My hands-off approach (i.e., forgetting to set my lineup) again sees me do better than I have at all this season when actively trying to win.

G'wan!! Idiots get it back together to beat Hornville.

I think we are at the turn, so I will have my Hornville / Steaua run coming up again soon. For those not in other leagues, I should note that if you knock a team off a long unbeaten run, all kinds of craziness happens to their team for a bit.

The team at the top of my official league, who I beat last week (and were looking unbeatable) got hammered by a worse side this week.

Oh bloody hell. Don't say that. I'm away at the leaders next.

Somehow I wasn't surprised to see that I managed to slip even futher behind on my bye week.

Puolimatkan - Heffron Hotspur 2 - 1 (0 - 1)
Beachcombers Utd- Knights who say Ni 0 - 2 (0 - 0)
Csiki Monkeys - Underdogs of War 3 - 1 (0 - 0)
Green Star F-Burg - 1927 2 - 1 (0 - 1)
AFC Phoebe - Cardiff Dragons 0 - 2 (0 - 0)

Forest Hill Fire - U Street Gunners 3 - 0 (0 - 0)
Essen Clarets - Ivor the engine x1 1 - 3 (1 - 1)
Vladikavkaz Noj - East Village Idiots 2 - 1 (1 - 1)
Steaua Bridge - Hornville 1 - 2 (0 - 0)
Llantwit Major FC - Oxford Nil 1 - 3 (0 - 3)

YES! no points for Mortlake!

Are the fans protesting at AFC Phoebe yet?

Hornville desperately need to rebuild, as we're likely to lose four of our top 5 players to retirement at the end of the season. Consequently I've put a couple of no hopers on the transfer list to raise funds. One of these, valued at 500K, seems to have captured the imagination of a Russian megalomaniac, judging by the way bidding has taken off.

2008-06-22 1927 - Green Star F-Burg 1 - 2 (0 - 2)
2008-06-22 Underdogs of War - Csiki Monkeys 0 - 4 (0 - 1)
2008-06-22 Knights who say Ni - Beachcombers Utd 1 - 1 (0 - 1)
2008-06-22 Heffron Hotspur - Puolimatkan 2 - 4 (1 - 1)
2008-06-22 Cardiff Dragons - AFC Phoebe 4 - 2 (2 - 0)

2008-06-22 Hornville - Steaua Bridge 0 - 1 (0 - 1)
2008-06-22 East Village Idiots - Vladikavkaz Noj 4 - 0 (2 - 0)
2008-06-22 Ivor the engine x1 - Essen Clarets 2 - 1 (2 - 1)
2008-06-22 U Street Gunners - Forest Hill Fire 1 - 0 (1 - 0)
2008-06-22 Oxford Nil - Llantwit Major FC 5 - 0 (3 - 0)

The question now becomes, who can beat Mortlake?

No updated results? Does no-one care anymore?

I'm still sulking over not beating you, and moving to within a point or so of the lead.

Mortlake have let you all back in by giving the youth goalie his debut - despite high skill and very high form he made a right Scott Carson of it.

Crap. My season is disintegrating at the hands of the dastardly big 4.

Fear not, Noj. Hornville are imploding. Literally.

I see Wildridings have boosted the average age of their squad to 15 and a half by snapping up two teenage keepers.

I'm surprised nobody got around to posting scores yesterday. It was a pretty high scoring matchday.

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I see Wildridings have boosted the average age of their squad to 15 and a half by snapping up two teenage keepers.

We had to play the last half hour of our match against Ivor the Engine without a goalkeeper. Still managed to scrape a 0-0 draw though.

Bought a backup keeper for the next match (a 19 year old) and a couple of hours later a 18 year old was offered via the youth side. So I gave the 19 year old a free transfer and signed the 18 year old...

2008-06-29 Green Star F-Burg - Underdogs of War 3 - 0 (2 - 0)
2008-06-29 AFC Phoebe - Beachcombers Utd 3 - 0 (2 - 0)
2008-06-29 Mortlake Dodgers - Heffron Hotspur 7 - 3 (3 - 1)
2008-06-29 Csiki Monkeys - Puolimatkan 3 - 0 (2 - 0)
2008-06-29 1927 - Cardiff Dragons 4 - 1 (1 - 0)

2008-06-29 Steaua Bridge - East Village Idiots 3 - 3 (0 - 1)
2008-06-29 Llantwit Major FC - Fancy Brigade 1 - 2 (0 - 1)
2008-06-29 Wildridings - U Street Gunners 0 - 0 (0 - 0)
2008-06-29 Vladikavkaz Noj - Forest Hill Fire 4 - 1 (2 - 1)
2008-06-29 Hornville - Oxford Nil 1 - 1 (0 - 0)


Also welcome DynamoKev, the new manager at ex-Essen Clarets - pushovers no longer.

And 7-3. Yes, that says 7-3. !

2008-07-02 Puolimatkan - 1927 2 - 2 (2 - 2)
2008-07-02 Beachcombers Utd - Csiki Monkeys 0 - 1 (0 - 1)
2008-07-02 Heffron Hotspur - Knights who say Ni 4 - 1 (2 - 1)
2008-07-02 AFC Phoebe - Mortlake Dodgers 2 - 3 (2 - 2)
2008-07-02 Cardiff Dragons - Green Star F-Burg 0 - 4 (0 - 0)

2008-07-02 Forest Hill Fire - Hornville 1 - 1 (1 - 0)
2008-07-02 Fancy Brigade - Vladikavkaz Noj 2 - 0 (1 - 0)
2008-07-02 U Street Gunners - Ivor the engine x1 4 - 0 (4 - 0)
2008-07-02 Llantwit Major FC - Wildridings 0 - 4 (0 - 2)
2008-07-02 Oxford Nil - Steaua Bridge 3 - 1 (0 - 1)

I think that is the 2nd time Dakota Barrera has had to come on as a sub and the proceeded to score the opening goal.