BUGS v CHINS?

To be honest I am a little short of ideas for today's massive impart of information. Rooney's hat trick, Barnsley's 3-5 defeat at home to Everton or another story involving John Stones. Nice piece in the DTelegraph about paying attention to detail. I watched a junior player get stuffed by his full back time and time again recently because he kept turning on to the full back's good foot! Why not take the ball on the other side? It can't take long to work that out?

Anyway the one fixture that stood out today was a United Counties League Division One match between Bugbrooke St Michaels and Northampton Old Northamptonians Chenecks, Yes! all of those.

So Bugbrooke have a facility that allows them to make progress in the pyramid, if they could and to play in FA Vase and Cup matches because their ground has stuff like a barrier round the pitch and a “tunnel” for the players to walk out through....I ask you?

Bugbrooke therefore played in the Vase since 1999-00 and the FA Cup from 2012-13.

The ONs, on the other hand, don't have stuff near their pitch and cannot make their way into the proper cups or leagues, but they are happy. They derive from the Northampton Grammar School and a far sighted gentleman who formed a team at school to allow boys to play football rather than rugby. I think that happens a lot as there are some very good soccer players in our rugby schools.

Chenecks comes from the gathering of various letters from the four Houses that exist in the school. Houses make for competition and you know the old fashioned GSchools and PSchools love competition.

So Chenecks comes from Chipseys, Spencer, Beckett and St Crispins (you work it out??). The team was formed in 1946, joining the town league in 1950 and the UCL in 1969. There has been no venture into ground development so the next stage is out of the question. It's only a game after all.

Good luck lads. (badge is ONs!)