2016
FRANKBET Odds - Season 3 - DIVISION 2
Short and sweet odds for Division Two tonight (apologies but no time to be as in-depth as normal)
Internazionale 1/6
Sevilla 1/2
Tottenham Hotspur 4/1
Spartak Moscow 8/1
Everton 11/1
VFL Wolfsburg 12/1
Monchengladbach 16/1
AC Milan 16/1
AS Roma 16/1
Ajax 22/1
Newcastle United 33/1
Lokomotiv Moscow 40/1
Sporting 42/1
Lyon 54/1
Benfica 66/1
Basel 100/1
Zenit 250/1
Shakthar 350/1
Boca Juniors 5000/1
CSKA Moscow 5001/1
Dortmund Season 2 and A Bit About Me
The dust has finally settled on a return to the dizzy heights of Division One in the Top 100 world. Clinching the title on the final day was not what we had in mind, the nail biting, the nervousness and then finally the ecstasy of seeing off a fantastic challenge from Rob Ryan’s Napoli.
I took over a Dortmund side at the tail end of Season 1 and could not save them from relegation after younger Broon had left the team in turmoil with under achieving, unfit and players lacking confidence. The side needed guidance and a change of direction, plus changes to personnel ahead of a season with one aim to return to Division 1. Most deals were done before the end of season 1 with Domenico Berardi, Benedikt Howedes, and Mario Fernandes all arriving, deals for Emre Can and David Alaba were done during season 2 both players have now left for pastures new.
The season start went superbly well with Dortmund going 11 games unbeaten, with 10 wins and 1 draw before being defeated by Schalke 2-1 and then by Roma. Schalke had equally started the season in impressive form with Sameer doing a sterling job in revamping the team and their fortunes. Early exits in the Cup and Shield to Southampton and Arsenal showed the squad lacked a bit of strength, but in the youth cup an unexperienced bunch were doing well in the group stages and qualified in 2nd spot behind Manchester United before Atletico Madrid brought an abrupt end in the knock stages beating us 4-1.
Like any other sides Dortmund suffered their set-backs but always bounced back in impressive style like any good side, but some periods of real patchy form was hitting their title charge. Schalke who were overturned 3-0 in perhaps their best performance of the season were also dogged by indifferent form and it was the charge of Rob Ryan’s Napoli scoring goals for fun and winning games with regularity.
Dortmund had also entered the regional cup and had seen off all comers before meeting Bayern in an expected two legged final. Dortmund lost the home leg 2-1 and drew 1-1 in the return away leg. Despite running Bayern close in an even two legged final they could not come back after the home leg defeat.
With 2 games to play the gap had got down to 1 point between ourselves and Napoli, with the big head to head match at Signal Iduna Park. Napoli went into a 2 goal lead and the title dream looked in jeopardy but goals from Berardi and sub Batshuayi secured a precious point and kept us top with Monchengladbach away to play in the last game.
Napoli faced Boca at home in their last game with 3 points a certainty and they comfortable ran out 3-0 winners. Dortmund meanwhile went ahead early through Luca Modric but a goal from Mandzukic close to half time brought the hosts level and Napoli were top with 45 minutes to play. As the second half drifted the mid-point Kevin Kampl scored a precious goal and 10 minutes later Neven Subtoic put the icing on the cake and more breathing space. Dortmund held on for a 3-1 win and the title was theirs, the players down on their feet and manager Lee Reynolds had pulled off what he, the fans, the board and the players wanted a return to Division One football.
There were many stars in this campaign, Carlos Vela with 20 goals, Luca Modric with 16 assists, Neven Subotic with his steady form at the back, Arda Turan with 15 goals and Yaya Toure with his explosive midfield presence. Here are my top 3
3- Ardan Turan. Great season as part of a front 3 mostly on the left but sometimes on the right. With 15 goals and 8 assists a fantastic return.
2- Carlos Vela. 20 goals, 7 assists and 9 MOM unlucky to miss out. His goals vital especially as being the main hit man.
1-Luca Modric. Great driving force from Midfield playing in all bar 1 game. 8 goals and 16 assists show how much of a vital part of this team he is. Boss Reynolds “called him the first name on the team sheet”.
The last week or so has seen a surge in the transfer market for boss Reynolds. Dubbed “no deals Reynolds” by Beddows this is certainly far from the truth.
Marco Reus from Barcelona in exchange for David Alaba
Jesper Cillesen and Davie Selke both move from Juventus in exchange for Michy Batshuayi
Matthias Ginter moves from Tottenham in exchange for Kevin Kampl
Jonas Hector arrives from Cologne in exchange for Roman Eremenko and Robert Bauer
Loureiro Allan and Josip Brekalo arrive from Napoli in exchange for Arda Turan
Alexi Vidal and Patrick Pflucke arrive from Valencia in exchange for Yaya Toure
John Terry and Roman Weidenfeller completed moves to Hertha and Besiktas respectively.
Expectations for the new campaign are to qualify for an SMFA competition, go further in the youth cup and win the regional cup.
And finally about me…….
Born and bred in Peterborough I live here with my fiancée Sarah and my 8 year old Darcy. I have just turned 40 and I have been with my partner for 15 years now. I work locally for a finance company as a credit controller.
My little girl Darcy has cerebral palsy albeit in a mild form, she suffers with muscle stiffness which results in regular physio/exercises at home and school, regular hospital appointments and she had a hip operation last September. She can walk but suffers with tiredness and falling so we have to have a wheelchair. She is a touch cookie and yes it is hard but life must go on and one thing it has not affected, is her ability to learn and do well at school.
I am a big Peterborough United fan and season ticket holder supporting the club since around 1989. I tend to only do home games these days unless a big one comes along but in the past have done a number of away fixtures too. Other interests include other sports such as cricket, snooker, pool and darts, plus music. My favorite bands are Ocean Colour Scene, Oasis, Madness, Beatles and Stereophonics.
In the last 18 months I have took up running rather playing football which I did 3-4 times a week in my younger days. I completed the Great Eastern half marathon, the half mucker Rat Race at Burghley House Stamford and a local 10km Insane Terrain all last year. Not so daring this year my aim is to complete the Great Eastern half marathon again and try and beat my time of just under 1hr 50 mins.
Well that's me and ciao for now and good luck to all ahead of season 3 in Top 100.
FRANKBET Odds - Season 3 - DIVISION 3
Onwards we go with the FRANKBET pre-season odds and today we join Division 3, who will succeed in beating The Top 100 President? Who will suffer the embarrassment of being relegated down to the doldrums of Division 4?
Marseille 2/1
Athletic Club 3/1
Southampton 5/2
Genoa 9/1
Sunderland 12/1
SC Internacional 14/1
Galatasaray 21/1
Udinese 21/1
Leicester City 33/1
AS Monaco 33/1
Cruzeiro 40/1
Aston Villa 50/1
PSV 75/1
Beskitas 88/1
Swansea 125/1
Crystal Palace 250/1
Hoffenheim 250/1
Bordeaux 300/1
AS Saint Etienne 500/1
Stoke City 6000/1
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| "Are you mad?" Linder asked Frankbet upon seeing the odds to which they replied "Not as mad as you clearly..." |
Golden Bear is a manager who nearly sleep walked himself to a double relegation last season such was his dedication to stocking up on honey as opposed to managing Monaco. Monaco might be a rich boys playground and when the SMT100 authorities gave him an ultimatum, save Monaco or go to Zagreb Golden Bear actually realised that honey stocks and cash stocks in Zagreb do not match those of his current Royal patron in Monaco and as such recovery followed. The question is can Golden Bear actually concentrate for a whole season to challenge for the play offs? FRANKBET thinks not and that the lure of honey will hold swap and dent Monaco's hopes.
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| Monaco manager in a former role in Gold 279 |
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| Downinho - specialist at the play-offs |
And what of our great leader, Frank Hirst and Genoa? What can we expect of him? A manager who is well known for manipulating the gameworld for his own gains and a manager who actually picks the referees for each tie - surely he is destined to make the play-offs at least? It is as certain as Liverpool to still be trohpyless in real life this time next year.
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| Frank Hirst - He does what he wants |
FRANKBET are highly interested to see how some managers perform next season in this Division, in particular the rivalry between Turkish sides Galatasaray and Besiktas who both under the tutelage of new managers, Mr Kun Al and Mr Prince should be quite spicy.
Will Rahul and Aston Villa be able to make the play-offs again - FRANKBET think it will be more of a relegation fight that a play-off party!
As for the rest the odds are there, if you wish to spend your pennies nip down to your nearest FRANKBET store today.
THE THURSDAY BLOG - Vol 3 No 1
Hey guys and welcome to a new season of Thursday Blog’s. As the more intelligent of you will realise, my volume’s go by season in the Top100 and thus Season 3 brings Volume 3. For those who are less intelligent, I have just explained it and apart from drawing a picture with lots of pretty arrows, there is not much else I can do. We can work on it.
For Volume 3 it is going to be mainly the same kind of format but where as before I would mention a thing or two about soccer manager outwith my club in the Top 100, I will now devote a section to it. So we will have my real life stuff, a SM section mainly about the Top100 as a whole and then the goings on at my club Liverpool.
So, what has been happening at home since my last blog? Well, to be honest, I only have one word that can describe it but I have to it say three times. Stress, stress, stress and then some. I have mentioned before how my wife, Alison and my eldest daughter, Elise get on like cat and dog but usually their fall out lasts maybe a day at most with yours truly stuck in the middle and always being pressured to take sides. Another fall out happened and all, as always, over something trivial that became a molehill into mountain scenario. It started with Elise leaving her phone at the stables. I am telling you, take all the phones out of this house and production will be at a standstill. It would just be five people standing, going round in small circles not knowing what to do. I have to include myself in this as I would be lost without my phone. If I said that we all have an IPhone 6s plus it shows how important they are. No older versions of phones allowed in this house. Back to the story, and Elise has left her phone at the stables. Now, classic Elise is asking someone else to do things for her and especially her younger sister Janene. Janene always says yes though so she only has herself to blame. Anyway, sitting having our dinner and Janene says she has agreed to go to the stables and get Elise’s phone. Ok, and Elise is obviously going with her. No? that’s right. Elise says she is too tired. Wtf? Janene then confesses to us that she is really just wanting a shower and bed. On pulling up Elise on this, she says she doesn’t have much fuel and Janene is going but backs down a bit and says she is going with her. To cut a long story short, Alison says no chance and Elise was expecting someone to go for us while she sat on her fat ass. This started the argument. Cue Gordon heading for bed. I refuse to listen to them but I could hear most of it from upstairs. Don’t know everything that was said but I did hear Elise call Alison a psychopath!! Oops, that is the fall out. I have to head back downstairs to try and keep the peace but this is too far gone.
Elise pleads her case and that she would have went if she had fuel in the car. I offer her a tenner to go get some fuel but she refuses and just goes anyway. Well, that was it. This fall out lasted 4 days and I was once again in the middle, stressing. I am 53yo and I want just two things in life now. Quietness and SM. One out of two ain’t bad as Meat Loaf once nearly sang. Anyway, I thought I had made the breakthrough on the Friday when they both apologised to each other for things they said but they still were not talking. Then on the Saturday when Alison came to bed, she started moaning about Elise. I got caught making a ’not again’ face and she asked what the face was for. I just said I was fed up hearing about it and that was her in a mood with me now. It must have worked though coz the next night they were all nice again. Thank fuck for that, well until the next time.
After being so stressed, and with today being my day off, I am having a lazy day and staying in bed until I have to get up. That time will be half one for a quick tidy up before a SKY engineer comes out to fix our SKY. We are not getting a signal for any channel at all apart from the council TV ones. It is quite obviously the dish that is fucked. It is an old dish now so probably something to do with that. I hope it is just age. I know that we swapped the kids house duties around and Janene now has the kitchen to do but when I said you put ALL the dishes in the dishwasher………..
Alison is back at work after her time off with her stomach troubles that seen her spending some days in hospital. She is doing a phased return, so they call it, and last week was in until 1pm and this week it is 2pm and so on until she is back in for the full day. I am just glad she is back as she was off for quite a while. It is so hard to tell how sore she is as she is queen of the drama queens. To make it worse she is even a drama queen when someone else is ill. I have seen her phone NHS24 when Janene has only had a sore throat. Of course when she phones NHS24, by the end of the call the sore throat has all the implications of the Bubonic plague. So when Alison tells me something I have to strip away the exaggerations and finally end up with the real happening.
No TV has meant no football for me but I haven’t missed it. I didn’t even know Scotland had played Italy until 2 days after the game. The European Championships are coming up though and I will watch as much as my shifts at work allows. Every British team are there except good old Scotland, who enjoyed one of their glorious failures once again. There is always one stupid result that lets them down and this time it was the 1-0 defeat in Georgia. If they had won that then they would be in France instead of the Poles I think but we wouldn’t want to deny the Euros Lewandowski so we decided not to qualify. We will be there next time as long as we avoid Georgia, California and North Dakota in the qualifiers.
As I said, I have decided to expand the Soccer Manager, the game, section to talk more about the Top 100 as a game world. As many have said before, this game world has everything. Even the recognition it gets from the guys that run the game is something to be proud of. I don’t think Frank could have imagined how amazing this world has turned out to be. If I am right, he only decided to start this one up because he believed there was a bit of cheating going on in Gold Championship 274, where we had managed to fill the English leagues, although he will correct me if that’s wrong. The game world has already been through a couple of scares. The introduction of the new UI seen a few, including myself, quit the game in protest but a quick option of using the od interface seen most return. There was also the scare of an argument involving Frank and possibly James McKenzie, don’t shoot me if that’s wrong, which seen Frank threaten to close the world down. Thankfully it blew over and the world has gone from strength to strength.
I have never seen a newsfeed so busy with discussions about just about anything going on. The banter is superb and there are so many characters in the game that the laughs are never ending. Of course, you still get an argument or two about things like daft transfer offers or people going in a huff because someone else got a player they wanted but it’s all part of what makes the world so good.
The blog is another awesome part of the world. I love that so many managers are trying to get involved in the blog. There are managers who, before, would not even have tried to do an article but have done something. Every single article on here is appreciated and is of interest to everyone. The response to my Division 1 preview was amazing. I can’t thank everyone enough for their kind comments and I also have to thank all the other Division 1 managers for responding to my PM’s asking for their input. I plan to do the preview every season as I think it builds up a bit of excitement for it starting. Season 3 starts on Sunday and it just can’t come quick enough. The Youth Cup and the World Club Championship is just another feature that makes this world so good and then there is TOP100TV. Anyone that says they are in a better gameworld have either never played in this one or is a liar. As for the season coming up, I think its going to be fiercely contested in all 5 divisions. Everyone expects to do well but it is, of course, not possible for that to happen. t was like when I was doing my preview and working out where I think everyone would finish. Every manager fancies their chances of a top ten finish but I am afraid only 50% of them will be correct and 50% will be disappointed. I know I will be happy if I can finish higher up than last season, even by just one place but I do wonder if I have given some managers an incentive by predicting relegation for them and that it comes back to bite me in the bum. Time will tell I suppose but I am sure everyone is ready and raring to go.
At Anfield, I thought we were all ready to go. The new players El Shaarawy and Moutinho have done well in training and are looking keen to get started. We have had 2 pre season friendlies so far, both at Anfield, and have suffered two defeats without scoring a goal. My policy in pre season friendlies is always to start with what should be my cup side and then bring in a couple of first team guys each game. The 3-0 defeat to Galatasaray was not a good performance at all by the reserves but more worringly was the fact that Szczesny still looks lacking in confidence. Last night I brought Rafael and Gameiro into the side and although the performance improved we still lost 0-1 to Hoffenheim. The good part though was that Szczesny saved a penalty and hopefully that will give him a boost. Tonight we are playing host to West Ham United and I have decided that, due to the lack of goals, Lacazette will play up front with Gameiro and also El Shaarawy will play on the left on the left hand side. Surely this will get us a goal or two although we will probably end up losing 8-7.
On the transfer front, nothing is happening of interest. A couple of youngsters have arrived for the Youth Cup and that’s about it. We are attempting to bring in Drogba from Aston Villa as I think he could boost our cup team but we will certainly not pay more than a 38yo is worth.
We open against Fenerbahce at Anfield and since they are tipped for relegation then I have to expect that we will get 3 points but my teams are generally slow starters so if we don’t get 3 points then its not a disaster. We then have a trip to face Real Madrid and although we won 2-0 there last season, any point is a bonus for us and a bitter blow for Roy and his boys. Overall we are looking forward to a season where we can show that we are a better team than 16th place and I know we can do it. If Lacazette can find his best form and form a good partnership with Gameiro then we are on the right road. At the back we have had problems and I think it all stems from Szczesny’s low morale.
Nobody loves me
I tried to sell him during the close season but there were no real suitable offers. I would have done a straight swap for another 90 rated keeper as long as the guy wasn’t 110yo but there was nothing doing. Anyway we are going with Szczesny for the season now and hopefully he can improve. He has Mascherano and Bender as the centre backs so they should be able to protect him. Right back is probably a position I would like to upgrade but, again, no one was really prepared to let anyone go. Luis will hold the left back place so, really, we aren’t that bad off. Midfield is looking reasonably strong with Isco, Khedira, Moutinho, Feghouli and El Shaarawy able to fill the places and up front Lacazette and Gameiro will be the first choice strikers with El Shaarawy able to convert to striker if required. There are better teams than us and there are worse teams than us but if we can play to our strengths then I am confident we will do ok. I have a SIMS in place but it is not too difficult to achieve. Although the bottom two get sacked, I have stipulated that if I get relegated then I will resign or if I manage to stay up but don’t beat last seasons total of 38 points, I will also resign. If I survive those stipulations then I will set higher ones the following season depending on my final league placing and points total for this season. I think this is a good idea and adds a bit more realism into the world which, lets face it, is what we are trying to do here. My next decision would be if we finished in the top 10 and qualified for a European place. Do I buy Gold to be able to compete in Europe or do I not? From other game worlds I have learned that if you do not have gold then you have no chance in Euro competitions. Although it shouldn’t be a factor, I don’t want to have 4-0 and 5-1 defeats on the schedule from games that you have no control over. I think it will all come down to how I have adapted to the new UI when it finally is forced upon us.
Anyway I think I have babbled on enough for today. The SKY engineer is here and is moving the dish and rewiring all the boxes so I have no idea how long that is going to take. More importantly, the countdown to the new season continues and I just want to wish everyone good luck for the season and may the best team come out on top which I think will be Bayern Munich.
It’s time to go so thanks for reading today and in 7-10 days time, Fannie Licker will be back with another interview. Who will it be this time? Well I know coz I had my ear right up at Fannie when she whispered it. The manager doesn’t know yet but I will send him a PM tonight and we can get the ball rolling.
So thanks once again and I will be back with the next Thursday blog in a fortnight.
Ciao
Dynamo Donald Trump on Taking Putin's D in Moscow
With an average age of 27 and a considerably lower IQ, last season was unkind to Razzaque.
Russian strongman Vladimir Putin earmarked the club as a symbol of Kremlin power, but Dynamo's late season collapse - netting more red herrings than a Leningrad fishmonger - was more like Krypton. First the club fell out of contention, and then favour. Putin eventually sold the Dynamo to a new buyer, in disgust.
Rumour has it his last words to a dejected Razzaque were, "Vodkaind of coach you are, Razzaque? You give me brewer's droop so Crimea river, davarish."
The club's new owner introduced himself in typically bombastic fashion.
"Yeah, Vlad didn't want to give it up. He didn't want to hand over the goodies, but I took it! I took Putin's D, which is a yuge thing. I took it because I'm Donald Trump, and I am gonna Make America Great Again, and Dynamo Moscow is coming along for the ride!"
Retaining Razzaque as manager
"Am I the only one who thinks that's kind of a, a hispanic, non-American sounding name? Have we checked his birth certificate yet? What was that?
WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE'S A MOOOSE-SLIM! Why I'm going to personally string hi...
[ speech interrupted by campaign aide]
"...his tennis racket, yes, that's it, his tennis racket, when I invite him over to discuss the foosball program. I'm new to this so we're getting up to speed on the scrimmage, and special teams, and quarterback recruitment. Oh, no quarterbacks? Then who throws? Whaddaya mean no hands? I mean, I know what no hands mean, y'know when Ivank....Melania's down there, but everyone knows you play football with hands, goddamnit!
[...second interruption...]
"...however this is a world game and we'll work on implementing quarters, and timeouts, freethrows and so on. Frankly, this is exactly the kind of firm leadership the world needs, and America will lead the way, just like the Kardashians lead everyone on social media."
The new look Trumps everything else
"I designed it myself under my yuge new designer label; DTF. That's Donald Trump Foosball."
"The shoulder epaulettes are woven using the same teflon fibre as my hair. I own stock in the manufacturing process. Win, lose or draw, I'm makin money hand over fist!"
Defending the net as if it were America
"I'm told that we leaked goals, just like America leaks freeloading, illegal aliens. Well that's going to stop because I'm building a defensive wall like you've never seen before, and Mexico's going to pay for it! Then we're going to shut out everything! Our point guards are going to guard against points being scored on you."
Raining goals as easily as ballistic drone strikes
I know all about scoring. I could write a book about it, and it would be compulsory reading for this team, but we need to improve our field goal percentage. When the puck comes your way, you slap shot that baby past the defenseman. Our running-backs and wide receivers have to make themselves available to catch every play, running into the end-zone at every opportunity. Our yardage will go through the roof. This, I promise you soccerballers.
Celtic FC
Celtic FC
Top100 History
Season 1 (Kevin McGregor, Jens McJockish)
Division 5 - 18th - P38 W12 D8 L18 F46 A53 GD-7 PTS44
Season 2 (Jens McJockish, ruts66)
Division 5 - 7th - P38 W16 D13 L9 F52 A37 GD+15 PTS61
Play-Off Final Runner Up
Season 3 Preview - Division 5
Playing Staff
38 Senior (84-88), 12 Squad/Youth (75-83)
Avg Age: 24
Avg Rating: 84
Value: £161m
Wage Bill: £850k
1st XI
Avg Age: 25
Avg Rating: 87
Avg Value: £4.8m
Key Players
Riccardo Saponara 24/88 M(C),AM(RLC) - Club Captain
Bojan Krkic 25/88 AM(C),F(RLC)
M'baye Niang 21/87 AM(RL),F(RLC)
Ousmane Dembele 19/85 AM,F(RLC)
Notable Transfer Activity
Mastour to Southampton for £10m
Vazquez from Besiktas for £6.5m
Roberts + cash to Porto for Bojan
Chairman's Expectation
To challenge for promotion
Manager's Ambition
To improve on Season 2 (> 61pts)
Manager's Opinion
"I expect the forthcoming season to be an even harder challenge than the one just gone. There are, on paper, at least a dozen sides capable of winning the Division 5 title pending a fast start and the kind of momentum possible with the current SM engine. In my eyes, Olympiacos, Hertha and Celta Vigo look best equipped to pose the initial danger. Really looking forward to my first full season in charge, bring it on..."
World Club Cup Qualifiers
The teams in yellow are confirmed for the World Club Cup & teams in red have rejected participation. Any team not highlighted is yet to confirm either way, so if you could let me know asap so i can get the groups done, thanks.
FRANKBET Odds - Season 3 - DIVISION 4
As the excitement builds to Season 3 of Top 100 and also the move full time to the new SM Interface Top SM Bookmaker, FRANKBET have taken the time to view the favourites and the odds across the Divisions and today it is the term of Division 4.
FRANKBET are also pleased to announce a brand new logo for their business which has come about due to increased funding and has seen a new launch of offices in addition to the Genoa HQ, but also in Turin and Milan. They are also looking at sites in Liverpool with the preferred sites in Toxeth and Queens Road where they are considering taking over a former library which has had to be closed due to looting and lack of interest in books.
Anyway business affairs aside lets get onto SM Top 100 Division 4 odds. (Please note these odds are for promotion and not necessarily to win the league.)
Malaga 1/1000
Torino 5/2
Villarreal 7/2
Dynamo Moscow 8/1
Sassuolo 9/1
Sampdoria 9/1
Atalanta 12/1
West Ham 16/1
Feyenoord 16/1
FC Koln 22/1
Hamburg 25/1
VFB Stuttgart 33/1
Sao Paulo 33/1
AZ 50/1
Chievo Verona 50/1
River Plate 60/1
Dnipro 100/1
Montpeillier 500/1
Hellas Verona 650/1
Lille 5000/1
FRANKBET analysts admitted after publishing the odds that they had heard that as a favour for messing up promotion last season in favour of Frank's Genoa that Malaga will be given preferential treatment next season in SM Top 100 Season 3. "We have it on record from a number of sources that if Malaga dont win the league by a huge margin they it will be down to Billington's in-adept management as the SM authorities will do all in their power to ensure Malaga go up.
Huddo and Kelly, an Aussie and an Irishman are both expected to fair well and be in the fight for automatic promotion come next season with short odds on both sides.
Of the Div 3 relegated sides FRANKBET back Marco of the Angels to fair the best, with the wing winged creatures on his side anything is possible and with Marco's former side, Hellas Verona in this Division it is a division he knows well and anything less than play-offs would be considered a failure in truth.
Razzaque and Moscow are expected to do well again but with rumours of a franchise move to the USA to become Dynamo Washington as opposed to Moscow in the offing it remains to be seen it this will impact on the players and the sides form.
Nicky Thomson's preference of racing cars in Canada as opposed to even attending West Ham games has not gone down well with the fans and again FRANKBET can't see them getting out of Division 4.
At the bottom, they believe Mark Hewitt will continue to struggle as he is clearly not good enough to be successful in a gameworld as competitive as Top 100. Likewise Mr Andre Villa-Baos, a Portuguese manager in Italy - how novel - that will surely never work?
Anyway FRANKBET predict they will struggle immensely.
As for a few select others, Mr Feargal O'Hickey wont be able to cope with European Competition and maintaining success in the league and will finish mid-table and as for Wheels, a little bit of an unknown quantity to the FRANKBET community, but a manager who talks about spoons, surely a relegation fight for him!
Italy world cup shame. Belgium vs Spain final
Italian manager to be replaced, reports by Italian press.
Balotelli never to play for Italy again.
Why didn't we take Fiorentina players, what a mistake to make.
The first semi final saw a hapless dirty fouling Italian side cut down to size by the silky smooth Spanish machine. After the 20th minute goal Italy had no answer Balotelli was as usual the main culprit missing an absolute sitter in the 68 minute. With no fire power DE GEA was able to cook a Paella and serve it up to his adoring fans.
Balotelli skulked off at the end of the game and drove off with Italian manager, never to be seen again in the Italian national colours.
It may also be the unusual training routine that was to blame as many fans claim they saw Mario stroking his pole for ages before the game.
In the other game a dramatic penalty shoot out saw Portugal only manage to put one past the Belgium keeper. Portugal claimed that Belgium had installed a giant fan behind the goal but this was denied by celebrity fan Axelle Despiegelaere.
