The top three teams – the legitimate remaining title contenders with four matches to go – are all in action Saturday. Here’s the Matchday 35 complete weekend schedule:
Sat., 5/11
T1 Dryaw vs. #19 Tidmouth City
#11 Marron vs. #20 Arlesburgh Utd.
#3 Knapford Town vs. #7 Wellsworth
T1 Peel Godred vs. T17 Ulfstead
#9 Glennock vs. #14 Castle Rolf
Sun., 5/12
#12 Vicarstown vs. #16 Brendam Utd.
#15 Brendam Harbor vs. #8 East Coast Diesel
#10 Suddery vs. #6 J&S
#13 Lakeside vs. #5 Crovan’s Gate
T17 Ffarquhar vs. #4 Kirk Ronan
Last weekend saw Peel Godred catch up with Dryaw FC, tie them for 1st place. Knapford Town FC, despite having had all the seeming momentum versus previously fading (#4) Kirk Ronan team, got thrashed 4-10. Still, KTFC only trail the leaders by two points.
So, for the second week in a row, their match will get Featured status. #7 Wellsworth will be no easy meat coming to town. They’re 2-2 in their last four, including a road W over then-#7 East Coast Diesel. But they’ve lacked consistency on offense, scoring 1, 14, 6 and 1 over that stretch. If KTFC can keep them on their heels early, they won’t likely recover.
Knapford Town are 2-1-1 in over their last four. Earlier in the season, they were losing all their close matches, only winning when in blowout fashion. Lately, that’s been flipped on its head. Their margin for for error is slim. Only two points down, yes. But Dryaw and PGFC both host Relegation candidates today. They likely can’t afford to drop any points here.
Noob’s call: I think KTFC will recover from giving up that ten-spot to Kirk Ronan last week, at least defensively. Also, pitch conditions will be soggy after the midweek storm that swept over Sodor. Pace will be slowed. The title race becomes even more two-teamed as this one ends 2-2.
A little about Knapford the town and Sodor. Knapford is one of the two "main towns" on the Isle. Tidmouth - just to the north of them here on the west-southwest coast - is the larger settlement. One might expect the larger areas (ie: Vicarsrtown) to be on the east side of Sodor - "facing" England - but no. Both Knapford and Tidmouth are port towns. Knapford deals a little more with imported goods, whereas Tidmouth leans some on more local products and the uranium mines nearby. Knapforders consider their town to be the transportation capital of the island, but are no more or less so than Tidmouth really. Soccer-wise, Tidmouth are besting their intra-city rivals by quite a lot. Knapford's other PL team is Junction & Sheds, which sit in 8th place. Meanwhile, Tidmouth City are almost certainly going to be Relegated. Tidmouth Works FC didn't even qualify for the Premier this inaugural year, though they're in position to get Promoted from the Championship in all likelihood.
Noob will update the Saturday scores come evening tomorrow. Enjoy the sportsball!
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While that may be working in Loon-land, things went catastrophically awry Tuesday night when some supporters of the Isle of Sodor’s Championship club Ballahoo A.F.C. tried singing it. 15 people ended up being treated after the ensuing brawl in the stands, with three still in intensive care at Vicarstown Memorial Hospital.
So what happened? After Ballahoo’s 4-2 win over Cross-ny-Cuirn FC, some home supporters started singing “Wonderwall”. A few catcalls aside, the crooners continued unimpeded until the beginning the chorus.
Sheela Boyd, president of the creatively-named Ballahoo Supporters, had this to say after hiding her brass knuckles: “Many of us thought it was a joke and they’d stop. But we no more than heard, ‘Because maybeeeeeeey,’ and knew they were for real and that chorus had to be stopped.”
We welcome them. But they should've left their Oasis fanboyishness back in the Kingdom. Look, we understand the band is considered iconic there. The instrumentation is superb. The production choices they made for studio albums were concrete and admirable. But Liam Gallgher's singing is unbearable to anyone with an ear.
Ethel Merman. Stevie Nicks. Both Brooks and Dunn. Liam Gallagher. There's your top four list of most awful, nasally singers the Lord God saw fit to create. We will never know why, as His ways are higher than ours."
“Ballahoo FC will be docked one point in the table. Dumping beer on anyone is wasteful, alcohol abuse. Liam Gallagher’s singing is terrible and his tambourine-playing is marginal at best.”
It’s actually their U10’s — who’ve gone by “Wonky Whistles Youth FC” — that got the goods. Their jerseys were pathetic, but their coach used some straaaaange inspiration to improve things for the little kickers.
Daniel Heck and 80’s TV Star (“The Fall Guy”), screenwriter and current vintner Doug Barr 
— as well as hard science fiction writer and PhD in astrophysics Alastair Reynolds and his lovely wife Noordwijk. In stumbled a desperately forlorn Christopher Wilbertson – leading scorer and resident nutjob for IoS PL’s #1 Dryaw FC.
What could be troubling him? Interview time. I excused myself from my dinner companions, swiping the last full bottle of Barr’s Hollywood and Vine Cellars 2002 vintage cab sav ‘2480’ off the table. Heck and Reynolds could argue whether the latter’s space-swashbuckly 
(For the record, if the protagonist/s is/are young and the plot has no loops and any prominent adult characters are neutered of real power, it’s kid lit. If no, than not.)
Wilbertson: Since I'm not as famous as that giant-headed Haley Joel Osment-looking diva, I even kept my dream more realistic than Kane's. I set my sights on the American Alliance of Football.
n recognition of March 15 as a national holiday on Sodor, no football matches in either of the Premier League or Championship were scheduled for this weekend. Yes, the Ides of March are quite the spectacle here, thanks to the longstanding ancient Roman influence on the Isle.
Football fan-bozo Paul Mitchell has been sentenced to 14 weeks in jail. He stormed the pitch at Aston Villa and socked visiting Birmingham City player Jack Grealish in the jaw during the match. 
Mr. Queripel has been banned from wearing the camo-pitch outfit at all FA-sponsored matches indefinitely. He complained profusely about where else he could possibly wear it. (Where wouldn’t you wear something like that, this journo asks.)
Junction & Sheds took the weekday make-up match 5 – 10 in a classic Sudric shootout.
Mayoress Ysbal Clucas came under heavy scrutiny for cancelling the match.
"Even though no one was pronounced dead at the scene, out of respect for the victims, I felt it best to cancel the match. It's not like these clubs are in UEFA or anything."
Vice President of the Wellsworth FC supporters group "The Ebbas" had this to say:
"You get the victims to St. Tibba's - even if it should be Saint Ebba's. The waters are a panacea. The whole town was built because of them! Doctors and magic water for the injured, football for the rest of us."
Before the rumor mill starts swirling over his next job possibilities, 
OK, no talking trains. That’s the silly, fun tv show. But it’s based on the real Isle, and the train system really is quite good.