“Football, bloody hell”, Sir Alex Ferguson memorably uttered in 1999. Most football clubs are soap operas, but none seem to be generating quite so many column inches given their relative obscurity than the team formerly known as “Paul Scholes’s Oldham”.
But football carries on. Tonight, lower league matches take place in Doncaster (1-2 vs Barnsley in the Yorkshire Derby, 9%), and Newport (1-1, 10%, vs Cheltenham). Tomorrow, once-again-managerless Oldham take on in-form rivals (long story) Tranmere Rovers. The Model thinks that they will prevail in adversity, 2-1 (9%), in a tight match.

Forecast Win (%)
League One Score PR(%) P(H) P(A)
Doncaster Barnsley 1-2 9% 31% 41%
Accrington Rochdale 2-1 10% 52% 23%
Bristol R Charlton 0-0 21% 36% 36%
Burton Blackpool 1-0 15% 39% 33%
Fleetwood Plymouth 1-0 13% 41% 32%
Luton Gillingham 1-0 17% 66% 14%
Oxford Bradford 1-0 13% 45% 28%
Peterboro Coventry 1-0 11% 40% 33%
Portsmouth Scunthorpe 2-1 10% 56% 20%
Shrewsbury Wycombe 1-0 13% 48% 26%
Southend AFC Wimb 2-0 12% 43% 30%
Sunderland Walsall 1-0 13% 66% 14%
Forecast Win (%)
League Two Score PR(%) P(H) P(A)
Newport Cheltenham 1-1 10% 36% 36%
Bury Cambridge 1-0 14% 66% 14%
Crewe Crawley 1-0 15% 47% 26%
Exeter Colchester 1-0 13% 46% 27%
F Green Carlisle 1-0 11% 44% 29%
Grimsby N’hampton 1-1 12% 36% 36%
MK Dons Stevenage 1-0 11% 52% 23%
Notts Co Morecambe 1-2 7% 34% 38%
Oldham Tranmere 2-1 9% 37% 35%
Swindon Port Vale 1-0 18% 49% 25%
Yeovil Macclesfield 1-0 17% 42% 31%