Most weeks I run a little accumulator in my head - will all 'our teams' win? I'm can't remember the last time it happened. I look forward to international breaks because Arsenal, Liverpool and Forest don't play and the chances of 100% victory go up.
The remaining teams are Dulwich Hamlet (our London non-league favourites) and Holbrook (East Midland non-leaguers). Sadly, this weekend, Dulwich went a man down and then a goal down to the visitors from Oxford City and Holbrook lost 1-2 to Hilton Harriers. I went to watch them this Saturday, it was sunny and cold and the team looked completely different to last season. They seemed useful last season, did pretty well in the East Midlands Counties League but at the end of the season they took voluntary relegation to the Central Midlands League South.
I think it's because (if I read between the lines of the programme correctly) they couldn't get enough club officials to do the necessary stuff at home games. The committee was fairly long serving, they probably needed to get on with their lives. But a new committee is coming together and new club facilities are getting built. I love this stuff about non-league football. The big society is ploughing on like it always did.
