impsTALK.co.uk | 2008/2009 Predictions

Picking a prospective winner from a two-bob provincial amateur league like the Northern Premier League is a bit like trying to pick which Guided by Voices album is the best: it’s impossible. It cannot be done. Many have tried. All have failed.

But impsTALK is never one to shirk an impossible challenge* and has, over the last few days weeks and months, embarked on a journey of discovery and wonderment surpassed possibly only by Captain Vancouver’s trip up the Inside Passage, canvassing its own brain-noggin and the brain-noggins of various Very Important** pub team followers to try and gauge just how much a crippling disappointment 2008/2009 will be. Will Boston win the league? If not, who will? FCUM? Bradford? Witton?

Who will star for the Pilgrims, and who will end up being booed by some 256 year old Farmer Dans on the Spayne Road terrace? And who are the key players from the other ramshackle outfits that’ll be waltzing through the doors at York Street? We took to the streets - by which we mean keyboard - to find out.

Richard O. Smith - FBYF editor and all round funny bloke

Duncan Browne - local newshound

Chris Taylor - FCUM fan and blogger

Adam Upsall - impsTALK.co.uk deputy bloke

Ken Fox - Rocket scientist

Adam Hildred - BUFCST web man

Johnny Chapman - vegetarian

Pete Brooksbank - impsTALK bloke and part-time Forest fan

We really can't get enough of these, so if you fancy having a pop at the questions, please do - e-mail them to impsTALK and we'll post the best ones. If we get any. Which we probably won't.

*impsTALK shirks not merely a great many impossible challenges, but a large number of possible challenges too.
** Not all people canvassed are important. Some are expendable.