Justice Prevails...

For the benefit of those who regularly glance through my ramblings and may have noticed a discrepancy between the match report results & the W&SB league table status:

This is a subject that I haven't touched upon up until now. For many among the team, myself included, we felt a little raw about the decision made by the governing league.
Certainly the "crime" in no way befitted the "punishment".
The under 15's away win at Acorn Raiders on 30th Sept was awarded as a home win to the Hemel Hempstead team.

And what heinous crime had been committed??

The match card, (for which W&SB issue sticky teamlist labels) had inadvertantly been completed with an original list, which included a player no longer registered with the U15's. The name hadn't been crossed through (Outrageous!) & Vale was deemed as fielding an ineligible player.

All the stops were pulled out by the Vale management/admin team & an appeal was lodged with the B&B FA. (Hence no word on here, I didn't want to be considered clouding any investigation)
Subsequently, over the following months, it appears several other teams had fallen foul of this also. W&SB have reviewed the situation & on advice, the "full-scale" appeal was dropped & W&SB, (good to their word) have reversed the decision.

I am in no way condoning that the "paperwork" shouldn't be kept fully in order, but, paperwork is not part of the remit of the players. Theirs is to put in the 80 or so minutes worth of hard work each week. They played their part, they brought home the result & anything else was completely out of their hands. Unfortunately, they were the ones who really had to take the consequences.
Needless to say, the stickies have been binned & good old fashioned hand written lists have been resumed.

Anyway, (now I've got that off my chest) All happy now. All minds can now be fully occupied with the task in hand, finish the season with the best result that they can achieve.

After all, as a wise man once said;

"It's not the taking part that counts, it's the winning..!" D Hawes.

(Unfortunately, he's not the wise man either. He only repeated what the wise man quoted to him..!)