Carlisle United Football Club 2008 - 2009

CARLISLE UNITED FOOTBALL CLUB
Manager : John Ward

The 2008 - 2009 Squad :

1 Ben WILLIAMS
2 David RAVEN
3 Evan HORWOOD
4 Marc BRIDGE-WILKINSON
5 Danny LIVESEY
6 Peter MURPHY
7 Kevin GALL
8 Chris LUMSDON
9 Danny GRAHAM
10 Danny CARLTON
11 Paul THIRLWELL
12 Luke JOYCE
13 Dan WORDSWORTH
15 Grant SMITH
16 Josh GOWLING
17 Cleveland TAYLOR
18 Simon HACKNEY
19 Michael BRIDGES
20 Chris HOWARTH
21 Richard KEOGH
22 Darren CAMPION
24 Shaun VIPOND
26 Scott DOBIE
28 Gary MADINE
32 Jeff SMITH
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Girls love rally driving!

YES, it is true, girls do love driving rally cars, as this edition of Reporting From The Fox Tower proves. Depicted on the left is Carlisle rally driver Jemma Bellingham, who, alongside the rallying, is social action reporter for BBC Radio Cumbria.
Jemma updates her very own rallying website, which I have linked to here.

REMINDER : Brough Agricultural Show takes place on Thursday 21 August. The show has its own website, which you can visit here.

DAB downturn : The latest closures on DAB radio are as follows:

BFBS "BFBS Radio's trial on DAB digital radio has now ended. Thank you for listening and all of the positive feedback. www.bfbs.com"

Capital Life "We're sorry, but Capital Life has closed down. Thanks for listening to the station over the past few years."

theJAZZ "We're sorry, but theJAZZ has closed down. Why not try Classic FM's late night Jazz programme or the Jazz stream at classicfm.com?"

One piece of good news is that Birdsong is still going strong. For all the latest UK Digital Radio news, go to the website, here.

A*M*A*N*D*A goes live!
Crosby Garrett's Amanda Tinkler, now based in Los Angeles, is on tour with Boyzone and Reporting From The Fox Tower can now report Amanda has her very own website, which you can visit here.

That's all for this weekend on Reporting From The Fox Tower, take care and have a good week!

Eurovision got it wrong so many ways...

NEVER mind the end result and the places in the table for the twenty or so nations which made it in to the final on the Saturday night all those weeks ago, the Eurovision Song Contest got it wrong at the Semi Final stage when they eliminated the Czech Republic entry Tereza Kerndlova, pictured above, with her song Have Some Fun, which was pretty enough, I guess, as a song, but it was the fabulous Miss Kerndlova's little silver outfit which got my vote.

That will be the last word on the Eurovision Song Contest for 2008.

Reporting From The Fox Tower will be looking forward to Summer 2008 very soon with the following :

• Wimbledon 2008 A fantastic excuse, if ever you need one, for new pics of 'top seed' Maria Sharapova.
• Say What A link to the brand new website for Cumbria's own singing superstar Amanda Tinkler.
• Digital Deadlines Rounding up the television switchover dates for late 2008 and a review of DAB digital radio here below the Fox Tower.
• Girls love it hard, rough, dirty Girls love Rally Driving... It's true! A Cumbrian website will show you how it's done.
• Wallpapers Might not be weekly as before, but nice pics all the same.

Take care, be good...

Hello again... it's been a while!

A WHILE has passed since I last posted here on RFTFT, so I thought I would post a few lines...

Manchester United have just been crowned Premiership Champions as I write this, Sir Alex Ferguson's tenth trophy as manager.

I also listened to my radio at the beginning of May, here are the broadcasts I heard on Medium Wave :

BBC Radio 4 ( 720 kHz ) , Radio 747 / Radio 5 (Holland) ( 747 kHz ) , BBC Radio Cumbria ( 756 kHz ) , BBC Radio Leeds ( 774 kHz ) , BBC Radio Scotland ( 810 kHz ) , BBC Radio Cumbria ( 837 kHz ) , BBC Radio Lancashire ( 855 kHz ) , BBC Radio Wales ( 882 kHz ) , BBC Radio 5 Live ( 909 kHz ) , Fresh Radio ( 936 kHz ) , Magic 999 ( 999 kHz ) , TalkSport ( 1053 kHz , 1071 kHz , 1089 kHz ) and Magic 1170 ( 1170 kHz ) .

More soon . . . !

Wallpaper of the Week: Brough, Cumbria.

Sheep graze; Brough Castle in the background.

The playing surface and stand, Brough Football Club.

2008 FA Cup Semi Final Draw

Today, Monday 10 March 2008, the draw for the FA Cup Semi Finals took place at the headquarters of The Football Association, London.

The team numbers were as follows:
1 - Cardiff City
2 - Portsmouth
3 - West Bromwich Albion
4 - Barnsley

The Draw was made by former football player Bryan Robson and the results of the draw are as follows:

Barnsley v Cardiff City
West Bromwich Albion v Portsmouth

Games to be played weekend of 5 - 6 April 2008 at Wembley Stadium, London.

Good Luck to all concerned!

March 2008 Short Wave Links & Red Hot Roxy!

Last Sunday, I spent a day listening to the Short Wave band and published the results here on RFTFT. Here is a list of web links to the stations I heard last week, which I hope you will find informative. To go to the station website, just click on the station name:

Radio Ukraine International

WWV

Radio Bulgaria

China Radio International

Radio Exterior de Espana

Radio Sweden

Voice of America

BBC World Service

May I draw your attention to a particular favourite broadcast of mine, the Sunday night broadcast from Radio Exterior de Espana. The programme is 'Radio Club', a traditional listener response programme, the reading of letters and emails with the odd piece of Spanish music. If you have a Short Wave radio, why not give it a listen? Sundays, 2200 GMT, 6125 kHz.

To contact 'Radio Club':
Postal address: Radio Club, English Language Broadcast, Radio Exterior de Espana, PO Box 156 202, MADRID 28080, SPAIN
E-Mail: englishbroadcast@rtve.es
Web as listed above or via http://www.rne.es/

Enjoy your radio!

Wallpaper of the Week : Red Hot Roxy!

Maxim Magazine invited Roxanne Pallett, star of Emmerdale and Soapstar Superstar, to a photoshoot and interview a while ago, one result of which is this week's Wallpaper of the Week!

As usual, click on the image to show full size, then save as wallpaper, using a program or format of your choice.

Finally, drawing your attention to the following, in a 'Coming Soon!' style :

The FA Cup Semi - Final Draw : Who will play who out of Portsmouth, Barnsley, Cardiff City and West Bromwich Albion at Wembley Stadium?

Jemma Bellingham of BBC Cumbria Social Action with her role as a rally car co-driver!

That's coming soon on RFTFT, but for now, goodbye!

March 2008 Short Wave Logs and this weeks 'paper

TODAY, Sunday 2 March 2008, I have enjoyed tuning around the Short Wave bands yet again, from 9.9 MHz, right up to the end of the band at 26.1 MHz. Here is what I heard:

1005 - 1015 GMT, 9950 kHz, Radio Ukraine International, English language to Europe, 'Ukrainian Diary' programme.

1022 - 1030 GMT, 10 000 kHz, WWV, Boulder, Colorado, USA, Time Signal station.

1107 - 11:15 GMT, 13600 kHz, Radio Bulgaria, Bulgarian language to Russia (Moscow) via Plovdiv transmitter? Female broadcaster with speech.

1122 - 1134 GMT, 13665 kHz, China Radio International, English to Europe via Albanian transmitters, Male broadcaster with news, weather, music.

1254 - 1315 GMT, 13720 kHz, Radio Exterior de Espana, Spanish language to 'Noreste de Europa'. Male & Female broadcasters, rapid speech in Spanish.

1345 - 1352 GMT, 15240 kHz, Radio Sweden, English to North America via Horby transmitter, Sweden, 500 kW transmission. 'Network Europe' programme.

1420 - 1435 GMT, 15530 kHz, Voice of America / Radio Aap Ki Dunyaa, Urdu language to West & South Asia. Male & Female broadcasters with Urdu programming.

1445 - 1455 GMT, 15580 kHz, Voice of America, English to Africa via Sao Tome transmitter, 'Our World' programme with host Art Chimes.

1510 - 1517 GMT, 17830 kHz, BBC World Service, English to West Africa via Ascension Island transmitter, News reports from the US Presidential campaigns and a new group in Nepal.

1528 - 1534 GMT, 21470 kHz, BBC World Service, English to East & South Africa via Ascension Island transmitter, Live news feed from Female journalist in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Wallpaper of the Week - The Capybaras. All together now: Aaaah....

February 2008: Medium Wave Logs.

THE following broadcasts were heard by me on the Medium Wave band, Saturday 23 February 2008:

0842 - 0928 GMT, 567 kHz, RTE Radio One, Tullamore transmitter, Ireland. 'Farm Week' programme. Website here. (Farm Week webpage)

0950 - 1030 GMT, 585 kHz, BBC Radio Scotland, Dumfries transmitter, Scotland. 'Sports Weekly' programme. Website here. (Sports Weekly webpage)

1151 - 1203 GMT, 603 kHz, BBC Radio Four, Wrekenton (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) transmitter, England. 'From Our Own Correspondent' programme. Website here. (From Our Own Correspondent webpage)

1216 - 1230 GMT, 657 kHz, BBC Radio Wales, Wrexham transmitter, Wales. Rhod Gilbert programme. Website here. (BBC Wales Rhod Gilbert webpage)

1254 - 1320 GMT, 666 kHz, BBC Radio York, Fulford (York) transmitter, England. Richard Allinson albums programme. Website here. (BBC York Richard Allinson webpage)

2045 - 2101 GMT, 675 kHz, Radio Maria Nederland, Lopik transmitter, Holland. Continual music programme. Website here. (Radio Maria Nederland homepage, Dutch language)

2126 - 2136 GMT, 684 kHz, RNE 1, Seville transmitter, Spain. Live La Liga football: Sevilla v Real Zaragoza. Website here. (RNE homepage, Spanish language)

2140 - 2151 GMT, 693 kHz, BBC Radio Five Live. Live Six Nations Commentary with Ian Robertson, France 13 - England 24. Website here. (podcast link: Matt Dawson’s 6 Nations Rugby)

2208 - 2214 GMT, 711 kHz, France Info, Rennes transmitter, France. Report from Stade de France, Paris, of the Six Nations Rugby Union result: France 13 - England 24. Website here. (France Info report of France - England, French language)

2223 - 2235 GMT, 720 kHz, WDR, Langenberg transmitter, Germany. Music and speech. Website here. (WDR Radio homepage, German language)

2241 - 2248 GMT, 720 kHz, BBC Radio Four, Lisnagarvey transmitter, Northern Ireland. Round table discussion programme. Website here. (BBC Radio Four homepage).

Those are the logs for February 2008, I hope you find the weblinks interesting too!

FA Cup 6th Round (Quarter Final) Draw

The Quarter Final Draw for the FA Cup 2008 is as follows:

Sheffield United or Middlesbrough v Cardiff City
Manchester United v Portsmouth
Bristol Rovers v West Bromwich Albion
Barnsley v Chelsea

Matches played the weekend of 8th and 9th March 2008.

Wallpaper of the week, FA Cup 5th & 6th Rounds.

WALLPAPER of the week, a once popular feature here on RFTFT, returns with an image of BBC Television's 'Sportsround' reporter Helen Skelton, pictured in her days with BBC Radio Cumbria, on an outside broadcast. Helen is former joint presenter of the BBC Radio Cumbria weekend, latterly weekday, breakfast show. Helen is now reporter on 'Sportsround', broadcast on BBC2, Saturdays, 11:45am.

FA CUP 5th & 6th ROUND :

FIFTH Round Results:

Bristol Rovers 1 - Southampton 0

Cardiff City 2 - Wolverhampton Wanderers 0

Sheffield United 0 - Middlesbrough 0

Liverpool 1 - Barnsley 2

Manchester United 4 - Arsenal 0

Preston North End 0 - Portsmouth 1

Coventry City 0 - West Bromwich Albion 5

Chelsea 3 - Huddersfield Town 1.

SIXTH Round numbers:

The eight teams in the sixth round draw have been allocated the following numbers:

1 - Bristol Rovers

2 - Cardiff City

3 - Sheffield United or Middlesbrough

4 - Barnsley

5 - Manchester United

6 - Portsmouth

7 - West Bromwich Albion

8 - Chelsea.

The ties will be played 8 and 9 March 2008.

(Details from the FA website, http://www.thefa.com )

FA Cup 5th Round Draw, 2008

THE DRAW for the 5th Round of the FA Cup took place today (Monday), which is as follows:

Bristol Rovers v Southampton

Cardiff City v Wolverhampton Wanderers

Sheffield United v Middlesbrough

Liverpool v Barnsley

Manchester United v Arsenal

Preston North End v Portsmouth

Coventry City v West Bromwich Albion

Chelsea v Huddersfield Town

All of the above ties are to be played the weekend of 16 - 17 February 2008.

Other football news:

Dennis Wise, manager of Leeds United, is to join Newcastle United as part of the new coaching set-up under Kevin Keegan. Wise joins Newcastle United on Tuesday morning.

Carlisle United winger / striker Kevin Gall is to join Darlington on a short term loan.

Lucy Branthwaite of Brough is to be a Mascot for Carlisle United at a forthcoming home fixture. Lucy will be Mascot at the United v Huddersfield Town match at Brunton Park on Tuesday 12 February 2008, four or five days before Huddersfield Town face Chelsea in the FA Cup at Stamford Bridge. Town's goalkeeper is former United #1, Matty Glennon.

Former Carlisle United striker Karl Hawley, who wore #10 for the Blues, scored twice for Preston North End as they knocked Premiership strugglers Derby County out of the 4th Round of the FA Cup on Saturday (26 February 2008). PNE face Portsmouth at Deepdale in Round 5.

RUGBY UNION : Return of the 6 Nations

Saturday 2 February sees the start of the 2008 6 Nations, the opening fixtures are England v Wales, Scotland v France.

BFBS DAB TRIAL :

The trial service by BFBS continues on DAB Digital Radio. Please support the BFBS trial by listening on DAB and contacting BFBS using one of the methods included in a previous post.

One highlight of BFBS on DAB is long-serving presenter Simon Guettier, who hosts the weekday afternoon show. Simon also has a MySpace page, which I have linked to here.

More news, views and updates very soon...

2008 Analogue & DAB update

JANUARY 2008 Short Wave logs :

All India Radio, 9445 kHz, General Overseas Service to Europe & Australia, Light Music segment. Website here.

Radio Medi Un (Medi 1), Morocco, 9575 kHz, website here. (Web has a flashy intro!)

Radio Exterior de Espana, Spain, 9630 kHz, website here.

Radio PMR, Pridnestrovie Moldovan Republic, website here.

DAB update January 2008 :

Statement from Oneword on DAB radio readout:
"Oneword Radio is no longer broadcasting. Many thanks for your support over the years. www.ukdigitalradio.com"

Oneword has been replaced on DAB by a rural birdsong soundtrack.

BFBS (British Forces Broadcasting Service) Radio has replaced Core on DAB Digital Radio.
BFBS online: www.bfbs.com/digital
Contact BFBS by email: dab@bfbs.com
Telephone (UK): 01494 848001
SMS Text Message (Mobile / Cell phones): 07740 377 377 start message with UK followed by a space.

That's all for now, happy listening and 73's...