The FA's superfan went to 32 games in April, setting a personal record for one calendar month. He saw 137 goals at 18 different grounds, moving him up to 188 games for the season and 5,520 altogether.

That’s a lot of statistics to start with. But I’ve always said that being good with figures is 90 per cent natural ability and 15 per cent hard work.

Last week’s results were: Bexhill 1-1 Loxwood (3-0 on pens), QC Aces 5-1 Clocktower, Brentford 1-2 Southend (Youth), Carshalton 2-0 Tonbridge, Forest United 3-1 Brentford (U13 Girls), Hemel Hempstead 7-0 Hampstead (U14 Girls), Harrow St Mary’s 4-3 St Albans (U15 Girls), Bakerloo Line 6-0 Wood Lane, Redbridge 4-2 Ware and Origin 2-4 Islington Admiral.

Bexhill United, a team on the up, lost a game on 5 January but haven’t been beaten since. Their season now finished, they’ve won promotion to the Sussex County League’s Division Two, the Division Three Cup and the Sussex Intermediate Cup. Promotion was secured with two goals in the last three minutes against Forest at The Polegrove and 'The Barber' saw another dramatic finale as United annexed the County Cup at Three Bridges.

Loxwood, their Final opponents who had pipped them for the Division Three title, scored once and missed a hatful. Bexhill didn’t look remotely like scoring…until heart-stoppage time, when the No.15 bravely headed in an inch-perfect cross from the right. Two tired teams reached the end of extra time with the score still 1-1, so it went to penalties.

Actually we should always say 'kicks from the penalty mark', because no-one is being penalised in a shootout, i.e. no offence has been committed.

I’ve never seen a shootout like it. Bexhill ended up taking four kicks; three almost broke the back of the net and one soared into the car park. Loxwood’s three efforts were all blasted towards the bottom corner, but United’s inspired ‘keeper saved all three. Did he move forward before any of the kicks were taken? I couldn’t possibly comment.

I love this time of the season, because you get games where a team HAS to win or draw to win the title, achieve promotion, reach the play-offs or avoid relegation. The tension can be unbearable, perhaps more for that team’s fans than for the players as the former can’t influence matters on the field. One such game was Carshalton Athletic v Tonbridge Angels at Colston Avenue last Saturday.

Carshalton had to win, and hope that other results went their way, in order to remain in the Ryman Premier. A crowd of more than 500 on a warm afternoon saw them take a 16th-minute lead with a penalty for handball. Angels, with an outside chance of making the play-offs, threw everything at the Robins as they searched for an equaliser and it remained on a knife edge.

In the NINTH minute of added time, with collective nerves shredded, Carshalton scored a freakish second goal to clinch victory. Safety too, as Boreham Wood capsized 5-0 at Ramsgate to fall through the trapdoor. Robins now have local derbies with Sutton to look forward to next season.

My first play-off of the campaign featured Redbridge and Ware in a Ryman Division One North semi-final. This one-off game was played at the former’s Oakside Stadium on Monday. After three hours’ rain the pitch was just about playable when the match officials jogged onto it about half-an-hour from kick-off. Then the rain got significantly heavier. After the players had splashed around for a couple of minutes, I thought there was no way the game would ever finish.

Players trying to run with the ball suddenly found it was a couple of yards behind them, stuck in a puddle. The word 'farcical' repeatedly came to mind. Ware scored after ten minutes, Redbridge levelled eight minutes later, and still the rain lashed down. But half-an-hour into the game it finally stopped. Redbridge, whose players were slightly more adept at the breaststroke, won 4-2 and it was brilliant entertainment for 261 fans.