A Cup - Part Five

Should the weather hold off long enough, Mossley will be hoping to make it ‘fifth time lucky’ when it comes to progressing past the opening round in a cup competition this season.

The law of averages suggest that we’re going to win a knockout fixture sooner rather than later, and the President’s Cup provides the Lilywhites with a final chance to do just that in the 07/08 campaign. Of course there’s always the chance that we could reach the play-offs but that’s for the distant future along with hover cars, Sunday lunch in a pill and The Jetson's becoming a documentary. Okay, next May’s probably not that far ahead.

Our opponents in this 'First Division clubs only' competition are Skelmersdale United who were recently on the wrong end of 4 - 3 scoreline at Seel Park in a league fixture. And as it’s a mere two weeks since that happened, there’s not much more I can add to the preview that I did for that game, other than to say we’ve lost our intervening two games whilst Skelmersdale have won two of their three matches (the one they didn’t win coming in the FA Trophy at Stocksbridge).

Preview: I do hope I’m wrong but I can’t see our fortune in the cup competitions changing for the better in this game. A win for the visitors. :(

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