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Phil has been appointed as the new manager of Watford which leaves Fulham looking for a new manager.

Fulham will go into protected mode this week ( so no swap deals ) and I will advertise the post to the general populace this week unless somebody on here fancies the job. I'm pretty sure there will be a few of the non-forum managers interested in taking over.

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Phil has been appointed as the new manager of Watford which leaves Fulham looking for a new manager.

Fulham will go into protected mode this week ( so no swap deals ) and I will advertise the post to the general populace this week unless somebody on here fancies the job. I'm pretty sure there will be a few of the non-forum managers interested in taking over.

Fantastic news! 

Looking forward to hopefully take Watford to the next level and win the league... Well maybe next season. 

Hopefully I've taken Fulham to a good level and will allow someone else to carry on the project. Certainly the structural facilities will be in good shape and a large stadium which should benefit. 

Look out on the forum for some transfers..

Friendly games have kicked off...

Reserves, youths and schoolboys games are underway, League games will most likely kickoff tomorrow ( wednesday ) at 1000 hours...

This week's Premiership games sees a selection of relatively "easier" games for the top sides with Man City at home to Wolves and Charlton at home to struggling Southampton although the change of manager at Fulham and Watford could give oppurtunities to Chelsea and Villa to spring some surprise results. Birmingham have a new manager this week after their board agreed to appoint Rob Walker who has been waiting in the wings for the top job for more than a year now. I hate to sack long time managers but I haven't heard from Rich since October so have to assume he has dropped out. Despite the "easier" games Plymouth do have to travel to Liverpool which is anything but easy.

It is the Madrid derby this week with Real hosting unpredictable Atletico and with the home side switching to a new tactical system anything could happen, so that should be interesting. New Barcelona boss starts off with a tough game at home to Sevilla.

It will be interesting to see how Inter Milan get on at Sampdoria this week with the new boss making a few changes as he begins to impose his own style on his new charges. Game of the week for me is Napoli against Parma.

Kickoff is at 1000 hours this morning...

Champions Cup Group Stages Round 4 of 6

Barcelona 3 Plymouth 4
Ajax 3 Paris 3

Schalke 0 Watford 5
Celtic 0 Juventus 6

Inter 3 Fulham 2
Man City 6 Valencia 0

Feyenoord 3 Charlton 1
Napoli 3 Bayern 2

A few shock results in the fourth round of the Champions Cup this week where group four sees all four sides locked on six points.

Europa Cup

Ancona 4 Birmingham 0
Gladbach 5 Monaco 2

Genk 2 Lazio 0
Man United 3 Benfica 1

Preston 2 Roma 1
Arsenal 2 Marseille 2

Villa 4 Nantes 2
Berlin 1 AC Milan 2

The ref blows the whistle for the start of the games, good luck to everybody this week...

Man City 0 Wolves 1 Robin Van Persie freekick on 4 minutes.
Burnley 0 Wycombe 1 Atsu.
Cologne 1 Frankfurt 0 Perisic.

Ancona 1 Fiorentina 0 Aquilani penalty on 5 minutes.
Real 0 Atletico 1 Oliver Torres.

First blood to Atletico...

Stoke 1 Banstead 0 Wellington Silva penalty on 7 minutes *facepalm*

Ancona 1 Fiorentina 1 Saponara on 8 minutes.

Man City 1 Wolves 1 Dzeko header on 9 minutes.
PSV 1 Breda 0 Seb Giovinco.

Preston 1 Sunderland 0 James Milner on 10 minutes.
Hamburg 0 Gladbach 1 Marica.
Valencia 1 Albacete 0 Granero.

Bologna 0 Roma 1 Lemar freekick on 11 minutes.

Man City 1 Wolves 2 Robin Van Persie header on 13 minutes.

Could be a high scoring game with City maybe paying the price for ignoring the brilliance of RVP...

Wisla 0 Gornik 1 Kamil Glik header on 14 minutes.

Watford 1 Villa 0 Harry Kane on 15 minutes.
Barcelona 1 Sevilla 0 Thomas Muller header.

Santos 1 Corinthians 0 Jo Alves on 16 minutes.
Shelbourne 0 Cherry 1 George Evans.
Ajax 1 Heerenveen 0 Dirk Marcellis header.
Tromso 1 Viking 0 Ahamed freekick.

Man City 2 Wolves 2 Dzeko penalty on 17 minutes.
Espanol 0 Betis 1 Pjanic penalty.

Bochum 1 Schalke 0 Saglam on 18 minutes.

The Schalke boss will be hoping his much changed side can settle quickly and recover against an unmanaged struggling side...