Dear All,

This recession means that we're all having to work twice as hard which unfortunately is having an impact on my FF updates.

So apologies for my tardiness on this occasion and the brevity of the update to follow.

Firstly, as the FA Cup semi finals take place this weekend, I thought it might be a good idea to conduct the draw for the DITB FFA Cup.

As Brother Johnston has long gone home (lazy get), I'll have to do it myself on this occasion.

No messing about the draw is as follows...

Chamonix Albion (C) vs ABCDE FC (P)

Diaby Does Dallas (P) vs Probably The Best (C)

So the Premier League teams have managed to avoid the Conference League teams.

ABCDE FC will be overwhelming favourites to win the first tie and while Brother Brogan will be favourite in the second semi final, the Conference League winner will fancy his chances.

Good luck to all teams involved as you edge ever closer to some silverware.

Looking at the all important league tables, it's pretty much as you were with some important developments.

The biggest shock is from the bottom of the Premiership where the Prince of Darkness has sensationally leapfrogged KFC Academical to jump out of the bottom four and put Brother McCauley back in a place that he surely thought he'd left behind.

Brother Cheeko caught up a hefty 34 points in just one week which shows that anything is still possible in both divisions with six weeks still to go.

At the top of the table, solid scoring all round keeps everyone where they were, although Maclactico's European place is now under serious threat from in-form Diably Does Dallas.

With three potential first-time winners at the top of the table, will we see a new name on the trophy this year, or will they all bottle it and let the hungry chasing pack of experienced campaigners back in the race.

Very exciting times ahead indeed.

At the bottom of the table, a poor score sees Gulladuff FF now in danger of the dreaded drop - with just a 20 point safety blanket. And we've seen this week, how fickle that sort of lead can be.

In the Conference League, Probably The Best put his foot on the accelerator to buy himself some breathing space at the top of the table but a tremendous scrap is evolving for the two other promotion spots between Flexys fairies, Sheer Kidology, BazkinginGlory and Boys of Summer.

Just 15 points separate the four teams so it's well and truly squeaky bum time in the lower league.

At the bottom of the Conference, Brother Mac is still going for the unwamted record of being the only manager ever to have been relegated two years in succession. It's not over yet though as 60 points separates six teams and a few weeks could make a big difference.

This week's top scorers were Cherry United with a spectacular 58, ahead of Prince of Darkness on 49 and Diably Does Dallas on 47.

Bottom of the pile at this crucial stage of the season were KFC Academical, Hoofers Utd and mickey hartes XI - all scoring just 15 points.

So that's about it my friends. Not such a brief update after all.

This week's transfer password is MABBUTT.

Until next week..........

............. 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 2486 Mr Mark Molloy Harpic Amsterdam 36 1329 2 4211 Mr Geoff Johnston Minus Three FC 36 1308 3 5236 Mr Declan Crudden HIT THE BAR 39 1299 4 7276 Mr John McDermott ABCDE FC 37 1285 5 13126 Dr Owen McNally Maclacticos 20 1257 6 13910 Mr Paul Brogan Diaby Does Dallas 47 1254 7 15937 Mr Kurt Festraerts Making History 38 1247 8 18400 Mr Brian Shields the blue monkeys 26 1239 9 23779 Mr Gary McDonald Gazzas Piping Hots 40 1224 10 25380 Mr Michael Rafferty The Grapes of Raff 38 1220 11 25777 Mr Conor Walls Feeder club MUFC 45 1219 12 47299 Mr Brendan Devlin Brendys Bruisers 42 1176 13 55702 Mr Andy Kirby kirbs crawlers 17 1162 14 61990 Mr William Cherry Cherry United 58 1152 15 68686 Mr Fra Jones Yer Ma's Athletic 32 1142 16 96285 Mr Matthew Henry Gulladuff F.F 21 1103 17 108549 Mr Gavin Sheehy Prince of Darkness 49 1086 18 110670 Mr Kevin McCauley KFC Academical 15 1083 19 129384 Mr Jules Eilledge True Blue Strikers 22 1056 20 166814 Miss Claire Baber MINIBABYBELLEFC 21 995 Your league is placed 395 out of 10683 with an average score of 1296. DITB Conference League Pos Overall Manager Team Week Pts Tot Pts 1 16251 Mr Mark Stevenson PROBABLY THE BEST 45 1246 2 27499 Mr Brendan Kelly flexys fairys 32 1215 3 29687 Mr Simon Patrick O'Sullivan Sheer Kidology 32 1210 4 33845 Mr Barry Corr bazkinginglory 30 1201 5 34334 Mr Austin McGinley Boys of Summer 29 1200 6 65360 Mr Brendan Henry HOWRTINGS 42 1147 7 78383 Mr Conor Donnelly The Busted Sofas 40 1128 8 102828 Mr colly mckenna micky hartes x1 15 1094 9 106456 Mr Simon Jenkins Stickshifter FC 37 1089 10 125999 Mr Conor Nugent The Well Hungarian 20 1061 11 128043 Mr Gareth Bradley Hoofers UTD 15 1058 12 128701 Mr Barry Jones Barry's Elite XI 34 1057 13 129384 Mr Andrew McCabe Joeys Monsters 36 1056 14 136668 Mr Alan Stewart Muckamore Uld 24 1045 15 162967 Mr Philip McCabe Chamonix Albion 26 1002 16 165188 Mr paul maynes The fernandos 18 998 17 166814 Mr Stephen O'Sullivan Mersey Miracles 34 995 18 172630 Mr Connell McGinley Mighty Con Villa 20 984 19 178219 Mr Alan McCabe Dirty Dubs XI 37 973 20 186535 Mr conor mc avoy REAL GOLDFISH 31 955 21 196128 Mr Stephen O'Sullivan Cool Dude Zoo 22 932 22 212356 Master Eamon Eastwood Virgin Surfers 18 882 Your league is placed 3546 out of 10683 with an average score of 1214.