Match report: Ilkeston 4-1 Romulus

Ilkeston continued there push for promotion this weekend with a 4-1 over 16th position Romulus F.C. The Robins took all 3 points at home to go top of the division, 1 point above Sheffield F.C who could only manage a draw, a  double double from Ricketts and McCall were too much for Romulus who could only find the solitary goal in reply.

It's looking good for promotion.

COYI

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Adopted Club

As the hype of the Premier League takes all of the media spotlight these days, there aren't many followers of the lower leagues, (and when I say lower leagues, I mean properly low, even lower than the Conference South) Now I know Northwich Victoria aren't likely to be on the television at the local in 3-D, but hey, your pub owner might be a huge Vics fan, but then he'd have to install 3-D cameras at the ground and then hire someone to operate them and... It's pretty unlikely let's put it that way.

But I thought we could give a "smaller" club, it's time in the limelight so with my calculator at the ready, the random number generator says... 212... Oh great, now I have to trawl through the leagues until I reach club number 212...

And the results are in, the Football Hearsay official supporting club are... Ilkeston F.C. of the Northern Premier League Division One South!

So who exactly are Ilkeston?

In case you already didn't know, Ilkeston F.C. were originally formed in 1894 as Ilkeston Town, Oh how times have changed, In the 2008–09 season they finished second behind Eastwood Town in the Northern Premier League Premier Division. In the play-offs they beat Kendal Town 4–3 to reach the final. The club gained promotion to the Conference North on 2 May 2009 when they beat Nantwich Town in the play off final 2–1 after extra time with a 94th-minute winner, in front of 1,794 fans.

Their first season in the Conference North was a successful one as they finished in eighth place in the table, as well as progressing to the first round proper of the FA Cup where they lost to Cambridge United. At the end of the 2009–10 season the club came under new ownership with Gary Hodder taking over as chairman.

In their 2010–11 season they initially played in Conference North, but their record was expunged on 8 September 2010 as they were subject to a winding up order in the high court over a £47,000 tax bill from the Chek Whyte era. Two months after liquidating, the club was reformed as a renamed Ilkeston F.C. and were admitted into the Northern Premier League Division One South in May 2011.

So as you can see, we've picked a club with a wonderful track record on the pitch, financially,...

We'll be keeping track of Ilkeston's performances throughout the season, but here's a how they are doing at the moment.

Ilkeston are currently sitting in 3rd place the Evo-Stik League Northern Premier after a flying start to the season, they've picked up 9 wins from 14 and are just 1 point of the leaders Sheffield FC, their biggest win of the season was against Market Drayton Town with a 6-0 smashing by the Robins with a Caskey double.

Their next game is today against Romulus at home, the Robins will be looking for their 5th home win of the season at the fortress of New Manor Ground.

COYI

And in case you want to show your support, the club's official webiste is here http://www.ilkestonfc.co.uk/

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We're on Twitter

As any self publicist should, I've created a twitter account for the blog, I know you're leaping out of your seats in excitement that you can now get my hilarious comments in 140 characters or less as well as on the main blog. I shall now sit back and watch the followers roll in.

Follow the blog @FH_Blog
http://twitter.com/#!/FH_Blog

What are you waiting for?

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Sheen FC is Winning

That would of course be the name of my fantasy football team, and what a brilliant name it was, a couple of weeks ago when I probably should've done this update, hey,  who knows if things go well, you might even be getting one of these bad boys every week (disclaimer: under no circumstance will I ever be able to keep that up for longer than 1 week). So after my run of about a month at the top of the leader board, my team has started to hit the proverbial brick wall, I've slipped down to 3rd after a shocker of a week, here's how it looks at the moment

It has now become Sheen FC was winning but after some terrible player/managerial performances has slumped down to 3rd, not as catchy but still, I'll explain why, after I quickly show you the bunch of failures that I call my first XI.

Look at them, I can't any more, the team were having an absolute blinder and then I decided to take some ill advice from my friend, sorry ex-friend, I take this very seriously you know. The transfer window was before the weekend of the Manchester Derby, my main talisman next to Wayne up front was Edin Dzeko, he had an early season belter scoring 6 in 5, but he hit a rough patch, I stuck with the lad, I changed his ringtone to "things can only get better" by D Ream and the less successful theme for the labour party campaign. and you know what, things did get better, he scored 2 in the derby followed by another brace in the carling cup match against Wolves midweek, but only after my fri.. ex-friend said and I quote "Dzeko is terrible!! Get rid of him" and I did replacing him with the useless Demba Ba, well who's laughing now? No-one, that's the answer, no smiles in the Sheen FC camp, they've lost the enthusiasm for the game, but worst of all, look at the team in 8th, that's right team "blah" are even catching me now, I fear for my job after Edin left, the fans are protesting outside the training ground, it's getting to me. We can only hope that Brede bags a hat-trick on Saturday.

COYSFCIW!

Thanks

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New look

That's right, I've got myself a job at... No, no, don't let my hilarious antics get the better of you, as you may have noticed, or not, you may never have been here before, well in that case welcome, relax, make yourself a nice cup of tea, go on we'll wait... You've done that? Great. Let's continue, So basically the site has a brand new fresh approach going on, there isn't as many features as before, I can't include my world renowned twitter feed on here, so you'll just have to follow me instead (@YourPalAndy just in case anyone cared) plugging aside, it's mainly just about the articles now, similar to playboy in a sense, call me the Hefner of Sports Journalism. Make what you will of that. But basically just enjoy the nonsensical rambling.

From the Football Hearsay mansion in California.

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Did you miss me?

Well the answer to that is obviously no, as you are all well aware I haven't posted anything on here in a long while and that's been mainly down to piles of homework and  lack of ideas. And slight laziness as well, but in the coming weeks I'll try and get some stuff going on here again, there will be an update on the fantasy football, which I know you've all been having sleepless nights just waiting for the results and just some regular pieces on that game we call football, unless you're American which chances are you thought this was going to be about your football, which it isn't, so go, leave.

Oh and there's going to be a change to the interface of the blog/website (whatever this is), I'm going to try and spruce it up a bit, all for you guys.

Enjoy

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