h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

After the excitement of trips to foreign climes, it's time to return home to the bosom of the domestic leagues.

Now I was initially going to include the Leeds v ManU game in this list. But then I thought sod it, you'll only all go and misspell 'van Nistelrooy' as your scorer and that's no fun at the end of the day. So you've got Tranmere v Oldham instead


Arsenal v Chelsea
Middlesborough v Newcastle
Manchester City v Bolton Wanderers
Southend United v Leyton Orient
Tranmere Rovers v Oldham Athletic


Closing date 12noon as usual, on Saturday 18th October.

All the best now

Arsenal v Chelsea(2-2)mutu
Middlesborough v Newcastle(1-2)shearer
Manchester City v Bolton Wanderers(1-0)anelka
Southend United v Leyton Orient1-1)bramble
Tranmere Rovers v Oldham Athletic(0-3)sheridan


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Arsenal 2 - 2 Chelsea (Mutu)
Middlesborough 1 - 2 Newcastle (Ricketts)
Manchester City 2 - 0 Bolton Wanderers (Anelka)
Southend United 3 - 1 Leyton Orient (Bramble)
Tranmere Rovers 1 - 2 Oldham Athletic (Haworth)

Arsenal 2 v 1 Chel$ki (Henry)
Middlesborough 1 v 3 Newcastle (Shearer)
Man City 2 v 0 Bolton (Anelka)
Southend 1 v 0 Leyton orient (Bramble)
Tranmere 0 v 5 Oldham (Haworth)

Arsenal 2-3 Chelsea (Crespo)
Middlesborough 4-1 Newcastle (Christie)
Manchester City 2-2 Bolton Wanderers (anelka)
Southend United 0-0 Leyton Orient
Tranmere Rovers 1-7 Oldham Athletic (Eyres)

Tranmere have just appointed Brian Little as their new manager - so don't expect Oldham to thump them just because we stuffed them 6-0 yesterday

Arsenal 1-1 Chelsea (henry)
Middlesborough 2-1 Newcastle (Christie)
Manchester City 2-0 Bolton Wanderers (anelka)
Southend United 0-0 Leyton Orient
Tranmere Rovers 1-2 Oldham Athletic (Eyres)

Arsenal 2 - 2 Chelsea (Henry)
Middlesborough 1 - 2 Newcastle (Shearer)
Manchester City 2 - 1 Bolton Wanderers (Anelka)
Southend United 0 - 0 Leyton Orient
Tranmere Rovers 1 - 2 Oldham Athletic (Haworth)

Arsenal 2-1 Chelsea (Henry)
Middlesborough 1-0 Newcastle (Job)
Manchester City 2-1 Bolton Wanderers (Anelka)
Southend United 0-0 Leyton Orient
Tranmere Rovers 0-2 Oldham Athletic (Sheridan)

Arsenal 2-2 Chelsea (Henry)
Middlesborough 0-1 Newcastle (Dyer)
Manchester City 1-1 Bolton Wanderers (Anelka)
Southend United 1-0 Leyton Orient (Gower)
Tranmere Rovers 1-2 Oldham Athletic (Eyres)

Arsenal 2-1 Chelsea (Pires)
Middlesbrough 0-2 Newcastle (Dyer)
Man City 3-0 Bolton (McManaman)
Southend 1-2 Leyton Orient (Ibehre)
Tranmere 1-3 Oldham (Sheridan)

I don't think John Sheridan bothers to run as far as the opposition's penalty area any more, does he?

Arsenal 0-1 Chelsea (Mutu)
Middlesbrough 1-3 Newcastle (Shearer)
Man City 2-2 Bolton (Okocha - way overdue for a goal)
Southend 2-0 Leyton Orient (Gower)
Tranmere 1-3 Oldham (Eyre)

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Arsenal 2 - Chelsea 1 (Henry)
Middlesborough 0 - Newcastle 1 (Shearer)
Man City 0 - Bolton 0
Southend 1 - Leyton 0 (Bramble)
Tanmere 0 Oldham 0

Arsenal 1 - 2 Chelsea (Mutu)
Middlesborough 0 - 1 Newcastle (Shearer)
Manchester City 2 - 0 Bolton Wanderers (Anelka)
Southend United 2 - 1 Leyton Orient (Bramble)
Tranmere Rovers 0 - 1 Oldham Athletic (Haworth)

Always being one in favour of sharing the knowledge, I thought it might be worth pointing out that Simon Haworth plays for Tranmere... and also that Leyton Orient lost badly to Dagenham & Redbridge in the LDV Vans trophy in midweek (mind you, whether that means another inept performance When Saturday Comes or a comeback to silence the critics, I have no idea).

The management would like to point out that own-goals do count in the scoring system

Perhaps Orient had more important things on their mind that night, like avoiding relegation perhaps.

Arsenal 2-0 Chelsea (Pires)
Middlesborough 0-1 Newcastle (Bellamy)
Manchester City 2-1 Bolton Wanderers (Sibierski)
Southend United 0-1 Leyton Orient (Ibehre)
Tranmere Rovers 1-1 Oldham Athletic (Sheridan)

I'd missed that result. A shocking one for the O's, and having checked their website I see that there are few mitigating circumstances. They fielded their first team, and their acting manager Martin Ling says he took the game seriously. Not surprisingly, he was not a happy afterwards.

I saw a cracking FA Cup tie between Dag & Red and Orient a few years back. Dag & Red got four goals on that occasion too - but Orient got five. Little chance of the present O's side managing that, I fear.

Well, I was only trying to help...


I just wish it could have been someone other than the Daggers... you could say it's sour grapes 'cos they knocked us out of the Cup on Sky last season, but I have to say that I can take fans being graceless in defeat - but when you encounter a group so entirely and violently graceless in victory, well, you've got to wonder.

AND they only exist because of the acts of a corporate-raiding group of directors in the 1980s, who left Nort-East London with one major non-league football club, plus three supermarkets where Walthamstow Avenue, Leytonstone-Ilford and Redbridge Forest used to play Although it's quite a good Sainsbury's they built in Walthamtow, mind.

Bastard Dagenham and Bloody Redbridge knocked Scunthorpe out of the FA Cup a few years back. They're not particularly popular around here.

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