Here are the four: Eastbourne Borough 1 Dorchester Town 1, Eastbourne Town 2 VCD Athletic 2, Lazard 0 Visa 3 and Sevenoaks Town 3 Lordswood 1.

The strange sending-off came on Saturday at Borough’s ground, now officially called "Rain-Lashed Priory Lane". Their left-winger got a yellow in the first half and was walking off to be substituted on 67 minutes when he couldn’t resist a parting comment to the ref as he passed him. I couldn’t hear what he said – but it was unlikely to have been "You’re having a jolly good game, ref".

The result was a second yellow and, because the substitution hadn’t been completed, Borough were suddenly down to ten men. Several of their players surrounded the ref to protest and simply wouldn’t move away. Why?

There was another red card at The FA Cup Preliminary Round tie at Eastbourne Town on Sunday. It was 0-0 in the first half when a VCD Athletic defender had to make the long walk from the far end of the pitch to the dressing rooms behind the stand. Someone asked him why he’d been sent off and his surly response was "Use of the elbow, so the ref said".

Town scored twice in the last eight minutes to force a replay and I watched the drama unfold with someone who has been a colleague at The FA for well over 30 years. The first game we went to was Huddersfield Town v Crystal Palace in 1970. We’ve been in a few scrapes over the years, particularly in the period when hooliganism was rife and we had to break a few sprinting records to get away from the trouble.

Early evening on Monday I was at Paddington Rec to join two other diehards who saw Visa beat Lazard 3-0 in the London Football League’s Division Two. Only one of the Lazard players had a number on the back of his white shirt – but, as well as "7", he also had "RAUL". (No, the Real Madrid star wasn’t playing for them on loan.) One of his team-mates, in central defence, wore glasses and lost them a couple of times when heading the ball clear.

On Tuesday evening The Barber was at Greatness Park to see Sevenoaks Town play Lordswood in the Kent League’s Premier Division. Sevenoaks is where my sister Kathy lives and she and Becky, my niece, came with me to the game.

I said "Three adults, please" at the turnstile and the old chap couldn’t believe that Becky, who is quite petite, was 22. "Surely she’s no more than 16", he said. Well, the "youngster" enjoyed a 3-1 win that took Oaks up to fourth place in the table.

I have games in The FA Vase and FA Women’s Cup at the weekend; then I’m off to Bournemouth for a week, watching lots of exotic stuff in the Wessex League etc.