Season 23 Week 8 processing...

Head to head games we have to look forward to today include ...

Watford v Fulham

Man City v Newcastle

Plymouth v Chelsea

AC Milan v Inter Milan

and of course the small matter of

Real Betis v Barcelona

So good luck to all of you.

The players are out and the games are about to kickoff.

There is some bad weather around at most of our games today, heavy rain and strong winds it would seem.

Okay the games have started...

2 minutes on the clock and a goal in our game at Lille...

come on Barcelona big game this week calls for a big performance!

Carlos Alberto has put Lille into an early lead here in the heavy rain against Marseille.

Matias Fernandez has scored for Boca on 4 minutes in their home game against Newells.

There seems to be a bit if a problem with the vidiprinter as its not telling me which commentator is at each game hopefully it wont spoil things too much.

Reading 1 Spurs 0

Inverness have taken a 5th minute lead at Aberdeen.

Santos 1 Sao Paulo 0 Humberlito on 6 minutes.

Corinthians 1 Flamengo 0 Fabio Bilica on 7 minutes

its not raining there but it is gusting and very hot.

and there has been a goal in the game between Leverkusen and Schalke...

its cold here and its not raining yet and Kaka is continuing his fine form of late by slamming home the first goal for Schalke so after 8 minutes its now

Leverkusen 0 Schalke 1

our first dismissal today as Walter Baseggio makes the long walk down the tunnel on 9 minutes.

Cagliari 0 Juventus 1

looks like the struggle continues for Cagliari since they lost Ronaldo.

Fiorentina 0 Napoli 1

10 minutes gone...

i'm hearing there has been a goal in the rain at Birmingham...

yes its confirmed, Ryan Giggs has put United into an early lead there and after 10 minutes its now

Birmingham 0 Man United 1

Ajax have had Gregory Van Der Wiel dismissed, thats 2 players off already in the bad weather.

Cagliari 1 Juventus 1 as Renato tries to make up for Ronaldo's absence just to prove me wrong.

Rushden 0 Banstead 1 thanks to Grant Holt on 11 minutes.

and its now Palmeiras 0 Gremio 1 after Sofiane Feghouli shot the away side ahead on 12 minutes.

and i'm hearing that just to make matters worse for Birmingham that they have had Nani dismissed on 12 minutes.

Berlin 1 Dusseldorf 0