Saturday 25th April 2026

Amazingly, this is the last weekend of the football season where there are games in all divisions, as it was the last day of the non-league, and next week's Championship games kick off at half twelve on Saturday, meaning this would be the last afternoon on the sofa with Scully, Radio 5 and Final Score and the videoprinter.

Next time will be the August Bank Holiday, or around that time.

It was a Saturday, so after getting up at six and doing the usual stuff like feeding the cats and drinking coffee, we left for the sports centre at ten to six, getting there two minutes early, so we had to stand outside for the doors to open for a couple of minutes.

I go upstairs, climb on the bike, and begin pedalling at a mad rate, so much so that I burn 386K/calories in forty minutes, so that would explain my tired legs.

So tired, in fact, I bailed on going orchiding, saying we'd do it tomorrow. In fact the weather was cool and cloudy, but the sun soon burnt through that, and the temperatures quickly rose.

Back home then for brews and breakfast, and after a shower, sit outside on the patio where a series of cats came to sit, just to make sure there was any food about. Even Cleo sat nearby on the new tool box, keeping both eyes on me.

Of course there was football all afternoon: Ipswich on at half twelve, and again although they drew and moved back up to second, they seem to be lacking something up front.

Then to three and the radio and Final score, so I could keep tabs on Norwich. Our faint hopes of making the play-offs held as results went our way in the early kick offs, all we had to do was beat Swansea. At home.

It ended a 1-1 draw. A game of two penalties, both scored, one for each side. And so our season ends just falling short of the play-offs, though it would have been a year too soon for this group of players.

Meanwhile, Spurs and West Ham were fighting to see who out of the two of them would go down, and in a crazy eleven minutes West Ham scored. Everton equalised. Spurs scored against Wolves, thus moving themselves out of the bottom three. Before West Ham scored in injury time to leap-frog Spurs.

This battle royale has four more games to go. But the day meant Spurs won their first league game of the year! At the end of April.

Then came the FA Cup semi-final: Citeh v Southampton. And a good game, where the Saints scored in the 80th minute to set up the great upset. Only for Citeh to score twice after bringing on half a billion quids worth of players to run in two late goals.

Meanwhile Arsenal edged Newcastle in the league, 1-0 to go back top.

And that was more than enough football for one day.