Dear All,

It’s all hotting up as we enter the easter holiday period.

A magnificent score of 110 points has seen the Chairman extend his lead at the top of the Premiership to 84 points but he knows that he still isn’t safe.

If the Grapes can score 110 points in one week, what’s to stop the Professor or another rival manager doing the same next week.

‘Anything can happen and it usually does’ – I’ve said that phrase far too many times to take anything for granted!

Hoping for a slip-up from yours truly are Brothers Festraerts and Brogan, while Flexy has worked his way back into contention with an 88 point total.

Minus Three FC’s remarkable journey from bottom of the table continues as he now enters the top five, ahead of Gazza’s Pi[ping Hots who would surely be gutted not to qualify for Europe after so long in the top five.

At the bottom of the table, fair play to Harpic Amsterdam as defending champ Brother Molloy FINALLY escapes the drop zone – which is bad news for Brendy’s Bruisers.

Big Brendy was sitting at the bottom of the table with a weekly score of -1 point by Sunday morning so it could have been a lot worse.

A low scoring week has sucked True Blue strikers and even KFC and Yer Ma’s Athletic into the relegation dogfight. It promises to be vicious until the end of the season.

It will certainly be heartbreaking for some.

In the Conference league, the race for the title is still wide open as the pack closes together.

With 24 points separating the top four teams, anyone could still win the league, yet by the same token all four could still miss out on promotion to the Premiership.

Its squeaky bum time for Brothers McCabe, Jenkins, Sheehy and Risley – with Thom hanging on for dear life.

And in the race to be the worst team in the entire league, that looks like it will be Con Villa with only the Well Hungarians offering a possible get-out clause.

Red Cherry Devils could make it a double relegation day for the Cherry family unless mugsys barber or Boys of Summer get a bad case of the collywobbles.

So my friends, as you can see, there is still loads to play for.

Some of these scraps are just too tight to call, and too nerve wrecking to watch.

But this is what separates the men from the mice, the wheat from the chaff, haves from the have-nots, the champs from the chumps and the ‘been there’s from the ‘wannabies’.

Can you live up to the task?

Until next week, have a great Easter and.........

.............. READE ‘EM AND WEEP!!!!!!!!

Michael R.

Diving in the Box FF League Chairman

http://divinginthebox.blogspot.com/

DITB PREMIER LEAGUE

Pos.	C	Manager	Team	Week 33 Pts.	Points	Overall Pos.
1	*	Mr Michael Rafferty	The Grapes of Raff	110	1474	716
2		Mr Kurt Festraerts	Ibiza Town FC	61	1390	6903
3		Mr Paul Brogan	Diaby Does Dallas	78	1378	8836
4		Mr Brendan Kelly	flexysmidniterunners	88	1372	9916
5		Mr Geoff Johnston	Minus Three FC	69	1337	18112
6		Mr Gary McDonald	Gazzas Piping Hots	48	1331	19850
7		Mr Mark Stevenson	Probably the best	56	1317	24281
8		Dr Owen McNally	Maclacticos	100	1298	31047
9		Mr Declan Crudden	Bleedin Red	58	1288	34940
10		Mr Conor Walls	Support your own LFC	58	1265	44837
11		Mr John McDermott	Sofa King Easy	56	1262	46153
12		Mr Brian Shields	The Blue Monkeys	50	1246	53594
13		Mr Conor Donnelly	The Busted Sofas	67	1230	61432
14		Mr Francis Jones	Yer Mas Athletic	45	1218	67369
15		Mr Kevin McCauley	KFC Academical	43	1213	69856
16		Mr Jules Eilledge	True Blue Strikers	40	1203	74848
17		Mr Mark Molloy	Harpic Amsterdam	88	1197	77853
18		Mr William Cherry	Cherry United	44	1178	87507
19		Mr Brendan Devlin	Brendys Bruisers	34	1169	91890
20		Mr Andy Kirby	Kirbs Crawlers	44	1153	99530

DITB CONFERENCE LEAGUE

Pos.	C	Manager	Team	Week 33 Pts.	Points	Overall Pos.
1		Mr Andrew McCabe	Joeys Monsters	62	1346	15706
2		Mr Andrew Jenkins	The Rio Chargers	26	1331	19850
3		Mr Gavin Sheehy	Prince of Darkness	38	1323	22310
4		Mr Philip Risley	LIQUIDATOR FC	87	1322	22639
5		Mr Arnold Thom	Inshallah	54	1285	36177
6		Mr Gareth Bradley	Hoofers UTD	48	1245	54092
7		Mr Brendan Henry	SOMEMAN4ONEMAN	57	1243	55077
8		Mr S P O'Sullivan	LICENCE TO ROAM	29	1239	57007
9		Mr Brendan Henry	GULLADUFF FF	96	1237	57918
10		Mr Alan McCabe	Dirty Dubs XI	63	1233	59936
11		Mr Barry Corr	bazkinginglory	37	1219	66823
12		Mrs Claire McCabe	Minibabybelle FC	28	1212	70347
13		Mr Barry Jones	Gunning For Glory	62	1210	71344
14		Mr Simon Jenkins	Stickshifter United	62	1206	73371
15		Mr Austin McGinley	Boys Of Summer	52	1187	82933
16		Mr Colm Mckenna	mugsys barber	57	1153	99530
17		Mr Christopher Cherry	Red Cherry Devils	40	1133	108658
18	*	Mr Conor Nugent	the well hungarians	51	1094	124835
19		Mr Connell McGinley	Con Villa	34	1050	139816