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Still housekeeping. The 24/25 reports and results will stay in the match report archive until the start of next season. Le Club Foot du Monde - "Follow the Money" The World Club Foot is a soccer competition in which mysteriously selected clubs play each other for vast sums of oil money. This year the tournament is being held in the USA, which seemed a good idea at the time. QUARTERS ✺   Fluminense v Al Hilal ✺   Palmeiras v Chelsea ✺   PSG v Böring Munich ✺   Real Madrid v Borassic Dortmund LAST 16 ✺   Borassic Dortmund 2 - 1 Monterrey Jobe Bellingham's Dortmund may have progressed in the World Club Foot, but tragically Jobe Bellingham's booking ruled Jobe Bellingham out of facing his brother Jude Bellingham in the quarter final clash with Jude Bellingham's Real Madrid. ✺   Real Madrid 1 - 0 Juventus Italian football looks a bit worn out at the moment, but the names of Bellingham, Mbappe, Vicious Junior, Arnold Trent and Bellingham will ring down the anals of history like something imbued with a glorious but rather slimy phosphorescence. ✺   ManCity 3 - 4 Al Hilal Al-Hilal Saudi Football Club, simply known as Al-Hilal, is a professional multi-sports club based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia will host the World Cup in 2034 and the sports investment arm of PIF invested a reported $1billion (£750m) in DAZN, the broadcaster that bought the rights to the Club World Cup for the same amount from FIFA, which in turn has offered an overall prize pot of $1bn for this competition. ManCity never had a chance really, which is sad. ✺   Fluminense 1 - 0 Interminal Poor old Interminal - all hot and bothered after a lousy start, they never found the right rhythm or temper to cope with the brilliantly dubious arts of Fluminense. They ended up looking like a bunch of miserable old codgers, who could do right for doing wrong. ✺   Flamingo 2 - 4 Böring Munich This tournament is startin̈g to look like the later stages of the UEFA Champions League, held in the wrong place. ✺   PSG 4 - 0 InterMiasma The athletes of PSG thumped the Miami Teletubbies in a match-up which could only have been arranged by some money-grubbing fantasist from the far side of hell. It was, in short, a lucrative waste of time. Still, Messi seemed to enjoy it. Perhaps he saw the joke. ✺   Palmeiras 1 - 0 Botafogo That was quite a battle. In the end, it's good that Botafogo are out so that the Forest bound player(s) won't get kicked to death. Before the goal, Botafogo played like Forest on a bad day - gritty defence, but failing to get the counter-attack going. After the goal, they were more assertive and created several chances, but ran out of time. ✺   Benfica 1 - 4 Chelsea (aet) When people look back and ask "Why did that match take over 4 hours?" your answer should be, "Because this is a terrible country to play football in. The pitches are hard, the temperatures and humidity too high, the distances too great, the weather is climate-change stupid, and the locals aren't interested." In this match, the stadium was about a third full, the weather break almost distorted the result, and, worst of all, Chelsea won. Oh well, that's life.

Little Ed's Worst Films in History First game - home to Bentford. Wait a minute, Stress, isn't this illegal? What's that then, Pie? Publishing the fixture list without permission. Don't worry, Pie, I checked. You can do whatever you like as long as nobody notices. Anyway, Bentford at the City Ground should be a doddle, now that Frank Thomas is having his weird way with the Tosspots. Really? Really. Then there's Palearse at Palearse. That all depends who ends up in the Europa League. If Palearse get kicked out, they'll be furious, completely lose their heads, and lose the match. If Palearse keep their place, Forest will be furious, completely lose their heads, and batter them. It's a win win. I suppose Wet Hams will be a doddle too, eh? But what about the Arse away? I think they're done, Pie. Repeated failure to win anything has punctured the Arse. They'll be as nervous as kittens when the boys in red turn up. Or blue. Or yellow. And then the happy return of the Shy Moor Folk... ...for their annual premier league adventure, ending in defeat after defeat, because they're just weird. And Sunderland at home will be another three points easily won. That's eighteen points from our first six games. Not bad, eh? You're a smart fella, Stress. A smart fella.