It's the end of the world as we know it...

...but funnily enough, I feel fine. No swine flu on this blog just yet, oh no, although there have certainly been a few swines associated with CUFC down the years.

Nevertheless, I'm getting a bit worried that the government might decide to ban mass gatherings such as football matches for our own protection as they seek to control the pandemic. Can you imagine our play off games having to be played behind closed doors? Actually in Histon's case it would probably result in an improvement in atmosphere, though I don't think ourselves, Stevenage, or Torquay would be so pleased.

After getting over the disappointment of Sunday, I'm feeling more upbeat about our chances of dispatching The Chavs and making it to Wembley once more. Cardy apparently shares my confidence:

"We did under-perform when we played them down there and we shot ourselves in the foot by conceding a couple of goals," our assistant manager notes in today's CN. "so the lads won't need winding up for this one."

Always good to hear, although I'd be a bit worried if they needed winding up for a play-off game to be honest. Having heard Carden talking on the Non-League show last week, he seems a bit more at ease with the media than the Brabinator, but I couldn't agree less with his comments (also in the CN article) about the Conference deserving more promotion spots.

Since the two-up, two-down, system was introduced, so many terrible sides have made it into what is described in the afforementioned article as the "elite 92"; exactly how elite can a competition which contains detritus like Accrington, Macclesfield, and Dagenham, be exactly? That's not to say they don't deserve to be there on footballing merit, just that the more promotion spots you make available, the higher chance there is that teams who don't have the fanbase or infrastructure to support league football will start climbing the ladder.

If anything they should be making it more difficult to get into the Football League. We and the rest of the relegated teams are here because we deserve to be here, and just because there are a lot of big (in non-league terms) teams in the Conference at present doesn't mean we should be able to escape this awful division without doing our time.