Saturday Clockwatch – live! | Alan Gardner

• Send your thoughts to alan.gardner@guardian.co.uk • Click here to view our live scores service • Here for 26-league stats centre, with in-running tables GOAL! Stranraer 0-1 Alloa (McCord pen 2) The first goal in this specific segment of the afternoon comes north of the border. It was a penalty, taken from 12 yards, as is traditional. More on that when we get it. 3.02pm: Okay, so we’re off. Although Sky are running some adverts, so I’ll have to assume some football is being played somewhere. They’re really giving this the treatment, aren’t they! 2.59pm: You’ve all failed the first test, so I’ve randomly picked one set of line-ups as a token gesture. Port Vale v Crawley Town Port Vale: Tomlinson, Yates, McCombe, Collins, Green, Rigg, Griffith, Roberts, Loft, Pope, Richards. Subs: Martin, Taylor, Dodds, Haldane, McDonald. Crawley Town: Shearer, Howell, Dempster, McFadzean, Hunt, Simpson, Bulman, Torres, Smith, Tubbs, Barnett. Subs: Kuipers, Thomas, Akinde, Wassmer, Neilson. Referee: David Webb (County Durham) I know it’s early in the season, but you lot have got some work to do, I tells ya. 2.56pm: Hey up, that’s a result (literally). Infostrada Sports has the skinny: AC Milan win record 6th ever Italian Super Cup and 1st since 2004. Inter also lost 1st ever #supercoppa final in Beijing in 2009. 2.52pm: Ooh, look, Brighton have got a new stadium. Let’s hope they cleaned the Seagull doings off before letting the crowds in today. Anyway, given the amount of games being played, I won’t endeavour to post all the line-ups (even though it’s my primary skill, even I can’t cut and paste that fast). But, the first person to email in their teams request will get lucky*. *Not that lucky 2.45pm: There will be 31 Football League fixtures kicking off in approximately 15 minutes’ time and if that’s not enough for you, there’s also some hot Bundesliga action that’s recently got underway (no goals as yet). You can follow all the goals as they go in with our live score centre . And in the Italian Super Cup, it’s Milan 2-1 Inter, with Kevin-Prince Boateng putting the Rossoneri ahead after Zlatan Ibrahimovic had equalised Wesley Sneijder’s strike. Oh, and the game’s being played in Beijing. Obviously. Today’s 3 of the clock icebreakers Championship Brighton v Doncaster Bristol City v Ipswich Burnley v Watford Derby v Birmingham Middlesbrough v Portsmouth Nottm Forest v Barnsley Peterborough v Crystal Palace Reading v Millwall League One Brentford v Yeovil Carlisle v Notts County Charlton v Bournemouth Huddersfield v Bury Milton Keynes Dons v Hartlepool Oldham v Sheff Utd Preston v Colchester Sheff Wed v Rochdale Stevenage v Exeter Tranmere v Chesterfield Walsall v Leyton Orient Wycombe v Scunthorpe League Two Bradford v Aldershot Gillingham v Cheltenham Macclesfield v Dag & Red Morecambe v Barnet Northampton v Accrington Stanley Port Vale v Crawley Town Rotherham v Oxford Utd Shrewsbury v Plymouth Southend v Hereford Swindon v Crewe Torquay v. Burton Albion Preamble: Hello, and welcome to football. It’s a great game, anyone can play – even the ladies. All you need is a Twitter account and a pair of diamond ear studs. Anyway, it’s been a long hot summer and we’ve all taken grateful refuge in the culturally rich and diverse world that surrounds us missed that 3pm Saturday feeling. The Soccer Saturday boys are back to tangle their tongues, giggle like playground miscreants, and occasionally miss the action . But even in these times of 24-hour media, instant reaction and corner-flag-to-corner-flag coverage, it’s important to remember where we came from . All hail Des and the vidiprinter! Anyway, you’re probably doing something impossibly urbane and sophisticated like shopping for shoes or sitting on the sofa and eating a cheese sandwich, but please do get involved. Send us your hopes, fears and top tips. And we can even discuss the football. To get you in the mood, why not have a gander at James Dart’s Football League weekender ; while Scott Murray is currently reporting on a storming opener to the League Two season between AFC Wimbledon and Bristol Rovers . Football’s back and there’s no escaping it. You might as well jump on board. Football League Alan Gardner guardian.co.uk

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