There has been a huge amount of activity affecting the club over the last few days. The most important was the FA meeting in London last night of the Committee who adjudicate on who should be awarded goals that are not clearly identified during Saturday’s games.

The Threes game against Weirside Rangers was high on the Agenda. The Club had to present evidence of the incident to the Committee and Manager Chris Tookey arrived armed with a sheath of papers. The Committee members groaned – nobody wanted a long meeting but, with Chris feeling obliged to invite Mo Stretton along to back up his story, they resigned themselves to a long night.

I did my utmost to keep things running smoothly but this proved impossible due to the number of Wickham players who claimed our third goal. The most ridiculous came from keeper Drew Simmonds who claimed that he started the goal scoring move off --- I pointed out to Drew that the goal came from an in-swinging kick so he was quickly removed from the equation. Mo said “Do you think that we have thoroughly analysed Drew’s claim?” The Chairman said “yes” and we moved on.

Cameron Stebbing’s claim was also thrown out as he wasn’t even in the squad and Hally’s letter was quickly torn up as he was on the subs bench at the time of the goal and we couldn’t read his handwriting anyway.

It dragged on for about 40 minutes until the Chairman decided to ask the Manager who he thought scored the “goal” – Mr Tookey said Sam Kemp scored direct from a Little John Horner.

“So why are we debating the point” asked the Chairman, obviously not happy.
“It’s the fault of Simmonds, Hall and Stebbings” replied Tooks.
“Isn’t that a pop group?” inquired the Chairman.
“What did you say?” said Mo.

I had to laugh – here we were, the whole Threes squad of 14 players plus the Manager, Mo, Johnny Uwins and myself just to agree who scored a goal.

We were home by 11.30pm and it was worth missing Coronation Street for – very entertaining. There was an almighty row on the train when Kempy said “Actually I think Connor Pullen got the last touch.”

To recap – Sam Kemp scored a brace for the second time this season and we all remember when his younger brother marauded under the name “Joe the Brace.” Sam now has 8 goals to his name and he’s a defender and Joe needs to pull his socks up or serious money will be changing hands.
Speaking of goal scoring defenders – the Threes have loads of them – Sam, Greg Browne, Ian Seabrook and James Williams all score vital goals which one might expect as they are all ex First team players. Big Connor Pullen and Anthony Sawyers are also in the scoring charts and between them, these six have notched 18 goals this season.

Saturday saw Ian Seabrook take the Man of the Match award, ahead of Greg Browne who likes performing in front of his girlfriend – she was very happy about his goal on Saturday and his granddad, Ron Strugnell, fell off his chair on the touchline. Ron normally only falls of his chair in the cricket season at Hayes so it’s a “first” for him -- well done Ron.

Can the squad continue to amaze? I think so -- they are a strong unit with loads of experience -- and there's no pressure on them except for being mainly Eagles fans.