Cup specialists Bels just could not be relied upon

Saturday 8th March 2008, 9:29AM GMT.

Hands in trouser pockets, a young supporter gets up close to the action at the Track to see Bels play Wanderers in the Jeremie Cup. Keith Jeffreys lurks as the visiting keeper performs some aerobatics. (0546375)

CONSISTENCY has become a by-word for the highly-successful Bels first team of the Micky Ogier era.

Two Priaulx League championships in three seasons span a runners-up finish and a whole host of cup wins. It is all very un-Bels like.

For generations they were as up and down as a set of blinds, flattering to deceive time and again. In February 1970 they took it to the extreme, though, with a bizarre sequence of results.