So, that's it then?

What a curious week - 

• We finished with a barely enough players for a basketball game against Leamington after a watch-through-the-fingers amateurishly poor and ill-disciplined performance which would give a bad name to Sunday morning football.
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• We found out that the funds we thought we were to receive to help us play until the end of the season were going to be loans rather than grants.  A small but important distinction!
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• The League then threatened any club with expulsion who put the long-term survival of their club and the health of their staff ahead of the weekend's fixtures in a season already looking as though it won't even reach the halfway point.
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• Club owner Ritchie tore the League hierarchy a new one.
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• The Football Association are so desperate for Spurs to be the all-time top FA Cup goal scorers they continue to give them the easiest possible draw in each round.
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• Any rash attempt at a home game this week would be cancelled for any one or a combination of rain / ice / snow / covid / lack of non-suspended players
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• And my four raffle prizes from the Christmas Square draw are still uncollected.

The smart, as well as much of the dumb money is on the season not restarting.  Increasingly it is difficult for anyone except desperate York City fans a.k.a. #promotetheminstermenregardless to see how the 2020-21 season can reach any sort of conclusion.  

We would have 28 games to play in 16 weeks.  Doesn't sound impossible until (A) you remember we play on a pitch that can become unplayable if a player accidentally knocks his water bottle over, and (B) clubs are being "invited" to put themselves in considerable and possibly unsustainable debt just to keep the season going.  And some clubs have far more games left to play than us.

And as much as the whole league wants to give York City the chance to bottle the play-odds yet again I can't believe anyone would like to have their own club go bust just to laugh at them?

As much as York's inability to accept they play at this level continues to amuse,
this image of their soon to be vacated Bootham Crescent caught my eye this week.

Just for the most fleeting of moments I thought I was looking at Rockingham Road,
and it fair brought a lump to my throat!

....just in case you'd forgotten!