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Spennymoor have a relatively wealthy owner in Brad Groves allowing them to maintain their current status. He was apparently looking at Blyth and Bishop Auckland as well 15 or so years ago when he took over.

Another great win for Spenny following their FA Trophy QF win the other day, this time 2-1 at home to Darlington in the league in front of 2,088 (433 away). Sounds like Darlington will be kicking themselves for chances they missed, especially in the first half. Spenny have won 5 of their last 6 league matches and could be making a late charge for the playoffs like they did last season (ultimately unsuccessfully), but probably too much ground to make up.

Pretty sure it's just a one off match.

Consett had a great 3-2 away win at a team down the bottom, but Heaton's decent form came to an abrupt end with a 0-3 defeat. Another cracking win for Spennymoor in the FA Trophy, through to the semi final after a 2-0 away win at Sutton who are in the league above.

They were 2-0 up at the time of the red card around 60 mins as well. Would have been a handy 3 points given how tight it is at the bottom.

Huge win for Carlisle away at Cumbrian rivals Barrow. Carlisle have only won 6 times this season but have now beaten Barrow twice.

The worst part is that soon enough we could do with these taking points off actual rivals, but doesn't seem likely at this stage.

Not really. Southampton (even if extremely unlikely) and Wolves winning would have clearly been far better than Chelsea and Fulham respectively. You could argue Brighton drawing would have been more preferable as more points would have been dropped, but if there had to be a winner, Brighton was better. Palace beating Villa was good though, so more of a mixed bag really.

Villa had been looking more threatening as well. They might be checking this Palace goal.

We've actually got them all live here in the UK for once, but what I meant is the 3 closer, interesting looking matches are all on at the same time, so unless you multi screen / different devices, you can only watch one, but they're showing Chelsea vs Southampton 45 minutes later at 8.15pm local. Had they had Brighton vs Bmouth on at that time instead, you could have watched say Palace vs Villa in its entirety then watched the full second half of Brighton when the first match had finished, but the later match seems hardly worth watching (outside of Chelsea fans) considering how shite Southampton are, so disappointing scheduling.

3 interesting matches at 7.30pm, a shame they have picked the least interesting one by far at 8.15pm so that you can't overlap, but I guess Chelsea are the biggest club of the 8 involved so will probably get the most views generally.

Yep, QotS played Nordsjaelland about 15 or so years ago after being runners up in the Scottish FA Cup final.

It's unlikely, especially after losing at home to Hull, but that result tonight has done them no harm and Burnley still have to play Sheff U at Turf Moor towards the end of the season.

Always most likely, but that's almost certainly Leeds up in the top 2 now. I was kind of hoping Sheff U and Burnley would somehow pip them to automatic to potentially make Sunderland's task harder in the playoffs. Perhaps a small lifeline for their automatic hopes as well.

Bollocks.

It was coming.

Leeds turning the screw a bit here. Sheff U will do well to see this out. Leeds were 0-1 down this time last week to Sunderland.

Hopefully Sheff Utd beat Leeds tonight.

Ha, but na, didn't actually see this, plus was working for a lot of it, but definitely the type of match I'd watch if someone picked it up rather than just Bet365.

The big one in Turkey is 0-0 heading into injury time. Just looking on wiki and there's a lot of familiar names at both Gala and Fener. Obviously massively helps a lot of them have played in the Premier League, but I'd say I was familiar with a lot more of these players than if I was watching say Juventus vs Napolì on TNT Sports on a Sunday night. I wish a broadcaster picked up some of these big derby matches outside of a deal for that league. Edit - finished 0-0, so Galatasaray remain undefeated and stay 6 points clear of their big rivals at the top.

Lloyd starting for Juve against Cagliari on TNT Sports. Match just starting.

One of the best first half performances of the season, followed by one of the worst, but very important win in the end.

Don't want this to bite me on the arse, but genuine question, has Wood touched the ball yet, or at least had the comms mention him during the match (other than saying against his former club)?

Ashington W 4-1 Consett W 3-1 Dunston W 3-2 Heaton W 2-0 Newton Ayc 3-3 Bishops 1-1 Great collective set of results, especially for the 3 strugglers. 3 wins in a row for Heaton, definitely looks like they have turned a corner with those aforementioned signings. Could be looking at NINE teams in that league next year if they all stay up. 9 of 22 from the old Northern League would be fantastic and great for crowds / travel / playing matches on Friday night etc.

Some cracking latest scores in the NPLE - Ashington were behind early, but now lead 3-1, Consett 3-0 up, Heaton 2-0 up, Dunston beating a relegation threatended side, even Bishop Auckland a goal up, so 5 of the 6 leading and Newton Ayc have levelled their match.