Kenna League leaders Pikey Scum were held to a draw in their Krakow Cup quarter final first leg by last season’s title winners Thieving Magpies.
The 24-point apiece encounter means Scum will be looking for Harry Kane and Marcus Rashford to rediscover the form that has put the club top of the table for most of season and kept them in with a chance of a second domestic cup for the manager.
Just three weeks ago, Scum were enjoying a 59-point gap over the pack and waltzing past the hapless Sleptember XI in the last sixteen of the cup.
A stellar string of performances from Raheem Sterling and Jamie Vardy – which will surely dry up the second they both touch down in Russia – has seen second-placed Two Goals One Cup cut the lead to 35 points.
To determine if any manager has thrown away such a cushion in the last seven weeks of the season would take statistical analysis beyond the capacity to tear oneself away from tonight’s Anfield abattoir.
Nevertheless, it feels like it would be an unprecedented circumstance for Pikey Scum to lose the title from here.
The double, however, hangs on this weekend’s cup clash with Thieving Magpies.
Krakow Cup – quarter final first leg results
Walthamstow Reds 29 – 20 Young Boys
Thieving Magpies 24 – 24 Pikey Scum
Piss Poor 34 – 38 Wandsworth Network Solutions
The Pirate 23 – 29 Don’t Know Yet
Second leg to be played 10 April
Kenna League – week 30
Full scores available from The Rub.
