The Supremi gave themselves a chance of avoiding the drop in their first season at the helm, pulling out all the administrative stops to rearrange Logica's final match of the season when most other teams had headed for the beach. Any kind of result would guarantee Second Division football next season, with a point all that was needed to edge the team out of the relegation zone, whilst a win would have seen Logica jump two places to eighth.

The players responded positively and a strong squad of 12 sacrificed their bank holiday weekend in the hope of salvaging a largely disappointing season at the death. Most encouragingly, returned to the fray, and was handed a starting place up front along side as the injured watched on nervously from the television gantry.

Perhaps it was the early kick-off time, but the hobbling old man was not the only on-looker as Logica started in sleepy fashion and conceded a goal inside three minutes. The defence stood and watched as the Select left-winger chased a lofted pass and reached it just inside the bye-line. With time to look up, he crossed low for his striking colleague to poke a volley across and just inside the far post [0-1].

It took the home side another ten minutes to get going, and in truth they could have been further behind by then. But as the passing slowly started to click, Logica equalised with their first meaningful attack. picked up the ball just inside his own half, and wasted no time in lofting an incisive pass over the West London backline. was onto it in a flash, striding clear and keeping his cool to clinically side-foot home to the keeper's left [1-1].

Logica were now giving as good as they got, and were unlucky to be denied a second goal. A snappy passing move involving , and played in again, and the forward swept the ball home first time. But before Logica could celebrate, the linesman raised his flag and the goal was disallowed.

Any feeling of injustice was quickly forgotten, though, as left-back clipped the heels of the Select right-winger speeding past him just inside the box. Logica were extremely lucky to see the referee wave play on, and subsequently had some well-timed last ditch tackles by and to thank for them maintaining parity at the interval.

The half-time team-talk was upbeat, with the feeling that the Select rearguard was something less than secure. But the optimism was almost immediately punctured by some poor defending. As Select attacked down the right and crossed, no fewer than four Logica players lunged in only to be by-passed with ease. The visiting forward turned inside the last of these, and fired across from close range [1-2].

Within minutes, Logica were two behind. Poor marking allowed the Select right-winger to latch onto a diagonal pass in acres of space. His volley was not great, but lost his footing at the vital moment, and in the end did well to parry the ball from a prostrate position. But with no defender in sight, the loose ball was tapped into an unguarded net [1-3].

Suddenly the confidence drained out of Logica. The makeshift defence was at sixes and sevens, whilst the rest of the team struggled to string two passes together. The game was being played entirely in the Logica half, and the visitors were carving out chances seemingly at will, with the home side fortunate to only concede two goals during this passage of play [1-5].

To their credit, Logica raised themselves for one final effort by which to at least restore some pride. saw a free-kick palmed onto the cross-bar and guided a difficult bouncing volley just a fraction too high after latching on to a long clearance. The striker was not too be denied, however, and when another dinked pass played him clear, emphatically thrashed the ball low inside the left hand post past the keeper's flailing dive [2-5].

nearly pulled another goal back, first just failing to reach the loose ball first when the Select keeper failed to hold a stinging drive, and then firing too high after a neat side-step had taken him away from his marker following a pull-back. But it was Select who had the last word, again working the ball all too easily through the Logica defence and firing clinically into the roof of 's net from close range [2-6].

At least Logica could say they had given it a go, but the emphatic margin of defeat against mid-table opposition really only served to underline that Logica do not deserve to stay in this division. The team have shown the necessary combination of quality and competitiveness only sporadically, and the columns headed 'Goals For' and 'Goals Against' tell a clear story that reveals Logica's twin problems.

Whilst unfortunate to lose key players such as and , and hampered by injuries to the likes of , and , it has been a struggle all too often to raise a bare XI, and perhaps relegation will be a blessing in disguise. The club needs some fresh blood, and although the standard one rung down will not be significantly lower, the opportunity is there to improve results and thereby hopefully make the club a more attractive proposition for new players.