And one or two have had to be re-arranged because of postponements of games earlier in the campaign.

The bottom line is, however, that you just have to get on with it, as Town will when they play three crucial games in six days starting on Saturday.

Well, you do unless you think you are the best team in the country.

Chelsea, we are told, have reacted angrily to being asked to play two Premier League games in 72 hours after their match at Everton was rescheduled for TV.

They argued the decision to bring the game forward to Thursday from the Saturday undermined the sporting integrity of the competition.

I have to admit that I agree that you should not flog professional sportsmen, even if the demand for the product is there, but take a step back a moment and work out exactly how the rich clubs have become so rich - television.

Chelsea have had a helping hand from Russia as well, but their games are beamed into homes throughout the country on a regular basis, and Sky and Setanta have both paid for the privilege.

Matches are also shown throughout the world, turning the clubs at the top of the Premier League into global brands.

It is inevitable that when you are shelling out millions of pounds a week to show games you get a say in when they are going to be played.

And those who take the coin - and reap the financial rewards the exposure brings - have to dance to the tune of the schedulers.

CASTLEFORD Tigers did not receive a massive amount of backing for the news they were going to give disgraced sprinter Dwain Chambers a trial at the Jungle.

The 29-year-old World Indoor 60m silver medalist is being squeezed out of athletics after returning from a drugs ban.

And it is the openness of his admission that he cheated - and the fact he claimed you had to if you wanted to be a winner - that has upset so many people in the sport.

He tried his hand at American Football without success while he was banned and now Super League looks ready to 'benefit' from his talent.

As a serious move to bring in a player it looks doomed to failure - Cas coach Terry Matterson seemed less than impressed when interviewed after his side's defeat at Bradford.

Perhaps he is worried that the Tigers will now go for ex-Irish swimmer Michele de Bruin and Tour de France winner Floyd Landis to further boost their flagging fortunes.

MIXED feelings over Milton Keynes Dons' victory in the JP Trophy at Wembley on Sunday.

I was delighted for Paul Ince who is proving that you can be English and a good coach.

But I wish the national media had not kept harping on about it being 20 years since the Crazy Gang's FA Cup win over Wimbledon.

The Dons and Wimbledon have very little in common any more - all the latter's trophies were recently returned to London by the former.

MK are a brand new club who bought their way into the Football League and as such there will always be a deal of resentment towards them.