Whitstable Town FC

VCD's draw at Erith Monday night took them to sixth spot and on Wednesday night Maidstone are at home to Tunbridge Wells. Winning their game in hand over Thamesmead would put them in second place just three points behind Beckenham Town. That top three have contrasting fixtures on Saturday. Beckenham are at home to 15th placed Greenwich Borough, Stone's away to a very variable Sporting Bengal and Thamesmead have a tough trip down to Deal Town.

Other league games of more immediate interest to Whitstable will be Erith Town versus Erith & Belvedere, improving VCD against unbeaten Lordswood and the Slade Green game, hosts this week to Tunbridge Wells. The remaining fixture is our local rivals Herne Bay who are at home to a struggling Hythe Town.

A half of the KOFL Premier sides will have played ten games by the end of Saturday, a third of the season already gone, and the prospect of poorer weather after this Indian summer will, no doubt, throw a few spanners in the works for some. Just three weeks ago the league title was Beckenham's for the taking, with the gap narrowing this no longer looks a certainty. Last Saturday's drawn match means Maidstone and Thamesmead have still yet to lose a game, and they won't meet the current leaders until December. With a packed midtable (a five points span from 4th to 11th place) not too far behind them no one can be sure of the outcome from this season.

Come on you Reds!

Peter Albin, 18th October 2005.