Darloboy

You know about as much as I do mate. There's an announcement due tomorrow, but it's expected to be the appointment of our youth team coach as temporary manager while it gets sorted out. But no clue what's happening with the buyer situation.

Nice

Been on quite the roll lately, I hardly got anything right near the start. I've got a fair few doublers right recently which has obviously helped.

No-one's really sure of the exact reason our chairman put us into admin. The fans have been left in the dark, the chairman has been trying to spin some sob story but no-one is buying it, he's public enemy number one at the minute.

All we know is that he'd been bankrolling us for about 2 and a half years. We assumed it was using his own money, but it turns out he's been securing loans against the club to pay for it, and one of the companies he used went into administration, and it had a domino effect on us, so now in the space of his brief tenure we've gone from being run on an even keel to being £5m in debt, around £3m of which is the chairman's, who has now decided that his funding was a loan and not a gift.

And he's separated the club and the stadium into two separate entities, so if someone buys the club, they either have to pay him however much rent he wants, or buy the stadium off him for a no doubt extortionate price. The only serious bidder we've had is threatening to pull the plug because he and the chairman don't get on (the bidder was vice-chairman for a few months during the winter, but quit after being fed a pack of lies by the chairman).

Our manager's gone, soon to be followed by our entire squad, and there's no knight in shining armour in the horizon, I really don't see a way out of this mess other than folding and starting again down the pyramid. The real sickener is that without the 10 point deduction, we would be 6th, six points off automatic. And looking at our form before and after entering admin, it's very reasonable to suggest we would have got an extra six points in our games if we hadn't gone into admin, so to have promotion snatched away from us like this is sickening.

We might not get another deduction because our main creditor is our ex-chairman and not the Inland Revenue, making the chances of getting a CVA through more likely.

However, there's more chance of us folding completely to be perfectly honest.

Higgins finally wins a frame, looks like he'll scrape over the line but what a great effort from Mark Allen.

Was disappointed to see Selby go out, not least because I had a bet on him, but it was a cracking match all the same.

Have changed my allegiances to Neil Robertson now.

Dave Penney has quit Darlo to become manager of Oldham.

So the exodus begins. Looking forward to watching our youth team every week next season.

Who the fucking hell is that clown singing on the pitch? Good grief.

Hope Portsmouth win tonight, I don't usually wish ill on clubs but I think I may actually die laughing if Newcastle go down.

20 on Man City

Boro 0-2 Man Utd

Yeah I think the punishment system is about as fair as it can be, although IMO it doesn't come down harshly enough on the actual individuals involved in taking a club into administration. Our chairman just put us into admin to wipe some of his debts, yet he gets off scott free while the club is punished. I agree with punishing the club, but punish the chairman as well by banning him from football for life.

Meh, I can see why him parking the bus would be annoying, but I use L1 when passing all the time, and it's not THAT tough to defend against.

20 on Chelsea

Hull 0-3 Liverpool

Only 3 points off top spot, not bad at all. Just wish I'd put more on the special, I was tempted.

I'll be watching, hope Ronnie wins but it depends if he can be bothered or not.

10 on Portsmouth/Bolton draw

5 on Boro/Fulham draw

5 on Bet 4

Villa 1-1 West Ham

So how is this game? Is it just like the first one? I enjoyed the first so if this is more of the same then I'll probably pick it up sometime.

Glorious

John O'Shea is awful.

Balls.

Get in there

10 on Tottenham

10 on Arsenal

Stoke 1-0 Newcastle

20 on Bolton

Man U 1-0 Villa

Since we're all doing All-Time Top 5's as well...

David Penney-Was a terrific player for us in the Conference as an experienced hard-working midfield man, and translated that into management by taking us up from the Conference through to League One via the Third Division. A club legend.

He's injured.