"I am not a number, I'm a free man," bellowed the Prisoner. Greedy sod, he should have been grateful, because Coventry City striker Paul Williams is remembered in the tomes of football folly by just a solitary letter. Yes, one blessed letter.

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TWO BOVRILS PLEASE...
WEDNESDAY 19th MARCH 2008

I love this time of the year. Flutter through the daily fixture lists and you're confronted with a bevy of mouthwatering match-up's. It seems that at every turn there are league encounters that will have profound effects on the fortunes of sides at both ends of the table.


The difference between a trip to Real Madrid in the Champions League, or Real Oviedo in the UEFA Cup .. between Liverpool away live on Sky, or Hartlepool at home with late-night highlights on Setanta.

But peer closer and you'll see the chaff nestling in rebelliously with the wheat. Yes, okay, Man United and Chelsea play potentially season-defining matches tonight. And ... ?

Does that really compare with the mid-table nothing-to-play-for sheer pointlessness of Worksop v Ossett Town last night in the UniBond Premier?

A fixture that sits so far isolated in the void of apathy that people genuinely turn up just for the Bovril (because it never tastes the same when you buy it from Tesco's).

And for the record? A stonking 2-2 draw, with the visitors coming back from two down in the second-half. And strangely, 239 people did care enough to roll along to, if nothing else to witness the visitors' equaliser, described as:


" [the leveller] came in the 77th minute when Kevin Davies put the ball in his own net as he attempted to clear on the goal-line .."

Worth the entrance fee alone, and you wouldn't see that in the Premier League (well, not since the days of Frank Sinclair anyway).


 

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