Here’s a summary of last week’s five games: Alba 1 BNP Paribas 0, Kenwood House 9 Camden Lions 0, Chelsea Academicals 2 Ocean Wave 1, Eastbourne Town 1 Hailsham Town 1 (Youth) and SDG 0 John Lewis 6. That’s 202 now for the "current campaign", as we say in the business, and 5,094 altogether.

I was looking for something "massive" to mark my double century on Saturday afternoon and Eastbourne Town Reserves v Chichester City United Reserves certainly fitted the bill. But when I turned up outside The Saffrons at around 2.30, there was a board up saying "MATCH OFF – CHICHESTER CAN’T RAISE A TEAM". Oh dear. Now what?

I was encouraged to see that the goal nets at the Larkin’s Field pitch at the far side of the ground were in place – so I decided to stick around for a few minutes. A couple of Ocean Wave players in their silver and yellow shirts duly emerged from the changing rooms, swiftly followed by others, and we were in business.

It was an excellent game, featuring, as I found out later, the teams who were first and second in the table. (Further down were the likes of Buccaneer, Icthus United and Spitfire Rangers.) The Accies’ ‘keeper made an unbelievable save to preserve their 2-1 lead near the end.

The Ocean Wave player was about two yards out when he blasted a volley goalwards and neither he nor anyone else could believe it when the ball was tipped round a post.

Exactly a week after seeing the "goal of the season" at Greenford, there was a definite candidate for "miss of the season" at a local-derby youth match at The Saffrons on Sunday morning.

A crowd of 56 had turned out in the sunshine and they saw Hailsham withstand some early pressure before taking the lead against their Eastbourne hosts.

They should have made it 2-0 before the break. The home ‘keeper launched himself to his left, with both feet off the ground, for a shot that ended up hitting the underside of the bar and bouncing down invitingly. I estimate that the ball was a foot from the line as Hailsham’s No.6 followed up but – with the ‘keeper grounded at the other side of the goal and no-one else close – he put the ball over the top. Cue gales of laughter, both on and off the pitch.

Earlier in the week I saw a game at Paddington Rec that was seven minutes away from being my first ever 0-0 at that prestigious venue. Then an Alba player succeeded with a long shot that the ‘keeper clearly thought was going wide. On the Thursday evening, on one of my rare visits to Islington, Camden Lions were only a goal down to Kenbrook House at half-time but had capsized to the tune of 9-0 by the end.

It was seriously cold. I only survived by running up and down the touchline at top speed.

To me every game is a good game. If both teams are trying to win, that’s all I ask for. I don’t understand the concept of "playing for a draw". If it’s 0-0 in the last minute and you’re given a tap-in chance, do you deliberately miss it? Perhaps it’s more a case of "we’ll try to win but we’ll take a draw".