Week 8: MARATHON'S 100 POINT MARK PASSED BY SPRINTERS

Last season's Week 8 saw Chris Nuttal's Chris Stool Poo Lice leading the title race on a score of just 93. And where did that team end up, I ask you?

['Nowhere' is the ostensible answer]

Meanwhile the eventual champs, Ant Reeves's Anticlimax, lay in Fourteenth with a mere 57 points.

This season, we see that three teams have already puffed themselves out by passing the 100 point mark carrying the very heavy back pack of Vain Belief [that they can win this competition]. It's a heavy load to carry. Particularly when you're trotting a little closer to the pace of a sprint than a marathon.

For it is indeed, a marathon.

Not a sprint.

Manager of the Week is Neil McConaghy of Big Mac's Mingmongs who scored a rather large 24 points. This pushes him ever closer to the top of the pile leaving his team to rest at second place. What a birthday treat for him to savour this coming Monday.

Highest climber this week is David Brentford FC, Mark and Maddy's team leap up seven spots to land at Nineteenth, slightly out of breath and with a lingering dizzying sensation.

Everyone stare at Gavin. Down seven.