After making a stuttering start, Legal & General transformed their season with two epic Cup runs and a comfortable mid-table finish in Division 1 of the 4Walls 4Sale Cardiff Sunday League.   I forced my way into the team at the start of the campaign in September but the arrival of new players in October made it difficult to get back into the side until I played the full 90 minutes of our 5-3 victory over JD Builders, heading an own-goal in the process!   Many of the winter fixtures fell foul to the weather but during this time I endured a frustrating period on the bench without getting on the pitch at all in some games.   However, after playing 90 minutes in a friendly, I was handed a start in the Division 1 Cup tie with Cardiff Cobras and repaid the manager's faith with my best performance of the season as I set up the first two goals in a 4-0 drubbing.   The long wait for my first L&G goal finally ended in my 42nd game for the club on April Fools' Day, and this was no joke!   During a friendly against Hazell Carr, I capitalised on a scramble at a corner to hook home from 5 yards out and put us 2-0 up midway through the first half.   In the Cups, I created Mark Curran's third as we lost 4-3 in extra-time of the Semi-Finals of the 4Walls 4Sale League Cup to Grangetown Bulldogs, who were unbeaten in all competitions.   We reached the Final of the Division 1 Cup, where we faced Maltings at the Cardiff University ground in Llanrumney. Under a baking hot sun, we went 3-0 down by half-time despite hitting the post early on and things looked over.   However, Maltings had a man sent off before Stuart Shelly headed in from a corner and then stabbed home another to reduce the deficit but despite a late onslaught we could not draw level.   Having come on as sub for the last 20 minutes on the left of midfield, my runners-up trophy now takes pride of place on top of my TV. CHRIS CHAPPELL Born Bristol 21-06-1979 Midfielder Senior Apps: 96/4

League Year Club Lge Gls Oth Gls Bristol Sunday Div 4 95-96 Hawkins Ins Res 11 1 4 - Bristol Sunday Senior 95-96 Hawkins Ins (Loan) 1 - - - Bristol U-18 Comb 96-97 Chipping Sodbury 7 1 2 - Bristol Downs Div 3 97-98 Ashley Arms Res 1 - - - Bristol Sunday Div 5 98-99 House of Pine 5 - - - Bristol Sunday Div 4 99-00 Bishopston United 3 - 5 1 Bristol & Avon Div 2 00-01 Bishopston United 1 - - - Birmingham Festival 00-01 Village FC Sunday 7 - 1 - Cardiff Sunday Div 2 01-02 Legal & General 11 - 1 - Cardiff Sunday Div 1 02-03 Legal & General 9 - 4 - Cardiff Sunday Div 1 03-04 Legal & General 8 - 15 1 TOTAL 64 2 32 2 The 2003/04 Season Date Home Score Away Comp 7 Aug Legal & General 1-2 Spartak Canton Fr 14 Aug Legal & General 6-4 Brunel House XI Fr 2 Sep Legal & General 1-12 Fairoak Fr 10 Sep Legal & General 2-3 L & G Rams Lge 14 Sep Legal & General 2-3 Utopians TJCup 21 Sep Maltings 6-0 Legal & General Lge 28 Sep Legal & General 1-4 Cardiff Cobras Lge 9 Oct Legal & General 4-8 Retail Investments Fr 2 Nov Legal & General 5-3 J. Davey Builders Lge 9 Nov Legal & General 8-0 Les Croupiers LCup 13 Nov Legal & General 1-1 Retail Investments Fr 16 Nov The Essentials 0-5 Legal & General Lge 7 Dec Legal & General 0-2 The Essentials Lge 1 Feb Legal & General 4-0 Dynamo Pride LCup 19 Feb Legal & General 1-3 Retail Investments Fr 7 Mar Cardiff Cobras 0-4 Legal & General DCup 1 Apr Hazell Carr 0-3 Legal & General Fr 11 Apr L & G Rams 1-2 Legal & General LCQF 18 Apr Legal & General 3-0 L & G Rams DCSF 25 Apr J. Davey Builders 1-1 Legal & General Lge 28 Apr Legal & General 2-4 Maltings Lge 2 May Legal & General 3-4 Grangetown Bulldogs LCSF 16 May Maltings 3-2 Legal & General DCF 4Walls League Season 2002-03 League 8/0 4Walls League Cup LCup Division 1 Cup 3/0 Division 1 Cup DCup 4Walls League Cup 4/0 Ted John Cup TJCup Ted John Cup 1/0     Friendlies 7/1     Total Apps/Gls 23/1     Legal & General F.C. 2003-2004 Back: Stuart Shelly, Matty Hopkins, Paul Reading, Jason Grier, Mark Curran(Mgr), Dan Perkins(c), Hywel Davies, Jeremy Patterson, Antony Abercrombie. Front: Steve Perkins, Alan Groves, Mike Evans, Andy Dakin, Chris Luke, Chris Chappell. (Missing from picture: Guy Turner, Joe Kidd, Paul Groves)