Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Without doubt the lowest point of the season, and this reporter for one was glad to have missed the debacle: an all- expenses paid jolly to cover the World Cup 96 draw in Antwerp (the city where this year's finals are to be held) was a far more preferable location.

An amusing side-show puts Logica's heaviest defeat of the season, in this vital relegation clash, into some perspective. The story goes that an Oakway player won a bottle of champagne in some prize-draw or other before the season's start. Being a team-man kind of a chap, he decided to donate it to his club, but with the proviso that it could not be opened until Oakway FC had won their first game. Well, come mid-March, the bottle remained firmly corked in the team kit-bag, and was in danger of becoming quite a vintage until Logica intervened. At least Oakway enjoyed their post-match tipple after a seven month wait, although it would appear that Millar enjoyed quite a pre-match tipple, and cited falling asleep in the bath as the reason for his late arrival.

Logica's performance was certainly not vintage, and the only vaguely significant event from their perspective was the penalty converted by Lambert. With Abbott, the usual penalty taker, absent, Lambert had grabbed the ball within a split second of the referee pointing to the spot, and his eleventh goal of the season proved to be the one that would eventually clinch his Golden Boot award at the end of a long campaign.