|
PROMOTION CLOSER THAN AT ANY TIME IN YEARS
CCC has been involved in a near miss with promotion, according to League boffins. A team of mathematicians today released the final table for 2003, showing CCC in a comfortable 5th position. However, it could have been so different - had CCC finished a place higher they could have been exposed to promotion.
"We haven't been promoted in years," said former captain Keith Reader, "not since that time the lads forgot how to lose for a few games." League officials have pinpointed the exact moment that CCC came closest to contact with promotion as Wednesday 13th August, the day after a stunning win against promotion challengers Fenham. Had they won one of their two remaining fixtures after that, 4th place - and possible promotion - would have been guaranteed.
"It's lucky for CCC that they lost their last two games, and failed to rearrange with Travellers," said one League official. "As it was Travellers finished above them without the two sides having met. We calculated that CCC were that close to promotion," he said holding his thumb and forefinger a couple of inches apart.
"It's a mighty close escape," said club secretary Cliff Spencer. "My sympathies go to our friends and rivals Genetics, who had a full on collision with promotion. "We wish them well," he said, shaking his head in contemplation of their fate.
|
