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As the title says. The Blackpool game on Sat March 31 is now on live (KO 12.20 ET) on Fox Soccer Plus. Again (like the Leeds one) this was originally down for a 4pm delayed showing. It's been moved to live. Nice one. No sign of the Pompey game. This ain't on TV in the UK but was half hoping we'd get it here in some form. Not showing up anywhere yet.

If the Packers or the Steelers were caught doing this the 'powers that be' would chuck a few bob in the kitty and say 'good luck lads'. Saints have got just a bit too good in recent years for their liking. The clips they are showing of Saints players tackling hard could be from any team. Since when has anyone ever held back from getting a good hit in? It's not as if every injured NFL player from last season was crippled by the Saints. I hope Saints really pull together now and go on the win the NFC. They won't win the Superbowl (that is Denver's) but getting there would be a great achievement.

Thank you kind sir. It is funny how goals always look a bit different than how you imagined them going by the radio commentary. A good win tonight.

Watford (A). Saints win. Leeds (A). Saints win. Ipswich (H). Draw Barnsley (H). Saints win. Millwall (A). Saints win. Hull (A). Saints win. 6 down. 8 to go. We ain't gonna lose another game and we are going up as Champions. Easily. Trust me.

Gonna be double hard to know what Fells is like with Manning cos he's gone to New England - where surely he ain't gonna get many catching yards with the 2 main blokes they have there. Def expect a new TE coming into Denver.

Thomas is a quality WR - expect to hear his name a lot next season. Wouldn't be surprised to see Mike Wallace of the Steelers end up with Thomas as the main 2. Decker ain't bad - will def get a better chance to see how good he really is now. What is a tight end? Seriously - the Broncos haven't used them much as pass catchers in recent years. Fells is the main one but really hard to say what he is like. I expect a pretty decent catching TE to be brought in for Manning to chuck to. Broncos are now up there with the favs to win the SB. Crazy sh#t man. Yeah, yeah - I know - it could all go Pete Tong in a big way but who cares? It's better to have loved 'n' lost then spent ya whole life w#nking. Can't wait for next season now. Buzzing.

As a Broncos fan living in Indiana - home of the Colts - this is going to be so strange seeing him chucking for Denver. For those going down the pub tonight I reckon there could actually be a geezer there with a bucket of sh#t, who will give you a million quid if you eat it. Up until a week or so ago 'what if Manning left the Colts and went to the Broncos' was in there with these kind of 'never gonna happen what-ifs'... Fair play to the Denver owners for showing some real ambition and going for it. Plus I think Elway must have said a few right things in Manning's ear - after all he has been there and done it at a similar age. Tebow will be ok - jesus will help things work out for the best.

Broncos. Nailed on. Maybe. As a Broncos fan I'd like to see him play in Denver. It would definitely make for an interesting season...

http://www.rebellionfestivals.com/bands/ 4 stages under one roof. Right in the heart of Blackpool (near the tower). You can come and go as you please. Plenty of cheap B&B's nearby. It's indoors so it can't be screwed over by the weather. A great weekend.

Would love to hear the whole of St Marys singing this:

I like the Sky Score Centre but the ESPN one I linked to above updates faster (I've done some scientific experiments here). Plus you get all the games from all the leagues on one screen. You don't have to choose your fav games etc. ESPN has live txt and live tables. The biggest plus on ESPN are the minute counters next to each game. You can easily see how long is left. Plus I quite like being able to easily see how Liga Profesional Boliviana is going. A team calling Blooming are currently top of the league. Another team called (and I ain't making this up) 'The Strongest' are currently 3rd from bottom. What great team names. Got to wait til 11am for the SFC game on Sat. It's always strange when you get these couple of weeks where USA clocks have changed - but UK ones ain't. Truckasaurus - I've still got no idea who you are... The clue wasn't too good. Got any more?

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/scores?cc=5901 For anyone in the USA I find the above link very handy. It is a fixtures list in ET and includes all major leagues from around the world. English games are always near the top. As games start it updates them live including a minute counter next to the game. I always used to use the BBC fixture list. Very glad they screwed that one up cos this one is much better. Truckasaurus - who the hell are you then? I can narrow it down to a handful of people but ain't 100% sure. W#nker!

He certainly does - def worth another posting of this: This Manning thing is getting stupid now. Denver are currently favs to be his team next season. As a Denver fan living in Indiana this will be very freaky if it happens...

I bet most of the pubs that are closing down everywhere are the sort of pubs that the 'you smoke, I choke' brigade probably wouldn't have ever gone in anyway. That said - I think it ain't just the smoking ban that has killed a lot of pubs off. Nowadays most people have more quality entertainment at home. Big HD/3D TV's, home theatres (with tons of channels & live sport to watch on these TVs), DVD/Blue Ray players, game consoles, the Internet etc etc. Ask half the kids nowadays if they fancy a game of darts and they'll go 'sure' and start to boot it up on their Playstation. Times have changed a lot in recent years...

Watford (A). Saints win. Leeds (A). Saints win. Ipswich (H). Draw Barnsley (H). Saints win. 4 down. 10 to go. We won't lose another game. Trust me.

Just watching Seattle v Santos in the CONCACAF Champions League & Seattle are singing 'Take 'em All'. Swore it was Portland who sung that. They probably both do. Who knows... Both this game and the early one (Toronto v LA) have had great atmospheres. Good to see most of the crowd stood up with no stewards hassling them. Anyway - just knocked up a MLS fantasy team on http://games.espn.go.com/fc-manager-mls/en/frontpage - took about 5 mins. Simple. Extra simple because although you have a budget you can pick all your team from top-ish valued players and still be under it. If Indy ever does get a MLS team they can try and lure all the fickle, gormless, plastic and clueless ex-Colts fans that are now around. They don't know any other Colts players apart from Manning - so are now 'done with them'.

I forgot - I like Portland Timbers as well because their fans sing 'Take 'em All' by C#ck Sparrer. Freaked me out the first time I heard them doing this. Not sure if it's a totally original chant but I've only ever heard them sing it. So that is 4 teams I've now got. I agree with what you are saying. Plus I always say this about all sport - you have to care who wins to really enjoy it. Hell, I enjoy watching the local college basketball team on TV more than watching a lot of football matches (despite liking football a lot more...)

MLS season starts this weekend. Anyone got into that much? It's a bit hard here as the nearest teams are Fire & Crew but both are nearly 200 miles away. With my Colorado connections I'm a sly Rapids fan as well. I've got pics of me at both the Rapids & Crew grounds so that makes me pretty diehard. Anyway - I wouldn't mind doing a fantasy team this year. Anyone got one on the go? I presume http://fantasy.mlssoccer.com/ is a good-a place as any to pick a team?

You are now on my virtual .

Watford (A). Saints win. Leeds (A). Saints win. 2 down. 12 to go. We won't lose another game. Trust me.

Anyone else listening to the Millwall v Reading game? http://www.millwallfc.co.uk/page/player/Home (you can use your SaintsPlayer log-in) The co-commentator is a bird. Nothing wrong with that as such but it sounds funny. It doesn't help that she sounds about 12 years old. Worth a listen if you get a chance.

Good man. Not sure what I'm gonna get in for the game. Gonna have to be something fairly quaffable. That said I may get in a couple of bottles of wine - one white & one red. That has gotta be a lucky combination. Saints are actually favs to win at Leeds. It must have been a long time ago (if ever?) that the bookies thought that. Anyone else in the USA use bodog? I have a few sneaky bets on there - but nothing too major in case it suddenly shuts down. It doesn't usually let you do accums on the football (or 'parlays' as they call them here). That sucks but it is better than nothing. It also didn't have outright odds on the Championship - which double sucks cos I'd have def had a bit of the 14/1 that was around at the start of the season...

A heads-up for next weekend. Leeds v Saints is LIVE on Fox Soccer Plus (12.15 ET). This changed. It was showing up as being on at 4pm. Who knows/cares why it is now live. Nice one!

Where I live I can watch every Reds & Cards game on TV - plus a lot of White Sox & Cubs games (I'm right in the middle of these 4 teams and none of their games on regional Fox Sports or Comcast are blocked). I've gone with the Reds (come on you Reds - had to be done). Plus of the 4 they are the only one in my timezone. Locally it's the Terre Haute Rex. This stadium really is the theatre of dreams: It's a pretty good standard of play, you can watch the game with a beer & it is a nice relaxed night out. If anyone is ever over in the USA (and wants to see some baseball) then try and look beyond just the MLB. You could sort of compare by saying that: Southampton FC = Cincinnati Reds AFC Totton = Terre Haue Rex Enjoy the season everyone.

Never mind all that fancy ale stuff - I think a couple of cases of Milwaukee Best are in order for this weekend. Will Ferrell drinks it on the roof tops of Terre Haute, IN so it must be good: At around $16 for 30 cans you can't go wrong. Can you?