Season 23 Week 7 processing :)

just 3 minutes on the clock now...

Inverness 2 St Johnstone 0

2 minutes left now...

Oldham 0 West Brom 1 after 89 minutes Nikola Zigic with the goal.

into the last minute of normal time...

and whistles have started to blow around our games...

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

Okay lets do a roundup of the important results today and get manager's comments...

get in. Well done the Foxes.

And well done to the Verdiblancos... top of La Liga on Week 7. A momentous day. I hope the Green and White half of Seville enjoy their weeks at work in the tapas bars... it'll be short-lived!.

In Spain it ended

Real Madrid 0 Barcelona 0
Espanol 0 Real Betis 1

leaving the table looking like this after 7 games...

Real Betis 21 +11
Barcelona 19 +16
Real Madrid 19 +14
Valencia 11 +2

and a historic day for Spanish football but still a good day for Barca despite losing top spot they did get a point at arch rivals Real.

In the Premiership it was

Fulham 3 Everton 0
Man United 1 Watford 0
Birmingham 0 Arsenal 0
Blackburn 0 Newcastle 1
Chelsea 0 Charlton 2
Plymouth 0 Man City 0 that is four games without a goal for City now.

Arsenal 15 +9
Newcastle 12 +1
Fulham 11 +6
Birmingham 11 +2
Chelsea 11 +0
Charlton 10 +1
Plymouth 9 +2

never known it quite so close across so many teams before.

In Serie A things continue to go very well for Inter Milan

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

which leaves Inter sitting pretty where they like to be on top

Inter 17 +14
Napoli 16 +12
Juventus 15 +7
AC Milan 14 +10
Roma 13 +7
Ancona 12 +3

so still plenty to play for here with last year's surprise team Ancona needing to convert some of those draws to three points rather quickly if they are to challenge again this year.

Well not sure there is much to add here - not sure whether to be angry, disappointed or disheartened.

A run of two home games has bought me 1 point at Plymouth (who just can't seem to get going this season) and a loss by Lyon (who really should have beaten Monaco!)

The main positives though are that the Premiership is so tight (with the exception of Arsenal who seem to be slightly leading the pack) that a few good weeks and we can leap right up the table. Not all doom and gloom just yet!

Do I change some things around or continue in hope that the team manage to gel... Some serious thinking needed!

Congrats to Rich though who leads the Primeria!

In Brazil it finished

Gremio 0 Sao Paulo 0
Flamengo 2 Palmeiras 0
Corinthians 0 Santos 3
Cruzeiro 0 Sao Joao 0
Botafogo 1 Fluminense 4
Vasco 3 Portuguesa 1

Santos 19 +13
Flamengo 17 +6
Sao Paulo 14 +4
Vasco 10 -1

in Argentina it finished

Rosario 1 River Plate 2
Estudiantes 3 Racing 0
Independente 0 gimnasia 2
Newells 0 San Lorenzo 2
Argentinos 0 Boca 2
Velez 4 Union 1

so the table looks like this

Boca 21 +21
Lorenzo 21 +10
Argentinos 16 +8
Velez 14 +9

A 5th straight clean sheet, that's more like it

Well done Ricardo as well, not to be sniffed at that.

If u can still be there in two turns time then ill doff my cap to u

the French results went like this

Marseille 0 Bordeaux 0
Auxerre 1 Lille 1
Toulouse 0 Etienne 1
Paris 1 Cannes 0
Lens 1 Nantes 1
Monaco 1 Lyon 0

Nantes 15 +7
Lyon 15 +7
Paris 14 +5
Lille 13 +5
Etienne 12 +4
Monaco 11 +2

so not much in it here either really.

in the Dutch league we had

PSV 3 Alkmaar 0
Heerenveen 4 Breda 0
Roda 1 Groningen 2
Ajax 2 Sittard 0
Feyenoord 2 Twente 0
Vitesse 0 Rotterdam 1

which leaves Ajax and Feyenoord still joint top...

Ajac 21 +18
Feyenoord 21 +18
Sittard 16 +8
with struggling PSV 10 +3 down in sixth place

in Russia...

Spartak 3 Volgograd 0
Lokomotiv 4 Rostov 0
Dinamo 4 Torpedo 1
Alania 0 Anzhi 0
CSKA 6 Zenit 0
Rubin 3 Samara 0

CSKA 15 +18
Lokomotiv 14 +8
Dinamo 14 +8
Spartak 13 +7

Celtic 0 Hearts 0
Inverness 2 Johnstone 0
Aberdeen 1 Dundee 0
Rangers 2 Dundee Utd 0
Raith 1 Queens Park 3
Hibs 0 Motherwell 0

which leaves Rangers top...

Rangers 19 +20
Inverness 13 +3
Motherwell 12 +4
Celtic 12 +3
Aberdeen 11 -2

In the Championship it finished

Boro 0 Blackpool 1
Westham 0 Liverpool 1
Palace 0 Leeds 0
Wolves 1 Bolton 0
Spurs 2 Villa 0
Reading 0 Leicester 1

Spurs 16 +14
Leicester 15 +7
Leeds 14 +8
Westham 13 +2
Wolves 11 +3
Liverpool 10 +1

Okay i'm going to run the transfers, training and finances now after some lunch...

Thanks Paul, great work.

Are you able to keep us up to date with any transfers that go through?

got something brewing have we Tom?

Not really, just keeps the excitement going...