Sweet FA from the FA

Just a quickie post this evening ahead of the Glovers away game at Oldham tomorrow. The bookies have the Latics as favourites (I wrote that before even looking at the odds!) for the win at 4/5 on, the draw is priced at 13/5 and a Yeovil win at a not overly generous 7/2. Oldham have won their last three on the trot, however such is the nature of League One that a team has to be really very good indeed to win more than three in a row, and I'm not sure Oldham are that good. With two clean sheets in a row we're starting to see some signs over the last couple of games that Skivo's side is beginning to adjust to life in this league this season. The draw would be the safer bet, but I've a sneaky feeling we may just surprise a few people tomorrow. My fiver's going on the away win. Running total: +£12.50p.

It's been a good week for the Glovers on the pitch, not so good off it. The first team followed up Saturday's win over Brentford with a very useful point at Millwall on Tuesday evening. We kept a clean sheet again and hit the woodwork twice, the signs are definitely encouraging. Off the pitch however we appear to have lost our battle with the FA to postpone the league match at home to Brighton a week tomorrow. As usual it seems it's one rule for the big clubs and another for Yeovil. Leeds have had their match away at Bristol Rovers postponed because 3 of their first-teamers are away on international duty; we will have 5 first-teamers away on international duty on the same day but because most of them are classed as 'youth loans' we are not apparently entitled to call our league game off. It's a complete nonsense of course, if the players are first-teamers then what on earth difference does it make if they are youths or on long-term loans - they're missing and they're playing for their countries, that's all that should matter. But of course common-sense and the FA are rarely synonymous with each other.

The other setback the club received this week also came off the pitch when it was revealed that the beer tent was burgled at some time on Wednesday night. Over £1,000 worth of drinks and a 42" plasma tv donated to the club by the Away Travel Club was nicked. That was the bad news, the really bad news was that the marquee itself was not only left behind but was undamaged and is expected to open as usual for the next home game. Sometimes it never rains but it pours.

Finally can I just say how pleased I was to see that Rio De Janeiro won the right to stage the 2016 Olympic Games ahead of rival cities such as Chicago in particular. Not that I'm really that interested in the Olympics as such, though doubtless I'll take a bit of notice of the London games when they roll around in 3 years time, but it's good to see the games going somewhere different for a change, rather than the same old countries or even continents. This will be the first time the games have been held in South America and really, it's about time.