Not The Top 20 Podcast

The Match in Focus game is Sheff Utd v Leeds this week. Season stats: George: +0.45 Ali: -7.62 Sign up for Black Type online at www.blacktype.bet or via the BlackType app. Use the offer code 'NTT20' on the sign-up page for a £10 free bet - this must be used on a football selection. Get involved with #ScoreBore by tweeting us with your 0-0 pick and a game with 5 goals or more, from this weekend's EFL and FA Cup games. You can find all of our weekend picks listed on www.blacktype.bet/sportsbook/SOCCER/NTT20/ Use that link to add whichever bets you like the sound of! All bets are listed at the end of the podcast. Follow us on Social Media: @NTT20Pod @blacktypebet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Champ: Aston Villa 4-2 Birmingham Stoke 2-2 QPR Hull 0-2 Nottingham Forest Preston 4-1 Blackburn Swansea 1-4 Norwich Bees 1-2 Middlesbrough Wins for Leeds West Brom, Derby with varying levels of comfort. Decent performances from Rotherham and Bolton and Reading to get tough points. L1: Big wins for Plymouth, Wimbledon (Russell Slade?) & Bradford). Portsmouth go 4 clear. Luton win again. Barnsley & Sunderland & Posh draw. Blackpool win vs Burton. Charlton 3 wins in a row. Wycombe 5 home wins in a row - into top half. L2: Macclesfield 1-0 Yeovil - Sol Campbell Good away win for Swindon. Great vibes at Cheltenham. A few midweek Betting Show picks. TEAM OF THE WEEK: ??? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Match in Focus game is Aston Villa v Birmingham this week. Season stats: -9.95 Ali -1.6 George Sign up for Black Type online at www.blacktype.bet or via the BlackType app. Use the offer code 'NTT20' on the sign-up page for a £10 free bet - this must be used on a football selection. Get involved with #ScoreBore by tweeting us with your 0-0 pick and a game with 5 goals or more. You can find all of our weekend picks listed on www.blacktype.bet/sportsbook/SOCCER/NTT20/ Use that link to add whichever bets you like the sound of! All bets are listed at the end of the podcast. Follow us on Social Media: @NTT20Pod @blacktypebet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Discussion about the big news at the top and bottom of Leagues One and Two & Team of the Week Enjoy it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Match in Focus game is Bury v Stevenage this week. Season stats: -6 Ali -0,6 George Sign up for Black Type online at www.blacktype.bet or via the BlackType app. Use the offer code 'NTT20' on the sign-up page for a £10 free bet - this must be used on a football selection. Get involved with #ScoreBore by tweeting us with your 0-0 pick and a game with 5 goals or more. You can find all of our weekend picks listed on www.blacktype.bet/sportsbook/SOCCER/NTT20/ Use that link to add whichever bets you like the sound of! All bets are listed at the end of the podcast. Follow us on Social Media: @NTT20Pod @blacktypebet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Championship: Norwich 4-3 Millwall WBA 4-1 Leeds Boro 2-0 Wigan QPR 3-2 Bees Birmingham 3-3 Hull Reading 2-2 Ipswich Bristol City 0-1 Preston Bolton 0-1 Swansea Manager news: Neal Ardley, John Askey, Phil Brown sacked. Sunderland & Touches in the Box Team of the Week!!!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Match in Focus game is Sheffield United vs Sheffield Wednesday this week. Season stats: -0.80 Ali +2.20 George Sign up for Black Type online at www.blacktype.bet or via the BlackType app. Use the offer code 'NTT20' on the sign-up page for a £10 free bet - this must be used on a football selection. Get involved with #ScoreBore by tweeting us with your 0-0 pick and a game with 5 goals or more. You can find all of our weekend picks listed on www.blacktype.bet/sportsbook/SOCCER/NTT20/ Use that link to add whichever bets you like the sound of! All bets are listed at the end of the podcast. Follow us on Social Media: @NTT20Pod @blacktypebet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apologies for the odd bit of crackle and pop. Championship: Wigan 1-2 Leeds Sheff Wed 0-4 Norwich Derby 3-1 Birmingham Hull 1-0 WBA Reading 3-2 Bristol City Rotherham 2-1 Swansea Lambert’s debut at Ipswich, 1-1 vs PNE L1: Scunthorpe 3-3 Oxford Blackpool 0-3 Bristol Rovers Walsall 1-3 Burton Wimbledon 1-2 Shrewsbury & Sunderland 6 wins in a row. L2: Macc 1-4 Bury Lincoln 2-1 Forest Green Northampton 2-0 Crewe Tranmere 2-0 Exeter TEAM OF THE WEEK ?!?!?! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Match in Focus game is Tranmere vs Exeter this week. Sign up for Black Type online at www.blacktype.bet or via the BlackType app. Use the offer code 'NTT20' on the sign-up page for a £10 free bet - this must be used on a football selection. Get involved with #ScoreBore by tweeting us with your 0-0 pick and a game with 5 goals or more. You can find all of our weekend picks listed on www.blacktype.bet/sportsbook/SOCCER/NTT20/ Use that link to add whichever bets you like the sound of! All bets are listed at the end of the podcast. Follow us on Social Media: @NTT20Pod @blacktypebet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Topics: Ipswich sack Paul Hurst, appoint Paul Lambert. Championship 2 wins in a week: Swansea Birmingham QPR Millwall Norwich - Gregor at the game! Championship 2 losses in a week: Wigan Sheff Wed Brentford Aston Villa Bolton Reading Ipswich League One 2 wins in a week: Coventry (5 in a row) Peterborough Sunderland (4 in a row) Luton (3 in a row) League One 2 losses in a week: Bradford (Lost 10 out of 12) Wimbledon (Lost 11 out of their last 13) Scunthorpe (5 defeats in a row!) Doncaster Other: Gillingham 4-0 Bradford, Oxford 3-0 Shrewsbury League Two 2 wins in a week: Forest Green - beat Tranmere and Exete Northampton - Curle doing well Cambridge League Two 2 losses in a row: Macclesfield - they still don’t have a manager… Cheltenham Notts County - why hasn’t Kewell turned things around? Team of the Week?!?!?!?!?! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Match in Focus game is Coventry vs Doncaster this week, a fascinating game between League One play-off chasers. Sign up for Black Type online at www.blacktype.bet or via the BlackType app. Use the offer code 'NTT20' on the sign-up page for a £10 free bet - this must be used on a football selection. Get involved with #ScoreBore by tweeting us with your 0-0 pick and a game with 5 goals or more. You can find all of our weekend picks listed on www.blacktype.bet/sportsbook/SOCCER/NTT20/ Use that link to add whichever bets you like the sound of! All bets are listed at the end of the podcast. Follow us on Social Media: @NTT20Pod @blacktypebet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Loads of Championship chat: Aston Villa under Dean Smith - 1-0 win vs Swans Brentford under Frank: Brentford 0-1 Bristol City Wigan 1-0 WBA Blackburn 2-1 Leeds Derby 2-1 Sheff Utd Forest 1-2 Norwich Stoke 0-1 Birmingham Sheff Wed 1-2 Middlesbrough Ipswich 0-2 QPR Reading 3-1 Millwall L1: Peterborough 0-1 Accrington Charlton 2-0 Barnsley Donny 3-3 Gills Bristol Rovers 0-0 Oxford L2: Macclesfield win! Crawley 4-1 Newport TEAM OF THE WEEK???????? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A double profit week! Things are getting quite lively. Sign up for Black Type online at www.blacktype.bet or via the BlackType app. Use the offer code 'NTT20' on the sign-up page for a £10 free bet - this must be used on a football selection. Get involved with #ScoreBore by tweeting us with your 0-0 pick and a game with 5 goals or more. You can find all of our weekend picks listed on www.blacktype.bet/sportsbook/SOCCER/NTT20/ Use that link to add whichever bets you like the sound of! All bets are listed at the end of the podcast. Follow us on Social Media: @NTT20Pod @blacktypebet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When offered the chance to sit down with Michael Appleton for an hour, it was a no-brainer. Often mentioned on the podcast - sometimes as a brilliant young British Manager, other times as George's favourite footballing person of all time - now rivalled by Chris Maguire! We packed George off to chat with him, and we made the most of the hour, discussing: his desire to get back into management (and the importance of choosing a club rather than a division), the Championship players and managers that he admires, his time at Blackpool, Blackburn, Portsmouth and Oxford United, his philosophy and his view on data & xG in analysis, his vision in the transfer market, and how cup competitions can help & hinder. Thanks to Dean at Oporto Sports Management for helping to arrange this interview at short notice, and to Michael of course for his openness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We answered the following questions: If you were a Championship club and could sign any league 1 player, who would you sign? Likewise with a league 1 club and league 2 player? L1 managers - 'in or out': Neal Ardley, Darrell Clarke, Steve Lovell. On the basis of Saturday, how close are Luton to competing for promotion again? Bradford being utterly rubbish … Coventry’s chances of finishing top 6? Can Accrington keep up this form and actually challenge for a playoff spot? Seeing them in the Championship would be pretty incredible, however unlikely it is currently. Who is most likely to stop Lincoln? Are Col U and John McGreal the real deal? If Ali & George replaced Giles & Ankerson as Brentford DoFs tomorrow, (T Frank is hypothetically out of the picture) who would each have as their top pick as new Head Coach from League 1 or 2 to present to Matthew Benham for final sign off? Team of the week! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

George is on an absolute rampage after last week. We discuss Dean Smith's move from Brentford to Aston Villa and how it may suit all parties, before going through the weekend picks from Leagues 1 and 2. Sign up for Black Type online at www.blacktype.bet or via the BlackType app. Use the offer code 'NTT20' on the sign up page for a £10 free bet - this must be used on a football selection. Get involved with #ScoreBore by tweeting us with your 0-0 pick and a game with 5 goals or more. You can find all of our weekend picks listed on www.blacktype.bet/sportsbook/SOCCER/NTT20/ Use that link to add whichever bets you like the sound of! All bets are listed at the end of the podcast. Follow us on Social Media: @NTT20Pod @blacktypebet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We bring up our century of podcasts in style, reminiscing about our #journey to this point, before doing the usual: Championship chat including Villa manager and big results down the bottom, then major League One talking points, and Arman Mirkarimi - Strata Bet's League Two analyst - joins us to run through some League Two talking points. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Fresh from a 7/1 winner, George fancies teams in different shades of blue, while Ali is on a pilgrimage to find some winners. The match in focus is Peterborough v Barnsley. Sign up for Black Type online at www.blacktype.bet or via the BlackType app. Use the offer code 'NTT20' on the sign up page for a £10 free bet - this must be used on a football selection. Get involved with #ScoreBore by tweeting us with your 0-0 pick and a game with 5 goals or more. You can find all of our weekend picks listed on www.blacktype.bet/sportsbook/SOCCER/NTT20/ Use that link to add whichever bets you like the sound of! All bets are listed at the end of the podcast. Follow us on Social Media: @NTT20Pod @blacktypebet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We were joined by some absolute dons, Daniel Mann of Sky Sports and Oli Walker, a League One analyst. We also made some snap judgements at this 10-game stage. We're on EFL Matters on Sky Sports Football on Thursday at 7pm, don't miss it. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sign up for Black Type online at www.blacktype.bet or via the BlackType app. Use the offer code 'NTT20' on the sign up page for a £10 free bet - this must be used on a football selection. Get involved with #ScoreBore by tweeting us with your 0-0 pick and a game with 5 goals or more. You can find all of our weekend picks listed on www.blacktype.bet/sportsbook/SOCCER/NTT20/ Use that link to add whichever bets you like the sound of! All bets are listed at the end of the podcast. Follow us on Social Media: @NTT20Pod @blacktypebet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices