It’s that time of year again
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The eye-opener for me was going an afternoon of jai alai back in '95. Geez the things people were yelling at the players.
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12,305 fans, about 2,000 who support Port Vale. It wa the biggest League Two attendance yesterday by about 4,000. There are a lot of teams who want Carlisle to stay up (but not at their expense) because Carlisle have one of the largest support bases in lower league football.
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They may have a reprieve, if Reading aren’t sold by the end of tomorrow they will be expelled from the EFL, but even then they have to win their last two games and hope Carlisle fail.
Other results didn’t go Carlisle’s way, it could have been worse but there is no margin of error now unless Reading get kicked out.
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From ArtButMakeItSports (@artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social on Bluesky)
Le Blanc de Blanc, by Georges Mathieu, 1987
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60 years ago Kilmarnock FC became Scottish champions for the first and only time. Celtic and Rangers also didn’t finish in the top four.
Three of those teams don’t exist anymore 
1946-85 was the best time in Scottish football and I wasn’t around for most of it. Rangers, Hibernian, Celtic, Aberdeen, Heart of Midlothian, Dundee, Kilmarnock and Dundee United were all champions. Celtic were the first team to win nine championships in a row. Rangers and Aberdeen won the UEFA Cup Winners Cup. Celtic won the European Cup (now the Champions League) with a squad who were mostly born within 10 miles of Parkhead*. Dundee and Dundee United both got to European semi finals, which is amazing for a city the size of Dundee.
Since then we’ve had 40 years of Rangers and Celtic being champions every year, two nine in a rows with asterisks, and nothing won in Europe.
* Tommy Gemmell was born 11 miles away and Bobby Lennox was born 30 miles away.
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World’s oldest pitch ‘proves football was born in Scotland not England’
I haven’t been to Kirkcudbright for far too long. I never saw the Anwoth football pitch when I was there.
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Man in hat delays rugby match
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It’s finally over.
It’s one less thing to worry about, I guess.
ETA: we have the “joy” of Truro City vs Carlisle to look forward to next season. 705 km each way, 16 hours travelling, minimum. At least AFC Fylde and their Farage loving owner won’t be playing against us.
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I don’t watch American hand-egg, but this is interesting… and kind of weird?
An all around good QB, son of a well-known player, but he ends up being the 144th pick? 
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The story mentions rumors of the Shedeur Sanders’ sense of entitlement. However, my guess is that some teams don’t want the baggage that comes with him, mainly having Deion all up into their business. Drafting him in the first round sends a message that they’d be willing to deal with the dad, too. Young man has cut the ties to dad, and I think going in the last round will help in the long run.
But who really knows? 
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Yeah, that all sounds plausible. But as you say, who knows.
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I should point out that I was told that Shedeur Sanders didn’t participate in several pre-draft events that every other draft-eligible player did. This may have soured him with the various teams (entitlement factor). But I can’t help but thinking about Lonzo Ball and the Lakers. His dad was the ultimate helicopter parent and it seemed that the Lakers got tired of him pretty quickly.
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That context is helpful in understanding what’s happening… but there is also the larger context of overwhelmingly white ownership of NFL teams and racism in American hand-egg in general.
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I totally agree. I’m just not sure that’s the issue in this particular case. Deion Sanders actually has a decent reputation in the NFL, but he may want to be involved in unofficially coaching his son. I really think that Shedeur (and maybe Deion) made some poor decisions about not participating in the pre-draft events, which may have given the teams pause.
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