Week 38: Low Roots, High Ambitions

One supposes that the big news of the week could be, nay - *should* be, the battle between the pretender Inter Milandrover and Champions Elect RS T-Boy all the way up there at the top. After all, this seems to have ambushed us into thinking that we may, actually, have an exciting fight to the finish on our hands this season.

One could suppose equally that the big news of the week might have been about the high scoring 35 points picked up by Mannschester United, earning all-round nice bloke Dan 'the Man' Manns the Manager of the Week certificate.

We could possibly have been cooing over the fact that Alun Edwards' Radnorshire Tigers have leapt into a very strong third place worrying the League into discreetly taking out their strategy notepads in order to scribble down the newly circulating rumours that a Double could be ON.

But the story that we're telling today is one of low roots and high ambition [apart from the high ambition bit]. In a world where big money and high scoring grabs all the headlines; one man, an honest man, wanting a better life for his family [maybe not 'honest'], downtrodden for the most part, he now rises like a Phoenix from the Flames of Failure...

...Yes. Gavin Ward's Metatarsenal hit 17 points this week and climb off the bottom of the league and above a somewhat alarmed David Manttan who now, incidentally, has to fly back from the depths of southern Africa to reorganize his team into earning back some desperately needed dignity. Gavin's pairing of Ronaldo and Torres seemed to have done most of the leg work for him this week though his West Brom, Stoke and Hull defenders haven't really been living up to expectations this season. Well, actually they HAVE been living up to most people's expectations this season but just not Gavin's it seems. Congratulations Gavin. A mere 208 points behind the leaders. It is indeed a marathon and not, as I think we mentioned before, a sprint.

You're all very patient.

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Week 37: Still tied at the top

Rob Ivison begins to claw back the 54 point lead that his Charlie's Angels have generously given the two current leaders by winning this week's Manager of the Week certificate. He begins his victory run-in by scoring 13 points. And Khumbula Dube's Dube Stars FC climb highest, two places. That's all.

That's all.

PS
Has Gavin Given In? [say that quickly, it's most pleasing].

Has Gavin Given In? Has Gavin Given In? Has Gavin Given In? Has Gavin Given In? Has Gavin Given In? Has Gavin Given In? Has Gavin Given In? Has Gavin Given In? Has Gavin Given In? Has Gavin Given In?

Week 36: OFFL Cup Semi-final RESULTS

Livercoolio's 21 point haul has meant Russ Bielby can rightfully claim his second Manager of the Week certificate. And as he pushes his band of merry merrymakers into, well, the same position they were in last week, we watch, bemused, as Inter Milandrover leapfrogs BM Mingmongs into joint 1st place, leaving the manager wholeheartedly regretting the decision to buy low-scoring Agbonlahor in place of high-scoring Arshavin. The race is wide open again.

Rick Beecroft's season seems to be unravelling as not only does he have to share top spot in the league but his dream of Doing The Double is finally over. Indeed this week has witnessed the return of the magical romance that sloshes around inside the The Cup [thanks to an unusually low score for RS T-Boys against the equally unusually high-scoring Pompey Puss]. Abeerden, however, attempted to get through to the next round by scoring less minus points than the opposition. Alas, the plan has faltered thanks to Alun Edwards steering his Radnorshire Tigers to a largely positive 17 points.

Now, everybody look at Campbellwin. Everyone stare at the manager... eek out the humility.

Minus seven points. Count 'em backwards. Minus seven.

OFFL Cup

Semi-finals, Results

Pompey Puss 15 v 0 RS T-Boy

Abeerden -2 v 17 Radnorshire Tigers

The Final...

Radnorshire Tigers v Pompey Puss

Week 35: OFFL Cup Semi-Finals

Ladies and Gentlemen. It's the OFFL Cup Semi Final Week.

Recent poor form throws some doubt on RS T-Boy's ability to carry a high-flying league position through to a Double-grasping OFFL Cup Final but the recent Adebayor transfer might just be enough. Meanwhile, the last [and only] manager to ever Do The Double, Steve Tierney, has to stop an in-form Alun Edwards and his Tigers before he can even start to think about defending that particular uniquity.

Manager of the Week this week is a fine and fabulous, purring like a Puma, Minty Colquhoun who steered her Upmintster United to a whopping 19 points. And that was without the help of Darren Bent.

Unsurprisingly.


OFFL Cup
Semi-Finals
Being played in Week 35 [w/c 6th April]

Pompey Puss v RS T-Boy
Abeerden v Radnorshire Tigers