The Football League and below

[Gampern]

Newcastle [2 - 2] West Bromwich

14' [0 - 1] J. Olsson

25' [1 - 1] D. Guthrie

46' [1 - 2] R. Bednar

54' [2 - 2] P. Løvenkrands

Da war für West Brom mehr drinnen. Grossteils überlegen und ein paar Minuten vor Schluss schiebt Miller den Ball aus 3m an die Stange. Ein Torhüter wär vll auch hilfreich gewesen. Beim ersten bekommt Carson den Freistoss ins Tormanneck, da kann er noch so schön geschossen sein. Das 2. Tor war auch nicht wirklich unhaltbar. Immerhin hat er dafür ganz am Ende eine Freistossflanke aufs lange Eck gut pariert. Interessant, dass sämtliche Magpies zufällig immer im gegnerischen 16er ständige massive Müdigkeitsanfälle erleiden müssen, die sie augenblicklich von den Beinen reissen.

[Gampern]

Palace in administration, lose 10 points

[Gampern]

Nette Runde!

West Brom 2-0 Scunthorpe

Derby 3-0 Newcastle

Coventry 1-0 Nottm Forest

   	   	P  	GD  	PTS
1 West Brom  	30  	30  	59
2 Newcastle 	29 	28 	59
3 Nottm Forest 	30 	23 	55

=)

[Gampern]

Samstag:

West Brom 3-2 Blackpool

Preston 3-2 Nottm Forest

Dienstag:

Barnsley 2-1 Nottm Forest

Swansea 0-2 West Brom

Dorrans (pen 79)

Miller (89)

very nice!

Bei Bristol City Maierhofer mit seinem Debüt (1 Monat Leihe), wurde in der 80. ausgewechselt. Plymouth gewann 3:2 mit einem Treffer in der 91.

[wolodja]

Aus dem BBC-Match-Report:

0:00

The ref blows the whistle to start the match.

0:14

Stefan Maierhofer gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Kari Arnason.

A echter Kämpfer halt...

[Gampern]

Volles Programm

Sa

16:00 West Brom vs Preston

18:20 Bristol City vs Newcastle United, Maierhofer wohl mit seinem Heimdebüt

So

15:00 Leicester vs Coventry

Mo

20:45 Leeds vs Millwall

[Luca Tanz]

Prinzipiell war das ne recht nette Partie vom neuen Maierhofer-Club Bristol City. Im Vergleich zu den letzten Partien definitiv eine Steigerung, 2-0 zur Pause gegen Newcastle zu führen ist schon ganz ansehnlich.

Dass man die Defensivbaustellen, die man über die letzten Jahre hinweg sträflicherweise ignoriert hat, nicht von heute auf morgen lösen kann, ist eh klar.

Trotzdem müssen da noch Siege her, denn die sind mmn weiterhin abstiegsgefährdet.

Maierhofer war übrigens nicht im Einsatz letztens.

[Gampern]

Trotzdem müssen da noch Siege her, denn die sind mmn weiterhin abstiegsgefährdet.

Und die Partie hättens schon gewinnen können, denn die Einladung zum Anschlusstreffer war ja wirklich saudeppat (natürlich muss man die Chance auch erst mal verwerten, keine Frage). Glaub nicht, dass Newcastle da von selbst nochmal zurückgekommen wäre. Schlussendlich muss City sogar noch froh sein, einen Punkt mitgenommen zu haben.

[nordi.lfc]

Leeds United scheint in der zweiten Saisonhälfte wieder Nerven zu zeigen.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/leagueone/leeds/7499630/Leeds-United-0-Millwall-2-match-report.html

[Gampern]

Reading hat eine durchaus beeindruckende Serie, 9 von den letzten 11 Ligaspielen gewonnen (+ ein Unentschieden in Boro) davon 6 Heimsiege*, dazu die FA Cup Siege in Liverpool, zuhause gg Burnley und in West Bromwich sowie eine gute Leistung beim Ausscheiden gg Aston Villa. Da ist ein mitgenommener Punkt, der lt BBC verdient war, ganz ordentlich. Kann ein gewonnener Punkt auf Forest werden, da die am Montag abend im Spitzenspiel bei Newcastle antreten (keine Graubereichstreams wie immer bei den Bookies, z.B. bet365)

*Interessant, wie sich das gedreht hat. 2009 konnten sie nämlich von Ende Jänner bis Ende November gar nicht zuhause gewinnen.

[nordi.lfc]

Leeds hat das Spitzenspiel beim Tabellenführer in Norwich mit 0:1 verloren und liegt jetzt auf dem 2.Rang der League 1, punktgleich mit Millwall ( 71 Punkte ) die ein 5:0 gegen den Tabellenletzten Stockport C. eingefahren haben.

Das Aufstiegsrennen bleibt also weiter spannend.

Nur Norwich City konnte sich mit 82 Punkten absetzen. http://de.soccerway.com/national/england/league-one/

[Gampern]

Newcastle 2 - 0 Nottm Forest

Ich wäre ja mit einem 0:0 durchaus zufrieden gewesen, aber so sind's für West Brom immerhin 9,5 Punkte auf Forest für 6 Runden.

Auch wenn Newcastle durchaus Erfahrung mit dem Verspielen von Riesenvorsprüngen hat, die 13 Punkte (+ Nachholspiel) können selbst die Geordies nicht mehr vergeigen. Kevin Keegan ist ja weit geng weg!

[Kante]

Damit i auch mal was post...

Bradford Park Avenue auf dem Weg zurück in die Football League?

Sleeping giant stirs, 40 years after being pronounced dead

Bradford Park Avenue played First Division football, knocked Arsenal and Manchester City out of the FA Cup and produced Kevin Hector. Now they are a club reborn and ready for a return to the League

By Phil Shaw

In one of Amjad Iqbal's appearances for Pakistan, a World Cup qualifier against Iraq, the clamour of the 34,000 crowd was so great that he could not hear his colleagues. A similar problem has yet to arise with Bradford Park Avenue, but they are working on it.

Park Avenue's past includes First Division football in the 1920s; FA Cup victories at Manchester City (8-2) and Arsenal after the Second World War, when they also took Manchester United to two replays, one drawing 83,000 spectators; launching the careers of Len Shackleton, Ron Greenwood and Kevin Hector; and the less auspicious chapter which saw them stripped of Football League status 40 years ago before folding four seasons later.

However, it is the future of the reborn club which excites Iqbal. A 5-1 win at FC United of Manchester in midweek underlined Avenue's credentials as UniBond League champions-elect and tomorrow they host Leeds-based Guiseley in the first of two "six-pointer" derbies in a week against their main rivals. If they emerge in credit, they could be two promotions away from a return to the League by the start of next season.

Bradford-born Iqbal, aka "Ammers", is also a chemistry lecturer. The college where the 29-year-old teaches is close to the site of the club's first home, Horton Park Avenue, which featured an Archibald Leitch stand and Craven Cottage-style "Doll's House". In 1944 it housed 32,800 for Blackpool's visit, making Avenue the only club to post a record attendance in wartime.

Although the numbers cheering the push for a place in the Blue Square League North have stayed in three figures, Iqbal insists Bradford could soon have two senior clubs again. "The aim is to get back to the League in the next few years," the defender said. "The board realise that if we get promoted they'll have to find more funding, but there's a timetable for it all, including a possible move from Horsfall Stadium to a new stadium in the Thornbury area."

Iqbal was captain of nearby Farsley Celtic when three promotions in four years catapulted them into the Blue Square Premier. Farsley were recently disbanded owing £750,000. "The football on the pitch moved too quickly for the club," he said. "They didn't plan to get so far so fast, but there's no danger of that here."

Their plans are overseen by Bob Blackburn, the millionaire businessman who bought control three years ago and is now chief executive. Having become interested through his Avenue-mad brother-in-law, he was "touched" when he read up on the club. "Park Avenue is a sleeping giant. It's my job, and the board's, to wake it," Blackburn said. "When I came I said I wanted to be in the League in five seasons. We've got one promotion, with another possible now. That's me counting my chickens, but I'm confident we can achieve it."

Why not get behind the existing League Two club, Bradford City? "I'm a guy who likes to start from grass roots but we'd like to have that rivalry again. I'd like us to be the superior side in the city in the next few years. There's every possibility it could happen. It's the dream of all Avenue fans who ended up supporting City, Leeds or Huddersfield [after the club closed in 1974]. I look on message boards and there's disgruntled City fans. If they came to watch us, it's good football at an affordable price and a nice, family atmosphere with no segregation."

These are heady times for several clubs, including Newport County and Halifax Town, who were resuscitated after being pronounced dead. Their inspiration, according to Blackburn, and Avenue's manager, John Deacey, are Accrington Stanley, who returned to the League 44 years after leaving.

"Accrington have done fantastically and we'd love to emulate them," said Deacey, who has transformed an underachieving side since being elevated from the No 2's job last autumn. His blueprint is a more gradual one should Avenue win the one automatic promotion spot. "You can get to the Conference too early," he said, recalling his time at Farsley as assistant manager. "You must have the structure of the club in place. If we're looking to the future, I'd stress that to the board. The fan base is around 500 now but that will grow. For the Conference North you need 700 and you can't go into the Conference with less than 1,000. Bradford City have been clever with their cheap season tickets, and we have to think about how we attract the younger generation."

One of the old guard from the 1950s, Kevin Hainsworth, is now an Avenue director. In 2007 he and eight other fans spent five days at Lord's helping remove 1,600 unwanted seats from the Tavern Stand which they then installed at Horsfall.

Television commentator John Helm is a devotee of similar vintage. The son of a City supporter, he became besotted with Avenue after noticing the original stadium's grandeur on being taken to watch Yorkshire play the Australians at the adjoining cricket ground in 1953. He saw triumphs, bigger crowds than City and then relentless decline after the club sold future England forward Hector cheaply to Derby, plummeted to the foot of the old Fourth Division and were voted out in 1970. Now vice-president, Helm "fought back tears" as he covered their expulsion for Radio Leeds. Yet when diehard green-and-whites re-formed the club in 1988, starting in the West Riding County Amateur League, his passion was rekindled. Iqbal maintains the present squad is "good enough to win the next league too".

But could Bradford Park Avenue really make it back to the League? "Oh yes," Helm said. "The joke is that we'll pass Bradford City on their way down."

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/sleeping-giant-stirs-40-years-after-being-pronounced-dead-1929419.html

bearbeitet 31. März 2010 von Kante

[Gampern]

Newcastle wohl durch, den einen Punkt aus 5 Spielen werden sie schon irgendwie derappeln. Für West Brom sieht's auch nicht so schlecht aus, nun sind's 11 Punkte auf Forest, die bei Bristol City 1:1 spielten. Die letzten Minuten stand Maierhofer im Tor. 85:30 war das Foul, k.A. wie lange es dann gedauert hat, 10 min gab's Nachspielzeit.

Keith Millen gambled with eight minutes left by throwing on Maierhofer and David Clarkson for Maynard and Haynes - and in unforeseen circumstances it backfired for the hosts.

Tyson's awful sliding challenge on Gerken when charging down a clearance left the City keeper flat out and needing serious treatment. With City having made all three substitutions and Gerken being stretchered off, Austrian international forward Maierhofer donned the gloves and the goalkeeper's jersey. Fury from the stands greeted referee Phil Crossley's decision to only caution Tyson rather than show a red card. But the stand-in stopper had nothing to do in the end

bearbeitet 3. April 2010 von Gampern

[nordi.lfc]

Spannendes Aufstiegsrennen in der League 1:

Trotz eines 2:1 Auswärtssieges bei Yeovil Town ist Leeds heute auf Platz 3 der League 1 abgerutscht.

Millwall konnte durch ein 2:1 in Colchester vorbeiziehen.

An der Tabellenspitze steht weiterhin Norwich City.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/apr/05/leeds-yeovil-league-one-match-report