The FA's superfan ignored more wintry weather to take in eight games in the last seven days. There was an FA Youth Cup Final, two FA Cup Semi-Finals and a game at Wealdstone with a surprisingly eventful first four minutes.

The results were: Sport London e Benfica 1-2 Stony Stratford, Chelsea 1-1 Manchester City (Youth), Dulwich 6-1 Sittingbourne, West Brom 0-1 Portsmouth, Wealdstone 2-5 Carshalton, Barnsley 0-1 Cardiff, Beaumont 3-1 Eton Manor, Old Finchleians 7-0 Broomfield (Thirds).

That’s 165 for the current season and 5,497 altogether. Another little milestone coming up.

The week started in Portugal, or the Portuguese part of Hanwell, with a Spartan South Midlands League Division 1 fixture. Stony Stratford held on to win despite having a player red-carded near the end. Chelsea didn’t charge admission for their home leg of The FA Youth Cup Final and even provided free flags for their fans to wave. There were just under 12,000 in the ground, all having a great time.

From Portugal to Denmark, or rather Denmark Hill, for Friday’s Ryman League Division 1 South game. Dulwich (9th) and Sittingbourne (7th) still have play-off ambitions and a 6-1 scoreline in Hamlet’s favour was highly unexpected. I remembered seeing Gary Abbott, Sittingbourne’s manager, play in an FA Trophy tie for Welling against Erith a few years ago.

Gary injured an ankle about 20 minutes into the game and looked set to be substituted as he could barely put that foot on the ground. But he eventually hobbled back into the action…and went on to score five goals in Welling’s 8-1 win! It just showed how a player’s fortunes can change dramatically during a game.

The first of the weekend’s FA Cup Semi-Finals at Wembley finished at around two o’clock, so there was plenty of time to get to another game afterwards. I took the Metropolitan line tube to Northwood Hills for Wealdstone’s Ryman Premier fixture with Carshalton Athletic and was sitting at the back of the stand by a quarter to three, sheltering from the heavy rain.

Within four minutes of the kick-off the visitors had scored twice. The Stones ‘keeper attempted to boot a defender’s back-pass up the field, but the ball hit a bemused Robins No.10 and rebounded into the net. Seconds later the same forward was felled from behind in the box and a successful spot-kick made it 2-0. And Wealdstone were down to ten men with 86 minutes still to play.

In all honesty, Saturday’s second game was a lot more entertaining than the first.

Monday evening’s Essex Senior League fixture at Mile End Stadium produced another unlikely result. Beaumont Athletic, who spent seven years in the Asian Football League, had only won one home game all season and had conceded 108 League goals. They were playing fifth-placed Eton Manor, who had just booked a place in the League Cup Final.

Surely it had to be an away win. No, 3-1 to the home side, and they were dancing in the streets of Beaumont on Monday night.