The plan was to try and keep this blog a light hearted look at the joys of following Tooting and Mitcham but as anyone who saw us during the 2017-18 season will tell you, there weren't too many chuckles and smiles as we staggered from fuck up to fuck up like a drunken kamikaze pilot heading towards a slow fiery death in the vast "Pit of Misery" (Dilly Dilly).
Well what can anyone say about the 2017 -18 season that makes it sound anything other than a complete and utter car crash. The last game at Met Police summed up the season almost perfectly, a match we had to win to stand any chance of staying up was done and dusted after only 43 seconds when we went 1-0 down. The travelling Bog End could only laugh and shrug their shoulders. Any hope of survival gone in less than a minute (Dilly Dilly).
We deserved to go down. Burgess Hill the team we were in the relegation battle with beat us both home and away. The writing was on the wall almost from the start of the season as points were dropped left right and centre despite some good performances the points just never came. Staines put 13 goals past us, 7 at home and 6 away and other notable fuck ups were to Enfield at home and Hendon away. All along the fact that only one club would go down seemed to lull many into a false sense of security that we were to good to go down. Several games were lost or possible points dropped in the last few minutes or in injury time. A season that should have been the start of a new successful period of our clubs history has ended in ruins.
As for our noisy neighbours and local squatters, well they've all had pretty good seasons all in all compared with TMUFC. Sutton United had another really good season in the top half of the Conference Premier and making the play offs. Their fan base getting larger and larger as they grow.
Dulwich have had a fantastic season even with the huge off field problems which have nearly destroyed them as a club. 3321 packed into Imperial Fields to not only create a record attendance in our ground but to also watch them beat Hendon in the play off final to go up to the Conference South.
Carshalton Athletic gained promotion as champions. This is a club that a few years ago lost most of its support through the actions of it's owners. A club who now get far bigger crowds than us.
Corinthian Casuals lost out in the play offs but got promoted due to the league restructuring. Another club who's fan base has grown and grown over the last few years.
Looking over our shoulders at the emerging Tooting Bec, Sutton Common Rovers and the success Worcester Park had should start alarm bells ringing.
Well what ever league we are in after the restructure, we better be ready for it, both on the pitch and off it. We can't afford another disaster like this. We have no local rivals to play next season. No games to look forward to for bragging rights. Dilly Dilly..........
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