Sam_Van_619

Bet 1

5 on Portugal

Bet 2

10 on Turkey

Bet 3

5 on Germany

Bet 1

15 on France @ 4/5

Bet 5

5 on Ribery to score first in France/Romania game

Bet 1

Switzerland vs. Czech Republic - Switzerland 13/8, Draw 11/5, Czech Republic 11/8

4 on Switzerland

Bet 2

Portugal vs. Turkey - Portugal 8/11, Draw 11/5, Turkey 7/2

7 on Portugal

Bet 4

Germany vs. Poland - Germany 8/15, Draw 12/5, Poland 5/1

9 on Germany

GK Cech

DF Degen

DF Mellberg

DF Materazzi

DF Ignashevich

MF Ballack

MF Ribery

MF Modric

ST Torres

ST Ronaldo

ST Huntelaar

Team in.

James, Brown, Ferdinand, Terry, A Cole, Hargreaves, Beckham, Gerrard, Lampard, Rooney, Defoe.

I'd have liked to have seen a few uncapped players in there, really.

5 on Mother Russia.

I'm a Leeds fan! And I'm fucking delighted right now! It feels like we've already won, there is the final but the way we came back from 2-1 down to win it 3-2 was brilliant. Hard luck to Carlisle, it was even on the balance of the two games but in the end it was two late goals for us which won it. Super Leeds!

Amazing how we lost and I still feel relatively happy. We played shit for pretty much the entire game but Dougie popped up at the end and gives us some hope for the second leg. Come on Leeds!

Sign me up.

I'll be cheering on Forest today. They've been about the only team vying for automatic promotion who haven't bitched about the whole Leeds points saga.

Well, for the first time, I've actually finished a season on this version of the game. Not just one season, I've also finished another and started a third! Amazing.

Harrogate Town 2007-08

Started here as they're my most local club in the Blue Square North. Immediately established a link with Sheffield Wednesday who provided me with five loan signings: Sean McDonald (central midfield who was brilliant at this level), Jason Bradley (striker who played a few games but never slipped down the pecking order), Luke Potter (centre back), Liam McMenamin (centre back) and Luke Boden (striker who I mostly played out on the left-wing, he did well). I also picked up two loan boys from Leeds, Jonny Lund (became my first-team goalie from the seventh game onwards) and Tomi Ameobi (striker who was eventually one of the nominees for divisional Player of the Season). I also picked up James Knowles and Amjad Iqbal on frees from Farsley Celtic, and I also had a striker - Danny Holland - who scores 20-something-silly goals for us.

Our league form wasn't outstanding as we floated around the mid-table for most of the season. What really put us on the map were some great cup runs, getting to the quarter finals of the Setanta Shield and the Semi Finals of the FA Trophy. Towards the end of the season we had a good streak of wins and eventually ended up in 7th, one point off of a Play-Off spot. If only I'd won my final game...still, at the end of the season I was being linked with some Blue Square Premier and League Two jobs, so I decided to put my name in the hat on some of them and ended up plumping for...

Stockport County 2008-09

Stockport had been the unlucky team to finish in 23rd in League Two in the previous season so I was given the unenviable task at steering them back to the football league at the first attempt. I picked up two players I had on loan at Harrogate Town - Tomi Ameobi and Liam McMenamin - on free transfers, along with Shaun MacDonald from Swansea and Derek Stillie from Gillingham (also free). On loan I brought in Jordan Robertson from Sheffield United (striker who didn't score many but made a good second man) and Keith Quinn (who I hardly played).

We started off terribly, bottom of the table after six games. However after that the season picked up and I went undefeated for twenty games, shooting up the league into a position just below the play-offs. The board were not satisfied as they had expected me to run away with it at the top and, with ten games left, they fired me. My successor took them into the play-offs (where they lost) with only a few games left, so I must not have been too bad. In the cups we were knocked out early in the FA Trophy and I got them to the semis of the Setanta Shield before I was fired.

I applied for a lot of jobs at the end of the season and, to my surprise, was offered the job by Serie A outfit Empoli. At the time they were still flirting with relegation so I decided to wait until the end of the season to see if they survived, which they did, before I took the job.

Empoli 2009-10

I still, after three seasons, have not spent even £1 on a player, using free transfers and loans to my advantage instead. I snapped up a few who names are far too long to remember on free transfers, and also got some top-class loanees: Luka Modric (from Roma), Godwin Antwi and Kristian Nemeth (both Liverpool), Rey Volpato and Jonathan something (both Inter). We've started alright, grabbing a 1-1 draw at Juventus on the opening day and beating some jobbers to get to the First Round of the Italian cup. It's looking quite good and hopefully I can stick with this job for more than one year!

Rekindled my love for this game starting with the England job. Started well with a 2-0 friendly win against Germany, Bent and Carrick getting the goals. I then went on to get pretty much the same results as McClaren did in the Euro 2008 qualifiers, beating Israel and Russia 3-0 at home, Estonia 2-0, losing 2-1 in Moscow, (a 3-1 friendly win in Austria) and getting a 2-2 draw at home to Croatia in the final game. Fortunately that extra point was enough to take us through on head-to-heads so we're going to Euro 2008!

David James then promptly retired after the Croatia game, after being my number one choice and playing every game (excluding the Russia loss, where he was injured and Carson deputized). So now it's a matter of hoping that Paul Robinson will be good enough, or that Terry and Ferdinand will deal with it before it gets back to him.

Attacking wise I've tried quite a few different partnerships: Rooney and Bent, Rooney and Johnson, Rooney and Crouch, Rooney and Ashton. Ashton seems to be the one who I'll stick with for the European championships, scoring three goals in the two games I played him in (the Austria and Czech friendlies).

Wales and Northern Ireland also got through to the European championships in a minor miracle, at the expense of Czech Republic and Spain respectively. My draw for Euro 2008 group C is: England, France, Switzerland and Northern Ireland. Not a bad draw, but France will obviously be tough, Switzerland will have the home advantage and Northern Ireland will be on the look for a big upset. Wales got Austria, Germany and Holland. Yeah, they're fucked.

And my World Cup qualifying draw (if I survive the Euro championships with my job intact!) is Greece, Belgium, Malta, Kazakhstan and Slovakia. Looks a surprisingly good draw, with only Greece looking like they could cause a problem.

Just started a new season with Tottenham and had the following results in my first five games:

3-2 home win against Newcastle

0-3 away loss against Chelsea

6-3 home win against Aston Villa

2-4 away loss against Wigan

5-3 home win against Liverpool

Which gives a grand total of 16 goals scored and 15 goals conceded in five games.

Week Three Predictions:

The Coca-Cola Football League Championship

Barnsley 2-3 Plymouth

Bristol City 1-1 Scunthorpe

Burnley 2-1 QPR

Cardiff 1-0 Coventry

Charlton 2-1 Sheff Wed

Hull 1-2 Norwich

Ipswich 3-0 Crystal Palace

Leicester 1-0 Watford

Preston 2-0 Colchester

Sheff Utd 1-0 West Brom

Southampton 0-0 Stoke

Wolverhampton 3-0 Blackpool

Coca-Cola Football League One

Cheltenham 2-1 Swindon

Crewe 2-1 Leyton Orient

Doncaster 1-0 Bournemouth

Huddersfield 2-0 Carlisle

Luton 1-1 Gillingham

Northampton 1-3 Yeovil

Nottm Forest 2-2 Leeds

Oldham 3-0 Bristol Rovers

Port Vale 2-2 Hartlepool

Southend 1-3 Millwall

Tranmere 2-0 Brighton

Walsall 1-2 Swansea

Coca-Cola Football League Two

Bradford 1-0 Wrexham

Brentford 2-0 Barnet

Chester 1-0 Dag & Red

Darlington 2-2 Notts County

Grimsby 2-1 Macclesfield

Hereford 1-1 Rochdale

Lincoln City 0-1 Accrington Stanley

Milton Keynes Dons 2-4 Shrewsbury

Morecambe 1-1 Mansfield

Peterborough 2-0 Chesterfield

Stockport 1-0 Rotherham

Wycombe 0-0 Bury

The Coca-Cola Football League Championship

Blackpool 2-2 Bristol City

Colchester 3-1 Barnsley

Coventry 2-0 Hull

Crystal Palace 1-1 Leicester

Norwich 2-1 Southampton

Plymouth 2-2 Ipswich

QPR 1-0 Cardiff

Scunthorpe 1-2 Burnley

Stoke 3-2 Charlton

Watford 2-0 Sheff Utd

West Brom 1-0 Preston

Coca-Cola Football League One

Bournemouth 1-1 Huddersfield

Brighton 3-1 Northampton

Bristol Rovers 0-2 Crewe

Carlisle 1-2 Oldham

Gillingham 0-0 Tranmere

Hartlepool 2-2 Doncaster

Leeds 1-0 Southend

Leyton Orient 4-2 Walsall

Millwall 0-0 Cheltenham

Swansea 1-1 Nottm Forest

Swindon 2-3 Luton

Yeovil 1-1 Port Vale

Coca-Cola Football League Two

Accrington Stanley 0-1 Darlington

Barnet 1-1 Hereford

Bury 2-0 Grimsby

Chesterfield 2-1 Stockport

Dag & Red 1-0 Wycombe

Macclesfield 1-1 Milton Keynes Dons

Mansfield 3-0 Lincoln City

Notts County 2-0 Brentford

Rochdale 1-2 Chester

Shrewsbury 1-0 Bradford

Wrexham 1-1 Morecambe

Sunday's games:

Rotherham 1-1 Peterborough

Sheff Wed 2-1 Wolves

Felt for Tottenham today, neither team deserved to win in that match and losing in the last touch was very unfortunate. Good starts for Newcastle, Blackburn and Everton, all of whom should occupy UEFA places at the end. Derby did well to draw with Portsmouth and I was very impressed with Man City's win against West Ham, looks like they've made some very good signings.

Good start for us (Leeds) today, winning 2-1 at Tranmere. Now we just need 12 more points before we start getting into the positives!

13 to be in the positive actually

A huge cheer went up at half time when they announced the score as 'Tranmere 1-0 Leeds'

Good start for us (Leeds) today, winning 2-1 at Tranmere. Now we just need 12 more points before we start getting into the positives!

Made this quickly so I thought I'd throw my name into the hat.

Championship Opening weekend fixtures - Saturday 11 August

Barnsley vs. Coventry - 0-0

Bristol City vs. QPR - 2-1

Burnley vs. West Brom - 1-1

Cardiff vs. Stoke - 2-0

Charlton vs. Scunthorpe - 3-1

Hull vs. Plymouth - 1-1

Ipswich vs. Sheff Wed - 0-2

Leicester vs. Blackpool - 0-0

Preston vs. Norwich - 1-1

Sheff Utd vs. Colchester - 2-0

Southampton vs. Crystal Palace - 3-0

Wolverhampton vs. Watford - 2-2

League One Opening weekend fixtures - Saturday 11 August

Cheltenham vs. Gillingham - 1-1

Crewe vs. Brighton - 3-0

Doncaster vs. Millwall - 0-0

Huddersfield vs. Yeovil - 2-0

Luton vs. Hartlepool - 1-0

Northampton vs. Swindon - 2-2

Nottm Forest vs. Bournemouth - 4-1

Oldham vs. Swansea - 1-1

Port Vale vs. Bristol Rovers - 1-0

Southend vs. Leyton Orient - 2-1

Tranmere vs. Leeds - 3-1

Walsall vs. Carlisle - 1-2

Opening weekend fixtures - Saturday 11 August

Bradford vs. Macclesfield - 2-0

Brentford vs. Mansfield - 1-1

Chester vs. Chesterfield - 1-1

Darlington vs. Wrexham - 2-0

Grimsby vs. Notts County - 0-2

Hereford vs. Rotherham - 0-0

Lincoln City vs. Shrewsbury - 3-2

Milton Keynes Dons vs. Bury - 2-0

Morecambe vs. Barnet - 1-1

Peterborough vs. Rochdale - 2-1

Stockport vs. Dag & Red - 2-0

Wycombe vs. Accrington Stanley - 1-0

Group A

7.21 22 Short Films About Springfield vs. 7.13 Two Bad Neighbors

4.17 Last Exit to Springfield vs. 7.1 Who Shot Mr. Burns?: Part 2

Group B

4.12 Marge vs. the Monorail vs. 5.8 Boy Scoutz n the Hood

6.12 Homer the Great vs. 4.3 Homer the Heretic

Group C

3.10 Flaming Moe's vs. 1.1 Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire

5.4 Rosebud vs. 8.18 Homer vs. the 18th Amendment

Group D

3.17 Homer at the Bat vs. 3.13 Radio Bart

6.6 Treehouse of Horror V vs. 6.14 Bart's Comet

Group E

6.25 Who Shot Mr. Burns?: Part 1 vs. 6.24 Lemon of Troy

4.9 Mr. Plow vs. 7.12 Team Homer

Group F

5.15 Deep Space Homer vs. 5.10 $pringfield (or How ... Gambling)

5.2 Cape Feare vs. 6.9 Homer Badman

Group G

8.10 The Springfield Files vs. 3.4 Bart the Murderer

9.1 The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson vs. 8.15 Homer's Phobia

Group H

8.2 You Only Move Twice vs. 6.16 Bart vs. Australia

8.23 Homer's Enemy vs. 6.1 Bart of Darkness

This is all looking very interesting. I'm looking forward here to reading about the rise of TNA and the downfall of WWE, and I think you're gonna go about it in a realistic manner. Now for the predictions...

TNA Slammiversary 2007

Basham & Damaja vs. Voodoo Kin Mafia in a Tables match

Basham and Damaja are the new guys and VKM are the kind of act who I think you're gonna phase out of TNA. But what is Christy Hemme doing on interviews? Doesn't she have her own issues to worry about?

Robert Roode vs. Eric Young with Young's contract on the line

This should end the entire Young/Roode debacle, as I can't see how you would continue to carry it on after this.

Chris Sabin © vs. Jay Lethal vs. Sonjay Dutt for the X-Division Title

Ip-dip-doo...and Black Machismo wins!

The Steiner Brothers vs. LAX vs. Tomko & Giant Bernard in a Contender's match

These are the newest of the three teams, plus I think a match between them and Team 3D might be surprisingly good.

Christopher Daniels vs. Sting

Via trickery and deception...and because a huge win here could catapult Daniels to the next level.

Jeff Jarrett vs. AJ Styles

With some help from Miss Dumas, I feel. Jarrett seems to be in a 'put everyone over' phase, and AJ winning would be good for him.

Kurt Angle vs. Christian Cage vs. Rhino vs. Samoa Joe vs. ?? in a King of the Mountain match for the TNA World Heavyweight Title

Very tempted to pick the mystery man, but I'm going with Joe, because you have previously stated that he is the future of TNA. Why not set the wheels in motion early here?

WWE Vengeance

Snitsky vs. CM Punk

Hey, if WWE is doomed then it only makes sense for the bumbling big man to go over the talented not-so big man.

MVP © vs. Chris Benoit for the US Title

I have a feeling Benoit will turn up in TNA sooner or later.

Randy Orton vs. Ric Flair

These guys are going in opposite directions, really, and Flair hardly ever wins.

Deuce & Domino © vs. Cade & Murdoch for the WWE Tag Titles

Champs retain in what I can only assume is the early stages of this feud.

Edge © vs. Batista in a First Blood match for the World Heavyweight Title

Far, far too early for Edge to drop the title back to Batista.

Melina © vs. Candice Michelle for the WWE Women's Title

Candice is not quite 'there' as a wrestler yet.

Lashley © vs. Umaga for the ECW World Heavyweight Title

I needed a title change, and this seemed like the most likely one.

John Cena © vs. The Great Khali in a Last Man Standing match for the WWE Title

Well since this is the DEATH of WWE, why not put the title on the worst wrestler in the entire company.

^^ Run Over: They're great, thank you!

Searched for a while but couldn't find any of these, if you can I would be most grateful:

- Charles Evans

- Heath Miller

- Henry Godwinn

- Jake Hager

- Mike Venom

- Roughouse O'Reilly

- Vik Dalishus

Thanks.

Pitch invasion at Leeds is not helping our cause at all. Not only are we gonna be playing in League One next year, we'll probably be slapped with a points fine aswell for this.