Lee Carter still gunning for AFC Telford title
AFC Telford United managing director Lee Carter has never known a season so "stop-start" as this – but still believes the club can be champions.
The Bucks' first-ever trip to Oxford City on Saturday was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch, which saw them drop another place to fifth.
However, Skrill Conference North league leaders North Ferriby United dropped the ball by losing 2-0 at home to Barrow, Telford's conquerors at the New Bucks Head last month.
Brackley Town's 2-1 win at Boston United saw them go fourth on goal difference, having played a game more, a result left Liam Watson's side shunted down a place.
Telford are just three points adrift on top spot despite enduring their fourth two-week break of the campaign, with Carter admitting they have spent more time on the sidelines than ever.
He said: "I have never known a season like it, we have been stop-start almost since we went out of the FA Cup in September. We seem to have a bad result, a couple of good ones and then we stop.
"It's frustrating but any football club that got a game over the weekend at this level is nothing short of heroic, really. It's the same situation for everyone.
"We would have been touch and go if had been a home game, there was surface water on the pitch but we would probably have got it on."
With the race for the title still tight, Carter is expecting plenty of twists and turns between now and the season's end and has every confidence is club can still end up as the big winners.
He said: "We couldn't be happier, really, we are maybe even a little bit surprised by how everything has gone to plan so far.
"Our aim was to average two points a game and we are just behind that, at the minute, but we are not far off being exactly where we want to be. That's what we brought Liam in for.
"It's about kicking on from here and make sure we, as a minimum, get into the play-offs. But any of the top five now need to know that we are not writing the title off.
"That's what we are still playing for and there will be no one in this football club who will be thinking otherwise, we can still be champions.
"Between now and the end of the season, we have only got Altrincham from the current top six to face and at home, too. That could be a major factor in our favour."
