With just three games remaining in the regular season, the Royal Blenheim (Oxford City) are not going to win the Premiership.

They may, however, have a major say in who does, and this at a time when they are in the midst of an excellent purple patch.

This Thursday, they take on the divisional leaders and defending champions, the Plough (Wolvercote), and should they defeat them it sets up an intriguing championship decider seven days later when the Plough are scheduled to play their housemates, the Ploughman’s Bunch!

On current form, the Blenheim could well upset the Plough’s proverbial ‘applecart’.

A fortnight ago, they demolished the Bunch! 92-60. Then, last week, they snatched a last-gasp victory in the most recent of a series of themed ‘tabletops’, this edition embracing all things ‘1990s’.

The whole gang were present: Nick the Thesp, Doc, the Vicar, Ben Stokes (I’m sure it was him!), Justin (Victoria Coren-Mitchell’s personal favourite) and Chris (minus the orange dye and bouffant hairdo he paraded in a recent episode of Eggheads).

In a contest that was expertly marshalled and read by Uncle Rupert, it was the two Plough outfits who were quickest out of the blocks only to be pegged back briefly by Captain Conway and his Black Swan (East Oxford) posse.

Sadly, this was not to last.

By the half-time interval, the Plough had consolidated their early advantage. And after the break, the Plough maintained their lead entering the final round.

Thereafter, a familiar tale was retold. The Royal Blenheim were at it again, posting 58 to finish on 172, just one clear of the Plough with the Bunch! six points back in third.

The Green Road Club, frontrunners in Section One, ended up in fourth with the in-form White Hart (Eynsham) taking fifth. The Black Swan rallied well to wind up sixth.

Attention now reverts back to league action for the remainder of the campaign.

The Green Road Club could seal the title in their division this Thursday should they see off the Seacourt Bridge (Botley) and both the Bletchingdon Nomads and the North Oxford Conservative Club fail to get the better of the Blue Boar and Ploughman’s Bunch! respectively.

JAMES CARR'S QUESTIONS

* Which R Kelly hit record appears on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time? 

* What is the name of the 1996 American disaster film starring Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt as storm chasers researching tornadoes? The film was the second-highest-grossing film of 1996 in the USA.

* What was the call sign of the eight-man British Army SAS patrol, deployed into Iraq during the First Gulf War in January 1991? 

* ‘You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct’ – this is a line from which novel? 

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