From the bottom up - manager by manager part 7

Francey's Keep the faith struggled to make any real impact on Div 1 this season. He dallied a little with relegation, only ever got as high as 10th but will do it all again next season, when he might even make a transfer.

Bix's Whitened Smut had an up and down season, pretty much bumping from the edge of relegation to the edge of promotion. A poor start (34th) and then up to 8th at the midway point, there just wasn't enoug activity in the transfer market from Neil and ended just 20 points from safety.

20th after 3rd place last year, this was John McGowan's worse season since 2006! Despite being Runners Up in the League Cup, Loads of Roubles was active as always in the market, did make 8th in September but in what would have surprised and pleased the title challengers, John's own challenge just never camek, this after 5 consecutive top 8 finishes. Champions of Europe though, eh John?

Good on paper had a steady season after promotion from Div 2 last season. A bad start but he soon improved and even hit over a hundred in week 26 peaking at 13th. Mark did get a little to close to the relegation zone for comfort but ended up 68 points clear.

Bingo FC was another promoted manager that comfortably held his own with the big boys. In fact Wardy started the season on fire. he was 2nd after 5 weeks and spent all of the first 10 weeks in the top 8. He then had a mini collapse and found himself in the bottom 12 for three weeks in January but 6 transfers out pay to any worries and the it was a case of whether he could push himself back into the top 8. He couldn't.

Richard, so good they named him twice, Richards was another to come up last year and was another that started the season so well. ThE DrEaM FacTorY hit the early heights of 7th but mostly were outside knocking on the door, quite loudly over Christmas, but without more transfer activity Rich just couldn't get close to the top 8 and ended up 17th.

How's about Bollocks were one of the few teams that managed to fight their way out of relegation. As low as 30th at one time, Pete used all of his fantasy skills to get himself out of trouble and the twice-champion ended up in a decent 16th, one place better off than last season.

FFC 4Ever were another who spent a fair bit of time in the bottom 12 but ended up being too good. Promoted last season (8 of 10 that will play another season in the top flight), Steve won a couple of MoW's but was just a little inconsistent and played a real mid-table mediocre season. Not to be sniffed at however. Fulham have done it for years.