Well, not much anyway.  Thanks to a mixed bag of circumstances I`m not sure there`s much football to mention this week.  Just a couple of defeats really.  One was Gillingham`s 1-0 home defeat by Burton Albion, despite the Gills signing Saints` pacy flanker Tyreke Johnson on loan with an eye on a permanent move at the end of the season.   Maidstone United went to Hungerford and managed to lose 2-1, thus maintaining their target of just failing to get promoted, thus avoiding the financial issues that would follow if they got back to the National League.

Elsewhere, Truro City`s season may have been brought to an abrupt end, thanks to the Covid situation while Stoke Gabriel`s season has also ended for the same reason.  Fort William`s game was postponed I suspect because of Covid but also due to unplayable conditions up there in the lea of Ben Nevis and Brechin City didn`t have a game, having been knocked out of the Scottish Cup in the first round. 

And Southampton`s FA Cup match with Shrewsbury Town had already been postponed following an outbreak of Covid 19 in the Shrews` camp - it remains to be seen whether the game will be rearranged or whether the Saints will have a bye to the next round.  The FA will decide next week once the draw for the next rounds have been made.

So, nothing to see here but as this has been an FA Cup weekend the memories of that great day in 1976 came back to me when I was there to see the Saints win the Cup by beating Manchester United at Wembley.   Here`s David Hockney`s version of the moment when Her Majesty handed the Cup to Saints captain Peter Rodrigues:-

Her Majesty has never attended and FA Cup Final since that happy and glorious day, allegedly commenting at the time that it really doesn`t get any better than that so I won`t bother in future.  Or words to that effect.  Possibly.