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0 shares 2 View comments Every Friday, Michael Walker picks 10 things to look forward to over the weekend. This week: Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal kick off the World Cup qualifiers in Israel, Luis Suarez is favoured to sink Paraguay, Charlie Adam and Gareth Bale lock horns once more when Scotland host Wales at Hampden and Brentford travel to Sheffield United in a League One promotion thriller.   1 The weekend started on Friday lunchtime with a World Cup qualifiers between Israel and Portugal in Group F, which was at 12.45pm our time.  This is a game on paper that Portugal should have won and they went 1-0 up early on through Bruno Alves. So far so good. However, Israel then went 3-1 ahead and Portugal were looking to their main man, Cristiano Ronaldo, to get them back in it. He was booked for dissent but then set up Helder Postiga for 3-2 and in the 92nd minute Ronaldo's Real Madrid team-mate Fabio Coentrao equalised. Portugal, though, have won two of their four

0 shares 5 View comments The Easter weekend begins on Friday, and lasts until Monday night when Fulham and QPR kick off at Craven Cottage at 8pm. By then, things should be a lot clearer. Possibly. 1. Theoretically, Friday’s game of the day should not be the team 18th in the Championship against the one 17th. But there will be a lot of interest in Blackburn Rovers v Blackpool. This is not because it’s a local derby of sorts but because of the shambles that is Blackburn Rovers. This time last year they were still not in the Premier League’s relegation zone. Now they are four points above the Championship relegation spots having taken two points from the last 18 and sacked Michael Appleton along the way. Scroll down for video Battle against the drop: Blackburn are fighting at the bottom of the Championship and next for David Dunn and Co are Blackpool Looking to improve: Despite the form of Tom Ince Blackpool have failed to rediscover the form that took them to t

0 shares 18 View comments The final score was Borussia Moenchengladbach Under 13s 3 Borussia Dortmund Under 13s 0. The league leaders had been beaten, and in the losers’ dressing room the Dortmund coach was expressing his 'Enttauschung' – disappointment. Some of these boys, born in 2000, stared at the floor, some at the ceiling. Others stared at the coach, a quietly-spoken 52-year-old former British soldier who has been nurturing teenage talent at Borussia Dortmund for almost two decades: Gary Gordon. 'I wasn’t happy, but I was calm,' Gordon would say later in the day. 'My last words to them were to enjoy the rest of the weekend.' Youth training schemer: Gary Gordon guides the Under 13 side The team minibus had been on the go since 8.30 that Saturday morning and Gordon was still reflecting on Moenchengladbach at 6pm. He was walking away from the Westfalenstadion then, after Dortmund’s first team had eased five past Freiburg to remain seco

1 shares 3 View comments The Easter message from the pulpit atop the Championship could be plucked directly from the Gospel according to Matthew: ‘Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.’ Around 5pm at the City Ground, Nottingham, on Saturday, as we awaited the fire and brimstone arrival of Billy Davies, the news came through that Peterborough had scored two late penalty kicks to beat leaders Cardiff. A sold-out City Ground was already struggling to digest a rapid 2-2 draw between Forest and Brighton. Now this, Cardiff losing to relegation battlers. Saturday’s results followed Friday’s curious outcomes and together they left none of the top nine in the division with a victory. Turnaround: Grant McCann's two late penalties for Peterborough beat Malky Mackay's Cardiff side Saturday Everyone has got the hiccups. Then, belatedly, but perhaps tellingly, came Hull City. Hull’s 1-

9 shares 3 View comments The quintessential English football competition reached the quintessential English football stage — or at least the site of its memory — and two clubs now foreign-owned, with Italian and Spanish managers and just three English starters among the 22, produced a genuine old-style end-to-end FA Cup tie. For all the modern coaching ‘philosophies’ based on possession that both Chelsea and Manchester City bring to the table, there was not much keep-ball in evidence here. It was attack-defend, attack-defend. It was a match marked by City’s early energy and Chelsea’s lack of it, then almost the opposite. Serving up an English classic: Roberto Mancini and Rafael Benitez saw their teams serve up a thriller The final will do well to match it for drama and excitement. On the last whistle, and for long periods before, the City end burst into rapturous song. Their confidence had been eaten into by Chelsea’s  second-half resurgence but now the sun had

0 shares 2 View comments It was approaching 5.45pm on Saturday in the Belle Vue bar at Doncaster Rovers’ Keepmoat Stadium: and around 200 downcast Doncaster fans switched from staring into their pints to glaring at the flat screens dotted across the walls. They were reminded that there can be agonies at the top, too. Rarely can Hartlepool United versus Brentford have held such fascination in south Yorkshire. But it did, and, oh, was there a roar when Hartlepool’s talented teenager Luke James put Brentford one behind. Jubilant celebrations: Hartlepool's first goal against Brentford was met with rapturous celebrations all the way in Doncaster BY THE WAY... Scunthorpe bust many coupons with a win at MK Dons. It means they can stay up if they beat Swindon and Colchester lose at Carlisle. With a three-goal swing involved. Suddenly the noise 12,000 Doncaster supporters had been unable to make during their match against Notts County was heard. Relegated Hartlepool