Dear All,

With just three weeks left of the DITB season, it’s ‘as you were’ at the top of the Premiership.

The Chairman steadfastly refuses to allow any of his rivals to gain ground and a weekly score of 82 points keeps the Grapes 79 points clear at the top.

In fact, such is his impressive form (don’t know why I’m referring to myself in the third person but what the hell!!) that he now sits in 203^rd position overall – which isn’t bad out of more than quarter of a million competitors.

However, I’ve seen too many people blow it from lofty positions to start counting my chickens and, besides, I haven’t seen or heard Fat Frank Lampard singing just yet!

If someone was to pinch the title at the last moment, it would have to be The Professor’s Ibiza Town FC (and apt it would be as The Prof will be departing Belfast for Ibiza the morning after the AGP!!!). But let’s not even think about that possibility.

Word on the street has it that Brother Festraerts has a cunning plan to load his team with Portsmouth players for the FA Cup final and hope that Chelsea slip up!!

The battle for Champions League football is still raging between Brothers Brogan and Kelly, while Probably the Best has overtaken Minus Three FC and Gazza’s Piping Hots to take the final UEFA Cup slot, which would be a tremendous finish to his first season in the Premiership.

At the bottom of the table, Kirbs ‘Too Good To Go Down’ Crawlers, Cherry United and Brendy’s Bruisers are in deep trouble but there is still a chance that one other team might get sucked into the drop zone with Brothers Jones and McCauley only 40 odd points clear. If the bottom three could catch up points over the next couple of weeks, we could be in for a very interesting FA Cup Final day!!!

In the Conference, a real scrap for the title has developed between Liquidator FC and the Prince of Darkness, with just four points separating the teams.

I’m sure however that promotion is the most important thing in both managers’ minds and they’re both pretty close to achieving that – barring any last minute disasters.

Joey’s Monsters have been a permanent fixture at the top all season and it would be gut wrenching if Brother McCabe was to relinquish his coveted promotion place at the last minute. He is however under serious threat from the Rio Chargers, Gulladuff FF and a few others who make up the chasing pack.

One pattern has emerged in the Conference this season...

If you’re male and your name begins with ‘C’, you’re f**ked!!!

Connell, Conor and Christopher all look doomed but maybe Colm will throw one of them a lifetime. In all honesty, all four deserve to go down!

So that’s it my friends. Have a look at your league position and set yourself a target to leapfrog at least the manager above you in the remaining weeks.

Who knows where it might take you.

Until next week......

....... READ ‘EM AND WEEP!!!!!!!

Michael R.

Diving in the Box FF League Chairman

http://divinginthebox.blogspot.com/

DITB PREMIER LEAGUE

Pos.	C	Manager	Team	Week 37 Pts.	Points	Overall Pos.
1	*	Mr Michael Rafferty	The Grapes of Raff	82	1699	203
2		Mr Kurt Festraerts	Ibiza Town FC	74	1620	2267
3		Mr Paul Brogan	Diaby Does Dallas	58	1583	5218
4		Mr Brendan Kelly	flexysmidniterunners	62	1556	8788
5		Mr Mark Stevenson	Probably the best	71	1516	16496
6		Mr Geoff Johnston	Minus Three FC	57	1494	22121
7		Mr Gary McDonald	Gazzas Piping Hots	50	1492	22661
8		Dr Owen McNally	Maclacticos	68	1491	22916
9		Mr John McDermott	Sofa King Easy	73	1462	32043
10		Mr Declan Crudden	Bleedin Red	63	1456	34159
11		Mr Brian Shields	The Blue Monkeys	64	1450	36282
12		Mr Conor Walls	Support your own LFC	47	1413	50513
13		Mr Mark Molloy	Harpic Amsterdam	63	1404	54250
14		Mr Conor Donnelly	The Busted Sofas	66	1402	55068
15		Mr Jules Eilledge	True Blue Strikers	71	1391	59654
16		Mr Kevin McCauley	KFC Academical	48	1382	63507
17		Mr Francis Jones	Yer Mas Athletic	49	1378	65207
18		Mr Brendan Devlin	Brendys Bruisers	51	1340	81754
19		Mr William Cherry	Cherry United	46	1336	83474
20		Mr Andy Kirby	Kirbs Crawlers	68	1321	89754

DITB CONFERENCE LEAGUE

Pos.	C	Manager	Team	Week 37 Pts.	Points	Overall Pos.
1		Mr Philip Risley	LIQUIDATOR FC	59	1530	13414
2		Mr Gavin Sheehy	Prince of Darkness	64	1526	14211
3		Mr Andrew McCabe	Joeys Monsters	41	1467	30360
4		Mr Andrew Jenkins	The Rio Chargers	37	1456	34159
5		Mr Brendan Henry	GULLADUFF FF	68	1449	36617
6		Mr Arnold Thom	Inshallah	44	1431	43349
7		Mr Brendan Henry	SOMEMAN4ONEMAN	51	1412	50921
8		Mr Gareth Bradley	Hoofers UTD	57	1409	52148
9		Mr Alan McCabe	Dirty Dubs XI	66	1405	53837
10		Mrs Claire McCabe	Minibabybelle FC	63	1392	59252
11		Mr Barry Corr	bazkinginglory	53	1391	59654
12		Mr S P O'Sullivan	LICENCE TO ROAM	83	1390	60084
13		Mr Austin McGinley	Boys Of Summer	81	1379	64782
14		Mr Barry Jones	Gunning For Glory	46	1364	71378
15		Mr Simon Jenkins	Stickshifter United	51	1359	73592
16		Mr Colm Mckenna	mugsys barber	67	1325	88068
17		Mr Christopher Cherry	Red Cherry Devils	42	1285	104548
18	*	Mr Conor Nugent	the well hungarians	53	1257	115204
19		Mr Connell McGinley	Con Villa	48	1203	133092