Dear All,

Another week over in which defences dominated and strikers couldn't hit a cow's backside with a banjo.

Goalless draws involving Man Utd, Chelsea and Liverpool led to some surprisingly high scores in the DITB leagues, whilst those with Arsenal defenders were left weeping into their half time cupasoups.

The week's highest scorer was Probably The Best with 59 points - no doubt angered by the barefaced cheek(s) of Bazking who had the nerve to take over at the top of the table for a brief period last week. Brother Stevenson now occupies top slot again, but only just from Brother Vegas.

In the premiership, maclacticos (53) and Yer Ma's Athletic (52) both passed the magical half century mark, lifting Brother, sorry I meant Doctor, McNally to second place, while Brother Jones eases into a comfortable 7th position.

The Blue Monkeys still lead the way by some margin despite a relatively poor week for Brother Shields, who'll be hoping that this is just a temporary blip rather than the first signs of weakness.

Confidence is obviously not a problem for Brother Shields as his last email clearly indicates that the league title is basically already his, or that he'll at least finish ahead of The Grapes.

I suppose he has good reason to be confident as, with only 24 league games and all of the FA Cup to play, we may as well tear our dockets. I hate it when the season is over before it's really begun!!!

Moving on, the top five in the Premiership is completed with Minus Three FC, The Grapes and Making History, with Harpic Amsterdam just one point behind (and probably crying his lamps out about it!).

The week's worst score was 19 points recorded by Sheer Kidology which sees Chuckle Brother Junior (aka Paddy Sulls) fall to a worrying 7th position in the Conference League. Maybe going straight back up to the Premiership isn;t going to be as easy as pads initially thought. Don't worry lad, things could be worse. You could be McAvoy!!!

Premiership teams Cherry United and Kirbs Crawlers didn't cover themselves in glory either, scoring 21 and 22 points respectively.

Looking at the relegation battles in both divisions, it's not looking good for Minibabybelle FC. Miss Baber is now 60 points adrift at the bottom of the Premiership with KFC and Cherry Utd filling the other two places. I can sense that the Colonel (alias Brother McCauley) is really feeling the pressure down there.

Master Eastwood's Virgin Surfers are currently the owrst team in the league, lying bottom of the Conference, along with newcomer Chamonix Albion and perennial struggler Cood Dude Zoo.

Finally The Premier League is 1910 places above the Conference in the league of super leagues. Not really surprising, is it?

So, following the exertions of mid-week Champions league football, it's back to action this weekend, and hopefully we'll see a few more goals - especially from Big Ish Miller!

"Big Ish Who?" I hear you say?

"No thanks. I hate the homeless*," I reply.

For anyone wishing to make some vital changes to their team this weekend, the transfer password is "please sir, can I have some MOORE points".

Until next week....

.......... READ 'EM AND WEEP!!!!

Michael R.

Diving in the Box FF League Chairman

http://divinginthebox.blogspot.com/

* not true but rather a cheap attempt at humour from the chairman, who actually cares a lot for the homeless and does a lot of good work for charity without wanting to brag about it

DITB PREMIER LEAGUE

Pos Overall Manager Team Week Pts Tot Pts 1 4021 Mr Brian Shields the blue monkeys 35 570 2 9600 Dr Owen McNally Maclacticos 53 547 3 13491 Mr Geoff Johnston Minus Three FC 39 537 4 14870 Mr Michael Rafferty The Grapes of Raff 48 534 4 14870 Mr Kurt Festraerts Making History 47 534 6 15334 Mr Mark Molloy Harpic Amsterdam 47 533 7 27976 Mr Fra Jones Yer Ma's Athletic 52 512 8 37567 Mr Declan Crudden HIT THE BAR 49 500 9 40262 Mr Conor Walls Feeder club MUFC 38 497 10 52037 Mr John McDermott ABCDE FC 35 485 11 58309 Mr Gavin Sheehy Prince of Darkness 31 479 12 67330 Mr Gary McDonald Gazzas Piping Hots 36 471 13 76911 Mr Jules Eilledge True Blue Strikers 47 463 13 76911 Mr Paul Brogan Diaby Does Dallas 28 463 15 95803 Mr Matthew Henry Gulladuff F.F 33 448 16 106286 Mr Brendan Devlin Brendys Bruisers 37 440 17 108920 Mr Andy Kirby kirbs crawlers 22 438 18 131657 Mr William Cherry Cherry United 21 421 19 140621 Mr Kevin McCauley KFC Academical 30 414 20 205134 Miss Claire Baber MINIBABYBELLEFC 30 354

Your league is placed 1021 out of 10686 with an average score of 544. DITB Conference League Pos Overall Manager Team Week Pts Tot Pts 1 9252 Mr Mark Stevenson PROBABLY THE BEST 59 548 2 10312 Mr Barry Corr bazkinginglory 45 545 3 26549 Mr Brendan Kelly flexys fairys 38 514 4 39307 Mr Barry Jones Barry's Elite XI 46 498 5 44944 Mr colly mckenna micky hartes x1 27 492 6 63919 Mr Austin McGinley Boys of Summer 26 474 7 75649 Mr Simon Patrick O'Sullivan Sheer Kidology 19 464 8 108920 Mr Simon Jenkins Stickshifter FC 45 438 9 112984 Mr Brendan Henry HOWRTINGS 49 435 10 117078 Mr Andrew McCabe Joeys Monsters 45 432 11 122380 Mr Connell McGinley Mighty Con Villa 45 428 12 136802 Mr Conor Nugent The Well Hungarian 45 417 13 145800 Mr Alan McCabe Dirty Dubs XI 42 410 14 147042 Mr Stephen O'Sullivan Mersey Miracles 30 409 15 150920 Mr Alan Stewart Muckamore Uld 33 406 16 154696 Mr paul maynes The fernandos 29 403 17 166956 Mr Gareth Bradley Hoofers UTD 28 393 18 177220 Mr Conor Donnelly The Busted Sofas 34 384 19 179408 Mr conor mc avoy REAL GOLDFISH 31 382 20 189677 Mr Stephen O'Sullivan Cool Dude Zoo 31 372 21 197008 Mr Philip McCabe Chamonix Albion 29 364 22 212002 Master Eamon Eastwood Virgin Surfers 27 344 Your league is placed 2931 out of 10686 with an average score of 519.