if they may make a decent stab at having a tema to match it.

also wycombe have a soft spot for me as this was MON staring point in football life

cheltenhams results i watch for ever since i went to 3 festivals and spent a fortune and had a whale of a time.

carlisle ......can you imagine playing there....need a boat to get there half the time and then you know your going to beat them cos they have the old witches curse on them.... :o


and Robert is "insularity" not a typical charlie nicholas football gobbeldegook speak....along with footballwise..or any other wise he uses a lot , a midfield medley, etc ;D

Hellooooooooo sweety  :-*

 :-*

Wotcha Cochy.

You worry me sometimes.

Good work Robert! I really, genuinely, don't know what phrase or statement to get offended to quickest among that opening para of yours.

Think I'll go with the idea that a country discussing their own football league could be seen as an example of its 'insularity'. Should keep me happy for a wee while.

It was tongue in cheek, honest guv   ;)

I know that boss. Hell, I live down here and get it all the time. I've taken to getting a kinda masochistic sense of well-being through letting it get me all bitter and all - kinda enjoy it.

Tell me a Scottish goalkeeper joke I beg you...

Alan Rough :)

Ahhhhhh that hits the spot. ;D


-cough-

no one is a big a joke as david james

and he would still be Scotlands greatest ever goalkeeper

The name Leighton keeps entering my mind, was he a goalie of Ferguson's biggest fan?

AAhhhhh good old Jim Leighton, he let more things through his legs than Abi tittmus ;)

leighton was the goalie that helped aberdeen become the best team in europe when we beat real madrid in the ECWC and then hamburg in the ESC

i will not hear a word said against the great man espically form a wig wearing. frock scaring jumped up judge wannabe

and you can shut it too

Didnt leighton acquire the nickname "Dracula" because he was scared of crosses  ? :)

nope

Consistancy wasn't a major weapon of his though, was it?

yes it was

Yep. He consistantly let in goals

come on guys i am waiting for some smart arse reply

but then again i have a long wait to get anything smart from you 2

you stay out of this or i'll set red dog onto you

Now that's Scary..

Always thought Jim Leighton was a good keeper..

I accept he was a major force at Aberdeen, that is way Ferguson took him to Man Utd., but he lost the plot there for some strange reason. His confidence was shattered and he lost the ability to play at the top club level. i seem to remember he still had a few National games afterwards.

Sensible enough for ye?

now your talking sense

he had 2 bad games and was dropped and transfered to hibs then back to aberdeen where he remained one of the top goalies in europe

PMSL ... here ya go Ironside , have a look at this :)

http://www.laughfc.co.uk/stories/story.php?id=63

we now have Rab Douglas in goal for us, along with half of last season's Scottish league squads (Maybury, DeVries, Stephen Hughes, Hamill, Kisnorbo, Momo Sylla et cetc)

Rab Douglas is awful too, considering he is a current international goalkeeper

rab douglas inst the current scottish goalie colin gordon is

rab douglas was a fine goalie untill he was injuried and has never regained his form

was it might fault that the SFA thought putting a german in charge was a good idea?

only things germans are good at is knocking england out of major championships (with one minor setback)


anyway 2008 euro championships scotland will make the semi finals


now enough of your nonesence i am off to bed

Fast forward to 2006 - it is just before Scotland v Brazil at the next World Cup Group game. Ronaldo goes into the Brazilian changing room to find all his teammates looking a bit glum.
"What's up?" he asks.
"Well, we're having trouble getting motivated for this game. We know it's important but it's only Scotland. They're sh*te and we can't be bothered".

Ronaldo looks at them and says "Well, I reckon I can beat these by myself, you lads go down the pub."

So Ronaldo goes out to play Scotland by himself and the rest of the Brazilian team go off for a few jars.

After a few pints they wonder how the game is going, so they get the landlord to put the teletext on. A big cheer goes up as the screen reads "Brazil 1 - Scotland 0 (Ronaldo 10minutes)". He is beating Scotland all by himself!

Anyway, a few more pints later and the game is forgotten until someone remembers "It must be full time now, let's see how he got on". They put the teletext on.

"Result from the Stadium "Brazil 1 (Ronaldo 10 minutes) - Scotland 1 (Angus 89 minutes)".

They can't believe it, he has single handedly got a draw against Scotland!! They rush back to the Stadium to congratulate him. They find him in the dressing room, still in his gear, sat with his head in his hands.

He refuses to look at them. "I've let you down, I've let you down."

"Don't be daft, you got a draw against Scotland, all by yourself. And they only scored at the very, very end!"

"No, No, I have, I've let you down... I got sent off after 12 minutes"

it would have been funny but scotland wont be in the 2006 world cup cause some idiot of a german cant beat norway moldova or slovinea

I could be wrong, but I believe Douglas was the starting goalkeeper in the recent friendly


Anyway, Ironside is clearly delusional.

douglas was the sub goalie in the recent friendly cam on at half time and made 2 huge errors throwing away our 2 goal lead

fact is douglas is 3rd choice goalie at best for scotland
behind gordon,marshall and more than likely gallaghar and alexendar

thats colin gordon and david marshal not gordon marshall who should never ever wear a goal keeping jersey for any major team

...and the title of this thread? "English Football". Don't you just love to ruffle the feathers of the wee Scots?

Touched a raw nerve with Iron, methinks......

nope they just have there facts wrong

Ironside I stand corrected on the recent friendly

He's rubbish though.


Great tradition of goalkeepers at Leicester....Banks, Shilton, and more recently Flowers, Hoult, Walker....and Douglas...Just marvellous

douglas was a good goalie about 3 years ago

he might come good again but a run of injuries have blighted his carear

goalkeepers in scotland  lol   its known as the scottish no goalkeepers lge     UP THE RAMS

ironside...is it not craig gordan

and rab was initially a fairly decent keeper and a great shot stopper. However took a pounding when celtic got beat 3-2 in the uefa cup final and never really recovered..Developed a nasty habit of letting the ball slip under/over through him for fairly easy saves and for a huge keeper is murder at cross balls. one rangers game before he went he tried to catch theball and it squirmed of him into the net...ouch ::)

confidence is a huge thing for a keeper and he lost his.

craig gordan looks the part and you ng david marshall if he can work a bit more on his angles will be a great keeper.

england look to be struggling in that dept and i dont see any great saviour coming through...which must be galling as they have had a history of great keepers.

Leicester have made an ok decision with levein but he is relying on too many players he once worked with...de vries in particular is just a bruiser and will not do for you guys over the course...

I think Kirkland, if fit, is the long term answer...extremely talented

As for Leicester, I agree...and De Vries...the less said the better

Mon the mighty reds! European Champions.

Rab Douglas is a pile of pish, "the boy Gordon" (wtf is that supposed to mean, anyway? Hes not a boy) is the current number 1, and with good reason. His silky skills will take Hearts to the dizzy heights of Champions league football next season.

Chris Kirkland is one of the best keepers I've seen in years, and in my mind he would be wearing the England no.1 jersey now if he hadn't been plagued by injury for nearly two seasons now. Currently on loan to get him some first team football, hopefully he will replace Dudek as Liverpools number 2 keeper behind Reina.

EDIT: Bah! Tightend stole my point :([/i}

Yeah that was a fantastic achievement. Its been good to see the unfancied/unfashionable teams do well in the money orientated "Champions" League in the last couple of seasons.

Were you there mikky, it must have been some night especially after being 3 down to Milan at HT