Given that this league has, at times, been a huge phoney war, God only knows how teams are going to treat the quarter-finals, writes Anthony Daly.

Seamus Horgan (24, 5’11’’, 11-7 Tournafulla): “Like a lot of goalkeepers Seamus was also a very good outfield player but ended up in goals because he could be a bit wild out there!

Orson Welles’ footballing allegiances, if he ever had any, will probably never be known but it would be fair to say that Harry Lime, the character he both played and created for the 1949 film The Third Man, had an attitude that would appeal to Roman Abramovich.

BEFORE recounting my Cheltenham heroics, I think it is only fair, in the interests of transparency and reader understanding, to explain how it came to be that I am widely regarded as the mug punter the other mug punters call ‘The Guv’nor’.