Fearing a second successive null and void

game every 3.4 days, or twice a week. Wessex players are no strangers to playing twice a week, but for 11 successive weeks? And after only playing one league game between November 3 and February 26? And that’s with no postponements taken into account.

And that doesn’t include at least one Vase tie and a Portsmouth Senior Cup semi-final with Moneyfields!

Realistically, you can only complete the season by extending into June or July. And will the FA sanction that?

Hampshire Premier League The season has generally always finished in May. Since its inception in 2007/08, the final league game has been played in April on only three occasions.

In 2012/13 the final game was played on May 18 and the previous season May 16, so a mid-May finish would not be a first.

If games restarted on February 27 and finished on May 22, that would leave 13 Saturdays in which to complete 58 per cent of the season (so far 202 out of 480 Senior Division games have been played).

Locks Heath have got the fewest Senior Division games left (14) while Paulsgrove have the most (20).

Providing there are no weather-related postponements - or further lockdowns - Grove would play seven midweek games in order to finish by May 22.

T h a t wouldn’t be a first either - in April 2018 Grove played EIGHT midweek matches in a month en route to winning the HPL title. In Division 1, leaders Moneyfields Reserves have 18

Play half the fixtures and draw a line under the table when that happens

Simon Carter

Locks Heath have the fewest games left of any local step 3-7 club