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Leyton Orient kept hopes of promotion alive yesterday with a win against Peterborough and, with a favourable draw for Grimsby at Macclesfield, a step back up into third place in league two with one match to go. If Orient win their final match of the season, away at Oxford, then promotion is guaranteed. Grimsby need a win regardless.
The situation is complicated by the fact that Grimbsy play Northampton who won automatic promotion through beating Chester yesterday. However, they have the incentive that a win may take them above Carlisle and on as league champions, should Carlisle fail to win against Rochdale midweek. Orient's final game of the season is away against Oxford United and who require a win to escape relegation.
The game was certainly intense with an early boost of a penalty, taken by Matt Lockwood who had an excellent all-round game, soon diminished by Connor's straight red for an elbow meaning Orient had to play over an hour with just ten men. The performance was strong despite this and once the game settled down Peterborough had few chances. Finally, Wayne Corden scored an excellent second goal.
With everything been thrown at the O's for the final fifteen minutes a goal seemed ominously close, and Glyn Garner made at least one excellent save. Peterborough, chasing a plaoff spot, broke through on the 85th minute with a well taken strike that fell, in part, from a mistake by Gabriel Zakuani who had until then had an excellent game.
The pressure kept up and Orient played some good posession football where they could and with the final five minutes of normal time and three minutes of extra time Orient the defence held out for the win.
As was helpfully posted as a comment on this blog already, this weeks Fantasy Football password is LADDER.
This article is quite old but still interesting enough, and quite well written:
Whenever there's a site that makes you wonder whether Jesus died in vain, the odds are it was created by Microsoft's (Af)FrontPage.
The biggest web design mistakes in 2004
Dr Kawashima's Brain Training is a game from Japan that's meant to give your brain a workout. Interesting quote from the BBC:
"Unlike Nintendo's fictional creations, such as Donkey Kong or Mario, Dr Kawashima really is a leading Japanese brain expert."
I don't remember either Donkey Kong or any of the Marios claiming to be leading brain experts.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Brain games aim to boost your IQ:
The Daily Telegraph Fantasy Football password for the week starting Wednesday 19th April is CRYSTAL.
Instead of those sites where you enter some garbled text to prove you're not a spambot, you click on pictures of kittens instead.
The Daily Telegraph Fantasy Football password for the week of 12th April is STAR.
Not many weeks left, so good luck everyone!
Daily Telegraph Fantasy Football login
The Daily Telegraph Fantasy Football password for 5th April 2006 is MASTER.
Wasn't he the doctors nemesis?
posted by 
: April 05, 2006 2:17 PM
It predicts that 5.3m of England's projected 5.5m population growth until 2028 will be caused by the increase in the over-60s.
So if I'm reading that right, there are going to be 5.3m over-60s born in the next twenty odd years.
BBC NEWS | UK | Rural elderly figures 'will soar'
This is outrageous!
The pension system is based upon life long contributions through workers income tax. People who are born on or close to retirment age will then be able to take advatage of the pension system without having to contribute.
Once again, one rule for the rich, one rule for the poor.
posted by : April 05, 2006 2:04 PM
