Butts
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Spurs made mincemeat of Real Madrid earlier in the CL so there is hope !!
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Spurs made mincemeat of Real Madrid earlier in the CL so there is hope !!
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Did you you see Real Madrid in the Semi? They scraped through to.
I know, as Liverpool did tonight.
So when Man U won the treble it shouldn't count because they weren't league champions when they qualified for the Champions League they won?? When then they won it that time they got beat twice by two different teams having not qualified as champions.
Hmmmm yeah. Real Madrid got through by one goal at home. Roma tonight had one goal after the ball fired in off Milner and another from a **** penalty.
roversfan2001
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Bradford Park Avenue and Chorley both win their play-off quarter finals against higher-placed opposition to advance to the semi-finals, where they play Brackley and Harrogate respectively.
I said I’d buy a bottle of Red on the way home tonight if Liverpool won. They didn’t.
I bought one anyway...
Fair play to Roma, they earned some pride back tonight with their performance.
Still not got over 2005?
DarloRich
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Did they? Harrogate doesn't surprise me - they crack under pressure but i thought Stockport would beat Chorley
roversfan2001
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Kidderminster losing the playoff against BPA after resting players and losing to them on Saturday is great
Chorley are great at grinding out 1-0 wins, they're huge underdogs against Harrogate but you wouldn't bet against them.A Chorley v Bradford PA final would make a mockery of the play-off system, 7th in a 22 team league is basically mid-table
Kidderminster losing the playoff against BPA after resting players and losing to them on Saturday is great
A Chorley v Bradford PA final would make a mockery of the play-off system, 7th in a 22 team league is basically mid-table
I don't see why that would make a mockery of the play offs but it is quite remarkable how often the lower placed clubs come out on top, they probably have a nothing to lose attitude whilst all the pressure is on the higher placed hosts.
MidnightFlyer
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Kidderminster losing the playoff against BPA after resting players and losing to them on Saturday is great
A Chorley v Bradford PA final would make a mockery of the play-off system, 7th in a 22 team league is basically mid-table
The fact the ridiculous 6 team play off exists at all is a mockery. Thank god the nonsense didn't filter any further down the tiers.
If we're going to have play offs then I think that system is better in that it gives an advantage to higher placed clubs.
SteveP29
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Well done Liverpool, now just go and win it, shut those Manc t***s up again for a few years
Xenophon PCDGS
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The venue of the final is very many miles away from the home areas of Liverpool and Madrid and I wonder just how much atmosphere will be generated by the fans of both sides.
It’ll be enormously loud I expect, like it was in Istanbul in 2005.
I think the atmosphere will be great.
We've got thirteen days of rest between the Brighton game and the Champions League final too.
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The Bradford dream lives on for a few more days at least. A great performance again by the lads last night.
And yes it would be a tad unfair on those above us both in the NLN and the NL itself were we to go up. In fact, Blyth almost made the play-offs having lost 21 of their 42 games. Next season with four down, half the league will either go down or be in the play-offs.
With extra time and penalties a possibility and the last bus out of Brackley on Sunday at 1740, I'm driving down the day before and taking in Coventry vs Morecambe. Coventry need a point to make the play offs and Morecambe need a point to stay in the league. Could be interesting. Should also be time to do the Northampton & Lamport.
And yes it would be a tad unfair on those above us both in the NLN and the NL itself were we to go up. In fact, Blyth almost made the play-offs having lost 21 of their 42 games. Next season with four down, half the league will either go down or be in the play-offs.
With extra time and penalties a possibility and the last bus out of Brackley on Sunday at 1740, I'm driving down the day before and taking in Coventry vs Morecambe. Coventry need a point to make the play offs and Morecambe need a point to stay in the league. Could be interesting. Should also be time to do the Northampton & Lamport.
High Dyke
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Looking forward to a good afternoon at Hurst Cross (Ashton United) tomorrow as Grantham Town aim for National League North. 
Up the Gingerbreads
Up the Gingerbreads
61653 HTAFC
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If you go up, it won't be unfair on anyone: everyone knows how play-offs work and the teams finishing higher get home advantage. It really annoys me when people disparage play-offs as unfair because they clearly aren't unfair: it shouldn't be a surprise that sometimes a team that finished 6th gets promoted, everyone knows the rules. If your team finishes 3rd and doesn't get promoted, it means a team from below beat them: ergo, they didn't deserve to go up.
Sorry, rant over. Without play-offs the season would be over by Pancake Day for most teams.
Apparently, Roma should have had two more penalties, so I predict their luck with decisions at vital times in the last two ties, will run out in Kiev. Not that I in any way support RM, and I have never liked that arrogant "CR7".
By 'eck. Thatcher town in (Margaret) Beckett country - and they say that football and politics should never mix (lol). I must admit, I don't remember how many go up/down in the lower leagues, and is this a play-off. Or to put it another way, could the east end of Ashton by swapping divisions with the west end (Curzon)?Looking forward to a good afternoon at Hurst Cross (Ashton United) tomorrow as Grantham Town aim for National League North.
Up the Gingerbreads
We should have had a penalty to.
Pakenhamtrain
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In the A-League, Melbourne Victory have defeated the Newcastle Jets 1-0 to win the title.
However the deciding goal will come under the microscope with the VAR giving it the all clear despite the Victory players being offside
However the deciding goal will come under the microscope with the VAR giving it the all clear despite the Victory players being offside
High Dyke
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Play off for promotion from the Evostik Premier (Northern Premier League) up to Conference North, alongside Altrincham FC.
Two teams promoted.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Spoken by a true believer in the "alternative rule book" that many football supporters really believe is far superior in its definition of the laws of the game than the "official one" that referees have to be fully conversant with.
Being somewhat churlish today, I have emboldened the last word of your quote above and wonder what you would have done with the penalty, as you did not finish the sentence.
61653 HTAFC
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Looking like Stoke City will be playing in the Championship next season, leaving only one place to fill... the next eight days are going to be agony!
I think the "luck" we've had in the Champions League is the least we deserve after the ridiculous amount of decisions which have gone against us in the league this season.
Xenophon PCDGS
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I suppose Stoke City went in 1-0 up at half-time with some hope for their Premiership future, but two second half goals from Crystal Palace shattered that particular aspiration.