I know that I drone on and on about content being more important than results, as good content and research will always take care of the other long term, but I have to mention that we had another clean sweep yesterday (five from five) , actually subscribers had more than "just" that to celebrate too, but we can focus on those five.
Our midweek preview of the Chesterfield-Rochdale match is very pertinent, as it also touches upon Torquay United ....
Fairly quiet week by clubgowi standards, but we are ahead heading into the weekend and on course (knock wood), to record our tenth winning week from the last eleven.
Just two selections today, but I am just finishing off my notes for what seems sure to be four Football League games tomorrow and we are also covering another 3-4 "in running". Sunday it will be all about Brazilian football and the NFL and in total, we should have previews for circa 14 matches/events much like the one for Mexico in the post below.
Hard to emphasize exactly how important these two legged matches are for the teams involved, go through and you can book your flight to Brazil for next Summer, lose and you will be watching on television. A massive incentive for both, but football in New Zealand is considered a poor third to both Rugby Union and Cricket and if the Kiwis do not make it to Brazil, it will be news for one day and deep down, few will actually expect their team to beat the Mexicans over two legs.
Tuesday November 12th
Tomorrow looks far and away the most interesting day of the midweek, at least in terms of quality of fixtures,with a full round in Brazil getting underway, I also want to take a look at the DP World Tour Championship golf and one other event and might have to split things over two emails, but will update that in the morning, as usual the next newsletter is due at 10.00 UK time on Wednesday.
Two teams we have discussed a lot this season. The Lions are a club I have always had a bit of a soft spot for (yes I am a little odd) and they did us a favour last week in that home draw with league leaders Burnley, but as we discussed at the time, that is typical Millwall, raising their game against the big clubs at the New Den. On the road they are not quite so imposing and ahead of their trip to Bournemouth early last month I wrote ....
City won the reverse fixture 2-1, coming from behind, courtesy of two Sergio Aguero goals, the match was played on a terrible playing surface which the English club and coach Manuel Pellegrini were clearly unhappy with and were perhaps fortunate to come away with all three points, keeper Joe Hart coming to their rescue deep in stoppage time, with a hugely important save. Another three points for City tonight would secure progression from this group, provided Bayern did not lose at Plzen and that would mean they could focus fully on the Premier League for the next three months, so, very valuable.
The results page of the website has now been updated , there are a wide variety of stats there, but all are pretty basic, they are the only results available for publication, so please do not ask for others. You should all know by now my reasoning behind that policy, if not, read this and especially this and it will give you some idea.
We have just posted our eighth winning week from nine for clubgowi subscribers and are coming off a solid day yesterday where we were 6 from 8, but really should have been better than that !
We are currently updating the results page of the website and I will put an update on here when it is done, it is something of a pointless exercise, as anyone who has read even a few of our match/event previews and there are thousands of them here and on the old GOWI blog, cannot seriously believe that it is possible for me to lose long term !
Very busy day for clubgowi today, five football and three NFL selections and you can read one of those eight previews below. It is probably the least interesting and definitely the smallest stake football preview, but is free ( subscribers have had to pay a massive 2.7 euros for the other seven previews !) and better than nothing.