Sunday I'm in Love

Your weekly Sunday League round-up

First of all, I’d like to hold my hands up and apologise for a mistake in last week’s league table: Botswana Meat Commission (BMC) is actually on ten points, not the nine advertised online. Maths has never been my strongest suit. That said, these are, in the words of Mikel Arteta, “not my fogging standards.”

With a two-week league hiatus, it feels like a good moment to take stock and look ahead to the business end of the season. Beavers and BMC remain the only undefeated sides in Division 1, with Beavers on top on goal difference. Only one point separates them from third-place Strokers, however, so they can’t afford to take their respective feet off the gas.

“I think with the talent in our squad this year, we’re in a great position to push for the league title,” Strokers Captain Chris Black, said. Their centre forward, James Taylor, has already bagged ten goals this season, and their squad depth is impressive. “Hani Saf, our sole freshers recruit, is quite possibly the most talented player to pull on the Strokers shirt.”

Spartans are also in with a decent shout of a top-two finish, sitting only three points adrift of the frontrunners. There’s an outside chance for Paqueta Crisps if they can build momentum in the run-in, but it looks like a season of mid-table mediocrity for a side that was hotly tipped for success back in September.

Butts Wynderers, Sheffield Tuesday, and Bolton Fondlers are locked in a gruelling relegation dogfigh with Tuesday and Fondlers yet to register a win. They need to pick up the pace if they’re to have any chance of survival.

“We’re underperforming and a long way off performances last season,” Sheffield Tuesday’s Freddie Coughlin highlighted. Wholesale personnel changes — including the loss of last season’s captain, Ludo ‘Knatchballer’ Knatchbull — may be to blame. “I have no doubt we’ll stay up,” Coughlin remains positive. “To the fans, please stick with us, the results will come.”

DLL are sitting pretty at the top of Division 2 and are firm favourites for promotion. Real Sosobad, BPM FC and BLFC are all still in the mix for the second promotion spot and a place in the promised land next season.

This Sunday sees crucial games at both ends of Division 1. Strokers face BMC in a clash of the titans before Bolton Fondlers go to Sheffield Tuesday in a relegation six-pointer.

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