Getting to grips with football life at Port Soif: Rovers’ impressive new goalkeeper Richard Davey climbs over teammates to get to the ball. (Picture by Tom Tardif, 0854307)

Rovers 0, Belgraves 3
TO QUOTE that great football sage, Jimmy Greaves: ‘It’s a funny old game.’

At the end of Bels’ 3-0 win at Rovers on Saturday, you would have expected the home side’s coaching staff to have been disappointed and Bels’ new boss Ian Champion to have been pleased.

But it was the other way round. Champion was not a happy man.

They next face champions North on Friday evening.

‘We were rubbish and that was the worst performance since I’ve been here,’ he said. ‘If we play like that against North we’ll get hammered. Well done to Rovers.

‘They are coming on leaps and bounds.’

Bels have been taking a hammering themselves from all quarters after they fielded a virtual full strength first team in a Second Division match with Centrals a couple of weeks ago.

Needless to say, they won 11-0, much to the disgust of the local football community.

Champion made reference to this saga after he was asked why his side had performed so badly against Rovers.

‘Maybe it’s the amount of flak we’ve been taking at the moment. You never know,’ he said before walking off.