Paul McKeown wrote:Some years ago Athenaeum I won the Middlesex League, Athenaeum II came second, whilst Athenaeum III won the second division. Athenaeum II managed to win away(!) against Athenaeum I, iirc, whilst losing to them at home. Rather than have three Athenaeum teams in the first division, all three (highly motivated) captains resigned, and the club dropped one of its teams.
From memory Athenaeum II were benefitted somewhat by managing to schedule a large proportion of their games before Athenaeum I had played almost any. Thereby allowing a large number of players to spend the first half of the season playing for the second team, and the second half for the first team (usually a player can only play so many 'higher team' games before becoming ineligible for the lower team).
John Hodgson wrote:Next year there will almost certainly be three Drunken Knights teams in the 1st Division of the London League.
This leaves open the possibility of the same Drunken Knights player playing three times against another team.
Maybe one day we will have 11 Drunken Knights teams, and Wood Green, in Division 1.
Well this year we (Hackney) managed to beat Drunken Knights I 9-3 and lose to Drunken Knights II 7-5. Go figure!