And with that, we were gone. But the football doesn’t end there.
Andy Hunter was at Goodison.
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Nick Ames was at the Cardiff City Stadium.
José Mourinho spoke after his Manchester United’s 2-1 win at Bournemouth.
Paul Doyle was at the London Stadium.
It got lost within the red-hot Premier League action and the Paul Gallagher affair, but Real Madrid got off to a shaky Liga start with a late-arriving 2-0 defeat of Valladolid. Sergio Ramos scored in the 88th minute after Kiko Olivas had scored an own-goal only five minutes before that. Still, a win’s a win for Santiago Solari and it was a first in six.
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The reports are coming in. Here’s Louise Taylor.
Open season on the Hart-Dog now. “Joe let in 4 at the London stadium?” says Ian Sargeant. “Deja vu?”
Adam Timmins, presumably a ref, emails in: “The Lee Probert comment was a bit sanctimonious: there’s nothing in Laws 12 that says, to the best of my knowledge, “unless it’s an emotional occasion”.”
Perhaps so, Adam, but Probert himself looked embarrassed to give it. He had his head bowed as the celebrations took place. I imagine he felt the referee’s assessor and his prospects of getting a big game soon took precedence over common sense and empathy.
Al Donegan emails in: “Yes, Burnley did used to be good at defending. Then they signed Joe Hart.”
Harsh.
And Preston hang on for 1-1. Well done, Paul Gallagher.
League Two leaders Lincoln are back on song, having beaten the Green Forest 2-1.
Paul Gallagher’s clean sheet is still intact at Ipswich, and he has made a save. How long can Preston hang on? They are on the attack in a game where there are eight minutes of injury time to be played.
Full-time: West Ham 4-2 Burnley
It could have been more for the Hammers, as Burnley seem to have forgotten how to defend.
Full-time: Cardiff 0-1 Leicester
Emotional scenes follow that win for Leicester. It was Demarai Gray’s goal that won it.
Nottingham Forest have beaten Sheffield United. That should shake up things in the Championship.
Full-time: Everton 3-1 Brighton
Lewis Dunk scored for Brighton but will be slammed for the mistake that handed Everton their third goal. Brighton have still not won at Goodison.
Goal! West Ham 4-2 Burnley (Hernandez+2)
Burnley concede again, as West Ham score on the break.
Full-time: Newcastle 1-0 Watford
Out of the relegation places for Rafa’s men with a first win of the season.
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Watford go so close! Stefano Okaka had space, but he missed the target and fired over. Newcastle’s first win of the season is so close now.
John John Askey lives to fight another day. Shrewsbury now lead 2-1 at Wimbledon. The managerial triptych of doom survives for now.
Norwich are crushing Sheffield Wednesday now. It is 4-0; Dennis Srbeny got the fourth.
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Goal! West Ham 3-2 Burnley (Anderson, 84)
Anderson makes up for that miss, though got a bit of luck, after fine work from Arnautovic, and the Hammers lead. Didn’t Burnley used to be good at defending?
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Chaos for Preston, whose goalkeeper Chris Maxwell has been sent off. Goalscorer Paul Gallagher has gone between the sticks against Ipswich. He has ten minutes plus change to keep a clean sheet.
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Jamie O’Brien on that Cardiff colour clash. “If we are going to get into colour theory, then no, different colours don’t necessarily clash. But anyway, in football, as the purpose of a kit is to differentiate, then the ‘clash’ refers to an inconvenient clash, not a clash of colours. Clashing kits and clashing colours are two different things. They both clash in different ways.”
Aiden McGeady, the 32-year-old prodigy, has scored his second for Sunderland at Plymouth.
And West Ham almost score again, but Felipe Anderson was trying to be far too clever with his finish.
Goal! West Ham 2-2 Burnley (Wood, 77)
West Ham very leaky at the back, and Chris Wood breaks his recent duck.
Goal! Everton 3-1 Brighton (Richarlison, 77)
The Brazilian’s second goal, after Lewis Dunk made an error.
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Paul Gallagher has just equalised for Preston against Ipswich. Some might say that’s bad news for Paul Lambert.
Lincoln now 2-1 up on the Green Forest after Kellan Gordon’s goal.
In the game itself at Cardiff, Jonny Evans, who came on for the injured Harry Maguire, has just missed a sitter with a header. That would have put Leicester out of sight.
Here’s footage from pre-match at Cardiff.
Frank Lampard’s Derby County now lead Birmingham 3-1. Jack Marriott with the latest goal.
Nottingham Forest finally break the deadlock; Lewis Grabban scores against Championship leaders Sheffield United.
Goal! West Ham 2-1 Burnley (Anderson, 68)
Grady Diangana and Marko Arnautovic combine to set up Anderson to slot home.
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Norwich are flying against Sheff Wed; they are 3-0 up now after Teemu Pukki scores his second. Reading v Bristol City has been a classic; Reading are 3-2 up now.
Celtic now lead 4-0. I think they may have a squeak of winning the title this season. James Forrest with the latest.
From our Hong Kong correspondent: “And the 6 members of the Hong Kong Newcastle United supporters club watching it in a pub in Wan Chai go wild!”
Bury are burying the Silkmen; it is 4-1 at Moss Rose. Oh dear.
Goal! Newcastle 1-0 Watford (Perez, 65)
Rafa Benitez was forced into a reshuffle after that Shelvey knock. And Newcastle have been the better team. Perez scores when half his team-mates were offside. More ref rage?
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More on Demarai Gray. He removed his shirt to reveal the legend: “For Khun Vichai.”
Shame on Lee Probert.
Sunderland have taken the lead at Plymouth. Aiden McGeady, still just 32, has got that one. Lifeline for John Askey? Shrewsbury have equalised at Wimbledon through Luke Waterfall. He carries on through it all, he’s Luke Waterfall.
Frank Lampard’s Derby County now leading Birmingham 2-1: Harry Wilson’s cross evaded Lee Camp.
Goal! Cardiff 0-1 Leicester (Gray, 55)
Emotional celebrations followed this goal, with Gray taking his shirt off as Kasper Schmeichel joined in the throng. Referee Lee Probert has booked Gray for taking his shirt off. The letter of the law but not the spirit of this game.
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Cardiff’s Josh Murphy has just forced a fine save from Leicester’s Kasper Schmeichel; that game has heated up a little after an understandably tepid start.
Frank Lampard’s Derby County have equalised against Birmingham through Mason Bennett.
Goal! Everton 2-1 Brighton (Coleman, 50)
Slack defending from Brighton allows Everton’s captain time and space to drill in from the edge of the area.
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Jonjo Shelvey’s rather miserable afternoon is over at St James’ Park. He has left the field with an injury.
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Watford go close at Newcastle! Another save from Dubravka from Deulofeu after Pereyra hits the woodwork.
We are back underway and an early goal in League One; Burton are now 3-0 up at Walsall, continuing the form of that midweek defeat of Nottingham Forest.
Liam Devitt emails in: “One of the Geordie faithful in Hong Kong here, waiting for the Watford goal that is definitely coming.”
From the Toon to Kowloon?
The half-time dividend forecast on today’s PL action is low - two score draws and two goalless draws. All to play for.
The big one is later tonight. Wolves v Spurs? No, Arsenal v Liverpool.
Paul Neilan emails in: “Well, Johnner. Hope all is well, I just wanted to make a sneering, snotty point of order on the ‘kit clash’ in Cardiff v Leicester. They don’t ‘clash’and that’s the problem - different colours would clash, no? And now to smugly pontificate at the cat for the rest of the day.”
Lucky old cat.
The half-time Premier League scores are in
Cardiff 0-0 Leicester
Everton 1-1 Brighton
Newcastle 0-0 Watford
West Ham 1-1 Burnley
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Another bit of ref rage. Sol Bamba has just handled in the area, and made a save to prevent Leicester scoring through a Jamie Vardy volley.
Goal! West Ham 1-1 Burnley (Gudmundsson, 45)
Totally against the run of play, Burnley equalise with Gudmundsson granted the freedom of the London Stadium to score.
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Watford piling it on against Newcastle again. The Geordie faithful are not really enjoying life. Gerard Deulofeu has an effort saved by the overworked goalkeeper Martin Dubravka.
Second-bottom Hull have taken a shock lead against West Brom, chasing promotion back to the Premier League. Fraizer Campbell got the goal.
Kevin Wilson makes a salient point there: “A slam-Dunk piece of punnery was just waiting to be used there.”
Celtic are 3-0 up on league leaders Hearts. Eduoard once more.
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Trouble for former Macc manager John Askey. Shrewsbury are losing 1-0 at AFC Wimbledon and he has admitted he is under real pressure. Askey left Macc to join the Shrews when Paul Hurst took on the Ipswich job. Mark Yates took Askey’s old job. Both Yates and Hurst have been sacked. The triptych of managerial doom may soon be closed off. And there is a vacancy at Macc, too.
Controversy at the London Stadium, where West Ham are denied a clear penalty. Diangana goes down in the box under Defour’s challenge but ref Roger East says it is a dive. It almost certainly wasn’t a dive.
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Goal! Everton 1-1 Brighton (Dunk, 33)
A crashing header from the Brighton defender equalises.
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Macc Town back in it! Ben Stephens has scored.
Burnley’s Ben Mee has just made an amazing defensive intervention to stop Felipe Anderson scoring for West Ham, who really should be out of sight.
Cardiff meanwhile have rattled the crossbar through a Victor Camarasa.
Leicester have a couple of injury worries. Harry Maguire went down on his knee and has not been able to continue. That could be a real worry. Demarai Gray is also hurt.
Jake Christie tweets in: “The Cardiff v Leicester kit clash is outrageous. Gray just squared the ball to a Cardiff defender in the box!”
Celtic now lead Hearts 2-0 - Filip Benkovic got his first goal for the Bhoys.
Goal! Everton 1-0 Brighton (Richarlison, 26)
A breakaway move from Everton, with Bernard and Sigurdsson setting Richarlison for a neat goal. Brighton caught cold when they had been up the other end for a corner.
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Macc Town now 2-0 down to Bury and will stay bottom of the entire league. Neil Danns got the goal, his second.
Joe Hart has just made a fine save for Burnley. It was from Felipe Anderson’s ball that played in Arnautovic, but this time the Austrian was denied. The Hammers knocking firmly on the door.
Celtic lead Hearts after another goal from Odsone Edouard.
Cardiff and Leicester is ebbing along with the home team employing the long ball. It was important that Claude Puel’s team got through the opening few minutes and they have done.
The Green Forest strikes back! Reece Brown scores against Lincoln. Macclesfield, no shocks here, are behind against Bury. Neil Danns scored it.
Watford go close against Newcastle. Adrian Mariappa smashed it wide when Watford had Newcastle scrabbling to clear the ball. Jonjo Shelvey has not been having a good day; he’s been guilty of giving the ball away very cheaply.
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Arnautovic not looking so injured now, then. Lincoln meanwhile, are ahead against the Green Forest, with John Akinde on the mark.
Goal! West Ham 1-0 Burnley (Arnautovic, 10)
A mistake from James Tarkowski, and the ball is laid on a plate for Arnautovic, who does not miss those.
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Marko Arnautovic has taken a knock for Burnley, while Pedro Obiang has also taken a tumble after a heavy foul from Ben Mee.
Sigurdsson misses a sitter for Everton against Brighton. A real chance blown there.
And Watford have got their game at Newcastle underway with a bright start and forcing a series of corners. West Ham are on the front foot against Burnley.
That was, as they say, impeccably observed and now the two sets of fans can start to sing. The Leicester players have remained in a huddle, but the football will soon be underway.
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And there is a minute’s silence for the five people who lost their lives last week at the King Power stadium. Kasper Schmeichel is in tears.
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Leicester fans have unfurled a huge flag bearing the legend “RIP Vichai” at Cardiff.
The away end. pic.twitter.com/oUCkNOIs81
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Ed Aarons was at Dean Court.
How does Rafael Benítez plan to get that first win of the season under Newcastle’s belt? By dropping Ayoze Pérez for Salomon Rondon, that’s how. Good luck with that one.
The news from Santiago Solari’s first Liga team selection for Real Madrid is that Isco has been dropped for Marco Asensio. Isn’t Isco one of Florentino Pérez’s favourites? Vinicius Jr is on the bench, meanwhile.
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Up in Scotland, Rangers have beaten St Mirren 2-0 in Paisley. Wee Stevie’s march to 55 continues. Daniel Candeias and Alfredo Morelos got the goals.
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Manchester United, meanwhile, have taken the lead against Bournemouth in injury time. Marcus Rashford has scored a goal that owed plenty to Nathan Ake’s lack of height.
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For Leicester, having been dropped to the bench last week, Jamie Vardy returns to the starting line-up which seems apt in the circumstances.
Further to the previous speculation that Everton might have a reshuffle, Marco Silva has stuck with the same team once more.
Nick Ames will be reporting from Cardiff later.
It's about Leicester today but credit to Cardiff, everything about this programme - outside and in - is pitched perfectly. pic.twitter.com/SG6eXN754m
— Nick Ames (@NickAmes82) November 3, 2018
From the PA wire ahead of that Cardiff v Leicester game.
Cardiff owner Vincent Tan and the rest of the club’s board paid tribute to Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and the four others killed last weekend in the matchday programme.
“This week the thoughts and prayers of Cardiff City Football Club have been with our friends at Leicester City,” the programme read.
“Today, in the saddest of circumstances, we stand alongside them in memory of those lost last weekend.
“The Leicester players, ahead of that memorable title-winning season, needed to have belief instilled in them.
“It emanated from Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha. The world of football lost a true pioneer and visionary seven days ago, though one whose legacy will live forever.”
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In analogue fashion.
Cardiff: Etheridge, Ecuele Manga, Morrison, Bamba, Bennett, Victor Camarasa, Gunnarsson, Arter, Josh Murphy, Reid, Paterson.
Subs: Ward, Smithies, Cunningham, Damour, Harris, Madine, Hoilett.
Leicester: Schmeichel, Ricardo Pereira, Morgan, Maguire,
Chilwell, Mendy, Ndidi, Albrighton, Maddison, Gray, Vardy.
Subs: Simpson, Evans, Iheanacho, Ward, Iborra, Diabate, Fuchs.
Referee: Lee Probert (Wiltshire)
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Cardiff v Leicester depicted in the modern way.
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West Ham: Fabianski, Zabaleta, Diop, Balbuena, Cresswell, Rice,
Diangana, Obiang, Snodgrass, Felipe Anderson, Arnautovic.
Subs: Adrian, Hernandez, Ogbonna, Fredericks, Masuaku, Lucas Perez,
Antonio.
Burnley: Hart, Lowton, Tarkowski, Mee, Taylor, Gudmundsson,
Westwood, Defour, Lennon, Vydra, Vokes.
Subs: Heaton, Barnes, Wood, Brady, Hendrick, Long, McNeil.
Referee: Roger East (Wiltshire)
Newcastle: Dubravka, Yedlin, Lascelles, Fernandez, Dummett,
Ritchie, Shelvey, Diame, Kenedy, Muto, Rondon.
Subs: Ki, Schar, Perez, Manquillo, Joselu, Darlow, Atsu.
Watford: Foster, Femenia, Mariappa, Cathcart, Holebas, Hughes,
Doucoure, Capoue, Pereyra, Deulofeu, Success.
Subs: Gomes, Masina, Sema, Chalobah, Gray, Kabasele, Okaka.
Referee: Craig Pawson (South Yorkshire)
Where are the teams? Send in the teams.
Everton: Pickford, Coleman, Keane, Zouma, Digne, Andre Gomes, Gueye, Walcott, Sigurdsson, Bernard, Richarlison.
Subs: Baines, Mina, Tosun, Stekelenburg, Davies, Calvert-Lewin, Lookman.
Brighton: Ryan, Saltor, Duffy, Dunk, Bong, Jahanbakhsh,
Stephens, Kayal, Izquierdo, March, Murray.
Subs: Bissouma,
Locadia, Andone, Knockaert, Balogun, Steele, Bernardo.
Referee: David Coote (Nottinghamshire)
In La Liga, Atlético Madrid’s worries continue: they could only draw 1-1 with Leganes. Antoine Griezmann scored a great free-kick before an equaliser from Guido Carrillo, the Southampton legend.
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Andy Hunter on that Everton v Brighton game.
The teams will be rolling in soon enough. Meanwhile, Manchester United have recovered from a truly horrendous start against Bournemouth and might have been ahead other than for a block by Nathan Ake and clearance by David Brooks.
Preamble
In truth, this is an afternoon that is unlikely to be remembered too keenly for the football being. Leicester’s match at Cardiff will be preceded by remembrance for Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, who died last week. As Neil Warnock, the Cardiff manager, suggested, it is something of a surprise this game has gone ahead at all but football is the sport where the show will almost always go on.
The rest of the Premier League action this afternoon: Can Newcastle get a first win of the season at the 11th time of asking? Watford, who visit St James’ Park, are a tough proposition; Javi Gracia last week suggested he has the best squad in the Premier League. Everton were a little disappointing last week against Manchester United, and welcome Brighton, who could leapfrog them in the table with a first ever victory at Goodison; Albion have not beaten “The Ev’ since 1924, in fact. West Ham v Burnley is a fixture that throws up sore memories; it was this game last season, in March, which ended in a pitch invasion at the London Stadium with the clubs’ owners targeted in the directors’ box. It also features Joe Hart against the club he played for last season. He and Lukasz Fabianski are statistically the busiest goalkeepers in the Premier League.
In the Championship, leaders Sheffield United travel to Nottingham Forest, League One’s leaders, Portsmouth, travel to poor old Bradford, while Lincoln will hope to end their recent ropey run by beating vegan voyagers Forest Green.
And there is also the small matter of interim boss Santiago Solari’s first La Liga game in charge of Real Madrid; they take on Valladolid at the Santiago Bernabéu .
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