FA Cup 2nd Round draw

The draw for the next round of the worlds greatest cup competition paired Stevenage Borough with Northampton Town (full draw here).

Matche to be played at Boro's Broadhall Way stadium on the weekend of 2/3/4 December, depending on TV.

N&R Road to Wembley so far

Following Stevenage's win at Kettering today, they become our latest Road to Wembley side. This has been the route to the new stadium so far:

1st Round
Kettering Town 1 Stevenage Borough 3
Scorer: Midgley
Att: 4,548

4th Qualifying Road
Kettering Town 4 Gravesend & Northfleet 0
Scorers: Burgess (3), Gould
Att: 1,220

3rd Qualifying Round replay
Kettering Town 4 St Albans 0
Att: 1,220

3rd Qualifying Round
St Albans City 0 Kettering Town 0
Att: 882

2nd Qualfying Round replay
St Albans City 3 Enfield Town 0
Att: 436

2nd Qualifying Round
Enfield Town 1 St Albans City 1
Scorer: Ofori
Att: 525

1st Qualifying Round
Enfield Town 3 Waltham Abbey 0
Att: 314

Preliminary Rd
Waltham Abbey 6 Wingate & Finchley 2
Scorers: Elmes (2), Sontag, White (2), Page
Att:

Extra Preliminary Rd
Romford 1 Waltham Abbey 3
Scorer: Taylor
Att: 112

Road to Wembley - Bye bye Gazza

A huge crowd of 4,548 watched Paul Gascoigne's Kettering Town exit the FA Cup this afternoon after local rivals Stevenage Borough beat them 3-1 at Rockingham Road.

The game was less than three minutes old when the first chorus of "Gazza, Gazza, gi'uz a wave" arose from the home fans on the popular side. Cheerily, he obliged. Dressed in a pale blue shirt and dapper tie.

However Kettering got off to a disastrous start when a George Boyd cross came back off the post and DARRYN STAMP headed past Mark Osborn and the home defence.

the home side hit back straight away as NEIL MIDGLEY hammered the ball past Alan Julian from 12 yards and the Poppies players headed for the bench. A brief celebration with Paul Gascoigne and Paul Davis ensued, much to the delight of the home supporters but minutes before half-time Stevenage regained the lead when GEORGE BOYD fired the visitors back in front.

Kettering threw everything at Stevenage midway through the half, with Craig McIlwin heading over and Midgley firing wide.

Anthony Elding replaced John Nurse for Boro on 61 mins and the substitution paid almost immediate dividends for Stevenage as ELDING scored to put the visitors 3-1 on 69 minutes.

Gazza threw on a couple of subs but to no avail.

Kettering: Osborn, Diuk, Nicell, Brown, McIlwain, Theobald, Hall, J.Gould (Burgess), Paterson, Moore, Midgley (DiFante).
Subs not used: Duffy, Attwood, Thompson.
Attendance: 4,548
MoM: MCIlwain

Murray worth a mint

Breaking news 8888 Week 11 scores
In the lowest scoring week of the FL season so far, Tony Murray's Football Academy came out on top and continued their rise up the table. 43 points for Muzza and a surge into the top 10 - you back from NYC yet Tone?

Tony was way clear of the 2nd best score, which was Brian Dougal's Magic Roundabout 31. The Dougs also entered the top 10 and leapfrogged over Chicago Addick. This is the 2nd time Brian has had the 2nd best weekly score this season.

A well known team name in the N&R FL is 2Infinity & beyond. Barry's boys moved into 6th spot after hitting 30 points in week 11.

It was definitely the week for up and coming managers. To the list of Murray, Dougal and Plummer should be added Barwick and Higgs. The Flighty Feet girls have completely shaken their crap start to the season and are now up to 17th after scoring 29 week 11 points.

The weeks biggest climber was Nzogbiapongolledezee. Now I know who Nzogbia is and Pongolle is at Liverpool but Dezee John? Anyway that lot (I'm not going to type it again) jumped 8 places after scoring 29 points.

Chelsea (and still part-time Addicks?) fan Steve Lee's team I hate Gerrard hit 28 and improved 3 places whilst Ken Bates' beard bounced back to 13th after a shaky couple of weeks.

The week's worst score belonged to Liz Keiller, which is kind of a surprise as she had been on a role. White wine and water drop 7 places to 16th. Liz's 3 points was 3 less than We stand United who slip 6 places to 25th. Tim Feldbruegge had a magnificent week by his standards, a whole 9 points! That's a total of 20 in 4 weeks for Rogering Daisy Wright, 165 less than October's form team.... Flighty Feet.

Harse meat

Breaking news 8888 Week 11 scores
The chasing pack gathered some ground on I *ucking hate Chelsea in week 11. Wenners Utd slip up, gave So he got shot up the harse the chance to move into 2nd. Heppers is having one hell of a season and an additional 31 points put him into 2nd place in the table with 1/4 of the season gone.

Rushden & Doggers' 25 points kept them in 4th and our favourite Scottish stalker (I know it was you heavy breathing down the phone the other night!) Kirsty Baillie hurdled Mark Dewberry in week 11. Glasgow kiss gaining 25 points to Davids v Goliath 16. You know what Dewbs, I just got your team name. Der!

2Infinity & beyond and Football academy all move up at the sake of Sodding window cleaners (anyone you know Rob?) and my very own Chicago Addicks.

At the bottom, RIP Viera and Woodys Warriors, who quite frankly are having a 'mare slip further into the waste disposal whereas Goonersmoan's 22 points improved their status.

Further up the table, the ridiculously long-named He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy (whose that? Ronaldo Ian?) and PK's blue lagooners are in a spot of bother.