And with that, I’m gone. Full results are here, and our Palace v Spurs liveblog is here:
Bye!
Watford’s manager, Javi Gracia, has less to say on that “second” Southampton “goal”: “Well if he didn’t see the penalty…”
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Charlie Austin’s furious rant in (nearly) full:
Wow... Charlie Austin is SEETHING!
— Match of the Day (@BBCMOTD) November 10, 2018
Have you ever seen a post-match interview like this?#Saintsfc #bbcfootball pic.twitter.com/DjoXP7tTmp
Here’s Louise Taylor on Newcastle 2-1 Bournemouth, and she starts with a pretty bold assertion:
If Salomón Rondón can stay fit Newcastle United will surely stay up. Given the No 9’s chequered medical history that admittedly remains quite a big if, but on this compellingly persuasive evidence, Rondón’s highly disruptive penalty-area presence is capable of camouflaging all manner of deficiencies elsewhere in Rafa Benítez’s team.
More here:
Mark Hughes is also annoyed about Southampton’s bizarrely-disallowed second “goal”:
Absolutely. I think Charlie’s already been in here. I’ve had a bit more time to gather my thoughts but it doesn’t mean to say my thoughts are any different to Charlie. Unfortunately the officials have cost us today. A clear goal. Not one of their players appealed for offside. 2-0, the game’s over in my view, then all of a sudden the officials see fit to play a hand. For some reason, imagination or whatever, the referee’s decided that Maya Yoshida, who clearly wasn’t interfering with play, was touching and heading the ball in, which is ridiculous if we’re honest. That’s cost us.
At that point we’re leading the game, about a quarter of an hour left, and at that point we’d have seen the game out and won the game. As it was, emotionally we’ve expended a little bit of energy, Watford are encouraged and it changes the game. All we ask is they get the match-defining moments right, and unfortunately today they didn’t.
Yeah, he’s asked (I’m paraphrasing here), but they should have had a penalty.
It looked a penalty. Clearly they got that wrong as well. We shouldn’t be a test bed for new referees. The likes of us, the likes of Watford, will always get referees who are learning their trade. There was no way he was going to he handling the Manchester derby. Where do we go with it? It’s a situation we’re not happy with. They’ve held their hands up and said, we’ve made a mistake. But it’s two points we really needed and as a consequence of the poor performance from them all, we haven’t got the points we deserved.
Here’s Rafa Benítez on Newcastle’s victory over Bournemouth:
We knew they would be difficult because they were in form, but you have to give credit to our players. The players were giving everything, the fans appreciated that and the atmosphere was really good. That was one of our best games. The mentality, the way we were competing for every ball, was quite good. Rondon did well, working hard, trying to fight with the defenders and give time to the rest of the players coming to support him, so that was a pretty good performance from him.
And some stuff happened in Scotland too:
And here’s Stuart James on Leicester 0-0 Burnley:
It was a day heavy with emotion and one that nobody in the stadium will forget. There were so many deeply moving images but none more so than the sight of 30,000 Leicester supporters fighting back the tears as a video in tribute to Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, who lost his life along with four others in a helicopter crash here a fortnight ago, was shown on the giants screens in the stadium shortly before kick-off.
More here:
Here’s Paul Wilson on Huddersfield 1-1 West Ham:
Goals have been scarce in West Yorkshire all season, though it was clear from the opening few minutes of this game that it was not going to be another dour stalemate. It was a surprise in the end that only two goals were scored, because both defences looked porous, but on the basis of chances created and missed Huddersfield have to be most disappointed at failing to secure all three points.
More here:
Here’s a report on that match. Sachin Nakrani mentions that incident only briefly, but I’d wager it will be more prominent when he rewrites after speaking to the managers. Still, he concludes that “Watford were good value for the draw”:
Charlie Austin is furious:
It’s ridiculous. They shouldn’t be in the game. We scored a perfectly good goal. Make it 2-0. The game was done and dusted. The officials cost us two points today. They said it was offside. It’s a joke. Go on about VAR this, VAR that. Help the officials out! We play in the Premier League, the most watched league in the world, give them all the help they need! Because it cost us two points today. It’s a joke! We deserved three points today, we’ve been let down by the officials today. That’s why we didn’t get three points.
We should win this game. It should give us a massive lift. The performance was there. We’re disappointed. I’m angry in the interview, we should have won the game 2-0.
Newcastle, bottom of the pile a week and a couple of hours ago, are now 14th. Fulham are bottom as it stands, with Huddersfield two points clear and Cardiff the lowest of three teams one better off on eight points.
Zaha is injured, so Crystal Palace are pretty much doomed.
Here are the starting line-ups for today’s late Premier League kick-off:
Crystal Palace: Hennessey, Wan Bissaka, Tomkins, Sakho, Van Aanholt, Kouyate, Milivojevic, McArthur, Townsend, Ayew, Meyer. Subs: Ward, Sorloth, Schlupp, Guaita, Kelly, Puncheon,
Riedewald.
Tottenham Hotspur: Lloris, Trippier, Foyth, Alderweireld, Davies, Sissoko, Wanyama, Lamela, Alli, Lucas Moura, Kane. Subs: Son, Winks, Dier, Llorente, Gazzaniga, Eriksen, Aurier.
Referee: Jon Moss.
And here’s the game’s very own liveblog:
Norwich have just claimed the game-of-the-day award by scoring a winner against Millwall in the seventh minute of stoppage time! 3-2 down in the 92nd minute, they’ve only gone and won 4-3!
GOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLL
— Norwich City FC (@NorwichCityFC) November 10, 2018
Final score: Newcastle United 2-1 Bournemouth
It’s all over, and Newcastle have won a second match on the spin!
Birmingham scored an unfortunate fairytale-comeback-ruining equaliser:
FULL TIME
— Hull City (@HullCity) November 10, 2018
Birmingham City 3-3 Hull City
So close to the perfect comeback but a remarkable turnaround for the Tigers all the same!#hcafc | #theTigers pic.twitter.com/OYBr6HDHSC
Handbags! Lewis Cook takes out Rondon, who takes umbrage, and both players end up in the book.
Here’s a full report of all the interesting on-field events at Leicester:
FULL TIME: Leicester City 0 - 0 Burnley.
— Burnley FC (@BurnleyOfficial) November 10, 2018
Play continues at Newcastle, where Rondon is played through but Begovic excellently saves his shot!
(He should have scored, mind)
Final score: Huddersfield 1-1 West Ham
Another score draw, with West Ham holding Huddersfield.
Final score: Southampton 1-1 Watford
It’s finished one apiece at St Mary’s, where both sides will be annoyed with the referee, but at least neither has lost.
Tranmere have equalised in the 89th minute against Oxford City, and that one looks replay-bound.
Bournemouth have an equalising goal disallowed! There’s not much controversy about this one: as Ake hits the ball goalwards – where it’s saved – Gosling – who tucks in the rebound – is easily a yard offside.
It was, as I mentioned, raining very hard at Southampton earlier. Here, though, is the Bombonera, where the first leg of the Superclásico between Boca Juniors and River Plate is due to start in a couple of hours:
😮 La Bombonera ahora mismo...
— AS (@diarioas) November 10, 2018
🤔 ¿Se jugará el Superclásico?#SuperClásicoParaTodos#CopaLibertadores pic.twitter.com/1LTUaiNAHb
At Leicester it remains 0-0 as the game enters stoppage time, of which there will be three minutes or so.
Wet London derby latest: when I last mentioned it Brentford had just gone 1-0 up, and Henrik Dalsgaard has just scored their second! Sadly QPR scored three times in the intervening period.
Watford hit the bar! Holebas curls a corner into the mixer and it lands amid a cluster of players and loops against the woodwork! Then it’s sent back in and Mariappa’s header deflects over!
It’s safe to say that Derby will not be topping any kind of table this evening. Conor Hourihane has put Villa 3-0 up with a fine free-kick.
GOAL! Southampton 1-1 Watford!
Jose Holebas has equalised for Watford at St Mary’s! There’s a double helping of luck on the way, the ball deflecting to him after a defender thwacks a clearance into a green-shirted Watford player, and his shot from just outside the area deflecting in off another Southampton man!
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What a chance for Bournemouth, who play in Ibe on the right of the penalty area only for him to blaze the ball wide of the near post! And possibly also high of the bar!
Hull are making a claim for comeback of the day: 2-0 down at Birmingham by half-time, they now lead 3-2! Kamil Grosicki has put them ahead there!
And it’s a rapid double for Villa, who are now 2-0 up thanks to Tammy Abraham!
GOAL! Huddersfield 1-1 West Ham!
Felipe Anderson howitzers the ball into the top corner from 15 yards or so after a bit of penalty-area ping-pong!
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In the Championship Derby, who could have ended the day top, have gone 1-0 down at home to Aston Villa, John McGinn the scorer.
“Here in the Bhutanese league we’ve got the practically named Transport FC,” writes Angus Northey. “Maybe they specialise in parking the bus. But they can’t compete with High Quality United FC. No-one can.”
In further Cup shock news, Oxford City are 2-1 up at Tranmere, with both goals coming from the gloriously-named Kabongo Tshimanga.
In the search for FA Cup shocks Stockport County, ninth in the National League North, are 3-1 up at League Two Yeovil.
Yoshida was in an offside position inside the area, and not far away from the path of the ball. But he didn’t touch the ball, and he wasn’t in Foster’s way or in his line of sight. You could argue that two wrongs have made a right there, but that’s still two more wrongs than a referee should ideally be making.
Southampton have a goal disallowed for puzzling reasons! Redmond passes across the area, Austin tucks it just inside the post and the Saints scream away in celebration! A good 30 seconds of jubilation later they realise it’s been disallowed. The only possible explanation for the decision is that the referee wanted to square things after the penalty thing. I didn’t see a foul, or even the vaguest possibility of offside.
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At Huddersfield Felipe Anderson has an effort with his right foot from the left edge of the penalty area that curls beautifully, but also rises disappointingly way over the bar.
That is absolutely a penalty. On Sky, Phil Thompson says “the referee bottled it because it was against the home team”.
At Southampton, Nathaniel Chalobah has been brought down in the penalty area, but Watford have not been awarded a penalty. He is still protesting.
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It’s been a day of two kits for Leicester, who played the first half in this one:
And are currently playing the second half in this poppy-enhanced version (hat-tip to Eoin Jones for spotting this):
“Out here in Zambia we have some great names,” writes Oscar Millar. “I watched the young green buffaloes lose 3-0 this afternoon. I appreciate their youth may have been a factor. At least they have a degree of physical prowess associated with their name, god knows how the ‘A M Welding academy’ in division 1 get on.”
Gabbiadini finds Austin inside the penalty are, but he a) misses, and b) is offside.
Hernandez, on at half-time for West Ham, has a good chance less than three minutes later, but Lossl comes out to get in his way.
Less than a minute into the second half Manolo Gabbiadini tries to curl the ball over Foster from 25 yards, and it goes just over the bar!
Here’s a video of today’s pre-match march in Leicester:
Bong! 4.04pm! Action has resumed in most games around the country!
The half time whistle has now gone at Newcastle, the last of the top-flight games to reach the break.
This isn’t good:
After losing this afternoon's derby with Valenciennes in Ligue 2, Lens fans threw seats onto the pitch. pic.twitter.com/q7Qa9HK8dj
— Get French Football News (@GFFN) November 10, 2018
Then Newcastle run down the other end, and Perez, clean through to the right, drives across goal and wide!
GOAL! Newcastle 2-1 Bournemouth!
Newcastle very nearly had a three-goal lead to take into the break, but instead it’s only one! Bournemouth have a free kick on the right, and Dubravka does well to tip over Cook’s header. Then from the corner Lerma stoops to flick the ball across goal and in at the back stick!
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Actually it was Callum Wilson’s header, and very nearly an own goal!
What a chance for Newcastle! Ki takes a free-kick from the left, Schar wins the header and it’s excellently saved by Begovic, who had very little time to react.
It’s half-time at Southampton, where the home side lead Watford 1-0.
“Delighted for Rafa and Newcastle with a two-goal lead,” writes Hubert O’Hearn. “Worried for Rafa and Newcastle as the January transfer budget probably gets trimmed with every goal or win.” They have a January transfer budget?
Another significant injury, this time sustained by Huddersfield’s Chris Loewe, who is being loaded onto a stretcher as I type.
GOAL! Newcastle 2-0 Bournemouth!
That’s a cracking cross from Kennedy, and a bullet header from Rondon flies into the top corner!
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A first-half tactical switch for Watford, where the captain Troy Deeney, back from injury, has replaced Will Hughes.
Of those FA Cup games that have so far featured goals, 12 are on course for home wins, the away side are winning in three and there is one score draw.
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Another great chance for Southampton, and this one’s excellently saved by Ben Foster! It’s a low centre from Bertrand on the left, and Armstrong turns it towards the near post but is thwarted by Foster’s trailing leg.
Southampton’s defending is ludicrously inept at times, but Watford don’t seem to be in the mood to punish them. Pereyra has just had a shot, but it was from outside the area and easily saved.
Another chance for Southampton! It’s a ball chipped in from the left, and Yoshida heads over the bar from 12 yards or so.
Greg Conboy emails to remind me of the Banana Slugs’ great claim to fame:
Chance for Huddersfield! West Ham give the ball away very foolishly in defence and a single, easy pass plays in Mounie, whose firm shot is saved at the near post.
Smith is still receiving treatment, and hasn’t been moved onto the stretcher yet. There will be at least five minutes of stoppage time here.
A long delay at Newcastle, where Adam Smith has gone down and seems in considerable pain. He’s clutching a knee, and as a stretcher comes on his game is evidently over.
“Sheffield Derby? Manchester Derby? The only derby this weekend is The West London Derby,” writes John O’Donnell, “and Rangers v Bees looks a bit one sided too, unless they are Killer Bees of course.” They might be – Neal Maupay has put them 1-0 up at QPR.
GOAL! Southampton 1-0 Watford
Hoedt’s header from a corner is well saved, and the second corner goes to Pereyra, who lingers on the ball, is dispossessed and it rolls to Gabbiadini, who slides it in. The weather in Southampton is totally atrocious, with rain falling as thick as fog.
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“Update from St Mary’s, in the words of the commentators on Canadian TV: ‘[The Southampton players] have got to be brave to get into the area and miss.’” writes Adam Kline-Schoder. “Aside from the fact that we don’t tend to get into the area before missing, that’s a very apt description of what our season has been thus far.” Lots of bravery, though.
“My favourite mascot mismatch in professional sports is the NHL’s Anaheim Ducks v San Jose Sharks,” writes Leo Addor. “No contest whatsoever. In collegiate sports, UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs v anyone they play.”
Banana slugs? The nicknaming committee needs to take a long, hard look at themselves.
726 - Alex Pritchard is the first Huddersfield player to score at home in the Premier League in 726 minutes of action, since Tom Ince scored against Watford back in April. Overdue. #HUDWHU pic.twitter.com/ZpPQkn6kZk
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) November 10, 2018
Eleven minutes gone at Reading and it’s already 2-1 to Ipswich, the away side taking the lead for the second time through Freddie Sears.
GOAL! Newcastle 1-0 Bournemouth
Rondon has given the home side the lead in the seventh minute, converting a low cross from the right at the second attempt!
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GOAL! Huddersfield 1-0 West Ham
Alex Pritchard has given Huddersfield an early lead against West Ham! I haven’t seen it yet, but apparently some dodgy goalkeeping was involved.
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Early chances for Huddersfield and Watford, both thwarted by decent saves.
BONG! It’s 3pm, and it’s football time!
“Magpies vs Cherries may be one-sided, but it kind of pales in comparison to Indomitable Lions (Cameroon) vs Squirrels (Benin),” writes Enna Cooper. “Indomitable anything is always going to win really, isn’t it? Even Magpies vs Indomitable Cherries would be unlikely to go well for the magpies.”
Here’s an update on Sergio Aguero’s hair. From which we learn:
- He’s not scared of going grey
- It takes two hairdressers to cut his hair
Cornerflagwatch latest:
Lest we forget.#RoyalsRemembered pic.twitter.com/hos5zK0eW9
— Reading FC (@ReadingFC) November 10, 2018
“I can think of no nickname match up in football more lopsided than the Magpies versus the Cherries,” writes JR. “I mean have you ever seen a tiding of magpies set upon a cherry tree? Let’s just say calling it one-sided is an understatement.”
Hmmm. Wolves v Bantams? Tigers v Wombles?
A quick search tells me that standard corner flags are/were in use at Leicester and Cardiff today, but the special version was used in yesterday’s Sheffield derby, so perhaps it’s a Football League thing.
Here’s a poppy-festooned commemorative Remembrance Sunday corner flag at Derby County. Is this a thing? I’ve never noticed them before, but then this is the kind of little detail I routinely entirely miss.
Cardiff have taken a riotous lead over 10-man Brighton in the 90th minute. More on that one here:
Life as a Maidenhead defender must be pretty tough at the moment. They have lost their last six games 3-0, 2-0, 3-1, 6-0, 7-0 and 2-0, and they are now 4-0 down to Portsmouth in the Cup.
“Check out the Leicester Mercury live feed,” writes Ross Tarbard, “there’s a lovely rainbow shot of the King Power which I think rivals that on the blog currently.”
I imagine it looks something like this:
And finally, the line-ups at Leicester:
Leicester: Schmeichel, Ricardo Pereira, Morgan, Evans, Chilwell, Mendy, Ndidi, Ghezzal, Gray, Albrighton, Vardy. Subs: Simpson, Soyuncu, Iheanacho, Ward, Okazaki, Iborra, Fuchs.
Burnley: Hart, Lowton, Long, Mee, Taylor, Gudmundsson, Defour, Cork, Lennon, Vokes, Wood. Subs: Heaton, Barnes, Brady, Hendrick, Westwood, Bardsley, Vydra.
Referee: Mike Dean.
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Meanwhile at Newcastle, these are the selected players:
Newcastle: Dubravka, Yedlin, Schar, Fernandez, Dummett, Ritchie, Ki, Diame, Kenedy, Perez, Rondon. Subs: Clark, Murphy, Hayden, Manquillo, Joselu, Darlow, Atsu.
Bournemouth: Begovic, Francis, Steve Cook, Ake, Smith, Ibe, Lewis Cook, Lerma, Fraser, Brooks, Wilson. Subs: Boruc, Gosling, Surman, Pugh, Mousset, Daniels, Defoe.
Referee: Lee Probert.
Here are the Huddersfield and West Ham teams:
Huddersfield: Lossl, Jorgensen, Schindler, Kongolo, Hadergjonaj, Mooy, Hogg, Billing, Lowe, Pritchard, Mounie. Subs: Smith, Bacuna, Kachunga, Hamer, Mbenza, Depoitre, Durm.
West Ham: Fabianski, Zabaleta, Diop, Balbuena, Cresswell, Rice, Diangana, Snodgrass, Obiang, Felipe Anderson, Arnautovic. Subs: Adrian, Hernandez, Ogbonna, Fredericks, Masuaku, Lucas Perez, Antonio.
Referee: Chris Kavanagh
The team news is landing, and here are the starting line-ups for Southampton v Watford:
Southampton: McCarthy, Cedric, Hoedt, Yoshida, Bertrand, Armstrong, Hojbjerg, Lemina, Redmond, Ings, Gabbiadini. Subs: Vestergaard, Stephens, Austin, Elyounoussi, Ward-Prowse, Gunn, Obafemi.
Watford: Foster, Femenia, Cathcart, Mariappa, Holebas, Doucoure, Chalobah, Deulofeu, Hughes, Pereyra, Success. Subs: Gomes, Deeney, Masina, Gray, Wilmot, Kabasele, Okaka.
Referee: Simon Hooper.
In the early FA Cup game, 2008 champions Portsmouth are 3-0 up at Maidenhead at skipping merrily into round two.
Hello world!
And so Saturday rolls around once again, and another afternoon packed full of footballing fun. This week is rendered even more interesting than normal, if such a thing is even possible, by the addition of some FA Cuplicuous fun, though there are only four 3pm kick-offs in the Premier League and none of the establish enormoteams are involved, with five of the eight top-flight sides in action currently residing in the bottom half.
You may at this point be requiring a great big list of all the day’s key games, and so here are all this afternoon’s fixtures in the Premier League, Football League, Scottish Premiership and FA Cup (all 3pm unless stated), plus a moody establishing shot of Southampton’s St Mary’s Stadium with a rainbow overhead:
Premier League
Crystal Palace v Tottenham Hotspur (5.30pm)
Huddersfield v West Ham United
Leicester v Burnley
Newcastle United v Bournemouth
Southampton v Watford
FA Cup First Round
Accrington Stanley v Colchester
Aldershot v Bradford
Barnsley v Notts County
Bromley v Peterborough
Bury v Dover
Chesterfield v Billericay
Crewe v Carlisle
Ebbsfleet United v Cheltenham
Exeter v Blackpool
Gillingham v Hartlepool
Grimsby v Milton Keynes Dons
Lincoln City v Northampton
Luton v Wycombe
Maidstone Utd v Macclesfield
Met Police v Newport County
Morecambe v FC Halifax
Oxford Utd v Forest Green
Plymouth v Stevenage
Rochdale v Gateshead
Scunthorpe v Burton Albion
Southend v Crawley Town
Southport v Boreham Wood
Sutton Utd v Slough
Swindon v York
Torquay v Woking
Tranmere v Oxford City
Walsall v Coventry
Yeovil v Stockport County
Championship
Birmingham v Hull
Blackburn v Rotherham
Bolton v Swansea
Bristol City v Preston North End
Derby v Aston Villa
Middlesbrough v Wigan
Norwich v Millwall
Nottingham Forest v Stoke
QPR v Brentford
Reading v Ipswich
West Brom v Leeds (5.30pm)
Scottish Premiership
Dundee v St Mirren
Hearts v Kilmarnock
St Johnstone v Hamilton
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