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Week Eight "I am angry big time." Mikel Arteta after Arsenal lose on penalties to Fleetwood Town in the Carabao Cup. In the Premier Division, Arsenal join Manchester City in the lead after the latter lose their unbeaten record with a defeat at Villa. No managerial changes (yet). An unprecedented oc...

Week Seven 275 League Games in charge Mansfield's Nigel Clough was appointed in November 2020 and is the longest serving manager in the EFL. Thought you might like to know that. The only current manager to surpass that is Arsenal's Mikel Arteta who was appointed in 2019. Whilst Arteta's position is...

I am sorry to report the death of Andy Walker earlier today. Andy was a great servant of the Nottinghamshire Chess Association having served two terms as President plus many more years as Association Secretary, League Management Committee and Executive Committee member & Chairman. As a player he was...

Week Six "It is done. We've moved on from it." Michael Carrick comments on Lisandro Martinez's outburst after United's Champions League loss. At the moment Manchester is the home of controversy with both City and United in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. After a week of Euro action where C...

I see that the Games from Rounds 1 & 2 for Divisions One -Three have appeared. On the 4NCL website the space for Games starts at Rd 11 and you have to scroll downwards to actually find the earlier rounds. I have e-mailed to suggest we have Round One at the top. Do people agree with me or am I being ...

English Senior Over 65 entries - 13
Scarborough Senior Entrants Over 65 - 97.

Phil Neatherway wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 10, 2026 4:00 pm

I've just looked at the pairings for Round 1. It looks like there are a lot of potential 6-0 scores.

In Round One there were three 6-0 results plus four that finished 5½ - ½.

So contributors can post in this season's thread rather than 2025-26. I leave it to those who have already posted there to possibly add their posts here.

Weeks 4 & 5 Nothing ever happens; nothing happens at all Del Amitri For those not acquainted Del Amitri is a Scottish band (touring next month). So a double report - with no managers sacked, no transfer news and then a big international break. Arsenal were beaten leaving the top spot open to Manche...

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Division Four pairings are out: - Oxford ChessPick 2 - v- - She Plays To Win Uni Knight Owls - v- - Celtic Sharks Average Woodpushers - -v - Watford Iceni 2 - v- - MK Phoenix Worcestershire Windmills - v- - AlphaChess Plunderers B Malpas & Friends - v- - War and Piece A AlphaChess Marauders A - v- ...

As stated when I opened the "General Thread" matters solely related to individual Divisions should be posted separately. Anyway in the "General Thread" Roger posted details of entries and new teams in Division Four which I reproduce here :- The complete entry list is at:- https://4ncl.co.uk/data/262...

Members of the Afghanistan Olympiad team are arrested by the Taliban on their return :-

https://english.elpais.com/sports/2026- ... -fate.html

John Upham wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 24, 2026 1:55 pm

Neil Graham wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 24, 2026 11:59 am

We hired a man to get rid of the moles that were ruining our lawn. He told us that he'd got rid of the moles by burying them alive.

I'm struggling to work out the punch line of that one Neil.

Possibly you can't kill moles by burying them alive.

John Upham wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 21, 2026 7:02 pm

How do you stop a mole digging up your garden?


Take away the spade....

We hired a man to get rid of the moles that were ruining our lawn. He told us that he'd got rid of the moles by burying them alive.