With league leaders Dundee United losing against Kilmarnock last night, and two games on Sunday, it's an abridged programme in the Scottish Premiership today. The standout meeting is perhaps Aberdeen's trip to face Dundee, but the encounters between Partick Thistle and Motherwell and St Johnstone and St Mirren (all 15:00 BST) carry plenty of intrigue, too.

Barcelona forward Lionel Messi is three goals away from equalling the Spanish league's all-time scoring record. Here are a selection of your comments in response.

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Zak Gilbert:, external It annoys me when Messi is overrated like this all the time. Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 10 goals this season and more goals than appearances for Real Madrid.

Zara Pather:, external Messi is the best soccer player in the world, Cristiano Ronaldo does not even come close .

Andrew Baker:, external Both are amazing but Real Madrid have the Welsh wonder Gareth Bale and the way I see it he outshined Ronaldo in the Champions League final last year.

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This morning we're asking for your input in tandem with the Danny Baker Show on BBC Radio 5 live. What we'd really like your help with is this - bizarre reasons why football matches have been abandoned.

Kid Curry:, external In school our games got cancelled because of mole hills...

David Cormack:, external When the power went out at the Global Energy Stadium - Ross County's ground.

Aaron:, external My Sunday League game got abandoned because the ref's wife turned up and threw all his personal items at him.

Let us know on #bbcfootball on Twitter,, external 81111 on text (UK only), or via the BBC Sport Facebook page, external and Google+ pages., external

Four of the weekend's Premier League fixtures are not until Sunday but there's still plenty to sate your appetite in the top flight this afternoon. (Kick-off 15:00 BST unless stated)

Hull v Crystal Palace

Leicester v Burnley

Liverpool v West Brom

Sunderland v Stoke

Swansea v Newcastle

Aston Villa v Man City (17:30 BST)

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Here's one to watch out for later...

Should Lionel Messi score a hat trick for Barcelona at Rayo Vallecano this evening (17:00 BST), he will equal the Spanish league's all-time scoring record.

Still, Athletic Bilbao's Telmo Zarra - who has held the record for almost 60 years - scored his 251 goals in 271 games. Messi has already played 283 times...

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Time for a quick look at some of the papers you'll be reading over breakfast.

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has been telling journalists that he does not believe there is any quick fix for his team's sluggish start to the season: "I think the pain is for now," he said. "I think it's unfortunate.

"It's hard for the supporters and I understand that. It must be so difficult at the moment to see a team that for 18 months has been so fluent and dynamic.

"Now they probably look and see a team with maybe no resemblance to that in many ways. I understand that and there is no-one more frustrated than myself."

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The weekend's action begins in around three hours when Leeds welcome Sheffield Wednesday in the Championship's early kick-off.

It is now over 10 years since Leeds were relegated from the Premier League and more than 14 since their Yorkshire rivals slipped out of the top flight. So long ago, in fact, that Oxide & Neutrino were top of the charts at the time with Bound 4 Da Reload. Nope, me neither.

You can listen to live commentary from Elland Road on BBC Radio 5 live at 12:15 BST.

Today will see the first of a new tie-in between the website and Danny Baker's excellent BBC Radio 5 live show, which started at 09:00 BST.

Danny, of course, likes to work his way through a series of different topics every week and his show features the legendary sausage sandwich game, which tackles one of the key issues of the modern age.

What we'd really like your help with this morning is this - bizarre reasons why football matches have been abandoned.

From the top ranks of the professional game to the mud and murk of park football, it does not matter. If you know of any wacky ways why games have been called off, we want to know them.

Brace yourself though, with Professor Brian Cox on this week's show we could get some highbrow answers.

Let us know on #bbcfootball, external on Twitter, 81111 on text (UK only), or via the BBC Sport Facebook page, external and Google+ pages., external

We might have slipped quietly into October, but the season is still young enough to fuel fanciful dreams.

Maybe your team are surprisingly top of their division, clinging on to the hope that maybe, just maybe, they could stay there. Or perhaps your fears of a grim relegation fight have proved unfounded thus far.

With three of the current Premier League top four inactive today, fans of several of the 12 sides playing in the Premier League on Saturday will have scrutinised the table and deduced that a win this afternoon could propel them into the Champions League places. And, with an international break beckoning, they might even stay there for a couple of weeks.

It might be early in the day but let's enjoy every minute before reality kicks in.