A remarkable football record could be extended this weekend as Lanthorne Strokes take the field on the back of a run of NINE consecutive league draws.

The Kent club, whose website is powered by Club Website, have played nine games in the Thanet Sunday League Premier Division this season and have drawn every single one.

Football officials in Wales are concerned about an increase in bad behaviour and violent incidents in amateur football matches.

The Port Talbot and District League was suspended for the last two weekends after reported flare-ups in under-12, 14 and 16 age-group matches, while the South Wales Football Association, to whom the league is affiliated, have reported an increase in poor behaviour in the last year.

The first thing you notice about Raymond Verheijen when you meet him is that he is not here to make friends, he is here to improve football.

“I am not giving my opinion, I am giving you facts. You cannot disagree with facts,” he tells a room full of spellbound pro coaches at Molineux this week.

The Kick It Out Cup drew to a close last weekend with 5-a-side teams from across the UK competing in the finals of one of the game’s largest amateur tournaments.

378 teams from across the country had been whittled down to a final 50 who battled it out in Lucozade Powerleague centres in Manchester and London on an action-packed weekend that drew the 2011 One Game, One Community weeks of action to a close.

This is a piece about Sunday league football.

It will not make any reference to hangovers (yes, some of them go out the night before and are still drunk when they turn up!), fat players (no, they aren’t professional athletes!) or crap pitches (guess what, the public playing surface isn’t completely flat and abundant with grass!).