Season 27 Week 1 processing...

Welcome to the first game of the new season, are you all ready ?

I'm ready for a new season........not sure my teams are lol

Lol, always think I'm ready come week 1, then normally after the first bad result I'm tearing up plan A and thinking in which direction to go next!!

Never been happier with my squad in week 1, but that doesn't mean anything.

Saying all that, I'm hoping to bring in another player for 30m this week, so I cant be that happy!!

Have had a hectic few weeks so not enough focus and rushing to complete turns between flights. Opposite of Tom .... really unhappy with my squad. Not sure Florenzi is good enough at RB, similarly my balance at DY feels wrong with Joao Mario and Candreva and although they should be a perfect unit I am yet to be convinced by Griezmann, Higuaín and Aubameyang as my front 3. All in all I'm just not happy.

At Villa I think I've put together as strong a squad as possible but just not sure they are good enough to stay up.A lot will depend on Bony, Benteke and Son getting goals and Coquelin and Clasie closing down the midfield.

data entry is now finished, am currently running the friendlies.

Rain and Lightning ( amazing here in Cornwall never seen anything like it except in Italy once ) stopped play last night ( had to have the computers off ) but I am running the reserves, youths and schoolboy games now. League games to follow later today.

Early start Paul!!

We had rain of biblical proportions in Budapest yesterday, luckily it only lasted about an hour.

Charity Shield & Super Cups underway...

League games will kickoff this afternoon, probably about 1300 hours.

kickoff delayed by rain until 1400 hours.

final pitch inspection underway, looking good...

the players are out and the ref gets things underway, best of luck to everybody...

Westham 0 Villa 1 Bony on 5 minutes.

Shamrock 0 Cherry 1 Delfouneso penalty on 6 minutes.
Banstead 1 Stoke 0 Lambert.

Villa go top!

Tom@Charlton wrote:

Villa go top!

I'll take a final whistle in that game now.

Botafogo 0 Gremio 1 Diame on 8 minutes.
Arsenal 0 Man City 1 Fernando Reges freekick.
Wolves 1 Oldham 0 De Guzman.

Ruzomberok 1 Zilina 0 Lee on 11 minutes.

Paranaense 0 Fluminense 1 Xabi on 13 minutes.
Hearts 0 St Johnstone 1 Wellington Silva freekick.

Flamengo 0 Sao Paulo 1 Thiago Heleno header on 14 minutes.
Watford 1 Birmingham 0 Kane.
Chelsea 1 Fulham 0 Afellay freekick.

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Ruzomberok 1 Zilina 0 Lee on 11 minutes.

Well....at least one of my teams is off to a good start :-)
Have to leave now to pick the grandson up from school!

Bologna 0 Inter 1 Alaba freekick on 15 minutes.

Banstead 2 Stoke 0 Bermingham on 16 minutes.

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Flamengo 0 Sao Paulo 1 Thiago Heleno header on 14 minutes.
Watford 1 Birmingham 0 Kane.
Chelsea 1 Fulham 0 Afellay freekick.

 What a scoreline this is!! Think Les is building a good side in Brazil but to take the lead against Matt!