Dear All,

It's getting harder for the Chairman to comment on the top of the Premier League table as it's difficult to see what's going on from my lowly league position - but I'll do my best.

A good week for Harpic Amsterdam, with the week's top score of 59, sees Brother Molloy move up into second place, just 16 points behind leader Minus Three FC.

You can almost smell the nerves from here and believe me that stench will only get worse with every passing week.

The ever dangerous ABCDE FC lies in third place just 9 points behind Harpic, while the top five is completed by Maclacticos and HIT THE BAR.

Feeder club MUFC and Gazza's Piping Hots are still challenging strongly for a European place, then it's a drop of 20 points to the ominous figure of The Professor, ahead of Diaby Does Dallas, the Blue Monkeys and the disappointing (and extremely unlucky!!!) Grapes.

At the bottom of the table, it's looking grim for Minibabybelle FC and The Prince of Darkness, while unbelievably the Colonel has managed to leapfrog True Blue Strikers and escape from the relegation zone for the first time - giving hope to all you no hopers out there.

Brendy's Bruisers, meanwhile, face a nervous few weeks as one bad slip and he too could be in the proverbial. Worrying times indeed for Brother Devlin, and anyone who might get on his bad side at the AGP if he goes down!

In the Conference League, probably The Best still enjoys a healthy lead, despite an average score by his own high standards. Bazkinginglory is looking good for a return to the premiership while that third all-important promotional spot looks like a direct fight between Flexys Fairies and Boys of Summer. Very exciting!

At the bottom, there is still plenty to fight for. Even though Cool Dude Zoo must again be hot favourites to finish bottom of the heap, any of the bottom five could still be relegated. No surprise to see the Fernandos and Virgin Surfers down there too - while Real Goldfish look like they too have what it takes to be 'perennial strugglers' for years to come.

As mentioned earlier, Harpic Amsterdam was this week's top scorer with 59 points, ahead of KFC Academical on 57, with Making History, The Grapes of Raff and Hoofers Utd all accumulating 55 points.

In a relatively high scoring week, Brendys Bruisers hang their heads in shame with just 15 points. Yer Ma's Athletic (20) and Mersey Miracles (24) were the next lowest scorers.

With Man Utd not playing this weekend, we could see quite a few changes at the top and bottom of each division, so wise use of transfers could be the key.

This week's password is sick note ANDERTON.

That's it for this weeks folks. Without further adieu........

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

Michael R.

Diving in the Box FF League Chairman

http://divinginthebox.blogspot.com/

DITB PREMIER LEAGUE

Pos Overall Manager Team Week Pts Tot Pts 1 3140 Mr Geoff Johnston Minus Three FC 43 1102 2 4880 Mr Mark Molloy Harpic Amsterdam 59 1086 3 6194 Mr John McDermott ABCDE FC 37 1077 4 11332 Dr Owen McNally Maclacticos 53 1052 5 13067 Mr Declan Crudden HIT THE BAR 41 1046 6 14218 Mr Conor Walls Feeder club MUFC 35 1042 7 14824 Mr Gary McDonald Gazzas Piping Hots 40 1040 8 22149 Mr Kurt Festraerts Making History 55 1020 9 27467 Mr Paul Brogan Diaby Does Dallas 48 1008 10 28453 Mr Brian Shields the blue monkeys 43 1006 11 29981 Mr Michael Rafferty The Grapes of Raff 55 1003 12 47674 Mr Matthew Henry Gulladuff F.F 37 973 13 60267 Mr Andy Kirby kirbs crawlers 49 955 14 74373 Mr Fra Jones Yer Ma's Athletic 20 937 15 81645 Mr William Cherry Cherry United 47 928 16 98858 Mr Brendan Devlin Brendys Bruisers 15 908 17 115936 Mr Kevin McCauley KFC Academical 57 888 18 119182 Mr Jules Eilledge True Blue Strikers 43 884 19 150303 Mr Gavin Sheehy Prince of Darkness 43 845 20 174297 Miss Claire Baber MINIBABYBELLEFC 39 810

Your league is placed 541 out of 10685 with an average score of 1073. DITB Conference League Pos Overall Manager Team Week Pts Tot Pts 1 13925 Mr Mark Stevenson PROBABLY THE BEST 28 1043 2 26574 Mr Barry Corr bazkinginglory 52 1010 3 43690 Mr Brendan Kelly flexys fairys 40 979 4 45695 Mr Austin McGinley Boys of Summer 36 976 5 81645 Mr Brendan Henry HOWRTINGS 40 928 6 82536 Mr Barry Jones Barry's Elite XI 30 927 7 89344 Mr Alan Stewart Muckamore Uld 36 919 8 92788 Mr Simon Patrick O'Sullivan Sheer Kidology 50 915 9 93665 Mr Conor Donnelly The Busted Sofas 42 914 10 98858 Mr colly mckenna micky hartes x1 28 908 11 101399 Mr Gareth Bradley Hoofers UTD 55 905 12 117563 Mr Simon Jenkins Stickshifter FC 48 886 13 138761 Mr Connell McGinley Mighty Con Villa 36 860 14 146592 Mr Andrew McCabe Joeys Monsters 45 850 15 148033 Mr Philip McCabe Chamonix Albion 51 848 16 150303 Mr Conor Nugent The Well Hungarian 30 845 17 160429 Mr Alan McCabe Dirty Dubs XI 31 831 18 185357 Mr conor mc avoy REAL GOLDFISH 46 791 19 190044 Mr paul maynes The fernandos 25 782 20 193094 Mr Stephen O'Sullivan Mersey Miracles 24 776 21 196017 Master Eamon Eastwood Virgin Surfers 34 770 22 204703 Mr Stephen O'Sullivan Cool Dude Zoo 29 750 Your league is placed 4939 out of 10685 with an average score of 987.