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.

It was a quieter week this week after a quick start to the season. With Luke taking a break and playing football rather than watching it, this week allowed Harry to possibly gain a lead in the alphabet scorers race. St Mary’s was the destination for his first match and he got his fair share of action. A first half stoppage time goal from Sadio Mane gave Harry his first ‘M’ of the season.

The next new letter wasn’t far away at all with Roberto Firmino adding a second of the day for Liverpool and a second new letter of the day for Harry. A hat-trick of new letter was achieved when Adrian gifted Danny Ings a goal against his former club.

This wouldn’t be the end for Harry’s weekend as he headed down to Southampton once again but this time for their u23 team face up against Derby. The rules of the competition allow some over age players to feature and Derby took advantage of that by playing Chris Martin, Graeme Shinnie and Duane Holmes.

Derby won the match 1-0 with a goal from exciting youngster Jayden Mitchell-Lawson. A good goal for him but not so for Harry as he already had the letter ‘M’ with the above mentioned Mane goal two days prior.

So this means after the third week, Harry gains a lead of two over Luke. Despite the season being just a couple weeks in, the lead has changed twice already so it looks like it should be an exciting season both on and off the pitch.

Next week begins quickly with both of us heading to Cheltenham v Carlisle on the Tuesday. The likes of Luke Varney we’ll have a special eye on.

After a jam-packed weekend of action on our first week ground hopping we carried on our venture through the leagues with a match between Yeovil and Eastleigh. Yeovil had been the destination for Harry’s for hundreds of times over the past 13-14 years and most of it was successful until the last 6 seasons.

However a well fought 1-0 victory other the fellow play off contenders came as a great relief. More relief came when we realised Courtney Duffus was the man to slot home, as he became a new man for our alphabet scorers. It was the only goal in the game as we move on to the weekend.

It would be the first time we’d have spent the weekend apart since we started, and we both got our fair share of entertainment. First up, Harry visited Fratton Park for Portsmouth’s visit of Tranmere. If you had read the article about the trip down South then you’d know that Pompey midfielder Ben Close scored a wonder goal with Tom Naylor also notching, in scruffier fashion.

Luke headed off to the capital to watch his favourite team, Tottenham. It was a big day for him as it would be the first time visiting the magnificent ground since its rebuilding and boy did he have reason to celebrate.

After an early shock goal from John McGinn rocked the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, new record signing Tanguy N’dombele equalised for Spurs with only around 15 minutes to go. However, Spurs synonymously don’t go down without a fight and a player who won’t give up until the final whistle is Harry Kane.

Arguably the best striker in the league or even the world, struck twice late on to give Tottenham and Luke that winning feeling once again after their Champions League Final defeat at the end of last season.

This means Luke squeezes one letter ahead of Harry as he picked up three new letters to Harry’s two. It may change next week as Harry’s heads to the South coast once again to watch Southampton face Liverpool and Luke is playing football so will not be able to add to his tally.

In our first weekend groundhopping we started off with a bang, attending two games in two days. With it being the first games of our season our alphabet scorers were bound to start off to a flyer.

Bath v Braintree finished 2-0 to the host with both goals being scored by a player beginning with ‘S’. Ross Stearn and Tom Smith with the goals but neither Luke or I actually managed to see Smith’s strike as we were still in the bar at half time, but nevertheless we got our ‘S’ for the season and went into the Bristol City game with high hopes.

If you read our blog from that game, or watched the game yourself then you’d know the two teams didn’t let us down. There were four goals in total, with Andreas Weimann bagging the consolation for Bristol City, whilst Pablo Hernandez and Patrick Bamford got us our ‘B’ and ‘H’ letters. Jack Harrison later scored for Leeds but that wasn’t much use to us.

So where does this leave the leader-board. Well obviously we both went to the same games to we have the same amount completed at the moment. This should change next week as we will be going to a separate match on Saturday so look out for that.