Season 28 Week 13 processing...

Welcome to Week 13 of the season, we have some important league games this week as well as the Third Round of the domestic cup competitions in all the leagues, plus a couple of managerial changes.

The reset is underway...

Data entry has started...

Dave Brothers has taken over as the Aston Villa manager and Ruzomberok have become Villa's feeder club. Dave beat off competition from the Walsall manager Marty Patterson and Mark Hoyland at Gladbach to get the job. 

Richard Allen has taken over at Real Madrid as he proved better qualified for the job than Adrian Smith of Real Betis.

Pat Stewart takes over at Inter Milan after spending the last ten years managing Italian clubs including AC Milan in game two he felt it was time for a bigger challenge. Pat has a wealth of knowledge of Italian football being a huge AC fan in real life so it'll be interesting to see how he handles his big rivals now he is in charge.

This means that Tottenham and Preston will go into protected mode this week and these clubs will be looking for new managers this week, details will be circulated with this weeks email turns.

Dresden have become Portsmouth's feeder club.

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Dave Brothers has taken over as the Aston Villa manager and Ruzomberok have become Villa's feeder club. Dave beat off competition from the Walsall manager Marty Patterson and Mark Hoyland at Gladbach to get the job. 

WooHoo!!!! Come on the Villa.
So pleased to be managing the team I support.

Can I get an expert turn please Paul?

Dave@Spurs wrote:

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Dave Brothers has taken over as the Aston Villa manager and Ruzomberok have become Villa's feeder club. Dave beat off competition from the Walsall manager Marty Patterson and Mark Hoyland at Gladbach to get the job. 

WooHoo!!!! Come on the Villa.
So pleased to be managing the team I support.

Can I get an expert turn please Paul?

All startup turns are equivalent to expert turns now, so yep.

Data entry continues today...

A few people asked to take Real Madrid as their feeder club but they are too big a club to be a feeder club.

Friendly games have kicked off...

Reserves, Youths & Schoolboy games are underway...

Cup games have kicked off...

League Cup Finals

Mechelen 0 Anderlecht 3

Slovan Bratislava 3 Ruzomberok 1


The move to windows 10 has caused the cessation of the League Cup and so this competition will not be run next season.

Some pertinent Domestic Cup Third Round results

Fluminense 5 Gremio 0
Santos 4 Cruzeiro 2
Botafogo 3 Flamengo 2

Charlton 3 Stoke 4
Villa 2 Palace 1
Watford 1 Fulham 4
Derby 0 Man City 3

Nantes 5 Toulouse  0

Schalke 6 Jeno 0

Roma 2 Piacenza 0
Parma 4 Sampdoria 0
Lazio 3 Bologna 0

Real Madrid 2 Zaragoza 1
Barcelona 5 Gijon 0
Sevilla 3 Celta Vigo 0

League game reset underway...looks like the league games will kickoff Wednesday morning at 1000 hours...

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Some pertinent Domestic Cup Third Round results

Fluminense 5 Gremio 0
Santos 4 Cruzeiro 2
Botafogo 3 Flamengo 2

Charlton 3 Stoke 4
Villa 2 Palace 1
Watford 1 Fulham 4
Derby 0 Man City 3

Nantes 5 Toulouse  0

Schalke 6 Jeno 0

Roma 2 Piacenza 0
Parma 4 Sampdoria 0
Lazio 3 Bologna 0

Real Madrid 2 Zaragoza 1
Barcelona 5 Gijon 0
Sevilla 3 Celta Vigo 0

FFS.  Why is the cup shock Charlton every year??

And why cant I keep a clean sheet????

Clean sheets do seem quite difficult to come by these days but I'm not surprised because the guy who created the game ( that's me ) does like to watch attacking football...

The players are out warming up and the kickoff is only minutes away...

and we're off, good luck to everybody this week...

Chelsea 0 Plymouth 1 Mahrez on 6 minutes.

Genk 1 Gent 0 Dendoncker header on 9 minutes.
Liege 1 Bruges 0 Castro.

Chelsea 0 Plymouth 2 Sterling on 11 minutes.

The Londoners struggling a bit at the moment as they slide down the table...

Fulham 0 Soton 1 Baines penalty on 13 minutes.
Parma 1 Sampdoria 0 Bianchi freekick.

Linfield 0 Cherry 1 Kelly header on 14 minutes.
Man United 0 Man City 1 Dzeko.
Arsenal 1 Leicester 0 Pato.

Fluminense 1 Sao Paulo 0 Dudu Rodrigues on 16 minutes.
Aberdeen 0 Inverness 1 Tachtsidis.

Ruzomberok 1 Bystrica 0 Kucka header on 17 minutes.