The cold snap appears to be coming to an end with the snow slowly melting away in some parts of Ryman country. All of the local non-league games were cancelled tonight but with the weather improving going up to 5 degrees on Saturday Town's away game with Romford at Aveley's ground may get the green light. It won't be time to break out the sun cream and Bermuda shorts but 5 degrees will be positively balmy as opposed to how it's been over the last few weeks.
GAME DESTINED NEVER TO BE PLAYED??
Tonight's scheduled London FA Senior Cup second round tie between Haringey Borough and Fisher FC seems to be destined never to be played. It was scheduled to be played at Coles Park but due to the problems with the pitch as "the real White Hart Lane" it was postponed a number of times and a decision made between the two clubs to switch the tie to Fisher's shared home ground Champion Hill which is when the cold snap set in and it has now been cancelled three times at this venue. The game is now due to be played on the January 19th. The winner's are due to face Cray Wanderers in the 3rd round and the winners of this tie to face Croydon Athletic at home in the 4th round.
IF ONLY????
Ex Wealdstone player Jermaine Beckford has been in the news of late with his goal for Leeds United versus Manchester United and the talk of an impending transfer to a "bigger" club. The Stone's will be praying the rumours of a £3 million pound transfer become true as they inserted a 20% sell on fee when he was sold to the Elland Road club. If he does go for this price Wealdstone will receive £600,000 which I don't need to tell you is a massive amount of money for a Ryman League club.
The cold end can't help thinking back to the summer of 1991 when Paul Furlong left Enfield FC and headed to Coventry City without a sell-on clause. If only a 20% fee was written in then who knows The E's as we knew them may still be in existence and maybe even Southbury Road may not have been bulldozed for housing. That 20% may have made the 'irregular balance sheet' vanish and assure promotion to the Conference in 1995. We can only dream can't we??
An interesting fact about Paul is that when transferred from Watford to Chelsea in the summer of 1994 for £2.3 million he was then the record signing at Stamford Bridge. How times have changed in West London???
Despite now turning out for the old enemy Barnet the cold end and Town fans can only admire Paul's brilliant commitment at still playing League football at the ripe old age of 41 years young. A great achievement for such a good player to be produced by the now defunct Enfield FC all those years ago.
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