The Terriers pitch has been solidly used for the last 13 years, with both football and rugby league being played on it all-year round, with no prospect of the urgent re-seeding it requires.

But Albion had enough of the game to sew it up long before the missed chance in the final minutes.

Others might blame referee Darren Deadman.

While he didn't have the best of games, perhaps a mild understatement, to put everything at his door would hide a number of frailties.

In almost a continuation of the 'what if' scenario I wrote about last week, the Albion could look back on the events in Yorkshire and, come May, definitely put it down as three points dropped.

There was a spell in the second half where the Albion, having equalised, had three gilt-edged chances.

If, here we go again, one of those had gone in, the trip back down the M1 would almost certainly have been accompanied by three precious points.

So, is the play-off dream over for another year?

Well, almost like the upcoming American election, it's too close to call. It's still in the Albion's hands, just.

But, like most seasons, a critical Easter programme will give a clearer picture.

Many thanks to the good people at Worthing Thunder, who responded to my request for an outline as to how the club hope to progress to the BBL next season (see page 72).

Thunder pointed out they thought my comparison bet-ween them and the old Wimble-don FC was a little harsh.

I wasn't comparing the two clubs.

What I said was Wimbl-edon were a classic case of a club whose achievements on the pitch dwarfed what they were ever capable of away from it.

And, purely by coincidence, my point was re-iterated this week.

The much maligned MK Dons, the club which evolved from Wimbledon but moved to Buckinghamshire, have sold 24,000 tickets in under a week for their Wembley Johnstones Paint Trophy Final against Grimsby.

In their former guise, Wimbledon couldn't sell 18,000 tickets in nearly a three-week period for an FA Cup Final against Liverpool in 1988.

The purists screamed howls of derision when the Dons migrated north, shouting about franchise football, and the like, but has part of their argument been well and truly answered?

One of the Worthing Football League's leading clubs will find themselves homeless after their landlords have given them notice to quit.

Warren Sports, having in previous years gone under the names of Excess Sports, L&E and Norwich Union, will be told to vacate their ground at the Warren, as Norwich Union are closing down the sports and social club on the site.

I am told that at no time were Warren given the opportunity to take on the running of the clubhouse, or the upkeep of the football pitch.

Clearly the decision has been made from up above, possibly from someone who hasn't even been to Worthing.

But does it represent a serious own goal from Norwich Union?

There is no doubt they are a large multi-national company who have, in the sports and social club framework, a community facility that would have benefited a large number of people in and around the town.

This includes a good size swimming pool, which is now boarded up, as well as the social club building and impressive sports grounds.

Something which community use would have resulted in excellent PR for the company.

Sadly for Warren Sports, that seems to have been overlooked.