Eight Blue Square Premier Sides Pair Off To Fight For FA Cup Places

13 10 2009
Photo courtesy Free-erss Flickr account

Photo courtesy Free-ers's Flickr account

Four all-Blue Square Premier ties being made was the biggest news from Monday’s draw for the fourth qualifying round of the FA Cup (Sponsored by e.on), the last round of matches to take place before the 48 teams from the Coca-Cola Football Leagues One and Two are brought in for the first round proper.

Luton Town and Chester City, both relegated from League Two last season, face fellow non-league top-flighters Grays Athletic and Barrow, respectively, in the final qualifying round, with all matches scheduled to be played on Saturday, Oct. 24. Read the rest of this entry »





LMSL Podcast: The Pilot Episode

14 08 2009
Photo courtesy allornothingbook.com

Photo courtesy allornothingbook.com

Welcome to the pilot episode of the Last Minute, Second Leg podcast. In this edition, we feature a recent interview from LMSL co-founder Ross Andrew Gallacher with Andy Brassell, the European football correspondent for both BBC Radio 5 Live’s World Football Phone-In and Sirius and XM Satellite Radio’s World Soccer Daily.  The author of All Or Nothing: A Day In The Life Of The Champions League and host of the PortuGOAL.net podcast, Brassell’s work can also be found in UEFA’s Champions magazine and When Saturday Comes.

As this is our first foray into the world of podcasting, we invite any and all feedback, which you can email to me at matthew.lmsl@gmail.com.

The podcast is currently under review by the iTunes Store staff, but if you would like to upload the LMSL podcast onto your iPod or other mp3 player in the meantime, log onto our RSS podcast feed: http://lasminsecleg.podbean.com/feed/.





LMSL 2.0

10 08 2009
Photo via LMSLs Flickr account.

Photo courtesy LMSL's Flickr account.

Welcome to the new and relaunched Last Minute, Second Leg website.  Our co-founder Ross Andrew Gallacher and I have been hard at work behind the scenes to improve LMSL and make it a little more user-friendly, and we hope you’ll agree that we’ve done exactly that.  Feel free to have a look around, and don’t forget to edit your bookmarks, as our address is now www.lasminsecleg.com.

We do ask, however, that you bear with us as we finish moving everything over onto our new website, which we should be finished within the coming days.  In the meantime, keep on the lookout for more football-related news and views from Ross and I, as we strive to bring you some of the best coverage around of the Scottish Premier League and the Coca-Cola Football League in England, as well as Major League Soccer and NCAA college soccer (football) in the United States.  Furthermore, we will also be your source for news and views on the UEFA Champions League and its sister competition, the newly-renamed UEFA Europa League.

Also, I’m very pleased to announce that, later on this week, we will be launching the pilot episode of the Last Minute, Second Leg podcast.  We’ve been very much looking forward to adding the podcast element to LMSL, and with it we plan to bring you some of the most exciting and thought-provoking insight and interviews that the parts of the football world we cover have to offer.

The pilot episode features an interview that Ross recently conducted with Andy Brassell, the London-based freelance journalist, author of All rr Nothing: A Season in the Life of the Champions League, and European correspondent for BBC Radio 5 Live’s World Football Phone-In and Sirius/XM Satellite Radio’s World Soccer Daily.  In the interview, Brassell touches upon such topics as the summer’s slow but still hectic transfer window, the changing balance of power in French football, the upside of the recycling policies of a certain football club in Germany – I’m not kidding; wait until you hear it! – and the continued success of AFC Wimbledon, the club Brassell supports.

For now, though, that’s about it.  Thank you for your continued support of Last Minute, Second Leg, and, again, please excuse the construction as we move everything over onto our new site.  Ross and I will be back soon with some great new features, so keep your eyes (and ears!) peeled.

Matthew Semisch