Darlo Uncovered

Looking even worse now.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23548760

Oh, here's mine...

Prem: Chelsea
Champ: Reading
L1: Brentford
L2: Chesterfield
Conf: Wrexham

Just looked on Ladbrokes and a £1 stake on that would pay out £21,600. Got to be worth a dabble.

Anybody fancy picking their winners for the top 5 leagues.

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Haven't watched much of today but I'm actually quite pleased that Australia have put in a proper batting performance at last. Sets it up nicely, hopefully the rain stays away.

I can never understand why this subject keeps coming up. Football nowadays in this country must be the most racially diverse sport there is. Also, surely the lack of black managers is related to the demographics of the generation they played in. Only a small percentage of players go on to become man...

I'm neither pro or anti monarchy myself. Just interested in hearing people's opinions on why they are a good thing. I hear the tourism argument used a lot as an example but I've never seen any reliable figures on how much revenue this brings in and how much it is in context of total GDP. Who knows, ...

Picture of the new pink kit in the article below.

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/1 ... way_strip/

MaddosMilkman wrote:The Royal Family are a fantastic thing for the country.

Can you expand on this point?

Not much out there that I'm excited about at the moment. The World's End looks decent enough, might go and see that. Also looking forward to the upcoming Partridge film.

Guess the Panini Sticker this week.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/quiz ... i-stickers

7/10 for me which I don't think is too bad considering I probably wasn't born when at least half of them were taken.

Can't beat a bit of 5ive.

Bournemouth are owned by mega-rich dudes? When did that happen? I wanted to know that too, the chairman is Edmund Mitchell, does not sound Russkie to me, unless Mitchell is short for mitchellski I should have said co-owned. Bit of info below. http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/football-lea...

Yes, he's done a brilliant job. Although they are owned by a Russian billionaire so probably aren't exactly in desperate need of the money nowadays.

I'm sure the 'Toon Army' are delighted that Joe's mate Mick Harford is joining the coaching staff. Not a case of job's for the boys at all, oh no. Oh and he's a Sunderland fan as well. :lol: He's turned down the offer. since when did a DOF need an assistant anyway? Wonder which member of the crazy ...

Amazing how the news channels have devoted virtually the whole day to this despite there not actually being any news to report.

I'm sure the 'Toon Army' are delighted that Joe's mate Mick Harford is joining the coaching staff. Not a case of job's for the boys at all, oh no.

Oh and he's a Sunderland fan as well.

Well despite charging 60 notes, turns out Bournemouth actually still got a full house.

I wonder if they made a decent profit or if it mostly went on paying Real's appearance fee.

Looks like the baby is about to pop out any minute now.

Get ready for a few weeks of North Korea style media coverage despite the fact that the general public mostly don't give a toss.

Bogratsteve wrote:135-5 2 wickets for Joe Root, man of match I think for the young lad

Root had a great innings and took a few important wickets but I would have given MOTM to Bell, his ton dug us out of trouble and won the game.

I'm going to change my prediction to 5-0.

Think the excitement of the first test was a a one-off and the Aussies really are as bad if not worse then I thought before the series started.

I'm going to stick my neck out and say I think we've got this one in the bag.

Fair play to England, doing their best to keep this interesting.

100% certain I've got 14/14 there.

Our batting isn't great but thankfully the Aussie's is woeful.

Seriously, if they can't make a decent score on this pitch, they've got no chance of winning a test.

It seems obvious to me that the plan all along was to hold it in the winter, they just didn't want to announce it when the original decision was made. If it is moved to winter, I can see the top leagues refusing to reschedule, meaning most of the best players don't even go. Or they play it in summer...

Very soft dismissals for Bell and Bairstow just before the new ball.

FFS

What does everyone think for the second test then. I'd expect it to be a lot less exciting this time due to the conditions plus the fact the Lord's pitch usually stands up well.

Couldn't be arsed to start a new thread but some good FA Cup news- no more adverts or Chiles and Townsend on our screens.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23339424

Not sure if it will sell out but I think Sunderland will be a decent-ish crowd.

Boro won't due to the fact that as mentioned their first team are playing elsewhere and their support is generally shite anyway.