WELL known football administrator Keith Sharp, a big noise in the Peterborough League, rarely misses their showpiece final at London Road.

But where was 'Sharpy' on Monday night for the PFA Senior Cup final between Parson Drove and Perkins?

Was he ill? Well sort of.

He was called out of retirement on Saturday to act as an emergency referee and was so stiff on Monday he couldn't get out of bed!


Can't see for looking

ONE guy who did turn up for the big match . . . but perhaps wished he hadn't was Posh press officer Phil Adlam.

Adlam has been nicknamed 'Bedlam' by some sections of the media and after Monday night it's easy to see why.

After a few minutes watching the game - in which Perkins wore shirts with 'Perkins' emblazoned across the front in big letters, Bedlam asked: "Which team are Perkins?"


Alex Browned off . . .

IT was a 'smashing' Bank Holiday weekend in more ways than one for Perkins boss Alex Brown.

His side beat Parson Drove 2-0 in that PFA Senior Cup final and a few days earlier in a warm-up game at Deeping, one of his players smashed a ball through his car windscreen in the pre-match kickabout!

And even worse, they never had the guts to own up!


Merv's had his chips

PETERBOROUGH Football Association (PFA) chairman Merv 'The Swerve' Cowdell was given a very important job to do for all the PFA cup finals . . . buy the cups for the tea and coffee stall.

Simple. So what did he turn up with? Hundreds of those paper cones they use for chips!


A bird in the hand

WHEN Barry Pritchard kept goal for Perkins and Ramsey many years ago he was as hard as nails and thought nothing of diving at the feet of the most fearsome of strikers.

So it came as a big surprise to learn this week that he was too scared to put his hand in a bird's nest he came across while trimming his conifers.

Eventually he plucked up the courage to discover its contents and squealed all the way down the ladder after being 'bitten' (not pecked, note) by a baby blackbird!


A stroll in the Park

ADI Mowles is a grass - a fact confirmed when the ET asked him to review his season as a Posh fan.

Mowles told us the story of how drinking partner Barry Matthews got lost in Brentford after a booze-up in the four pubs at Griffin Park that began at 2pm and lasted until kick-off (7.45pm).

Coming out of the last pub, Matthews somehow managed to turn the opposite way to everyone else and staggered off into the distance away from the ground.

Eventually he made it back to the ground in time for the second half.


The saucy devil!

Taking time out for breakfast at a recent gala, City of Peterborough Swimming Club press officer David Standish-Leigh was treating his wife Debra to a bacon butty.

"Do you want tomato sauce on that?" he asked. "Yes please," came the reply.

Grabbing the red sauce bottle he liberally applied the sauce. Debra took a big bite and then slowly turned red.

Instead of Heinz best, David had liberally applied Hot Pepper Sauce to her butty.