The superfan has clocked up another 14 games in the last two weeks, taking him up to 144 for the season and 5,476 altogether. They included two Quarter-Finals, a Semi-Final and a Final.

Here are the results: Charlton 1 Sunderland 2 (Youth), Everton 1 Arsenal 0 (Women), Merstham 2 Needham Market 3, Starlight Snooker 1 AFC Carrera 2, QPR 3 Stoke 0, Clocktower 3 Camden Lions 4, Islington Admiral 7 Stokey 0, Victoria Line 3 Jubilee Line 0, The Cape 4 Covent Garden 3, Chelsea 1 Aston Villa 1 (Youth), Bexhill 1 Rottingdean 0, Old Town Boys 5 Lewes Bridgeview 1, BUPA 1 Fabers 2 and Times 0 Alhijra 0.

The second in that list was the FA Women’s Premier League Cup Final at Leyton Orient’s ground. I was invited to the pre-match dinner and given a seat next to a sweet girl called Fern, an Everton player who had to miss the Final due to a knee injury. I mentioned that I was at Liverpool University in the ‘70s and it turns out that she lives very close to where my "Hall of Residence" was in those far-off days.

The "game of two halves" is one of football’s worst clichés, but I’ve seen so many games this season which have had a second half that was completely different to the first. This was one of them. Everton took an early lead, but Arsenal created a hatful of chances after that and could’ve had four or five goals before the break. They seemed to have the ball all the time.

I told at least ten people during the interval that Arsenal would be "clear winners" and was proved wrong as the Merseysiders put in a tremendous second-half performance to lift the trophy. My predictions have tended to be ridiculed since I tipped Japan to win Euro 2004 and rightly so. Before the weekend I said it would be Chelsea v Man U again in this season’s FA Cup Final. Oh dear.

On one of my days off last week I went to Market Road for a "double header". The journey was dismal. Forty-five minutes after leaving my hotel in Paddington I was still in, er, Paddington. Not only were there no trains; none of the ticket offices were open either. I tried four different lines without success and was beginning to think I’d never make it to Islington’s "Theatre of Dreams".

When I did finally get there, I found the 4 o’clock game was a fixture in the London Underground League. So that’s where they all were! I saw the Victoria Line beat the Jubilee Line 3-0 before a crowd estimated to be two. The standard of play was actually quite good. I chatted to the referee at half-time and he explained in detail why he had cautioned a couple of players. He may have thought I was an assessor.

Monday, as forecast, had driving rain and gale-force winds. The conditions were ideal for watching a game at Paddington Rec, where there is no cover whatsoever. Not surprisingly, the crowd for BUPA’s game was slightly less than two. They had just eight players at the kick-off and when a ninth turned up a few minutes later, the referee almost immediately "sent off" one of the starters for not wearing shin-pads.

I had breakfast this morning with about a dozen Swedish girls. All blue-eyed blondes, all unbearably soft and lovely. I don’t know what they call it, but football’s had it.