As a goal flew in the back of the net, and the update came through, Techocover Welshpool Town v Haverfordwest Town, along with a score and scorer, was just too many letters.

All the words began to roll into one, creating what began to resemble a pretty useful hand at Scrabble.

Well, I've got news for Jeff Stelling and the boys. Be afraid, be very afraid. Because just think what will happen on Boxing Day.

Imagine the SkySports vidiprinter in overdrive when the following comes through. 'Techoacidhouse Welshpool Town 5 (five) The New Saints Oswestry Llansanffaid Somewhere On The Border 6 (six) Alex Darlington, 90 (hat-trick)....

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ON A similar subject, the County Times received an anonymous letter this week about crowds in the Welsh Premiership.

It read: "How long can this farce continue? The New Saints v Porthmadog. Gate 211. They must be the worst supported full-time side in the United Kingdom. Never in the history of football has so much been spent to entertain so few.

"Caersws v Connah's Quay. Gate 127. Without their sugar daddy the Bluebirds are finished.

"Welshpool v Haverfordwest. Gate 116. Welshpool have never been a well supported club and they want a stadium to hold 3,000. I know a club getting bigger gates than this in the Montgomeryshire Amateur League."

Well, I can only presume the letter writer was a Newtown fan?

And I think he or she is missing the point.

Welshpool Town are working hard to increase their support, last year they invited thousands of school children to attend games for free, but they will never attract big gates to Maesydre in its current form.

Take a look around the Football League. There is not a single example of a football club that has built a new stadium and crowds have not increased.

People expect decent facilities, families won't stand in the mud and the driving rain.

3,000 may be ambitious, but without ambition a football club is finished. It would allow them to retain Welsh Premiership status and, if the team improved on the pitch, host European football.

I move on to Caersws. Pre-season favourites for relegation.

If ever a team deserved the crowds to come out of the woodwork it is Caersws, who appear to succesfully be scrapping for their Welsh Premier lives.

Near certainties for the drop with the bookies at the start of the season, they have shown what a bit of togetherness, fight, and tactical ability can achieve. The Bluebirds finished? Far from it.

Perhaps my argument about crowds increasing in new stadia will come crashing down around my ears with The New Saints?

Maybe, but lets give them time to build a new fan base.

Only last season they finally completed the brave move to Oswestry, and admittedly crowds haven't flocked in. But they have had far bigger gates than 211.

The Venue is a terrific venue, no pun intended, and is one which the club should be proud of.

As soon as the people of Oswestry and the border area around realise what is on offer, crowds will steadily flock in.

And, as they sit proudly at the top of the table, remember people always support a winning side.

I accept not everything about the Welsh Premiership is perfect.

But knocking clubs who are trying hard to achieve something for the community is not the way forward.

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ON page three (well it had to be didn't it if there was an element of nudity) we feature some likely lads from Llanfyllin who quite literlly got their kit off for charity.

They've made a not-quite nude calendar to raise money for testicular cancer. The jokes write themselves – well at least they had the balls to do something – but fair play to them, and I hope people support them and buy the calendar in their droves.