Season 75 - Are you ready?

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Day 26 - Palace teams report.

Three matches to go, and the Palace teams have polar opposite tasks for the rest of the season: Casuals to protect a 5 point lead in the League; Terriers to overcome a five point deficit - both have done enough to gain promotion and claim a Champions League spot for next season. Both had matches this evening, kicking off 26 minutes apart.

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Palace Casuals' only challengers for the League title were at home playing 6th place, Casuals themselves had a home match against 3rd. A double from right-winger Andrea Denicola gave the home side the edge in a tight 2-1 win; then the result from the other match filtered through, and it was a defeat for 2nd place - Casuals are the League Champions!!!







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Palace Terriers were at home against the basement team, having seen that the League leaders had won their match earlier today, and rather than go all-out for a big win, decided to play to ensure the three points. Nikolay Radev swung in a corner for Kamel Hamlili to head in the opener, then scored (another) hat-trick for himself to go top of the 'Golden Boot' table. Terriers are still 5 points adrift of the top of the table, and the leaders play Terriers' opponents of today away tomorrow - Terriers have a six point lead and substantial goal difference advantage over third place, so have claimed at least second place this season.