If you see Harry Dunn (Blyth’s manager), walking towards Croft Park (Blyth’s homeground), entangled in rosary beads, simply nod in acknowledgment and keep walking. The Blyth Spartans boss will be hoping for a divine intervention and a little incompetence from Premiership side Blackburn Rovers, to help seal an elusive place in the fourth round of the FA Cup.

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It is a competition that has long been associated with high drama, romantic football stories and carries a huge interest for footie fans worldwide. We preview the pick of the FA Cup 3rd games taking place this weekend. Can anyone stop the Premiership ‘Big Four’?
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The pundits predicted this slip in form to come before Santa had scoffed all the cookies and sure enough Hull have slid gently down the table away from the dizzy heights alongside Liverpool, Chelsea and United. Phil Brown plans for tonight’s game against Aston Villa with fresh memories of his side’s 5-1 drubbing to Man City on Boxing Day.
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The Dario Gradi revival continues. Well, it’s hard to actually call it a revival, but four points from their last two games is definitely a step in the right direction. Crewe Alexandra played with much more confidence at Millwall on Saturday and were good value for the 0-0 draw.
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The Gary McAllister era is over after a disappointing run of results which has seen United lose five games in a row across all competitions and slip to ninth in the table. It has been a very testing period and everyone is hoping Simon Grayson can provide a lift to get the promotion challenge back on track.

The United fans were absolutely incredible at Milton Keynes last weekend, but even their passionate support couldn’t help the side pick up a point.
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We were hot on the trail of UEFA officials as they made the draw for the next round of Champions League games, which has thrown up some very interesting fixtures. It was drama from start to finish, as the names of some of Europe’s soccer giants were drawn, not to mention the fact that the Real Madrid officials and the Man Utd contingent were seated alongside each other! With an apocalyptic clash of Fergie v Mourinho on the horizon, we can expect handbags galore, comparable to an episode of ‘Trinny and Suzanna’.. Read more

The draw for the next round of Champions League games has just been completed literally minutes ago and here we have the results, drum roll please:

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

Leon Blanche previews this weekend’s football with Tony Gale and Chris Kamara.

Aidan McGeady is in hot water with Gordon Strachan, but if the Celtic manager decides to let him go there’ll be no shortage of takers. This goal shows why.

What do you think? Should Strachan show McGeady the door, or do Celtic need the Irish midfielder too much?

Sean

Everyone at Gresty Road must have forgotten what it was like to see an Alex win. The 13th September was the last time Crewe registered a league victory, however last Saturday they managed to scrape past Swindon with a 1-0 victory. It wasn’t a great footballing performance, but we’re going to need quite a few more gutsy wins if League Two football next season is to be avoided.
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