According to the media, last weekend was the most miserable of the year and those watching 20 goals going in against the EBOG teams at the Club on Saturday would hardly argue!

Not much feedback from the 1st team game apart from the usual hoax calls to the Club phone from Sean Carroll! They continued their bizarre quest to break an aggregate goals record! Every week the defence seems to set a higher and higher target for the attack to match and they are fortunate to have the talent of Sam Berry up front. They have shown themselves to be the equal of anyone in the Division, and apparently could have scored 10 down at HSBC, but they have got to sort it out at the back if they are going get to the right end of the table. Final score 5-5.

Unfortunately the 2nds are demonstrating similar weaknesses and were easily opened up by a nippy Bealonians’ forward who notched 5 goals on his own!

The 3rds continued their good run against admittedly weak opposition. However, unlike last week, they stamped their authority on the game and nobody better than Captain Lee Sterry who grabbed a hattrick from defence!

The 4ths were up against one of the best 4th teams in the Division above, so it was an opportunity to measure their good form this year against the best. Unfortunately they came up wanting. They held them for half an hour but once a fairly lucky goal went in they somewhat collapsed. At least they had a good look at what they should aspire to.

The 5ths are turning into the surprise package this season. They continued their good run with an efficient win over a 4th team and will at least retain their 2nd place.

The lower teams were affected by thoughtless people dropping out at the last minute, or worse, just not turning up. In at least two cases, teams made themselves late by waiting for people who were never going to arrive! Just a phone call or even a text must surely be possible? Some were communications mix-ups but many were just selfish players who don’t seem to realise that their actions can ruin everyone else’s Saturday afternoon.

The 6ths managed to scrape together 11 by calling in last minute replacements but, with Steve Down forced to go in goal, were again disappointed to lose to Parks 6ths the bottom side. (Curiously their 7ths are top!)

Our 7ths were the worst affected by the drop out mayhem and it was not until they arrived to face a strong Parmiterians side that they realised that they only had 10 men. These pressures make the Captain’s job ten times harder and it is not surprising that results reflect it.

The only turn up for the book was the 8ths! Captain Harry was in total despair when at about 1.30pm he realised that, instead of 13 players he was expecting, he only had 9. He was considering scratching the game but through the considerable efforts of Sam Down and Chris Field on the phone he managed to rope in enough to get it started. We deserved a bit of luck after this, and, helped by a scorching free kick from Harry White, they came away from 2nd placed Broomfield with all 3 points!