SMACK HIM HILLY !!!!!!!

Mind like an Elephant? oh god, there are so many jokes I could make....but I better not, so I'll just say that Hilly, you are the best footballer at Shefford, have a great few weeks, mate.



Phew.

when you get back not me I'm staying here......its very late!

Sillsy!!! I have a mind like an elephant and won't be forgetting your little dig at my beloved club so enjoy your holiday while it lasts and I very much look forward to seeing you when I get back.

It certainly was a nice looking injury. Reminded me of my last trip to Bangkok, a nice bruise surrounding a small neat gash... You can't count it as a goal unless you scored a goal. Football has a set of complicated rules about that. Perhaps you should phone up Blatter on Thursday and seek his advice on whether a decent enough injury counts as a goal. You never know you might find them trialling it in League 2 next season...

A couple of links for you to end/start the day with...

http://www.geocities.com/james3jr/ollie.html

and

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Swindon-Town-Football-Club-For-Sale-Going-Cheap_W0QQitemZ8702572986QQcategoryZ2885QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Lucky Im going away, Hilly might have forgotten the second one by the time I come home...

I am also back for the 6th November game, but will be in a bizarre world of jet lag and remembering the last time I turned up at a game having just got back from holiday when Genghis asked me to get changed cos we had players dropping like flies and then left me on the bloody bench in the freezing rain and didn't use me. I decided then that I would shag his alsation.

Thankfully I warmed up with a beer in the pub afterwards and you lot won the game anyway so I thought no more of it.

I think setting unbeaten targets is silly (sillsy?) - I think you should just go into every game knowing that no one is good enough to automatically beat you, but that you do need to perform to stop it happening. We know we can beat teams in the div above us, but also lose to teams in the div below us - it's all about how you perform there and then, not how good you actually are.

Good luck for the next few weeks guys I'll be thinking about you. It's not true.

Im not sure Im going to be able to go now, as my sides have just split so much from laughing at your previous comment.

I'll be returning to the bench on the 6th of November, by which time someone in the squad could have decided whether I am a left or right winger, or a centre midfielder. Hell, I'll play anywhere. Except in goal, or defence. And probably best not to put me up front.

We should win the next few games anyway.... When you back from holiday John?

I know we say this every season, but it does seem like everyone is beating everyone (except for Post Office...how?!), so I'm going to stick my neck on the line, and say that if we go unbeaten between now and the end of the season, we will win the league.


Phew.

For some reason our results not showing? !!

Hampstead Norreys 5 - 2 Travellers Friend

Henwick 4 - 6 Newbury Post Office

Newthatch 4 - 3 Monument

Paggies Bar v Shefford

Westwood Academy 3 - 1 Hermitage Reserves

I've got his CD - Blatter's Greatest Speeches & Opinions 92-2004 if anyone wants a copy. It's got a bonus track of out-takes. Quite funny, makes me laugh just thinking about it...

"The stronger European nations have to qualify the same way as any other county does"

Hahaha.

Thanks Dave but I think I'll err, give that a miss this week...

Lads,

If you havent already done so, I would like to point you in the direction of Football 365 today, a couple of cracking articles on England, one from John Nicholson, and then a Mediawatch special on the Sunday Telegraph. Read at your pleasure...

Well played yesterday boys played some nice football at times looked for the easy ball,talked to each other and worked well for each other.(Even Lewis)We got it on the deck and let the ball do the work
They might not have been the best side we will play but you still have to beat teams like that.
We switched off for about 10 minutes and let them have a sniff of the game but we then woke back up and dominated.
We looked up for it a lot more and the passion and desire seemed to come back

Finally, we have remembered how to play football! As soon as we got the early goal, we knocked it around really well, none of the usual Shefford Panic. Bit of a dodgy period in the first half, but recovered well with the help of their keeper!

Yep - spot on yesterday lads.

Results I have heard.

Post Office 6 - 4 Henwick

Westwood 3 -1 Hermitage Res

Both probably quite unexpected. Although I know Westwood have a few new players.

Congratulations on yesterday's result gents - sorry I turned up just too late to see any of the match but I enjoyed my pint of orange juice and lemonade after the game.

Nice to get a good strong result against a weak team, that's all anyone can ask of you. Points on the board so I look forward to seeing the other results while I'm away in Oz...

Paggies bar - they've played 2 lost 2 so far so in effect are in a slightly stronger position than us.

That said, looking at the table, if Post Office are top with 3 wins from 3 then we already know we have nothing to be afraid of. In seasons gone by (except the one where we won it) we'd have always been happy to lose by one goal to the team at the top of the table. So now we've done that to the teams 1st and 2nd. And we know that in both those games if we'd been at our best we'd have won them. So we need to look at our place towards the bottom and a) believe that it's not where we should be but b) accept that that's down to us, not bad luck, not bad refereeing, but the way we've played so far, otherwise we'll leave it longer before turning it around.

Paggies bar have had two bad results, but Trav Friend had a shocking result against a team we beat and then they beat us, so anyone going in expecting to just play 90 minutes and let Dave and Miller put a few goals in had better think again. JT set up our first goal last week from well inside our own half so it shows that everyone has to be at their best for the full 90.

Hello everyone Big game this sunday we really need to get are season back on track after a poor start from what i have heard it is a lack of confidence that is are undoing maybe instead of playing are natraul passing game we start to panick and hit the long balls and lets face it we have too many good players to do that.I think we need some luck to go are way but we are not going to get that unless we keep working hard. I am having a frustrating time with groin injuries at the moment. I would love to be out there turning things around i am hoping to train next week and go from there. I will be there sunday though who have we got???