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4.10pm: Hull are go 2-0 up against Swansea, Ian Ashbee the scorer. Portsmouth the only relegated side not currently winning in the Championship.

4.06pm: Bristol City 0 Millwall 2 (Danny Schofield 48). Not a good day for David James.

Just like countless footballers and their supporters across the land, I'm just going to pootle off for a drink. Back in a jiffy.

3.50pm: Watford started at Norwich yesterday with no players who weren't at the club last season. Are any other clubs similarly unchanged over the summer?

3.49pm: Burnley go a goal up at home to Nottingham Forest, Chris Iwelumo the scorer. Another good debut.

3.45pm: Crystal Palace 3 (Darren Ambrose 41) Leicester 0 Debut of the day: George Burley, whose first match with Crystal Palace is going rather well. Apparently they're being resoundingly outplayed by Leicester, who are hogging the ball greedily, pausing only to occasionally concede breakaway goals. Darren Ambrose has scored two.

3:42 pm: QPR 1 (Heidar Helguson Pen 41) Barnsley 0. Barnsley have not won at Loftus Road since 1950, or so Jeff Stelling tells me.

3.35pm:"Notts County, Huddersfield 0 1 (Anthony Pilkington 32) As I said, I think the district will be good, but Huddersfield will be better, and that 's played on the field as well. And now they are again 'to 2 - Jordan Rhodes (35).

3.29pm: Burnley v Nottingham Forest is live on Fox Soccer Plus Stateside, I'm told. "Time Warner in NE Ohio has the game listed under cricket in its program guide," reports Mark Elliott.

3.26pm: Mikel Arteta has signed a new five-year contract with Everton, Premier League followers. In other news, John Bostock has scored on his Hull debut, a screamer with his left foot to put them a goal up against Swansea.

3.24pm: Middlesbrough one up against Ipswich, Scott McDonald the inevitably ex-Celtic though incredibly not actually Scottish scorer.

3:21 pm: Exeter 1 Colchester 2 (Anthony Wordsworth 11) S, that 'two goals in a minute Wordsworth, who took until mid-December to get his second last season.

3:15 pm: Sheff Wed 1 (Scott Doe Og 13) Dag & Red 0. Why didn't I put that on my accumulator? Dammit, now I hear it's 2-0. Clinton Morrison on his debut.

3.11pm: Rotherham 1 (Adam Le Fondre 9) Lincoln City 0 - He's just a goal machine, that Adam Le Fondre. Will he still be at Rotherham at the end of the month, though?

3.09pm: Swansea's Angel Rangel was injured in the warm-up at Hull. How that'll effect his chances of a mooted transfer I don't know, but it reduces my chances of hearing his name as Soccer Saturday progresses, and that is a bad thing. Angel Rangel's name always makes me smile.

3.07pm: Stevenage 1 (Peter Vincenti 7) Macclesfield 0. That's their first goal in the Football League.

3.05pm: Coventry 1 Portsmouth 0 Freddy Eastwood scorer. The real howler from Jamie Ashdown, Tony Cottee tells me.

3.03pm:So with the action of 'started. No goals yet. Stevenage started 2 minutes earlier, apparently. Clearly agitated.

2:54 pm: I've put a fiver on Portsmouth to win, at 2-1. Utaka, Nugent and Smith up front? It's free money, surely? Sadly, I've already spent my winnings on a ludicrous accumulator that, if successful, will see me immediately retire to the Bahamas (or at least spend the rest of the day with a helluva grin).

2:51 pm: "Why can't Portsmouth name seven subs?" fumes Gary Naylor. "Surely they have youth players who would benefit from the experience? And they don't need to butter up the authorities with shows of impoverishment any more now they've got away with it all."

2:50 pm: Here's the back page of today's Coventry v Portsmouth match programme. Comedy gold.

2.35pm: Jeff Stelling has comedy suntan marks around his eyes. Just back from the beach, clearly.

2.34pm: Here's Portsmouth's team â€" I think reports of their demise are, now the court case is behind them, massively exaggerated. This is one of the best first XIs in the division, surely: Ashdown, Mullins, Mokoena, Sonko, Ritchie, Brown, Wilson, Hughes, Nugent, Utaka, Smith. Subs: O'Brien, Ciftci, Gregory, Pack.

2.29pm: Question of the week: Are Portsmouth going to be able to name 11 players? Answer: Yes, but seven subs is stretching it. They've only managed four.

2.27pm:I 't give a scoreline of Southampton, who was 0-1. Luke Summerfield to the 47 th minute.

2:21 pm: A few choice fixtures
"Middlesbrough" V Ipswich - Before the season starred career, against Sunderland bunch of rejects
Burnley v Nottingham Forest - the best of the teams that didn't go up last year against the least financially mangled of those that came down
Coventry v Portsmouth- Only given to a party, from far away fixture. Aidy Boothroyd boys can 's give them their own kind of winding-up order?
Notts County v Huddersfield - Can Craig Short keep County's upwards momentum going? They should stay up, but their season could start badly here.
Also, we'll be keeping an eye on Oxford and Stevenage on the very first days in the league. What am I missing?

2.10pm: Southampton are beaten. Joy for Peter Reid. Presumably he's celebrating inside.

2.00pm: I'm here! And I'm watching promotion favourites Southampton lose at home to Plymouth, the final whistle six minutes away. What with Norwich losing last night, the bookies are already starting to look silly and the season's barely 180 minutes old.

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So here we go again. There's something to 'on the last rasping cough before the start of the season, which I find uniquely sad feeling that, fortunately, the actual football always be removed immediately. Until April or so, at least.