Last Tuesday, I eagerly opened Grassroots and discovered that Steve Tinniswood had scooped a story concerning our former first team who now masquerade as Woodlands where they had managed to imprison themselves in their changing rooms.

Obviously because of the connection between our two clubs it is safe to assume that the banter often reaches insufferable proportions.

However, despite numerous phone calls suggesting otherwise I can confirm (regretfully) that I was no where near the Woodlands changing room on that fateful day.

In light of their recent results the suggestion that locking the door on themselves before a game might be an option to consider! While Woodlands have been whistling the tune from The Great Escape, our own season continues on an upward curve as we find ourselves three points clear.

Behind us are a clutch of teams, including Brinscall, New Gardeners and Queens Park who all appear to be more than capable of mounting serious promotion challenges.

Progress has also been made in the Sports Council Trophy with a demolition job on nine man Gilbraiths, although we made things difficult for ourselves and we actually found ourselves a goal down at one stage.

Credit must go to Gilbraiths who managed to retain a sense of humour when other teams may well have given up. Speaking of retaining a sense of humour, it may be prudent for the Blue and White half of the readership to consider inserting coat hangers in their mouths before the next few fixtures as a long hard winter seems to be beckoning.

For those of you that are fit enough to lace a pair of boots, why waste your hard earned cash on your over paid heroes when you could consider alternative entertainment -- I'm sure there are plenty of teams at Pleasington on a Saturday who would welcome an influx of new blood. Keep smiling.