Good news from Ashburton Grove, where Arsenal has decided not to sell to Alisher Usmanov, the man described in the European Parliament as a crook, a fraud, and currently facing legal proceedings saying he's a fraudster.
Upsets this week-end
40 AZ Alkmaar - HEERENVEEN 0:1 39 Stoke City - SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY 2:4 38 AC Milan - EMPOLI 0:1 36 MOTHERWELL - Hibs 2:1 34 ESPANYOL - Real Madrid 2:1 33 VILLARREAL - Barcelona 3:1 33 CAEN - Lille 1:0 32 WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS - Charlton Athletic 2:0 32 GETAFE - Murcia 2:0 32 COLCHESTER UNITED - West Bromwich Albion 3:2 31 Cottbus - DUISBURG 1:2 31 Boleslav - SLOVAN LIBEREC 0:2 31 ALMERIA - Osasuna 2:0 30 Hearts - DUNDEE UTD 1:3 16 HANSA ROSTOCK - Schalke 04 1:1 15 Roma - SSC NAPOLI 4:4
No surprises at all in Division I in England - all seven of the leading sides won.
English Division II
R RD Diff D/RD
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WAT 905 90.1 29 0.32
CHA 811 88.7 -32 -0.36
STK 805 88.9 - 6 -0.07
BRC 791 103.1 1 0.01
WBA 786 86.0 -60 -0.70
WLV 782 86.9 44 0.51
SOT 777 87.6 20 0.23
LEI 770 88.4 52 0.59
PLY 768 85.8 26 0.30
IPS 764 89.6 5 0.06
CCR 756 88.8 0 0.00
BAN 745 88.5 68 0.77
BNL 727 87.6 -10 -0.11
SFU 724 86.9 -77 -0.89
SCU 722 106.2 36 0.34
BPL 720 98.4 -16 -0.16
CPL 718 87.8 9 0.10
HUL 716 86.2 -14 -0.16
CDF 714 84.7 24 0.28
COV 713 86.9 11 0.13
PNE 710 87.9 -15 -0.17
SFW 682 87.2 31 0.36
QPR 639 91.7 0 0.00
NOR 589 87.1 -83 -0.95
R RD Diff D/RD
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LEE (III) 726 107.5 24 0.22
SEN (III) 700 101.6 34 0.33
CRW (III) 684 125.2 -30 -0.24
LUT (III) 621 108.1 20 0.19
BRI (III) 591 124.8 -33 -0.26
MIL (III) 543 135.4 21 0.16
Changes are since 18 September, and do not include Monday night's match, pre-poned from the midweek fixtures.
Something new for this year, a view of how much teams' ratings have moved over the past month, expressed as a fraction of their current RD. We suggest that a movement of ±0.5RD is worthy of attention, movements of a full RD are clearly significant. So Barnsley, Wolves, and Leicester have made moves upwards; Norwich, Sheffield U, and Westbromwich have all suffered mighty reversals.
A full slate of fixtures in Division II, plus a complete set of 32 matches in the various European competitions. You're spoiled for choice, people!
