Squeaky Bum Time in the Footy Season!

A little over a month to go until the end of the football season and it's getting tense for all my teams!


In the English Premiership, Arsenal are surprisingly mounting a title challenge.  They may be third at the moment, but the top three are separated by just three points.  Arch-rivals, Spurs, have the chance to decide the title as they have to play all three of the title challengers!  Arsenal are the first to play their dirty North London rivals with Chelsea and Manchester United to follow.

Cesc Fabregas' injury means he;ll miss the rest of the Gunners' season.  And he ain't the only one!  There's also long term injuries to a host of other first team players, meaning others like Niklas Bendtner, Samir Nasri and Theo Walcott (left, no excuse needed to put a pic of his other half on here!) need to step up to the plate!

And then there's the disappointment of the stuffing Lionel Messi's Barcelona side gave them this week!  The side probably won't need to gee themselves up for the derby match, but they will need to up their game.  Messi was quality, but the Arsenal defence also gifted the Spaniards possession in dangerous positions... do that against Spurs and Defoe will be a happy man!

Exeter City have seen themselves fall into the League One relegation zone recently, but four points over Easter have seen them catapult up a very competitive table.  But any two of six or seven sides could join Wycombe and Stockport (who are all but down, it seems) in League Two next season.

City's hopes of survival took a big dent this week, with the sad news that East Devon Grecians' sponsored player, Adam Stansfield (right), is suffering from bowel cancer.  Stanno has the right fighting mentality to beat the illness though, so hopefully he'll be back to play the Argyle scum next season!  I wish him a speedy recovery...


My local sides have had mixed seasons too.  Rockbeare Rangers have made it to the semi-finals of the East Devon cup, their best ever run and one game away from their first final!  In the league they have loads of games in hand, and could still mount a promotion challenge.  This week's defeat to Bampton didn't help the cause, but if they players can knuckle down they can achieve good things!


Chawton Athletic have gone one better, albeit with less rounds, by reaching their first ever cup final.  In two weekends time, they will travel to their conquered semi-final opponents' ClubSoreLoser Hartley Wintney's ground to play Royal Oak in the Runwick Cup final.  The club hope to have a large supporting contingent for the game, which kicks off at 14:00 on the 25th April.

After five weeks without a game (I was inadvertently left on the bench last time out), I had a starting berth last Sunday.  Unfortunately, five weeks out took it's toll!  I was disappointed with my level of fitness, so have been for a few runs since then and some training on Wednesday.  I don't expect to keep my place, but am still hopeful I can convince Matt I to start me in the final - I have, after all, started each Runwick Cup match so far!  I gotta put some real work in first though...

Before the final, we have the last league game of the season, against our closest rivals in the league, Royal Exchange.  That game could decide whether Chawton finish bottom of the league for the second successive season, or make it one position better!