This week's Video Of The Week takes us back to the race for the Second Division title from the 1978/79 season and features three matches from an episode of London Weekend Television's "The Big Match", presented as ever by Brian Moore. The first match is between from Selhurst Park and is between Crystal Palace and Notts County, the second match is from The Goldstone Ground and is between Brighton & Hove Albion and Blackburn Rovers (about whom Moore says, "they've already been relegated to the Third Division, so at least they'll be relaxed) and the final match is from Roker Park, and is between Sunderland and Cardiff City.

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Southend United will today (Wed) learn whether they will enter administration and be deducted 10-points from their League One tally.
Yesterday (3rd), at around 8pm, a bid to take over the club by a consortium of local businesses was turned down by the board of SUFC. The un-named 10-strong party had wanted to buy the club for a nominal fee, rid it of its debts and - according to its spokesman - push the business forward. Click to continue reading...

Tranmere Rovers have signed Liverpool goalkeeper David Martin on a one-month loan deal.
The 23-year-old former England Under-20 international spent a successful loan period with League One Champions Leicester City last season.
"Saturday's game is very important and, with Luke Daniels being suspended, we needed an experienced goalkeeper," said Rovers caretaker manager Les Parry. Click to continue reading...

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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Wheel of Fortune
The 2008/09 season has been a mixed bag for Lewes FC to say the least. The club have been beset by off the field problems (mainly financial) on almost a weekly basis. There are reasons to be cheerful down at the Dripping Pan though and for now let's dwell on the positives. Click to continue reading...

Since there are only Johnstone's Paint Trophy matches and FA Trophy Second Qualifying Round replays this week, we thought it would be about the right time to have another "Video Of The Week" and this, I have to say, is something rather special a complete episode of London Weekend Television's "The Big Match" from April 1979.

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County face Southend United at Edgeley Park tomorrow afternoon, get the knowledge of the two sides below.

Meetings since 2008 17/01/2009 Stockport 3 1 Southend 11/10/2008 Southend 1 1 Stockport Stockport County Last Six Games 29/09/2009 Stockport 2 2 Hartlepool 26/09/2009 Huddersfield 0 0 Stockport 19/09/2009 Stockport 2 1 Leyton Orient 12/09/2009 Yeovil 2 2 Stockport 05/09/2009 Leeds 2 0 Stockport 01/09/2009 Crewe 1 4 Stockport Southend United Last Six Games 29/09/2009 Brentford 2 1 Southend 26/09/2009 Southend 0 1 Oldham 19/09/2009 Brighton 2 3 Southend 11/09/2009 Southend 0 0 Leeds 04/09/2009 Southend 3 0 Leyton Orient 29/08/2009 Swindon 2 1 Southend

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Francis Laurent's injury time strike gave Southend all three points after an exciting encounter at the Withdean Stadium.
The Blues took the lead on 8 minutes, when Lee Barnard angled a header into the net from a Simon Francis cross. It was his eighth goal of the season.
The home side equalised through another in-form striker, Nicky Forster, on 21. Click to continue reading...

by GIANFRANCO PANIZO

It was a relatively light weekend for the Americans Abroad, but there was still plenty to talk about at despite the

Mike Grella scored the game-winning goal for Leeds United in their 2-0 win over Stockport County. Grella, who was subbed out in the 72nd minute, netted in the ninth.

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by GIANFRANCO PANIZO

It was a relatively light weekend for the Americans Abroad, but there was still plenty to talk about despite the international fixture schedule.

Mike Grella scored the game-winning goal for Leeds United in their 2-0 win over Stockport County.

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You look at a lot of sides or managers who are aiming for grander things in the long run, and it is often the Carling Cup that has been the first stepping stone on that journey.
Whilst the nature of cup competition are a little difficult to predict, this competition is the one that looks most likely to yield a trophy during 2009/10. Click to continue reading...

Kasper Schmeichel has linked up again with Sven-Goran Eriksson at Notts County for an undisclosed fee.

The former Denmark Under-21 goalkeeper, who joined City in November 2004 when he turned 18, has faced fierce competition and played only two senior matches last season, cup-ties against Brighton and Santander.

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Cheeky finish from the Carling Cup The old strikers' dilemma. You're one-on-one with the keeper: do you chip him, go round him or try and place the ball into the net? Swansea's Stephen 'House-elf' Dobbie found an interested solution to the problem in Tuesday night's Carling Cup clash with Brighton. Click to continue reading...

League One 2009-10 Predictions

1. Leeds
2. Norwich
3. Charlton
4. Huddersfield
5. MK Dons
6. Millwall
7. Colchester
8. Southampton
9. Southend
10. Oldham
11. Brentford
12. Tranmere
13. Brighton
14.

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A 0-0 draw away at Woking on Saturday afternoon signalled the end of Boro's pre-season campaign for 2009. Graham Westley's side played 7 games, winning 3, drawing 2 and losing 2. This year's campaign has been a lot different to previous pre-season's at Broadhall Way with the team being much more settled and no trialists featuring at all.

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Steven Gerrard and his wife Alex were out and about in London last night. They had a stop off at Nobu before heading over to the Mayfair hotel for a few drinks. Where's the news? Well, let's see what we can drum up.

- Alex is continuing her recent spate of looking pretty smashing. Hair, makeup, clothes - she's really looking rather fabulous.

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Steven Gerrard and his wife Alex were out and about in London last night. They had a stop off at Nobu before heading over to the Mayfair hotel for a few drinks. Where's the news? Well, let's see what we can drum up.

- Alex is continuing her recent spate of looking pretty smashing. Hair, makeup, clothes - she really looks rather fabulous.

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You may (or may not) have noticed that the frequency of posting on Les Rosbifs has not been as frequent over the past few days. This is due to some extensive research into the playing histories of the members of the list, as well as checking if they are all at the clubs they were [...] Click to continue reading...

Stevenage continued their impressive start to pre-season with a 2-1 victory over Brighton. I didn't get to the game, but after reading the reports on the forum and Comet it sounds like it was a well deserved win over the League 1 opposition. Even some Brighton players, media and fans on their message board have stated that Boro were well worth the victory and the team looked good enough to be a league side.

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Tomorrow sees the return of football to Broadhall Way as Brighton come to town in the second friendly of the season. It should prove to be a good test for Boro, who began their pre season preparations with a solid win away at Chelmsford on Wednesday night. It will be the first opportunity for many to see the likes of Yemi Odubade, Stacy Long, Joel Byrom, Chris Beardsley and Charlie Griffin in a Boro shirt and it could be the new shirt that they play in tomorrow afternoon.

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Tomorrow sees a return to Broadhall Way for Boro as they continue their pre-season preparations against League 1 side Brighton & Hove Albion. The Seagulls are now managed by former Scarborough and Yeovil manager Russell Slade and will provide a stern test for the team. Boro kicked off their pre-season mid-week with a hard earned victory away at Chelmsford and now face a team who will be looking to improve on their lowly position in League 1 last season.

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Manchester City's new signing, who said he 'gave his life for the United shirt', claimed he was leaving for football reasons. The fact that City are prepared to pay £150,000-a-week for a player who was on £90,000-a-week at United did not factor in to Tevez's decision, he claims. It wasn't a move about money rather a move for football.

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Los Angeles Galaxy have agreed terms with England-born Trinidad & Tobago midfielder Chris Birchall. The 25-year old most recently played with Brighton & Hove Albion but will now ply his trade with the Galaxy, pending an International Transfer Clearance.

"Chris is a player that I've tracked for a number of years," Galaxy General Manager and Head Coach Bruce Arena said.

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Last Sunday saw the Boro players begin their preparations for the season ahead just 6 weeks after winning the FA Trophy Final at Wembley. They couldn't of planned their return to training at a worse time with it being the hottest week of the year so far. Hardly the best conditions to get your fitness back in?

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The London Underground strike may be about to cause one or two problems for the England team this evening for their match against Andorra. The kick-off time has already been put back to 8.15, and people that have bought tickets have already been advised that they will be able to claim refunds if they are not able to trek across to north London this evening in order to make the match.

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Date: Thursday 21st May 2009 7.00pm Ground: Villa Park Match: Aston Villa Reserves 3 Sunderland Reserves 1 HT: 1-1 ATT: 5,337
Comp: Premier Reserve League North/South Play-off Final
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Trinidad and Tobago's national team midfielder Christopher Birchall has agreed to a four-year contract with the Los Angeles Galaxy according to the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian. Birchall, now in Tobago with the National team has revealed that he has agreed to terms and conditions with the MLS club and will join them in early July.

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Brighton & Hove Albion's move to Falmer has been beset by every problem imaginable over the last few years, but when BBC South showed construction work starting at the site of the proposed new stadium last year one might have been forgiven for thinking that things were finally starting to move in the right direction.

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MARK HUGHES has moved to allay fears over the future of England Under-21 star Michael Johnson, who has missed most of the season with painful muscular problems in his pelvic area.

There has been speculation that highly-rated Johnson's career might even be in jeopardy, such is the trouble he has had trying to get back to full fitness since his last game at Brighton in September.

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English newspapers today are reporting that Chris Birchall is heading to LA this week as be contemplates a move to the LA Galaxy.

Chris why you ask? Well Birchall is 25 and is a midfielder who plays for Brighton. He is available as he is a free agent this summer as Brighton decided not to renew his contract.

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Lloyd Owusu cuts an unlikely figure as a possible season saving hero. He is thirty-two years old now, and has spent much of his career as a nearly man - Brentford's all-time highest scorer, he scored with his first touch for Sheffield Wednesday in a derby match against Sheffield United in 2002, but failed to settle at Hillsborough and ended up cutting something of a journeyman existence around the lower divisions.

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Thanks to the millions being shelled out by Premiership teams like Manchester City, Tottenham and the big four this season, it is easy to forget that English football is currently seized by its very own credit crunch. Today Luton Town dropped out of the football league for the first time in 89 years in football's equivalent to the collapse of Lehman Brothers last year.

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Sorry but that's zoo Yes, OTP may have spent a few minutes wondering how a 35-year-old striker came to be more down with the kids than us, and pondering precisely what sort of situation had to arise to be considered suitably 'zoo'. Then we realised the journeyman Brighton striker was merely celebrating his 200th goal. Click to continue reading...

Transfer campaign has hit the boiling point and many of the players from English lower tiers have been in the heat over the past couple of days. Let's start chronologically, from our last briefing. Firstly, Bristol City striker, Steve Brooker, has finally become a Doncaster member and Sean O'Driscol's wish has finally come true. Click to continue reading...

Finally work on Brighton & Hove Albion's new stadium at Falmer gets underway on 17th December, eight days before Christmas Day.
The Albion have been residing at The Withdean Stadium for god knows how long after moving out of the Goldstone Ground in Hove, many many many years ago. Click to continue reading...