The Football Blog

Don't mention the "P" word...

It was the encounter the world was waiting for. That's right, it was the Pitch Invasion Monday Early Division Two top-of-the-table clash between Catflap FC and Bramble FC. And despite having only a skeleton squad after the majority of the office nicked off home for Xmas, we ran out 2-1 winners despite, in true Catflap tradition, going behind 1-0. So with a two-week Winter break we'll be top at Xmas and New Year. Just don't mention promotion.

Mainly because if we do go up we'll be spanked every week...

It's the clash everyone was waiting for...

Well, apart from Man Utd fans. Here's the full Champions League draw...

Chelsea v Juventus
Villarreal v Panathinaikos
Sporting Lisbon v Bayern Munich
Atletico Madrid v Porto
Lyon v Barcelona
Real Madrid v Liverpool
Arsenal v Roma
Inter Milan v Manchester United

Ties to be played 24/25 February and 10/11 March

Catflap FC 3 - 0 TSM United

Sometimes you've got to win ugly, and that's certainly what we did on Monday night. Despite being bottom of the league TSM United were anything but pushovers, and we were far from comfortable winners, despite the scoreline. But the run continues, and the last game before the winter break (unlike the Premier League, we get one) sees us matches against joint top side Bramble FC. Game on...

Mike Ashley is back in business...

“Joe’s the man to do the job. He’s my hero. Is he better than Capello? Definitely. We are going to be in Europe by the end of the season!”

Mike Ashley on Joe Kinnear. There's nothing needing said about that really...

Apparently fans can't even make the pub now...

Remember when we used to bemoan the fact that football fans were being priced out of going to their local football match, and were going to the pub to watch games instead? Those were the days indeed it seems, as a new survey from BT Vision has revealed that even the pubs are being ditched by skint punters in favour of sitting at home and watching it there. A whopping 34% of lazy sods, sorry, cash-conscious fans intend to spend less time watching the game at the pub this season than they did three years ago.

Worst hit will be pubs in Blackburn (65% of fans intend to watch at home), Manchester (63%) and Birmingham (61%), though this survey was done before Sam Allardyce's appointment as new Rovers boss so we've no doubt that more Blackburn fans will now flock to watch their new brand of exciting football...

www.bt.com/vision