Season 29 Week 7 processing...

Ajax 4 Sittard 0 Kelvin Leerdam on 86 minutes.
Porto 3 Benfica 2 Ruben Dias gives benfica slight hope of salvaging something.

Cannes 2 Etienne 2 Maxwel Cornet may have rescued a point against a resurgent Cannes side.
Barcelona 5 ( five ) Mallorca 0 Sergio Carnicer header on 87 minutes.

Barca looking stronger than ever...

Palace 2 Man United 1 Leighton Baines on 88 minutes.

Are Palace improving at last ?, a point last week against City and now three against United...

Oldham 2 Wolves 3 Fernando Forestieri on 88 minutes puts the away side back infront.
Spurs 6 ( six ) Burnley 0 Jelle Vossen off the bench and scores in a rout.
Juventus 3 Lazio 3 Mario Balotelli maybe rescues a point for Juve.

Torino 2 Napoli 1 Davide Di Gennaro on 89 minutes look to have sealed a late win for Torino.

Cannes 3 Etienne 2 Goncalo Almeida on 90 minutes as Etienne ship another late late goal.
Ancona 3 Roma 0 Marco Benassi.
Internacional 3 Botafogo 1 Hulk.
Stuttgart 2 Dresden 1 Tim Leibold with a come from behind winner ?
Galaxy 1 Chicago 2 Bruno Dentinho right at the death.

and the ref brings proceedings to a halt with the final whistle...round up to follow...

Argentina

River Plate 18 +11
Argentinos 16 +12 Champions
Talleres 16 +6 unmanaged
Boca 15 +9 unmanaged
Belgrano 13 +0

Looks like a straight race between the top two unless Belgrano in fifth can upset them...

Brazil

Flamengo 17 +8
Internacional 15 +3 unmanaged manager sacked last week for continuing code of conduct breaches
Corinthians 13 +10
Santos 13 +2
Fluminense 11 +7
Cruzeiro 11 +1
Botafogo 10 +0

Ireland

Bohemians 18 +12
Coleraine 16 +9
Cherry 16 +7
Crusaders 12 +8
Linfield 12 +2

Premiership

Watford 16 +12
Charlton 14 +4
Villa 13 +9
Man City 13 +9
Liverpool 12 +1
Plymouth 9 -2 Champions
Newcastle 9 -4
Man United 7 -3
Arsenal 7 -5
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Birmingham 7 -5
Palace 6 -9
Fulham 5 -7

I've put this table in full because it seems very close to me with anyone capable of beating anyone else...

France

Paris 19 +15
Nantes 16 +20 Champions
Lille 15 +2
Monaco 14 +12
Marseille 13 +2
Bordeaux 12 +5 new manager having a big impact should be interesting...

Germany

Cologne 18 +10 unmanaged manager sacked due to code of conduct breaches
Schalke 18 +9
Gladbach 16 +10
Bayern 14 +13
Dresden 13 +8 unmanaged
Dortmund 13 +8

Cant remember the last time an unmanaged side topped the Bundesliga although circumstances did contribute to this week's table because I had to sack the manager.

Holland & Belgium

Ajax 19 +16
Genk 19 +13
Rotterdam 15 +10
Mechelen 15 +10
Liege 15 +6
PSV 13 +3

Quote from Greg this week the Ajax manager "Bring it on Genk"...

Italy

AC Milan 19 +18
Ancona 13 +6
Inter Milan 13 +0
Juventus 12 +2

Is this going to be Milan's year at last ? a six point lead is not uncatchable but it is an excellent start...

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Holland & Belgium

Ajax 19 +16
Genk 19 +13
Rotterdam 15 +10
Mechelen 15 +10
Liege 15 +6
PSV 13 +3

Quote from Greg this week the Ajax manager "Bring it on Genk"...

It's on.....

Scotland

St Johnstone 21 +19
Celtic 21 +16
Rangers 15 +13
Inverness 12 +18
Aberdeen 12 +6
Hibs 12 -1

Only Morton, Stirling & Airdrie unmanaged here means way more competition that normal for the middle of the road teams and bosses will need to spend some serious time on their teams in order to not get left behind, but with a six point gap it may already be too late for some...

Spain

Barcelona 21 +22
Real Madrid 18 +14
Real Betis 15 +9
Real Zaragoza 15 +6
Atletico Madrid 12 +6
Valencia 12 +5
Bilbao 12 +3 unmanaged

Transfers now...

I have noticed a slight issue on the Training Ground Report for Champions.

So just to make sure everybody knows this and I know some of you know this already but it seems like some of you don't, and its exasperated by the issue on the TG report, so it's probably worth mentioning again, it's been a few seasons since we talked about this so worth another visit.

This only affects the Champions and only in league games.

If you check your training ground report you will notice that the effectiveness of the win bonus will have halved if you are Champions, in other words to motivate Champions you need a 20% bonus instead of a 10% bonus. Unfortunately this is not being shown on your TG report correctly but I've now corrected that issue and it should be showing okay from now on.

So I've checked all the Champions to find out who this has affected

Fluminense only on 50% effectiveness
Plymouth only 50% effectiveness
Nantes 66% effectiveness
Schalke 50% effectiveness

all showing as superb on the TG report instead of just okay...

I think it's only fair if I reset the win bonus for these clubs to 100% and rerun their league games.

Might explain a few things! Good to know...

I think they all lost too didn't they?
It's actually a relief as I was proper scratching my head for 'excuses' - although I understand we can still lose the rerun!

The win bonus is more important away from home because there are less bonuses away from home that can offset a poor win bonus and you all played away as well.

How long has this been an issue out of interest?
I think the previous discussions must've been before I rejoined as I've never heard of the problem before...
Does this only affect league games?

Brazil Match Day 7 rerun results

Flamengo 3 Fluminense 4 gamarra,fernando,douglas - diego2,luan pen,santos

Internacional 15 +3 unmanaged
Fluminense 14 +9 Champions
Flamengo 14 +6
Corinthians 13 +10
Santos 13 +2