NEVER TRUST A HIPPY

While football has never really enjoyed a new age patronage, something to do with bad karma and negative vibes man. The revelation that Stonehenge is actually an ancient football ground led to Early Doors commissioning a survey which asked twenty four crystal licking star gazing tree hugging herb smoking hippies (each from a town/city/proposed new town of a Division One club), to predict where in the table that club would finish at the end of the season.

After much rubbing of crystals, barking at the moon, yogic meditation and general chanting of runic bollocks our hippy soothsayer friends came up with the following, which could quite possibly be the most unprecedented end of season table ever seen in the Nationwide.

Pos	Team
1	Bradford, Manchester City
2
3	Birmingham
4	Forest, Watford, Wimbledon
5	Preston, WBA
6	Barnsley, Burnley, Millwall
7	Crewe, Wolves
8	Palace, Sheffield United
9
10	Norwich
11
12
13
14	Gillingham, Portsmouth
15	Coventry, Stockport
16
17
18	Sheffield Wednesday
19
20	Rotherham
21	Grimsby, Walsall
22
23
24

Two teams will finish in first place, Bradford & Man City which could be possible on both counts. It gets pretty interesting in the play off zone with nine teams going into the play off lottery. Birmingham having to play off against 6^th placed Barnsley, Burnley & Millwall while 4^th placed Forest, Watford & Wimbledon slug it out with 5^th placed Preston & West Brom.

Wolves, while failing to make the play offs (again), strangely finish higher than 11^th. It is at the foot of the table where we see the most bizarre placings. Not one team ends in the relegation zone. Rotherham, Grimsby & Walsall all managing to escape the drop zone on the last day of the season with gritty away wins.

Early Doors would like to thank DRUGS for their co-operation in conducting this survey. (DRUGS: The Druids Runic & Unified Governing Stasi, just to tie that one up).

NEXT UPDATE AT THE END OF THE SEASON

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