The Football League Cup or Johnstone's Paint Trophy continues on Wednesday with Southampton taking on Charlton Athletic. The match will be covered live on our other site, Free Live Sports TV, at the following link below.

Southampton v Charlton Athletic LIVE English Football League Cup (JPT) Wednesday, November 11, 2009 19:45 GMT, 14:45 EST

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It's a light week of matches in Europe as there are international fixtures on the weekend and next week. The Spanish Copa del Rey wraps up its fourth round with the second legs while the English Football League Cup or Johnstone's Paint Trophy (JPT) had the quarterfinals for the Northern and Southern sections.

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Monday 9th November
19:45 Barnsley v Sheffield Utd, Championship, Sky Sports 1/HD1
Start the week with a thundering Yorkshire derby if that's your pleasure. An Eee Ba Gum Classico if you will. Both teams are two of six on 17 points making it tighter than a gnat's chuff in the middle of the Championship. Click to continue reading...

Whilst it is normal for one or two Football League clubs to be given a bloody nose by a non-league club at some point during the early rounds of the FA Cup, predicting where this will happen is a slightly trickier business. Yesterday, ITV went with the "romance of the cup" and saw Norwich put seven goals past a Paulton Rovers side whose defence's pre-match training didn't appear to contain any extra "hap" sessions.

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There's several English Premier League matches on Sunday, November 8, 2009 including Wigan v Fulham, West Ham v Everton and Hull v Stoke. The English FA Cup has begun its first round and also had matches on Sunday. Free Live Sports TV will be providing live coverage and streams of several of these matches.

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Just as the Second World War had started at the beginning of the football season, it ended in Britain, at least at what would have been the end of it. It took, however, many years for the country to recover from the end of the fighting, so perhaps it is unsurprising that the Football League was unable to resume fixtures for the start of the 1945/46 season.

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Reports over the weekend linked former Boro favourite and now Peterborough forward George Boyd with a £6m move to Tottenham. Boyd has been arguably the Posh's best player in their first season in the Championship so far and his recent form is thought to have alerted Premier League clubs to making an offer.

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Adam Pearson, the new chairman of Hull City, has told manager Phil Brown that he has one more match to save his Hull City career.
"The manager was expected to be dismissed after the 2-0 defeat away to Burnley on Saturday, but it seems he has earned himself a stay of execution for one more game at least because of the woeful performance of Mike Jones, the referee, at Turf Moor. Click to continue reading...

After a disappointing start to the season that sees them sitting above the League One relegation places on goal difference, Brighton & Hove Albion have parted company with their manager, Russell Slade. This in itself isn't much of a surprise, but it does provide us with a reasonable case study on the psychology of football supporters and the pressure under which clubs find themselves.

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Continuing our series of great Scottish players from days gone by through the medium of cigarette cards, we take a look back at the career of Bob McKay. Bob McKay only left Glasgow Rangers for Newcastle United in November 1926, but is already regarded as one of the most effective players Scotland has sent South. Click to continue reading...

The loss of Setanta Sports during the summer didn't only have knock on effects for the Premier League, although that was the story which hogged the headlines at the time. The Scottish Premier League had to negotiate a new (and reduced) deal with Sky Sports, the Blue Square Premier started the new seasons without any television coverage at all and the FA were left seeking new partners for the FA Cup.

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It's been a strange but heartwarming Premier League season so far in that no manager has been sacked, at least not quite yet. But when was the last time a manager was sacked so late in the season?

According to the record books, the 2009/2010 Premier League season is on course to have the fewest managers sacked before November for several years.

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The Johnstone Paint Trophy began its Round 2 in the Northern and Section section on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. Most of the home teams advanced with a few exceptions. One match was postponed, Accrington Stanley v Shrewsbury Town, because of rain and the officials ruling the pitch unfit to play on.

Here's a list of the results from Tueday's matches.

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With a plethora of football books about to hit the shops ahead of the Christmas season, Scotty Kingsley reviews the offerings of the man they called 'Houdini'.

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Many years ago Lennie Lawrence threatened to write a book about his time a Charlton. There was certainly enough packed into his nine year spell at the club, including winding up orders, high court visits, numerous Chairmen, promotion, play-offs, relegation and of course ground sharing and the Valley Party to warrant one if not more volumes.

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Celtic officially presented new signing  Zheng Zhi at Celtic Park earlier today. The China captain has signed a one-year contract with a one-year option with the Glasgow club. The 29-year-old Zhi left previous club Charlton Athletic in June following his expiration and the Addicks 'relegation to League One. Click to continue reading...

Yes football geeks be excited.. I never buy Champ Manager because i dont have the time to justify the £30 to buy it and not play it..or then get sacked by Charlton Athletic after 7 games in charge But for the next 12 hours the makers of the game are doing a special pre sale for just [...] Click to continue reading...

Harry should make Charlton an offer they can't refuse!

17 year old Jonjo Shelvey may well have signed a new deal at Charlton but If I were Harry Redknapp I would work out a deal that suits all parties to secure the future of the hugely impressive teenager.

In much the same way that the Tottenham boss purchased Kyle Walker from Sheffield United and then loaned him straight back to Bramall Lane, Redknapp should attempt to orchestrate a similar deal for the Addicks man.

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Saturday 5th September
12:15 Charlton Athletic v Brentford, League One, Sky Sports 1 / Sky Sports HD1
Your Saturday of international football viewing gets underway with the only domestic game on TV. League One leaders Charlton aim to make it six wins out of six against Brentford in the first league meeting between these two since 1993. Click to continue reading...

Former Newcastle midfielder Ambrose was impressed by his former team in Saturday's 2-0 win, and has tipped the Tyneside club to win promotion at the first attempt. Darren Ambrose - they played like a Premier League side Darren, who played over 40 times for Newcastle, went to Charlton Athletic, then back to Ipswich before ending up at [. Click to continue reading...

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It's a big week of football for the club what with the Celtic clash being followed by a Saturday game against Portsmouth in the Premier League but it's not just the first team that will be busy. This weekend also sees the Premier Academy League kick off as Arsenal's young guns are away to Sheffield United on Saturday.

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It has been a cracking start for Scott Sutter at BSC Young Boys in the Swiss Super League. With six matches gone, his side sit top of the league unbeaten, and with a six point lead over their nearest rivals. Sutter, who was with Aston Villa, Charlton Athletic and Millwall as a youth, before joining [. Click to continue reading...

There are some things in life that are nigh on guaranteed, and Charlton limping out of the League Cup to a Division Four team is certainly one of them. The defeat sadly came as no surprise to seasoned Addicks, particularly given the weakened nature of our starting eleven.

However, unless you were one of the 323 foolhardy souls who made the trip, there is little to get overly despondent about.

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In previous Premier League seasons, clubs have come out of the starting gate that have shocked and surprised us. The shock was due to the clubs completely exceeding our expectations of where we thought they'd end up in the table or the cups that they would win. And in some examples, these were clubs that played entertaining football during those seasons and who gave some of the big teams in the Premier League a run for their money.

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Just a few years ago, Charlton Athletic Football Club was an English Premier League regular. However, relegation from the EPL at the end of the 2006/07 season and from the Championship at the end of the 2008/09 season now sees the Addicks in League One for the 2009/10 season. Yesterday, Charlton Athletic launched their 2009/10 Joma [. Click to continue reading...

Darren Bent has finally made a move to Sunderland, or should I say away from Tottenham. The striker endured some tough times at White Hart Lane and failed to live up to the expectations, although we could argue he wasn't given enough playing time. Steve Bruce was the man who rescue Bent from Tottenham and we are yet to see if the player will pay him back.

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Continuing on the theme of departures from the list, Michael Aspin is already leaving it having returned from Nakhon Pathom of Thailand back to Northwich Victoria, where his comeback has been warmly received. Another departure from the list is that of Simon Wiles. The midfielder was on a short term contract at Dunfermline, with the [. Click to continue reading...

In the penultimate part of our exhaustive Football League pre-season preview, Rob Freeman looks at the runners and riders in League One, a division which is, peculiarly, starting to look a little bit like the bottom half of the Premier League did ten years ago.

1. Huddersfield Town

In: Peter Clarke (Southend United), Antony Kay (Tranmere Rovers), Lee Peltier (Yeovil Town), Jordan Rhodes (Ipswich Town), Theo Robinson (Watford), Robbie Simpson (Coventry City)

Out: Danny Cadamarteri (Dundee United), Michael Flynn (Bradford City), Andy Holdsworth, Keigan Parker, Jon Worthington (Oldham Athletic), Daniel Broadbent, Malvin Kamara, Dominik Werling (all released), Andy Booth (retired)

Huddersfield have splashed the cash this summer, thanks to chairman Dean Hoyle, and Lee Clark looks to have spent it well.

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We're now over halfway through Soccerlens' full season preview ahead of the big League kickoff this weekend. Today we're up to League 1, which contains fallen ex-Premier League teams Leeds, Charlton, Norwich and Southampton as well as smaller teams like Yeovil, Exeter and Wycombe.

Can the Saints overcome their points deduction, can Brentford keep on their buzz after winning League Two?

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The Big Story

UEFA again expressed concern at the spending by the likes of Man City, with general secretary David Taylor commenting "I would say in this financial climate, it is surprising - a little bit destabilizing of the market".

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It's all in the timing. The BBC couldn't have chosen a better time to run a special report on the state of finances in English football. The eve of the new English season is a time of optimism at most clubs, but in an interview with Radio5's Dan Road, the UEFA general secretary David Taylor expressed concerns about many aspects of the way that Premier League clubs in particular are running themselves, singling out the saddling of clubs with debt and the transfer activity of some (hello, Manchester City) as having a destabilising effect on the health of the transfer market.

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Hola, amigos. Their isn't too much else going on on this Friday, but I figured that, as a break from our normal despairing about Arsenal's squad/new uniforms/transfer policy/Diaby, we could do something positive today.

If you recall, the official site has been running a summer-long event to name Arsenal's top 5 all-time goals.

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As is the usual preseason prediction, the three promoted sides are always the favourites to go straight back down. Last season gave us something of a novelty in recent years, with two of the three sides that came up in 2007-2008 staying with us for another year, as close as Hull tried to throw it all away.

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Former Newcastle midfielder and friend of Alan Shearer has broken the silence on behalf of his friend by speaking the cold hard truth on Newcastle's current mess. Rob Lee and Alan Shearer-Is Rob copying Alan? Rob Lee arrived on Tyneside early in the 1992 season after a £700,000 transfer from cash strapped Charlton Athletic. Click to continue reading...