First weekend

Hello everyone. How are we after that opening weekend?? If you support a football league side, I hope your side had a little bit more luck than mine and that you enjoyed yourselves whether you were at a match or not. For now, let's get on with the new style of blog that I promised on Friday and more importantly, see if it actually works.

So, Friday night I watched the game between Norwich City and Watford and brought you the summary of that game. I also saw 45 minutes of Cardiff's game with Sheffield United on Sunday, a game which incidentally ended 1-1 giving us our only Championship draw of the weekend. The goals in that game came from Ched Evans and Jay Bothroyd. The one thing I will say is that it looks as though Leon Britton has really settled in at Sheffield United after turning his back on Swansea City so cruelly at the beginning of the summer. Cardiff perhaps should've done better aswell, despite the fact that they had to come from behind, against the 10-men of Sheffield United who had Lowton sent off in the first half. The other feature game for me in this division was obviously Swansea's season opener which resulted in a 2-0 loss at the Kingston Communication's Stadium courtesy of goals from John Bostock and Ian Ashbee. I have no complaint's about the first one as it was an absolute screamer, which I don't think Dorus De Vries could really have done all that much about. The second goal however just shows that Dorus De Vries has learnt nothing from the error's he made last season. I know that sounds harsh seeing as how he really didn't make that many error's, but when he did, they usually involved him flapping at corner's which is what he did once again just before Hull captain Ashbee put them 2-0 up. We weren't without our chances which is encouraging, and I guess this game was always going to be difficult against the relegated Premier League side, so now I think we should just look forward to the Preston North End home game on Saturday, a game I will myself be going to and which I will feature next weekend. The full list of Championship results then are as follows:
Norwich City 2-3 Watford
Bristol City 0-3 Milwall
Burnley 1-0 Nottingham Forest
Coventry 2-0 Portsmouth
Crystal Palace 3-2 Leicester City
Hull City 2-0 Swansea City
Leeds United 1-2 Derby County
Middlesbrough 1-3 Ipswich Town
Preston North End 0-2 Doncaster Rovers
Queens Park Rangers 4-0 Barnsley
Reading 1-2 Scunthorpe United
Cardiff City 1-1 Sheffield United

League One next, and another game I saw alot of on Saturday morning was the clash between favourites for promotion Southampton and relegated Plymouth Argyle. In my eyes, it was easy to see why Southampton have been billed as such huge favourites as they created most of the early chances, even without star striker Rickie Lambert who watched on from the stands injured. It was somewhat surprising that Argyle managed to get in at the break on level terms, and then soon after the restart, take a 1 goal lead. I think Southampton were so shell-shocked after the goal that they never really got back upto their first half levels, because if they had, Plymouth would not have been going away from St Mary's with 3 points. Full League One results then are as follows:
Carlisle United 2-0 Brentford
Charlton Athletic 1-0 Bournemouth
Exeter United 2-2 Colchester United
Notts County 0-3 Huddersfield Town
Peterborough United 3-0 Bristol Rovers
Rochdale Town 0-0 Hartlepool United
Sheffield Wednesday 2-0 Dagenham & Redbridge
Southampton 0-1 Plymouth Argyle
Swindon Town 1-2 Brighton & Hove Albion
Tranmere Rovers 1-2 Oldham Athletic
Walsall 1-2 Milton Keynes Dons
Yeovil Town 2-1 Leyton Orient

So, we're all the way down to League Two's opening weekend. I'll admit to everyone right now, I didn't see much of League Two this weekend but one match I saw the result of was Stevenage's result against Macclesfield. Of course, Stevenage were beginning their first season of league football EVER on Saturday and it looks like they may have a good season this season having taken a point from their first game and scored 2 goals, one of them after just 7 minutes and the second one, an 89th minute equaliser. I will be keeping a close eye over Stevenage's results on this blog throughout the season as I think it is a brilliant story to follow so keep your eyes out for that if you're a Stevenage fan/sympathiser. Full list of League Two's results can be seen below:
Accrington Stanley 0-0 Aldershot Town
Burton Albion 0-0 Oxford United
Bury 0-1 Port Vale
Chesterfield 2-1 Barnet
Crewe Alexandria 0-1 Hereford United
Gillingham 1-1 Cheltenham
Rotherham 2-1 Lincoln City
Shrewsbury 3-1 Bradford
Southend 1-1 Stockport
Stevenage 2-2 Macclesfield
Torquay United 3-0 Northampton Town
Wycombe Wanderers 2-0 Morecambe

So that's all for the weekend. Tonight Stevenage play Portsmouth in the League Cup, and there are alot of first round matches tomorrow night aswell so I will more than likely post again on Thursday giving you an update of how those matches have gone. I hope you like the new layout. It is longer, but it is also more comprehensive so probably better in a few ways. Hope you've all enjoyed this blog, and keep your eyes open for Thursday's post.