Season 32 Week 12 processing...

Banstead 5 Spurs 1 Richards on 81 minutes.

Villa 2 Wednesday 0 Barkley on 83 minutes.

Botafogo 2 Fluminense 2 Marcelo header on 85 minutes.
Schalke 8 Leipzig 0 Sane header.
Twente 3 Feyenoord 1 Lang.
Roma 3 Juventus 2 Sturaro.

Villa 3 Wednesday 0 Watkins on 86 minutes.
Valencia 4 Barcelona 5 Koke.

Cork 4 Derry 0 Sheppard on 87 minutes.

Real Mdrid 9 Santander 0 Iniesta on 89 minutes.
Celtic 3 Motherwell 3 Tardelli freekick.

Newcastle 3 Chelsea 6 Ibrahimovic header on 90 minutes.

and the ref blows for fulltime, roundup to follow...

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Valencia 4 Barcelona 5 Koke.

This game doing nothing for my health!!!

Rob@Barcelona wrote:

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Valencia 4 Barcelona 5 Koke.

This game doing nothing for my health!!!

Lucky you only have to go through it sporadically - try being Plymouth's manager over the past seasons!

Great week for the teams all round - Twente especially!

Good result for Chelsea and superb form Emelec to cut the gap at the top in Ecuador , poor result for Bate at 0-0 unless i missed something , against bottom team who had no players on their team sheet when i got the report.

Argentina

Boca 34 +36
Independente 28 +32
Argentinos 28 +28 Champions
River Plate 28 +23
Estudiantes 26 +20

With victories for everyone in the top five it remains the same in Argentina although Boca do seem to be in the driving seat having dropped just two points so far this season, gonna be tough to catch them...

Brazil

Santos 34 +26 Champions
Botafogo 26 +20
Flamengo 23 +17
Fluminense 23 +13
Vasco 23 +4

Good week for Santos who extend their lead at the top of the table...

Belgium

Anderlecht 33 +28
Mechelen 32 +28
Genk 31 +53 Champions

Only three clubs in the Belgian title race and it's mightily close with all three sides scoring impressive victories this week but a hatrick for Schrijvers keeps Anderlecht top...

Eire

Cherry 31 +21
Derry 30 +17 Champions
Bohemians 27 +20

A heavy defeat away at Cork City saw Champions Derry drop to second spot as Cherry Orchard went top with a fine victory over long time rivals Bohemians. Game on as they say...

Premiership

Chelsea 28 +16
Man City 28 +12
Watford 25 +19 Champions
Charlton 25 +11
Arsenal 23 +4

Chelsea stay top with a fine win at struggling Newcastle whilst the Champions demolished Arsenal who went down to ten men in a game where Maddison was brilliant. Charlton narrowly lost out to Man City in what proved to be a very tight game with only three chances created, so the chasing pack shuffled around a bit, but Chelsea are still looking good...

Championship

Banstead 30 +15
Palace 28 +16
Norwich 24 +8
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Soton 23 +6

The Banstead board have agreed to sell their starman Fernando Torres to struggling Sheffield Wednesday for a decent profit that will help the growing club to further expand their crowd capacity ad hopefully secure a bigger income stream which is so vital in modern football, but will that affect their top spot status ? it's tough selling your top goalscorer...

France

Nantes 32 +35 Champions
Paris 30 +25
Etienne 28 +21
Monaco 24 +8

A rare draw for Nantes allowed the chasing pack to get closer as the perennial Champions chase yet another French title and a mouth watering clash on week 14 in Paris will no doubt be the key game...

Germany

Schalke 30 +25 Champions
Berlin 26 +19
Gladbach 26 +7
Leverkusen 22 +13

What a good week for Schalke with eight goals in the league and a place in the Champions Cup Quarter-Finals it dont get much better than that, couple that to indifferent form from the chasing pack and it seems all over already in Germany...

Italy

Inter Milan 34 +32 Champions
AC Milan 33 +26
Juventus 22 +6
Napoli 21 +15
Fiorentina 21 +14

This is already a two horse race between the Milan giants as Juventus continue to struggle...

Scotland

Aberdeen 29 +13
Falkirk 25 +13
Motherwell 24 +2
Celtic 21 +11 Champions

A fine come from behind win for the leaders keeps them clear at the top with Falkirk continuing their fine form to remain unbeaten since losing the first game of the season at home to Partick, with Algerian fullback Ramy Bensabaini scoring his fifth goal of the season...

Spain

Real 34 +47
Atletico 33 +39
Valencia 30 +18
Barcelona 28 +23 Champions

Both Madrid clubs racked up nine goal victories this week, albeit against weak opposition, whilst defeat at home for Valencia dropped them back slightly from the pace. Barcelona continue to improve but its hard to see Real or Atletico dropping six points...

USA

Chicago 36 +50 Champions
Cosmos 33 +15
Dallas 22 +5

Its another two horse race between the two most successful sides in North America although a couple of long term injuries for Chicago this week will need to be handled else they upset the applecart and allow Cosmos back in...

Transfers now...

Attila Szalai joins Leverkusen from Schalke for £45millions.
Fernando Torres moves to Sheffield Wednesday for £35millions.
Michail Antonio leaves Wednesday for Nantes in a £30millions deal.
Marcos Llorente joins Botafogo from Barcelona for £25millions.
Jeremie Frimpong moves to Twente from Wycombe for £12millions.
Plymouth sign Takehiro Tomiyasu for £10millions from Bologna.
Antoine Griezmann is a £5millions bargain as he leaves Genk and joins Rennais.
and Jack Butland joins Consett from Aston Villa on a free transfer.

Plenty more deals all detailed as usual in the TP special action report.

Coaching now...