It’s the middle of the week which means Andrew is here with the latest from The Wonderkids. Can they continue their good form and head towards another title?

A wonderful welcome to all of you! We’re back into season 8 for The Wonderkids and we’ve made an unbeaten start and have a somewhat pitiful trophy in the bag out of a possible 5. We’ve trimmed the fat and made what appears to be a tactical masterstroke. If you missed the start, you can catch up here.  How did we leave things?

Bryan Lolson is climbing the table but at this stage he’s no threat to us (famous last words?). Rose picks up an injury and our front line is looking thin:

We hammer the hammers, but that’s another forward out injured.

“Corks Popped in Celebration”. The Champions League is an absolute haven, but to only score 5 is an abomination.

As I was saying…have some of them apples Bryan, welcome to Champ Man.

A 90^th minute Tom Youngs winner. Geeeet up. Burnley are then dispatched 1-0 in the League Cup, our 4^th round opponents will be?

A 1-1 draw with 2^nd placed Derby is deemed a poor result. But beating Lolson’s boys was a’good result’…hmm.

Back to Europe and despite endless chances in the early and latter stages, hold off Ajax making their claim to be stronger than dirt look a bit stupid…if anything they are dirt! [Yes, we’re making household cleaning product jokes now. And no, I’m not getting paid for it!]

It’s the battle of the roses of sorts in the league, Nicky vs. Yuri. Neither makes a stunning contribution. The run continues.

Curiosity got the better of me again. Newcastle have conceded only 7 in 14 games…but by does Gordon Milne have no faith in his no.1 despite this…what a competition!

The international period is a joy as ever…

Meira gets kneecapped on international duty. Next up its everyone’s Tuesday night favourites, Stoke, except on a Saturday…

Roll gets no. 10 for the season and we whack a bit of Del Amitri on in the changing rooms in celebration. The Champions League is back and it’s our 4^th game against Wolves this season. Baldari is a pest as ever, but the points are ours:

And with that, we’ll be in the hat for the knock-out stages.

I’m still fuming as Ajax beat Cork 7-1 which means we’ll need to better it in our next game. Hopefully Rose can end his goal drought and get to 10 for the season soon. We’re up against the leagues best defence and as Kapetanovic (who incidentally isn’t captain) gets a red we still can’t break them down.

Elsewhere Gremio win the World Club Cup but can you spot the former Wonderkid celebrating the win?

We’ve got some serious struggles against Lolson’s boys, but they get diddled.

Our reward? A 6^th game vs. Wolves…

Training though? Really? We’re in the hands of a crisp packet man for now.

You’ve got to be Kyding me! Sorenson gets a 5.

The Cork goes back in as we can’t better Ajax. At least Rose is now in double figures.

An absolute Poppins of a performance in the groups.

Manninger has recovered in time for the Christmas period. Ramirez should be back in January, and Bak Jensen finally has a few goals to his name after 6 months. It looks like it’s been a breeze but this new formation has given me some scares with opposition opportunities, but its working so we’ll stick to it.

Can we have an invincible season? Will Rose finally get back on track? We’ve got several suspensions to key players coming up in December so there will be rotation to risk it. Robson’s United revival continues can they become a rival again? Stick with us and we’ll find out next week.

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