Snow joke as fixtures are put on ice (ba-dum-tish)

The annual bout of snow we seem to get in this country nowadays is manna from local newspaper heaven.

After all, why bother digging around for actual stories when you can fill pages with pictures of smiling kids on sledges, user-generated content (ie, people sending in pictures of their snowmen), and long-winded quotes from weathermen who don't really know what they're talking about. My working week is done before it's even started, hurrah

Groundsmen up and down the country weren't so pleased to welcome the waves of wintry weather which swept across the Uk last Friday, laying waste to the entire Blue Square Premier weekend programme including United's planned Friday night clash with Oxford.

In a way I was disappointed to see the game be called off as I was looking forward to seeing how we'd fare against an outfit who thus far have been comfortably the best in the division. However our Christmas schedule looks considerably less daunting now that the toughest match of the four has been taken out of the equation. Mansfield haven't been in great form recently, so I'm fairly confident we can get something there, and in the home game against Stevenage, although the away leg in Chavsville will be a very tricky proposition. Of course we'll have to play Oxford at some point, but psychologically the postponement may have been a timely one - a heavy defeat on Friday night could have set our confidence back ahead of three matches in quick succession.

Meanwhile Steve Y'Know's future with the Villagers remains about as certain as Eurostar's festive timetabling plans, with talks continuing about the size of his pay off how his situation can be resolved. It might be a good idea if somebody got Stutes chairman Tony Roach a Harry Potter outfit for Christmas, as it seems he has been busy with his magic wand since taking over:

"I’m fed up of reading about Histon being in crisis – there was a crisis when I took over, but there isn’t now," he told the CN, before adding “everyone’s working hard and working together, and there are a lot of positives at the club at the moment.” It seems that, despite their well publicised differences of opinion, Roach has inherited his predecessors penchant for spin. Plus ca change.