Final match round-up from British Athletic's top columnist:

Pre-senile dementia is a terrible thing. I typed up the results, posted Larry's copy off to him with my extravagant expenses claim for the season, then forgot to email them to you lot. Sorry about that.

Anyway, it was just like the old days last Saturday as we took three men and a dog (plus four officials) down to Bournemouth to take on the finest athletes the Southern League has to offer. (According to Dennis, the A Team once won a match with literally just a dog in the howling wind at Deal on a glass track when men were men and the 5000m was actually 6000m and he did a pb wearing his wife's slippers because he'd packed them by mistake). And what a superb team performance it was at Bournemouth to get a fourth place and 91 points (that's an average of 10 points per competing athlete) as everyone put the Club first and did all sorts of events they never thought they would. Just to really piss off whoever pays for engraving the medals for the club presentation, I shared Man of the Match between four of the day's heroes. (You'll have to come to the presentation to find out who our top points scorer of the season is, by the way, I haven't worked it out yet).

Sadly, we still finished fifth from bottom, which might mean we're relegated. As I predicted, we leapfrogged the preposterously named Marshall Milton Keynes, but I hadn't banked on Ipswich winning their home match and positively bounding to safety at our expense. All is not lost though. Ken tells me that athletics is currently riding on such a surge of popularity and petrol costs are at such an affordable level, that the British League are introducing an extra division. Really, who are these jokers. Still, if it means they relegate less teams from Division One then I'm not complaining. I'll keep you posted, if I don't forget.

Until next season then,
Rob