fortify the game with 3-0

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Even worse when you lose a title on goal difference because your rivals have beaten them 12-0 when they had 11 players available and you only get a 3-0 forfeit win because one of their 11 players got a booking in the 89th minute and was suspended for the game against me.

That has happened 3 times to me this season.

The team bottom of my league has not been able to put a team out twice against me, so I've had two 3-0 walkovers against him.

Yesterday the team 2nd bottom did the same against me.

I'm second in the table, two points behind the leader, but he has +25 goals on me, not helped by the fact that he has played the bottom side twice with a 14-0 and a 11-0 win, plus has the 2nd bottom team later on today now with a squad able to be played.

It could end up costing me the title this season if it comes down to goal difference.

This was me last season - abandoned team were visitors, didn't turn up, 3-0 to me. 3 points clear at the top at the time. Next week, 2nd place visit and beat me narrowly 3-2. Level on points, me slightly ahead on goal difference. Last game of the season, I had to win but could afford to have a lesser win than 2nd place. 2nd place visits abandoned team and wins 10-0. I had to win 8-0 against my visitors then, but wonder of wonders, the Troll visits and I lose 1-3 - or maybe it was the ultra-attacking tactics I had to employ?

Two 'if's - Might I have still won the championship IF I hadn't needed to play with the tactics I thought necessary in the last game IF I had been given the same opportunity to farm goals out of the abandoned team as the other teams in the league (they had gone for at least 7-0 in at least one game to all the other teams in the league and I was the only team they didn't turn up to).

Makes you think, doesn't it...