The Nirvana Index

	Points	Cumulative
James Dean updates us This is my new personal Football Enjoyment Index (FEI). The FEI measures my enjoyment of football at this stage in time, on a 1-100 index, increasing and decreasing according to events on and off the pitch at the Racecourse. I started at 50. If I reach 100, I am officially in football Nirvana. If I reach 1, I'll be willing to swap places with a Chester City fan. Picking up from where we left off last time, this covers the period between the Afan Lido match and Darlington game (for want of a better word)	41	41
4-0 win at Afan Lido Business as usual in the Welsh Policemen's Challenge, or whatever the hell it's called these days. This was exactly what we needed, with the competition assuming more importance once again since we're out of everything else!	+1	42
2-1 win against Scunny A very solid result, with everyone I've spoken to who was at the game being impressed by the team's composure, and great to see both frontmen score for once.	+3	45
2-0 win at Oxford A great result at one of our main play-off rivals to continue our absolutely fantastic away record. If we can keep this up, we should be looking good for the end of the season.	+2	47
2-0 loss at Bournemouth A pity to lose against another promotion-chasing side, but hopefully just a minor blip. However, Smith suffered from a real case of foot-in- mouth-disease in his post-game interview, practically telling the fans who'd travelled down to the South Coast to see them that he wasn't bothered about the result.	-1	46
3-0 win against Southend Fantastic result, great performance, three brilliant goals…and I missed it! Although I may have played an important role here…see below.	+4	50
0-0 draw with Darlington Snore…this was DREADFUL, with two boring teams who didn't seem even half-interested for most of the game. From a personal point of view, having come back up from university to go to the match, it was even worse…I think I'm right in saying the last time I saw us win at the Racecourse was the Exeter game on 17 September! Can a banning order be far away?!	-2	48
Davies/Lovett tiff Oh god…just when you thought the man who claimed 'Chester Reject' chants were set to drive Psycho out of the club had improved to the point that he was almost a real journalist, we get this classic quip targeted at RP's editor, Peter Davies: 'The part-time columnist who likened Lee Trundle to a performing one-trick seal should get a life - and a bigger goldfish bowl.' Far be it from me to point out the essential hypocrisy of an Evening Leader writer complaining about the size of ANYONE else's goldfish bowl, so I'll just look bemusedly at the way good ol' Dai has firstly completely ignored the overall complimentary tone of Pete's article on Trunds, and then brilliantly invented the term 'one-trick seal.' Surely the finest Paul Simon album that never was.	-1	47
Lee Trundle The above debate got me thinking closely over 'Super Lee'…and wondering when he's going to restart delivering the goods. There's no questioning his skill, but a strike-rate of about one in every five games is hardly the second coming of Gary Bennett, and really struggles to be mentioned in the same breath as Morrell, Kitson of Cambridge, and Torquay's 'G Force' of Martin Gritton and David Graham.	-1	46
Dennis Lawrence Good old Dennis…Tall Man was the subject of much criticism in my last article, but has apparently been turning in talismanic performances left, right and centre since my suggestion he find alternative employment in a certain part of Cheshire…obviously scared him into playing well! He's still prone to too many mistakes, but his all-round game appears to be back where it was before his dip in form earlier this season.	+2	48
On that note, we end the FEI for now, and the final total so far is...		48