Nottingham Forest supporters.

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The English Championship, League One, and League Two divisions are all taking shape as they are well into their 2009-10 season. Here's a recap of all three divisions along with video highlights.

English Championship Video Recap

Its still very crowded at the top as Newcastle, West Bromwich Albion, Cardiff City, and Leicester City are all within one point of each other.

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1974: The year of the Watergate scandal, West Germany hosting and winning a World Cup made nervous by the hostage crisis of the Olympic Games held in the same country two years earlier, the death of Juan Peron and two British general elections. It was also the last year in which Rochdale AFC last played outside the bottom division of the Football League.

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Flying with passion.

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On the way to the match in Bournemouth. February 2, 2008.

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League Two side hit the first of many self-destruct buttons.

League Two big-spenders Notts County have sacked manager Ian McParland.

Speculation had been rife that director of football Sven Goran Eriksson was set to depart Meadow Lane, just months after he joined the club.

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This week's featured video is a full length episode of TVS's "The Saturday Match" from April 1983. The main match is a critical match between Brighton & Hove Albion and Tottenham Hotspur from The Goldstone Ground. Brighton were bottom of the First Division and without a home a league win since the previous December, but they were still in the FA Cup, and could have been forgiven for having one eye on their upcoming semi-final against Sheffield Wednesday.

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Morecambe have taken former Liverpool youngster Craig Lindfield on trial, skysports.com understands.
Lindfield is looking for a new club after having his contract at Liverpool cancelled by mutual consent.
The 21-year-old came through the ranks with the Reds and helped them win the FA Youth Cup in 2006 and 2007. Click to continue reading...

Cheltenham Town 1 - 1 Rotherham United
League 2 Saturday 20th September
On the form book this match looked to be the draw which Cheltenham then managed to pull off. But when they say that a good team will get points from a game even when they are playing badly I doubt that the sooth sayers meant this badly. Click to continue reading...

The recession is biting Southend hard, as new figures highlight the problems seaside resorts face up and down the country.
Claimant unemployment in Southend has soared by 80% in the last 12 months to just over 3,300*, according to a study conducted by the trade union, the TUC. Click to continue reading...

Eddie Johnson once again came on to start the second half for Fulham, this time in a friendly against Bournemouth. Unfortunately, Eddie wasn't able to add any points to his tally and the teams ended in a 0-0 draw.

Still, it's good to see Eddie getting chances. He'll probably have one more friendly to prove his worth to Hodgson against Peterborough United on July 25 before the real matches start.

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There's been a clear out of Les Rosbifs in recent days, what with the transfer silly season in full swing and approximately six weeks of the transfer window still to run. Even though a number of Englishmen abroad are contracted to their clubs, it gives their owners the prospect of a payday if they can [. Click to continue reading...

In the wake of Southampton's point deduction and relegation this week, OTP looks at the English clubs which have been left looking like a bunch of bankers. 1. Leeds United Peter Ridsdale led Leeds to football's archetypal financial meltdown. While they only cost small change compared to the millions spent on managerial compensation and outlandish wages, Ridsdale's [. Click to continue reading...

Craig Lindfield is hoping Liverpool will allow him to return to Accrington Stanley on loan next season.
The striker has scored twice in 18 appearances since joining Accrington in January, having spent the first half of the campaign on loan at Bournemouth.
He has yet to make his first-team debut for Liverpool and is keen to build up his experience back in League Two with Stanley. Click to continue reading...

This one's from mid-Novemeber and had gone undetected til now - presumably because most people don't prowl the internets for highlights from England's fourth tier. Bournemouth's Lee Bradbury scores a goal after a defender displays quite just why he's in the fourth tier and Lee decides to plow through his team with the slowest seven [. Click to continue reading...

Number of days since an English football club scored a goal during Fox Soccer Channel's live soccer coverage on Saturdays: 14. We last saw a goal scored by an English team on Fox Soccer Channel on Saturday, November 15 when Nicolas Anelka knocked the final goal in for Chelsea against West Bromwich Albion. Click to continue reading...

Want to keep up with all of the latest news and info on your favorite League Two club? Want to read up on your club's opponent ahead of a big league clash? We've compiled links to the official club sites and news, squad, fixtures/results, and NewsNow sections for each League Two club so that [...] Click to continue reading...

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Professional Footballers Association (PFA) - Vote for your favourite player - and meet the stars
PFA 2UP Fans' Player of the Month Contenders: September 2008
The PFA's search for the Official PFA 2UP Fans' Divisional Players' of the Year Awards is now under way - and there are plenty of big names in the frame to succeed last year's winner Cristiano Ronaldo as the fans' choice. Click to continue reading...

A couple of years ago, the Reds starlet had many of us dreaming we'd found the next home grown talent capable of breaking through to the first team. Playing alongside his hero (Fowler), he scored on his Liverpool debut at just 17 years of age.
Last season he had 2 loan spells and scored a stunning volley on his debut for Notts County, sadly both loan spells were cut short because the clubs couldn't afford his wages. Click to continue reading...

Football is here again, and the beginning of the season is always a time of hope as clubs start over with a clean slate. At least, that's usually how it works. But not in League Two. Not this year. Because of point deductions, Luton Town begin the 2008-09 campaign on -30 points. That's minus 30. Just a few years ago Luton Town was in the top half of the Championship League, England's second division, with the Premiership nearly in sight.

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Football is here again, and the beginning of the season is always a time of hope as clubs start over with a clean slate. At least, that's usually how it works. But not in League Two. Not this year. Because of point deductions, Luton Town begin the 2008-09 campaign on -30 points. That's minus 30. Just a few years ago Luton Town was in the top half of the Championship League, England's second division, with the Premiership nearly in sight.

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Soccerword's League Two Predictions
1. Darlington
2. Bradford
3. Rochdale
4. Wycombe
5. Shrewsbury
6. Chesterfield
7. Brentford
8. Notts County
9. Port Vale
10. Grimsby Town
11. Gillingham
12. Lincoln City
13.

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Soccerword's League Two Predictions
1. Darlington
2. Bradford
3. Rochdale
4. Wycombe
5. Shrewsbury
6. Chesterfield
7. Brentford
8. Notts County
9. Port Vale
10. Grimsby Town
11. Gillingham
12. Lincoln City
13.

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For that rare breed of person who is a fan of both football along with finance law and practice, the current goings-on with the League Two crisis clubs makes for interesting reading. For the rest of us, it looks to lead towards the strange spectacle of three clubs - Luton, Bournemouth and Rotherham - all [. Click to continue reading...

While players are now reporting to their European clubs' preseason training camps, we're all still following the movement of American players between various clubs. This got me thinking that after 20 years of following the fortunes of US players in Europe (9 of them as a reporter), its hard not to notice the evolution of the American presence in the European game. Click to continue reading...

Harry Redknapp is achieving great things at Portsmouth this season, although he's keen never to forget the club that gave him his first managerial opportunity. The Daily Mail report that the Pompey gaffer is determined not let AFC Bournemouth go out of business after the club were placed into administration earlier this month. Click to continue reading...

There's no stopping Paul Anderson these days. The 19-year-old on-loan winger at Swansea scored his third league goal and his fifth overall of the season today as the Swans crushed League One leaders Leyton Orient, 5-0. It is the second straight match in which the Leicester product has netted. Their next match is a week from tomorrow when they face Bournemouth in league play. Click to continue reading...

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Omonia Nicosia and CSKA Sofia drew one all with the first goal being a stunning long distance volley by Claudinei a mere 35 seconds into the match, while Omonia equalized less than fifteen minutes later with a near equally impressive strike by Kaiafas.
Craig Beattie's amazing strike for Albion versus Bournemouth to lead his club past the first round of the League Cup. Click to continue reading...

Omonia Nicosia and CSKA Sofia drew one all with the first goal being a stunning long distance volley by Claudinei a mere 20 seconds into the match, while Omonia equalized less than fifteen minutes later with a near equally impressive strike by Kaiafas.
Craig Beattie's amazing strike for Albion versus Bournemouth to lead his club past the first round of the League Cup. Click to continue reading...