Six goals in 11 games? Little wonder, then, that Shelbourne old-boy Richie Foran (below, right) is acquiring God-like status down Cumbria way. On Saturday he scored the winner for Carlisle United against Kidderminster Harriers, a result that lifted Roddy Collins's lads off the bottom of the third division (we don't mean to be parochial, but he headed home a corner delivered by Peter Murphy, once of St Joseph's, Sallynoggin, fame).

Richard Sadlier's scoring ratio isn't quite as impressive (five in 14, his fifth a last-minute equaliser against Nottingham Forest on Saturday), but it was still enough to prompt Millwall to issue a feisty "hands off" warning last week to Aston Villa who, word has it, like the look of the former Belvedere ace goal poacher, as they say in the trade, Brian.

And what of Stephen Hunt, Brentford's Irish under-21 midfielder? Where does he call home? We're not entirely sure, because both Waterford and Laois claim him as their own. Any way, the Laois-Waterford man (former clubs: Rathgormack, Johnville, Carrick and Crystal Palace) had one of those days on Saturday. He scored both goals in Brentford's 2-0 win over Bournemouth, a win that kept them top of the second division, but was then sent off for an untoward lunge on an unsuspecting opponent.