Three games to save the season: Eastbourne Borough are fighting so well but have hard work ahead

Chippenham Town visit the Lane tomorrow (Saturday) and then the Sports head to Weston-super-Mare on Tuesday night before their final game at Braintree on Saturday week.

Borough's long haul to Gloucester, where Truro are completing their fixtures, produced no goals and only a few real chances - almost all of them falling to Adam Murray's men. On 20 minutes David Sesay's drive was deflected narrowly over the bar by Matt Green, and then just before half-time Yahya Baba scuffed a shot just wide from a central position.

Borough beat Weymouth – the match in pictures by Lydia and Nick Redman.

Straight after the break Green was inches away from converting Bamba's low centre, before Sports keeper Harrison Foulkes was called on for an excellent stop from a Truro corner. Truro's only other real chance arrived in the final ten minutes, defender Dan Quick clearing a City effort off the line. But the stalemate stayed unbroken - and the fate of the Sports remains in the balance.

The variables are, well, too variable. In the end it will come down to simple statistics: how many wins, draws and points for achieving the safety of that fifth-from-bottom place.

In a division of 24 clubs, only two are – as the Herald goes to print – definitely down, and the remaining two relegation places are open, like the bony beckoning finger of the Wicked Witch, to as many as eight other clubs. Working downwards: Weymouth, Welling, Hemel Hempstead, Torquay, Truro, Eastbourne Borough, Dartford, Taunton.