Going into this week, there was a huge chance for Harry to extend his lead as Luke would be spending the latter part of the week at the Reading festival, whilst Harry would be attending two Southampton youth matches.

The week started early for us with a trip to The Johnny Rocks Stadium for Carlisle’s visit to Cheltenham. Despite living within an hour of the ground, neither of us had ever watched a game there, so we were looking forward to it.

The game itself was decent, especially the first half. Gavin Reilly opened the scoring for the hosts giving both of us our first ‘R’ of the season. We wouldn’t have to wait much longer for Cheltenham an our second.

Former Premier League striker Luke Varney calmly slotted home later on in the half as we picked up our first and probably last ‘V’ of the campaign. The rest of the game remained goaless as we traveled back to Bristol very happy.

As mentioned above, Luke spent the following days at Reading which gave Harry a great opportunity to grab a couple more. He spent the Saturday at Southampton u18s v Chelsea u18s. It was a tight match that ended 1-0 to the visitors with Lewis Bates grabbing a brilliant winner. Harry and Luke for the matter, both already have ‘B’s with Patrick Bamford’s goal against Bristol City.

The week didn’t end there. Harry had another game working for Opta but this time the Southampton u23s as they faced a strong Liverpool u23s side. This match had quite a few more goals as Liverpool came out 4-2 winners at Staplewood Training Ground.

Promising young striker Rhian Brewster opened the scoring early on but that lead was wiped out within minutes by Will Smallbone. They regained the lead ten minutes later through Curtis Jones and extended their lead just after half time through Pedro Chirivella. Dan N’lundulu halved the deficit but Louie Longstaff completed the win after good work by Harvey Elliot.

From this, Harry gained two new alphabet scorers letter. ‘J’ for Curtis Jones and ‘L’ for Louie Longstaff. This gives Harry a lead of four now heading into to next month. We will both be heading to university in a matter of weeks so matches may dry up for a month, but next week will be jam packed once again so stay tuned.