Dear All,

I've said it before and I'll say it again... anything can happen and it usually does.

It's a dangerous thing to feel safe in any shape or form until Baz's latest girlfriend sings and the final whistle has been blown on the DITB football season.

Just ask Paddy O'Sullivan about Cup Final day last year!

This week's classic example is the Prince of Darkness who two weeks ago was a shoe-in for relegation. No man in his right mind would have predicted that the prince could stay up.

However, although the league tables below don't show it, in just a fortnight Brother Sheehy has turned around a 30 point deficit at the bottom into a 40 point cushion - with KFC Academical the victim.

As Al Pacino once said, 'Just when I though I was out, they drag me back in.' Brother McCauley certainly knows what he meant.

I would advise all managers to check the scores on the website as they have changed considerably as a result of the midweek matches, particularly the 4-4 draw between Liverpool and Arse-Bandits-One-And-All.

With this in mind, I won't read too much into the tables below.

Suffice to say...

* Harpic Amsterdam holding on well at the top ahead of Minus Three FC, with HIT THE BAR starting to lose ground. Can they hold their nerve in the home straight - the true test of a champion?

* ABCDE FC still hanging in there but The Professor is coming up ominously on the rails, easing quietly into 5th position. Just like he did last year when he won the title!

* 40 points seprate 5th place and 10th place so still lots to play for in terms of European qualification!

* Prince of Darkness out of the relegation zone - even Minibabybelle is scoring well but surely it's too little too late for last year's great escapist!

* KFC back in trouble again. I know how much his Premiership status means to him so Brother McCauley must feel like a dead man walking at the minute.

* Gulladuff FF starting to look like the team that gets dragged into the relegation fight at the end of the season. Eye off the ball young Henry?

* No-one can catch Probably The Best in the Conference. With a team name like that, how can you lose!

* Bazking moves into second place in the CL - can he still achieve his dream despite receiving advice from Guru Walls?

* Promotion battle raging as just 15 points separate 2nd and 5th place. I can't bear to look! Surely fantasy football was meant to be fun!!!!

* Busted Sofas wish that the season was just a couple of weeks longer as his team are going great guns. Brother Donnelly was a relegation candidate at one stage!

* Real Goldish on the comeback trail!!!! Amazing week sees Brother McAvoy move out of the drop zone. Dirty Dubs now in trouble. Although both managers will be pleased to see that Brother Maynes is in the vicinity and going down like a homing pigeon returning to roost.

* High scores - well done to Making History with 47 points and also to The Blue Monkeys (46), MINIBABYBELLEFC (46) and REAL GOLDFISH (46).

* Low scores - appropriately enough the Virgin Surfers, the worst team in the league, scored ZERO points while gazza'a Piping Hots scored 7 and The Fernandos scored 8.

* This week's transfer password is (Big Cyril) REGIS.

Finally, just to run something past you all, how does Saturday June 6 sound to you for the AGP and Prizegiving. I have been informed that there are internationals that day.

Let me know what you think ASAP so we can let our overseas comrades book their flights early.

In the meantime.........

............ 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 2302 Mr Mark Molloy Harpic Amsterdam 32 1361 2 4210 Mr Geoff Johnston Minus Three FC 29 1337 3 7658 Mr Declan Crudden HIT THE BAR 12 1311 4 8391 Mr John McDermott ABCDE FC 22 1307 5 10989 Mr Kurt Festraerts Making History 47 1294 6 12628 Dr Owen McNally Maclacticos 30 1287 7 13145 Mr Brian Shields the blue monkeys 46 1285 8 13968 Mr Paul Brogan Diaby Does Dallas 28 1282 9 22556 Mr Conor Walls Feeder club MUFC 36 1255 10 23630 Mr Michael Rafferty The Grapes of Raff 32 1252 11 32641 Mr Gary McDonald Gazzas Piping Hots 7 1231 12 45003 Mr Brendan Devlin Brendys Bruisers 31 1207 13 54210 Mr William Cherry Cherry United 39 1191 14 54796 Mr Andy Kirby kirbs crawlers 28 1190 15 73525 Mr Fra Jones Yer Ma's Athletic 19 1161 16 107064 Mr Matthew Henry Gulladuff F.F 10 1113 17 110581 Mr Gavin Sheehy Prince of Darkness 22 1108 18 111919 Mr Kevin McCauley KFC Academical 23 1106 19 136360 Mr Jules Eilledge True Blue Strikers 13 1069 20 153549 Miss Claire Baber MINIBABYBELLEFC 46 1041 Your league is placed 430 out of 10683 with an average score of 1322. DITB Conference League Pos Overall Manager Team Week Pts Tot Pts 1 15363 Mr Mark Stevenson PROBABLY THE BEST 31 1277 2 33137 Mr Barry Corr bazkinginglory 29 1230 3 34113 Mr Brendan Kelly flexys fairys 13 1228 4 35552 Mr Simon Patrick O'Sullivan Sheer Kidology 15 1225 5 40648 Mr Austin McGinley Boys of Summer 15 1215 6 70868 Mr Conor Donnelly The Busted Sofas 37 1165 7 72886 Mr Brendan Henry HOWRTINGS 15 1162 8 107772 Mr Simon Jenkins Stickshifter FC 23 1112 9 109878 Mr colly mckenna micky hartes x1 15 1109 10 125478 Mr Gareth Bradley Hoofers UTD 28 1086 11 128109 Mr Barry Jones Barry's Elite XI 25 1082 12 128757 Mr Conor Nugent The Well Hungarian 20 1081 13 131932 Mr Andrew McCabe Joeys Monsters 20 1076 14 138288 Mr Alan Stewart Muckamore Uld 21 1066 15 157086 Mr Philip McCabe Chamonix Albion 33 1035 16 166449 Mr Connell McGinley Mighty Con Villa 34 1018 17 168514 Mr Stephen O'Sullivan Mersey Miracles 19 1014 18 172607 Mr paul maynes The fernandos 8 1006 19 175100 Mr conor mc avoy REAL GOLDFISH 46 1001 20 180844 Mr Alan McCabe Dirty Dubs XI 16 989 21 195682 Mr Stephen O'Sullivan Cool Dude Zoo 22 954 22 217155 Master Eamon Eastwood Virgin Surfers 0 882 Your league is placed 3932 out of 10683 with an average score of 1235.