Dear All,

With just four games of the league season and a cup final remaining, it's starting to look mighty good for league leader Harpic Amsterdam.

And to rub it in, he posts weekly score of 88 points to say 'catch me if you can' and pull away from Minus Three FC and ABCDE FC.

Diaby Does Dallas is making up good ground, moving into fourth position with the week's highest score, a massive 95 points - but his run may have come a little too late to clinch the title. Never say never though.

No surprise to see The Professor in the remaining UEFA Cup slot (sorry Europa League!). Elsewhere, a score of 91 points for Gazza's Piping Hots keeps The Grapes in the bottom half of the table and looking like he might stay there for the first time in history.

The relegation battle is developing into a real beauty as more teams reluctantly get involved.

Our bottom three might consist of Minibabybelle, True Blue Strikers and KFC Academical, but Gulladuff FF, Yer Ma's Athletic and Prince of Darkness aren't out of the woods just yet.

You can expect at least one of the latter three to unexpectedly go down at the end of the season, and at least one of the bottom three to make a miraculous escape.

Yer Ma's Athletic, indeed, were the week's worst scorers with 18 points, while HIT THE BAR's sudden demise continues with 23 points. One minute Brother Crudden was in contention for the title, the next he's cruelly exposed as a bottler of the highest degree.

In the Conference, Probably The Best is still the clear favourite to win the league with Sheer Kidology, Flexys fairies and bazkinginglory fighting it out for the other two promotion places. Boys of Summer have lost some ground at the all important stage.

At the bottom of the table, Virgin Surfers are nailed on to come last with Cool Dude Zoo also certs to go down. The third relegation spot is a different story as Real Goldfish continues to fight tooth and nail to avoid being the first team ever to be relegated from the Premiership and Conference in consecutive seasons. However, the Dirty Dubs and Mersey Miracles may yet throw Brother McAvoy a lifeline.

Remember, as we enter this weekend, that scores in the final few weeks can be crazy and anything can happen.

What's more... it usually does.

Anyone with the luxury of transfers remaining can use them with the password ROBSON. Otherwise, just sit back and watch your injury-ridden bunch of no-hopers stumble over the finishing line.

Until next week, have a great Bank Holiday weekend and.......

............ 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 1312 Mr Mark Molloy Harpic Amsterdam 88 1449 2 3673 Mr Geoff Johnston Minus Three FC 71 1408 3 6872 Mr John McDermott ABCDE FC 73 1380 4 7358 Mr Paul Brogan Diaby Does Dallas 95 1377 5 8690 Mr Kurt Festraerts Making History 75 1369 6 10793 Dr Owen McNally Maclacticos 71 1358 7 11010 Mr Brian Shields the blue monkeys 72 1357 8 16756 Mr Declan Crudden HIT THE BAR 23 1334 9 17055 Mr Conor Walls Feeder club MUFC 78 1333 10 20499 Mr Gary McDonald Gazzas Piping Hots 91 1322 11 24284 Mr Michael Rafferty The Grapes of Raff 59 1311 12 38871 Mr Brendan Devlin Brendys Bruisers 70 1277 13 47575 Mr William Cherry Cherry United 69 1260 14 69312 Mr Andy Kirby kirbs crawlers 33 1223 15 91465 Mr Gavin Sheehy Prince of Darkness 81 1189 16 98361 Mr Fra Jones Yer Ma's Athletic 18 1179 17 103031 Mr Matthew Henry Gulladuff F.F 59 1172 18 114802 Mr Kevin McCauley KFC Academical 48 1154 19 125992 Mr Jules Eilledge True Blue Strikers 68 1137 20 141177 Miss Claire Baber MINIBABYBELLEFC 71 1112 Your league is placed 295 out of 10683 with an average score of 1397. DITB Conference League Pos Overall Manager Team Week Pts Tot Pts 1 13787 Mr Mark Stevenson PROBABLY THE BEST 68 1345 2 25381 Mr Simon Patrick O'Sullivan Sheer Kidology 83 1308 3 27964 Mr Brendan Kelly flexys fairys 73 1301 4 32293 Mr Barry Corr bazkinginglory 61 1291 5 43860 Mr Austin McGinley Boys of Summer 52 1267 6 75701 Mr Brendan Henry HOWRTINGS 51 1213 7 80217 Mr Conor Donnelly The Busted Sofas 41 1206 8 84834 Mr Simon Jenkins Stickshifter FC 87 1199 9 112837 Mr Andrew McCabe Joeys Monsters 81 1157 10 122110 Mr colly mckenna micky hartes x1 34 1143 11 124011 Mr Gareth Bradley Hoofers UTD 54 1140 12 127851 Mr Conor Nugent The Well Hungarian 53 1134 13 136384 Mr Barry Jones Barry's Elite XI 38 1120 14 138144 Mr Alan Stewart Muckamore Uld 51 1117 15 147048 Mr Connell McGinley Mighty Con Villa 84 1102 16 150443 Mr Philip McCabe Chamonix Albion 61 1096 17 166267 Mr paul maynes The fernandos 61 1067 18 176033 Mr Stephen O'Sullivan Mersey Miracles 33 1047 19 177418 Mr Alan McCabe Dirty Dubs XI 55 1044 20 178350 Mr conor mc avoy REAL GOLDFISH 41 1042 21 192825 Mr Stephen O'Sullivan Cool Dude Zoo 54 1008 22 211702 Master Eamon Eastwood Virgin Surfers 68 950 Your league is placed 3560 out of 10683 with an average score of 1302.