The trophy was won by Coventry City recently. My how the Sky Blues emerged from the closet as the prospect of a Wembley trip loomed large. Of course, when Birmingham City beat Tranmere Rovers in 1991 in the equivalent competition it was far more prestigious.
15 November 2018
Graham paine
Wonderful concept but let down slightly by the fact that Ipswich Town Reserves don’t compete in it. I don’t think the Checkatrade/Johnstones Paint Trophy/Autoshields etc has ever been prestigious. This season Mark Robins has picked deliberately weakened teams to ensure we didn’t go beyond the group stage! He succeeded.
15 November 2018
Cream cheese and chives
First became aware of the brand when I noticed it as a sponsor of Saturday drama on ITV in the adverts of ‘The Americans’.Shown at the l ludicrous time of 9pm on a Saturday, I think it ended up on DVD and then Amazon tv by about series 3. It’s a shame because it is a top show. Next thing I knew it was sponsoring the football.
15 November 2018
BOBBY SVARC
Cov will be playing at The Griff next season
15 November 2018
Mark
Hopefully this is a song that is about a competition that will soon be consigned to the history books.
15 November 2018
Proud Salopian
Spent a distressing day at the national stadium in early April watching my lot get bullied by Lincoln City, led by the chief bully Matt Rhead, a pub footballer on a professional pitch. We definitely didn’t come out of the woodwork, less than 12,000 from Salopia bothered their arses paying the king’s ransom to “enjoy” the show.
15 November 2018
Mickey Roberts
Paulo DiCanio led us to glorious defeat against mighty Chesterfield. Old Wembley P3 W3. New Wembley P3 L3.Now on 5th manager in little over 3 seasons.
15 November 2018
brumbiscuit
‘Cov will be playing at The Griff next season’
Really Mick? I hadn’t heard about that from my CCFC steward colleagues. Will ask them tomorrow.
18 November 2018
BOBBY SVARC
A West Leicestershire pi55 take really. Things not looking too rosy up the road for next season that’s for sure. My mate who helped with the ‘Sent From Coventry’ CDs isn’t at all optimistic about their future. The current Leicester Road FC (Hinckley Utd) ground would be ok for them, not fantastic but holds 5000, I would hate them to go under, I really would but I wish them Hinckley lot would take those Keith Houchen posters out of their windows.
18 November 2018
brumbiscuit
Just heard on Midlands Today that CCFC have an extra week to lodge an appeal at the Supreme Court to appeal against the earlier decision against them.
SISU is Finnish and means summat like ‘indefatigability’ normally, but ‘complete and utter Suomi twunts’ in CCFC’s case.
19 November 2018
Bobby Svarc
I’m in the East Midlands news area now, not like the seventies/eighties when our aerial was aligned with the Sutton Coldfield transmitter so no West Mids sport. I keep looking on my mates Facebook for news, Kev detests SISU with a passion and hasn’t been for a few years now, All very sad.
19 November 2018
BOBBY SVARC
Oh let me gaze upon your curves Instead of Leicester City reserves Swerving the Leasing.com with you
5 January 2020
Intheshadowoflilly
Not the Checkatrade, but by all accounts Watford fielded a side worthy of said competition in their FA Cup third round replay defeat to Tranmere. Average age of 23, only being as high as that due to Watford fielding three senior players with collective age of 91.
Not that Tranmere fans will swerve the fixture given that it set them up for another potential upset against the stuttering Man Utd.
24 January 2020
EXXO
I had a ticket for the original replay. Couldn’t go to the rescheduled game last night so cancelled for a full refund as things are very, very tight financially here at the mo’. Still half-expected my ticket number to work as a credit for Sunday, but it doesn’t. Ah well saves me going to a game were half the gate receipts go to service Glazers’ debt…
24 January 2020
BOBBY SVARC
“Staying in the cup means we can fully concentrate on getting relegated now!”
NB57…Made me chuckle
24 January 2020
transit full of keith
@Bobby Ha, my Watford season-ticket-holding brother, who pays much more attention to this stuff than me, seems relieved there’s no cup run to distract from the Horns’ relegation battle (although he’s also adamant that Pearson didn’t deliberately throw it) But I much prefer that version.
24 January 2020
EXXO
Well I still compulsively to get through when they went on general sale at 8pm, not sure I would have bought one if I’d got through, probably not, but the ticket agent’s (tygits.com) site can’t cope with the traffic of Cheshire Mancs & touts, so decision made for me. Good, for the stated reason.
24 January 2020
EXXO
Tonight’s result makes it Tranmere’s best season in the EFL trophy since that final in 1991 Andy, and their best ever as a fourth-tier club.
2 February 2021
EXXO
Although as a 4th division outfit in the first season of the Associate Members’ Cup, 1983/84, they did make it to the same stage.
2 February 2021
dr Desperate
I’d like to register my approval of this season’s sponshorship deal.
What a wonderful night’s football. I can safely say that Tranmere have never reached Wemberley on the same night that Liverpool have won in the Baby Ferenc Puskas to you Stadium.
I say wonderful football, but I’m just judging from Radio Merseyside cos the only slight drawback is that it’s been the worst night for finding decent streams in recent history. I literally went to a different shop for beer this evening to try to chance LFC’s luck, and if I have to listen on the radio for the rest of the season I won’t mind as long as we win.
16 February 2021
paul F
I can recommend the navscore app Exxo. Great for Liverpool games – less so for Tranmere. Also good for boxing. It disappears from the app store around KO time for popular events, but once you’ve got it, you’ve got it. It looks just like a fixture and results service but at KO time it gives you the option of viewing live on your phone or getting a link to watch on a PC. Generally very stable, although you do have to put up with the likes of Jim Beglin’s recent OMD gag when the stream is from NBC.
17 February 2021
Alice van der meer
I’m guessing the Gubba lookalikes don’t travel?
17 February 2021
EXXO
@ Alice Van der Meer
if you have 20 minutes to spare and like long ball-by-ball accounts of cricket matches that mean nothing to anyone except the participants – and let’s face it who doesn’t? …
You will then realise why we’ve decided that from now on matches between these two local rivals will be contested for the “Checkascore Trophy” (which will be a plastic replica Ashes urn containing the ashes of the branch of a certain ash tree overhanging the boundary…)
17 July 2021
Alice van der meer
Right up my street! Dad, of blessed memory, left school at 14 and could hardly read or write more than he needed to fill in the occasional form, but he could read a scorecard as though it was Gutenberg’s own work.
(incidentally Shit gets wickets ought to be my motto!)
17 July 2021
EXXO
One thing this competition does provide, whoever sponsors it this season, is betting opportunities when the bookies have no clue which team’s going to field the most first teamers, etc.
Tranmere, with the side they’ve put out, should easily beat Oldham tonight and are 1.775 DMB and available to buy at 0.2 on the spread.
Get on before they take the lead.
9 November 2021
EXXO
Alternatively, get on when they’ve just gone behind to Oldham’s first attack.
9 November 2021
dr desperate
Good shout, @Exxo. Any suggestions for the cover on Friday?
10 November 2021
PETER MCORNITHOLOGIST
It may not be prestigious in some peoples eyes but for real fans of the so called lesser sides it is fabulous. Hartlepool are one game away from Wembley..I and thousands like me are on the threshold of a dream. No Chelsea fan will experience this euphoria . Pity Meat Loaf wont be there.
26 January 2022
EXXO
Fingers crossed it’ll be Rotherham v. Wigan in the semis, rather than the final, Peter.
26 January 2022
Old tige
What pleasant memories of pre-lockdown 2020 and that Man U Tranmere game. It was 4:30 AM on the west coast of the US, but my local soccer bar was owned by a Wirral native and opened for the match. The last days of innocence.
Now to business. Can someone help me understand “swerving” in this context? Jonathon Green’s Dictionary of Slang (the Cassell’s paperback) only offers coïtus interruptus, but that doesn’t help me understand what this activity is, even with a vague idea of what Checkatrade is.
22 August 2023
Nigel, no not that one (nx3to)
Swerving = avoiding.
22 August 2023
Old tige
Oh right. If I hadn’t swerved the song page I’d know that.
23 August 2023
EXXO
While weighing up the pros and cons of watching under-21s next week I noticed that the trophy is now sponsored by(*) a W.H. Auden poem. By my reckoning it took them until nearly four and a half months after the group stage draw this season to find a sponsor.
Brumbiscuit
The trophy was won by Coventry City recently. My how the Sky Blues emerged from the closet as the prospect of a Wembley trip loomed large. Of course, when Birmingham City beat Tranmere Rovers in 1991 in the equivalent competition it was far more prestigious.
15 November 2018
Graham paine
Wonderful concept but let down slightly by the fact that Ipswich Town Reserves don’t compete in it.
I don’t think the Checkatrade/Johnstones Paint Trophy/Autoshields etc has ever been prestigious. This season Mark Robins has picked deliberately weakened teams to ensure we didn’t go beyond the group stage! He succeeded.
15 November 2018
Cream cheese and chives
First became aware of the brand when I noticed it as a sponsor of Saturday drama on ITV in the adverts of ‘The Americans’.Shown at the l ludicrous time of 9pm on a Saturday, I think it ended up on DVD and then Amazon tv by about series 3. It’s a shame because it is a top show.
Next thing I knew it was sponsoring the football.
15 November 2018
BOBBY SVARC
Cov will be playing at The Griff next season
15 November 2018
Mark
Hopefully this is a song that is about a competition that will soon be consigned to the history books.
15 November 2018
Proud Salopian
Spent a distressing day at the national stadium in early April watching my lot get bullied by Lincoln City, led by the chief bully Matt Rhead, a pub footballer on a professional pitch. We definitely didn’t come out of the woodwork, less than 12,000 from Salopia bothered their arses paying the king’s ransom to “enjoy” the show.
15 November 2018
Mickey Roberts
Paulo DiCanio led us to glorious defeat against mighty Chesterfield. Old Wembley P3 W3. New Wembley P3 L3.Now on 5th manager in little over 3 seasons.
15 November 2018
brumbiscuit
‘Cov will be playing at The Griff next season’
Really Mick? I hadn’t heard about that from my CCFC steward colleagues. Will ask them tomorrow.
18 November 2018
BOBBY SVARC
A West Leicestershire pi55 take really. Things not looking too rosy up the road for next season that’s for sure. My mate who helped with the ‘Sent From Coventry’ CDs isn’t at all optimistic about their future. The current Leicester Road FC (Hinckley Utd) ground would be ok for them, not fantastic but holds 5000, I would hate them to go under, I really would but I wish them Hinckley lot would take those Keith Houchen posters out of their windows.
18 November 2018
brumbiscuit
Just heard on Midlands Today that CCFC have an extra week to lodge an appeal at the Supreme Court to appeal against the earlier decision against them.
SISU is Finnish and means summat like ‘indefatigability’ normally, but ‘complete and utter Suomi twunts’ in CCFC’s case.
19 November 2018
Bobby Svarc
I’m in the East Midlands news area now, not like the seventies/eighties when our aerial was aligned with the Sutton Coldfield transmitter so no West Mids sport. I keep looking on my mates Facebook for news, Kev detests SISU with a passion and hasn’t been for a few years now, All very sad.
19 November 2018
BOBBY SVARC
Oh let me gaze upon your curves
Instead of Leicester City reserves
Swerving the Leasing.com with you
5 January 2020
Intheshadowoflilly
Not the Checkatrade, but by all accounts Watford fielded a side worthy of said competition in their FA Cup third round replay defeat to Tranmere. Average age of 23, only being as high as that due to Watford fielding three senior players with collective age of 91.
Not that Tranmere fans will swerve the fixture given that it set them up for another potential upset against the stuttering Man Utd.
24 January 2020
EXXO
I had a ticket for the original replay. Couldn’t go to the rescheduled game last night so cancelled for a full refund as things are very, very tight financially here at the mo’.
Still half-expected my ticket number to work as a credit for Sunday, but it doesn’t. Ah well saves me going to a game were half the gate receipts go to service Glazers’ debt…
24 January 2020
BOBBY SVARC
“Staying in the cup means we can fully concentrate on getting relegated now!”
NB57…Made me chuckle
24 January 2020
transit full of keith
@Bobby Ha, my Watford season-ticket-holding brother, who pays much more attention to this stuff than me, seems relieved there’s no cup run to distract from the Horns’ relegation battle (although he’s also adamant that Pearson didn’t deliberately throw it) But I much prefer that version.
24 January 2020
EXXO
Well I still compulsively to get through when they went on general sale at 8pm, not sure I would have bought one if I’d got through, probably not, but the ticket agent’s (tygits.com) site can’t cope with the traffic of Cheshire Mancs & touts, so decision made for me. Good, for the stated reason.
24 January 2020
EXXO
Tonight’s result makes it Tranmere’s best season in the EFL trophy since that final in 1991 Andy, and their best ever as a fourth-tier club.
2 February 2021
EXXO
Although as a 4th division outfit in the first season of the Associate Members’ Cup, 1983/84, they did make it to the same stage.
2 February 2021
dr Desperate
I’d like to register my approval of this season’s sponshorship deal.
3 February 2021
dr Desperate
Shorry, sponsorship.
3 February 2021
cream cheese and chives
I think Poppa Joe would have been better.
https://youtu.be/gV0ujTVD9kI
3 February 2021
dr Desperate
Or Papa Doc.
16 February 2021
dr Desperate
OK so far.
16 February 2021
EXXO
What a wonderful night’s football. I can safely say that Tranmere have never reached Wemberley on the same night that Liverpool have won in the Baby Ferenc Puskas to you Stadium.
I say wonderful football, but I’m just judging from Radio Merseyside cos the only slight drawback is that it’s been the worst night for finding decent streams in recent history. I literally went to a different shop for beer this evening to try to chance LFC’s luck, and if I have to listen on the radio for the rest of the season I won’t mind as long as we win.
16 February 2021
paul F
I can recommend the navscore app Exxo. Great for Liverpool games – less so for Tranmere. Also good for boxing. It disappears from the app store around KO time for popular events, but once you’ve got it, you’ve got it. It looks just like a fixture and results service but at KO time it gives you the option of viewing live on your phone or getting a link to watch on a PC. Generally very stable, although you do have to put up with the likes of Jim Beglin’s recent OMD gag when the stream is from NBC.
17 February 2021
Alice van der meer
I’m guessing the Gubba lookalikes don’t travel?
17 February 2021
EXXO
@ Alice Van der Meer
if you have 20 minutes to spare and like long ball-by-ball accounts of cricket matches that mean nothing to anyone except the participants – and let’s face it who doesn’t? …
https://shitgetswickets.wordpress.com/2021/07/10/big-block-2021-match-6-leeds-winos-v-meanwood-unmentionables-thursday-8th-july-woodhouse-cc/#more-1247
You will then realise why we’ve decided that from now on matches between these two local rivals will be contested for the “Checkascore Trophy” (which will be a plastic replica Ashes urn containing the ashes of the branch of a certain ash tree overhanging the boundary…)
17 July 2021
Alice van der meer
Right up my street! Dad, of blessed memory, left school at 14 and could hardly read or write more than he needed to fill in the occasional form, but he could read a scorecard as though it was Gutenberg’s own work.
(incidentally Shit gets wickets ought to be my motto!)
17 July 2021
EXXO
One thing this competition does provide, whoever sponsors it this season, is betting opportunities when the bookies have no clue which team’s going to field the most first teamers, etc.
Tranmere, with the side they’ve put out, should easily beat Oldham tonight and are 1.775 DMB and available to buy at 0.2 on the spread.
Get on before they take the lead.
9 November 2021
EXXO
Alternatively, get on when they’ve just gone behind to Oldham’s first attack.
9 November 2021
dr desperate
Good shout, @Exxo. Any suggestions for the cover on Friday?
10 November 2021
PETER MCORNITHOLOGIST
It may not be prestigious in some peoples eyes but for real fans of the so called lesser sides it is fabulous. Hartlepool are one game away from Wembley..I and thousands like me are on the threshold of a dream. No Chelsea fan will experience this euphoria . Pity Meat Loaf wont be there.
26 January 2022
EXXO
Fingers crossed it’ll be Rotherham v. Wigan in the semis, rather than the final, Peter.
26 January 2022
Old tige
What pleasant memories of pre-lockdown 2020 and that Man U Tranmere game. It was 4:30 AM on the west coast of the US, but my local soccer bar was owned by a Wirral native and opened for the match. The last days of innocence.
Now to business. Can someone help me understand “swerving” in this context? Jonathon Green’s Dictionary of Slang (the Cassell’s paperback) only offers coïtus interruptus, but that doesn’t help me understand what this activity is, even with a vague idea of what Checkatrade is.
22 August 2023
Nigel, no not that one (nx3to)
Swerving = avoiding.
22 August 2023
Old tige
Oh right. If I hadn’t swerved the song page I’d know that.
23 August 2023
EXXO
While weighing up the pros and cons of watching under-21s next week I noticed that the trophy is now sponsored by(*) a W.H. Auden poem. By my reckoning it took them until nearly four and a half months after the group stage draw this season to find a sponsor.
(*)something that reminds me of
30 November 2023