Hertha Berlin on Wednesday appealed against their relegation play-off defeat at Fortuna Duesseldorf which was marred by a double pitch invasion and left their players fearing for their

The relegation play-off clash at Fortuna’s Espirit Arena was twice interrupted by pitch invasions as fans fired flares onto the field and the DFB has launched a…n investigation. According to the DFB statutes, a game under these circumstances is not considered valid and has to be replayed.

Hertha, whose players were reluctant to return to the pitch after a mass invasion by fans late in stoppage time, have demanded a replay, and the DFB has set the appeal hearing for Friday.”

Wowzers.

So like FM.

Would love to start a Ramble one with a few of us in the same division. Loads of class players play at weird clubs. It’s a lot of fun. You feel a proper achievement when you win a game. Matches are twice a week.

Join!

Right, ramblers in the division so far are as follows:

Division 2 Ramblers

lawduck - Ipswich
Nickperson - Southampton
JP_Spurs - Rotherham
Michael Mols lovely wife - Crystal Palace
Guillem Bauza’s Gap Year in Hereford - Carlisle
meki_j - MK Dons
Ben Andrew - Scunthorpe
VLobanovskyi - Charlton

Division 4 Ramblers

shandy - Bradford

How to choose a team

Go on ‘Add Club’ and then ‘Search’. You can either put the Game ID in at the top which is ‘19499’ or Go to the bottom and select ‘English Championship’. Then type in ‘2523’. Click on the link that comes up and you can choose what club you want by clicking on ‘Take Control’ when you choose a club to look at.

Do you think Woy, in the words of Lukey Moore, “bottle it and take Crouch and Defoe”.

Holt would be my pick, powerful and good fun maker. Although Carrol does seem to be finding form of late.

I’ll start with Zvonimir Bourbon

No idea ho we’re top at the moment with our current injury list, but I’m well impressed with how we’ve coped with it considering other teams in our position get dicked 8 - 2.

Bendtner, Denilson want to leave (and surely have every fans blessing).

Phil Jones won’t be arriving.

Cesc, well who knows?

What do you think is going to happen at the Emirates this summer? What needs to happen?

I would like to see (in an ideal world) Jerome Boateng join from Man. City (though I’m certain we can’t afford his wages)
Cesc, and Nasri stay, Clichy can go, if Baines comes in. Samba would be a great addition.
A top class DCM would be great. If Cesc or Nasri were to leave, Arturo Vidal at Leverkusen would be a more then adequate (and probably good value, looking at the German market) young replacement.
GK is in SZC’s safe hands for the next 15 years.

* England/Ireland squad selection
* Hooliganism
* Outsiders/potential shocks
* Who can beat Spain
* Group stage draws
* Players to look out for
* Etc.

I’ll get the ball rolling by saying that England’s ideal group (based on the seedings) would be:

Poland
England
Croatia
Ireland

the worst would be

Spain (duh)
England
Greece (can you ‘do a Greece’ against Greece?)
France

Mainly because one of the contestants looks like Zlatan.

We all know the current situation that one of Britain’s most successful football teams currently finds itself in - they need shot of their owners one way or the other and it seems that after several years of rumour and conjecture (it is now approaching 2 years since The Guardian proclaimed they would almost certainly be sold by the end of the week), this may finally come to pass.

What I would like to know is, what do people feel is likely to be the long term outcome of all this?
Do you think that they are liable to be bought by someone in the Sheik Mansoor/Roman Abramovitch bracket who will put them back up with the big boys?
Do you think they will get bought be a mid level player like Randy Lerner who, whilst not exactly scrimping, isn’t throwing oceans of cash at Villa, keeping them competing between mid and upper table?
Or do you think that the next owners are gonna be as bad or worse than the current lot, able to buy a big club on the cheap and run it further into the ground?

My gut feeling as a fan is something akin to option 2, with a bit of 3.

Answers on a postcard…