Season 23 Week 11 processing...

and whistles have started to be blown around most of our grounds...

Well ...... 5-0 and 2-0. A solid day's work. Especially as Lazio caused us issues previously.

and that's it it's all over for another week...

the round up will follow shortly...

Lorenzo 1 River Plate 1
Boca 2 Racing 0
Argentinos 4 Estudiantes 1


Boca 30 +28
Lorenzo 29 +22
Argentinos 26 +18
River Plate 19 +16

Cruzeiro 5 Gremio 0
Sao Joao 4 Sao Paulo 0
Botafogo 0 Flamengo 0
Portuguesa 1 Santos 4

Santos 31 +25
Flamengo 21 +3
Cruzeiro 18 +14
Sao Paulo 17 -4

Bohemians 0 Shamrock 1
Cherry 0 Shelbourne 2

Bohemians 26 +15
UCD 25 +9 unmanaged
Shelbourne 23 +9
Cherry 22 +8
Shamrock 15 -4

Blackburn 1 Fulham 2
Newcastle 2 Everton 1
Chelsea 4 Man United 0
Charlton 1 Watford 0
Plymouth 3 Birmingham 1
Man City 3 Arsenal 5

Fulham 23 +12
Chelsea 20 +5
Charlton 20 +4
Arsenal 18 +8
Plymouth 18 +6
Newcastle 16 +0
Birmingham 14 -3
Man City 13 -2
Watford 13 -4

Spurs 2 Westham 3
Leicester 1 Leeds 0
Villa 1 Liverpool 3
Reading 3 Palace 0

Leicester 27 +12
Spurs 22 +14
Reading 19 +4
Liverpool 19 +2
Westham 18 +2
Leeds 16 +5

Hartlepool 0 Banstead 4
Hyde 2-0 Lincoln

Banstead 31 +24
Hyde 20 +9

Paris 0 Marseille 0
Nantes 2 Lille 2
Monaco 0 Toulouse 0
Lyon 2 Etienne 1

Lyon 24 +12
Nantes 21 +8
Etienne 21 +8
Paris 21 +7
Lille 20 +8
Monaco 16 +2

Bayern 2 Dusseldorf 1
Gladbach 0 Schalke 2
Stuttgart 5 Dortmund 1
Hamburg 0 Berlin 3

Schalke 31 +29
Bayern 30 +20
Berlin 27 +17
Stuttgart 21 +11

Ajax 5 PSV 0
Feyenoord 2 Heerenveen 0

Feyenoord 30 +23
Ajax 28 +24
Sittard 20 +8

Relegation would be a blessed relief at this point to be honest

Napoli 0 Juventus 3
Roma 1 Sampdoria 0
Inter 5 Lazio 0
Fiorentina 0 Cagliari 5
AC Milan 2 Atalanta 1
Ancona 2 Parma 1

Inter 29 +22
Juventus 25 +14
Napoli 23 +15
AC Milan 20 +9
Roma 20 +8
Ancona 17 +3

Rangers 3 Celtic 1
Raith 0 Inverness 3

Rangers 31 +29
Inverness 23 +9
Celtic 18 +3

Sociedad 0 Real Madrid 2
Celta 1 Barcelona 3
Sevilla 1 Valnecia 4
Villareal 0 Real Betis 2

Betis 31 +16
Real 29 +23
Barcelona 26 +20
Celta 18 +4

Galaxy 2 Chicago 2
Columbus 1 Cosmos 2

Cosmos 25 +13
Galaxy 21 +16
Chicago 18 +1

I'm going to run through the roundup for the World Cup results now...

USA 0 England 3
Russia 3 Germany 4

England 7 +5
Germany 6 +2
Russia 4 +1
USA 0 -8

England qualify for the first semi-final place.

Norway 5 Holland 5
France 2 Portugal 0

France 9 +5
Portugal 4 +0
Norway 2 -2
Holland 1 -3

France qualify to play England in the first of the World Cup semi-finals.

Poland 0 Spain 1
Scotland 0 Argentina 5

Argentina 9 +13
Spain 6 +7
Poland 3 -7
Scotland 0 -13

An outstanding Argentina qualify to play in the second World Cup semi-final.

Greece 3 Italy 3
Serbia 0 Brazil 4

Brazil 7 +9
Italy 3 +0
Serbia 2 -4
Greece 2 -5

so Brazil qualify to play Argentina in a massive game that is the second World Cup semi-final.

Great results for both teams. Hard game against Birmingham (especially with the fans looking on and seeing Rooney bang the goals in for Arsenal this week) and being without both first choice fullbacks. Great to see Jack Wilshere once again making things happen at TM. Now to integrate Sergio Aguero into the setup.


Pleased at Lyon especially with young spanish star in the making Inigo Martinez making his debut at CB this week alongside Dante!

Now to see how efforts to strengthen the squad have faired.

Great also to see Argentina finally coming together - Tevez/Aguero partnership upfront seems to have worked nicely - now if only Tom would consider letting Tevez go....

so that's the semi-finals decided now, with

Tom's England versus Phil's France in the first semi and
Ben's Argentina versus Rich's Brazil in the second semi.

Good luck to you all.

The International tables look like this...

Ivory Coast 9 +3
Eire 5 +4
Czech 4 +3
Croatia 4 -3
Romania 1 -2
Bulgaria 1 -5

Wales top of div 2
Hungary top of div 3
N.Ireland top of div 4
Chile top of div 5