Another week of Sporting KC Wizards updates. As mentioned yesterday, 8 former players are up for the US Soccer Hall of Fame. Coming up soon, Stephane Auvray will figure out his new team in India when the new premier league holds it draft for "lesser known" and Indian players. Also, Neal Kitson is on the move, joining Northampton Town of the Football League 2.

There are eighteen teams that spent the whole of 2011 in League Two (four teams are promoted each season, and two are relegated). Congratulations to Shrewsbury Town, who despite missing out in the League Two playoffs last May ended the year as the League Two side that had gained the most points (an impressive 86) during 2011.

Swindon Town, rivincita a capodanno Di Renato Cignoni Northampton Town 1 (Jacobs '21)SWINDON TOWN 2 (Connell '67, McCormack '93) Northampton Town:Shane Higgs; Jason Crowe (Kaziboni '70), Kelvin Langmead, Ben Tozer, Ashley Corker, Jake Robinson (Akinfenwa '70), Arron Davies (McKoy '46), John Johnson (cap), Michael Jacobs; Lewis Giovani ; Saido BerahinoSostituti non utilizzati: Andy Holt, Freddy

The bulldozers moved in at College Grove in Wakefield last week. This, of itself, should probably not have come as too much of a surprise to those that have been watching the recent difficulties of Wakefield Football Club of the Northern Premier League for most of this year, but as a visual analogy it was depressingly appropriate that a club which has had a disastrous year should have seen its home almost completely razed to the ground in favour of a multi-sport complex by its owners at the same time that those running the club confirmed that it was on the brink of closure.

Today Tottenham, tomorrow the world? Why Kyle Walker could become a fixture of England's back four

Guest blogger and Tottenham fan George Ogier looks at the rise and rise of young right-back Kyle Walker *** November the 15th is becoming a rather important date in the footballing life of Kyle Andrew Walker.

West Bromwich Albion v Liverpool as it happened | Scott Murray

Liverpool won easily at West Brom, who offered nothing in attack whatsoever "Formidable." That's what Roy Hodgson called Northampton Town ahead of Liverpool's Carling Cup tie against the Cobblers last season.

Our latest conversation is with Danny Brothers, author of a number of posts for us including a look back at Northampton Town's 1996-7 play-off winning side. Danny runs his own blog and this has the obligatory moniker, A Load of Cobblers, although he spreads his net beyond the watershed of the River Nene to League 2 as a whole, joining forces with our last interviewee Ben Mayhew and Maxi Hobbs for

Two weeks is a very long time in football. Being a die-hard Ipswich Town fan, I got the train to Bristol on the first day of the season. After a summer with no football, the expectation and excitement of the new campaign kicking off was at an all time high. A Michael Chopra brace and [...] Related posts:

1. Why England and Capello Will Benefit From This Summer's Transfer Window.

Exeter City 1-3 Liverpool | Carling Cup match report

This was another of those occasions that confirmed how much more comfortable life is under Kenny Dalglish, Liverpool succeeding where they failed last year by overcoming lower-league opposition to progress to the next round of the Carling Cup with the minimum of fuss.

Exeter City v Liverpool live! | Scott Murray

• Hit F5 for the latest or select our auto-refresh button below • And email your thoughts to scott.murray@guardian.co.uk Scott will be here from around 7.15pm. In the meantime, here's an excerpt of our preview to tonight's match: Kenny Dalglish, meanwhile, has admitted last season's embarrassing Carling Cup exit at home to Northampton Town will influence Liverpool's approach to their second-round tie at Exeter City on Wednesday, although there will be several changes to the side that beat Arsenal on Saturday and there could be a debut for the 16-year-old winger Raheem Sterling.

Kenny Dalglish will get his first real up close look at the strength in dept of the Liverpool squad when his new look side face Exeter in the 2nd round of the Carling cup.
While the clash at St James Park is not the type of midweek game that Liverpool are used to at this stage of the season, the Carling represents a chance for the Anfield club to end their recent trophy drought not to mention give some players an early season run out.

Liverpool get their League Cup campaign underway tomorrow in Exeter, hoping to find some sort of midweek success going early in the new season. It's not quite the type of midweek action we would have hoped for, but it's football, it's a chance to see some of the less familiar faces get a run out, and, at this point, it's a chance at silverware.

Carling Cup Second Round Draw 2011-2012- League Cup 11-12 Fixtures is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

Carling Cup Second Round Draw 2011-2012- League Cup 11-12 Fixtures is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter The Carling Cup 2011-2012 Second Round draw saw some interesting fixtures thrown up, with Liverpool being handed an away tie at Exeter City and Leeds facing a Yorkshire derby with Doncaster Rovers.

Woah now, it took us until February to do a loaner report last season, yet here we are with one barely into the second week of August. And I've got a feeling we may be seeing many more of these.

David Stockdale started, played 90 minutes, and made 6 saves in Ipswich Town's 3-0 win at Bristol City on Saturday.

Admittedly I was a bit slow to publish this...so with the added benefit of one performance, here's the League Two preview!

Who's Looking Good?

Crawley Town: Most bookies favourites, Crawley have the biggest budget in the league, momentum to die for, and probably the deadliest striker in the division in Matt Tubbs.

Blackpool Seal Ince Deal

Blackpool have sealed the signature of Tom Ince from Liverpool, after the player passed a medical and agreed personal terms. The youngster joins another ex-Red, Gerardo Bruna, in moving to Bloomfield Road. Ince, the son of former Liverpool star Paul, has signed a two-year deal with Blackpool with the option for a further year should Blackpool wish to extend his stay.

Depending on who you talk to, yesterday was either the first sign of the apocalypse or the equivalent of crashing your bike into a mountain of marshmallows. It was the worst result possible and an indication that Liverpool will once again be trolling the depths of the Premier League, or mostly just a result of fielding an overmatched squad in against a quality opponent in a difficult environment.

The Bantams have signed Liverpool goalkeeper Martin Hansen on a month's loan as Peter Jackson continues his attempts to freshen up his squad.
The Danish-born 21-year-old has been on the staff at Anfield since joining from Brondby in the summer of 2006 and he was part of the Reds' FA Youth Cup winning side a year later.

Liverpool will allow Brad Jones to build a career elsewhere if Kenny Dalglish can finalise a deal for Roma goalkeeper Alexander Doni.
Roy Hodgson signed Jones last season as back up to Pepe Reina but the imminent arrival of Doni has cast doubt over his future.
Jones made his debut in Liverpool's shock Carling Cup defeat to Northampton Town last season and was eventually shipped out on loan to Derby.

Will Gary Johnson's Northampton Town be swelled by an influx of new fans come next season?

How willing would you be to switch your allegiance to another team – one based 15 miles away?

Most fans would be recoiling in horror at this prospect, but for one team's supporters, it could be the future.

Will Gary Johnson's Northampton Town be swelled by an influx of new fans come next season?

How willing would you be to switch your allegiance to another team – one based 15 miles away?

Most fans would be recoiling in horror at this prospect, but for one team's supporters, it could be the future.

For men of a certain age, the name of Leatherhead FC makes the eyes mist over and the memories come flooding back. The Tanners were in Division One of the Isthmian League (which was renamed the Premier Division in 1977, following reorganisation) when they beat Colchester United and Brighton & Hove Albion on the way to the Fourth Round of the FA Cup in 1975, where the BBC's Match Of The Day cameras saw them steal a two goal lead against First Division Leicester City before losing by three goals to two.

Our latest guest contribution comes from the estimable David Cox, author of one of our most extraordinary posts to date - a rundown of the 100 best Northampton Town players of all time which appeared chez The Two Unfortunates in March. Here, David attempts to get to grips with supporting a team that is, dare we suggest, slightly less competent than others.

Shortly before 5pm this afternoon a 37-year-old man burnt a pair of football boots in a field in Gloucestershire and in doing so brought the curtain down on an illustrious career spanning more than 20 years and almost as many clubs.

Julian Alsop headed home a last-minute equaliser in Bishop Cleeve's Zamaretto South and West season finale against North Leigh shortly before he took a blowtorch to his boots, ending his last game in typically flamboyant style.

Shortly before 5pm this afternoon a 37-year-old man burnt a pair of football boots in a field in Gloucestershire and in doing so brought the curtain down on an illustrious career spanning more than 20 years and almost as many clubs.

Julian Alsop headed home a last-minute equaliser in Bishop Cleeve's Zamaretto South and West season finale against North Leigh shortly before he took a blowtorch to his boots, ending his last game in typically flamboyant style.

Brad Jones has joined Derby County on a loan untill the end of the season. The 29 year old back up to Pepe Reina was signed by Roy Hodgson as a replacement for Cavalieri in the summer and has made 2 appearances for the Reds; his debut in the defeat against Northampton Town and again against FC Utrecht.

So from Barca to Leyton Orient...

It would be a massive shock if we started with anything like a full strength team today, and whilst Orient are not world-beaters, the game will be a massive one for a few members of the squad; in particular Marouane Chamakh, Tomas Rosicky and Sebastian Squillaci.

Name: Eddie McGoldrick In his 1990s prime for: Crystal Palace, Arsenal and Manchester City Lowdown: Kettering Town, Nuneaton Borough, Northampton Town, Crystal Palace, Arsenal. You just don't get career progression like that these days. But that's the path Republic of Ireland international Eddie McGoldrick took to the disappointing pinnacle of his career at Arsenal.

Following the high profile signing of Malaysian national team striker Safee Sali, Pelita Jaya are now thought to be hot on the heels of Scottish defender Christopher Doig, currently with A League side Central Coast Mariners.
Doig, who turned 30 last week, represented Scotland Under 21s about a decade ago and has also played for Queen of the South (who are actually a football team and not a Twitter account), Nottingham Forest and Northampton Town.

Steven Gerrard has never made any secret of the fact that he has one of Kenny Dalglish's shirts up on a wall in the trophy room of his home in Formby. Only yesterday did Liverpool's new manager reveal that he has returned the compliment.
"Yes, I've got [one of his] up in my house. We'll have to stop this society," Dalglish said as he contemplated his captain's return after a three-match suspension against Fulham at Anfield tonight.

In what is widely known as one of the preeminent rivalries in worldfootball and all of sport Manchester United and Liverpool have faced off 180 times in almost 120 years, with United holding a 70 to 60 edge in the wins department.

15 of those 180 meetings have come in the FA Cup, with Liverpool's three wins pailing to United's eight, which include wins in the final in 1977 which denied Liverpool the League/FA Cup/European Cup treble United would win 22 years later -and 1996.

Roy Hodgson has left Liverpool FC this morning

So the short and tumultuous era of Roy Hodgson at Liverpool FC is finally over after much speculation about his position in the last few days. His final act as Liverpool coach was to oversee the club's 3-1 defeat away at Blackburn Rovers in a game which, in itself, seemed to show all that had gone wrong for Hodgson since he took charge at the start of the season.

Liverpool have sacked manager Roy Hodgson and have replaced him with Kenny Dalglish who has taken the caretaker manager role until the remainder of this season.

"We are grateful for Roy's efforts over the past six months, but both parties thought it in the best interests of the club that he stand down from his position as team manager," said Principal Owner John Henry.