Loyal top scorer Andy Mullins, who has made 400 appearances for the first team in over a decade at Broadwater, was voted by the players as their player of the year. The supporters chose busy goalkeeper Mike Underwood as their player for the Joe Harries Trophy. Centre half Andy Hughes, who returned to the club this season, was the manager's player of the year, a joint decision by Ian Richardson who has been in the hot seat lately and his predecessor Tony Duncombe, who has been ill.

The reserve awards went to two players at the opposite end of the age spectrum, with teenager Danny Brumwell winning manager Rob Butler's award and the players voting for veteran centre back Pete Owen.

Teenage left back Samir Amadu is leaving as he has won a football scholarship to the USA for a year in Richmond, Florida.

The other big news this week was that the FA have announced their first stab at league allocations for the new season and provisionally allocated Berkhamsted Town to the Spartan South Midlands League. When confirmed at the league's annual general meeting next month it will end a 25 year period of the Lilywhites being in higher league football in the Athenian, Isthmian and latterly following FA imposed reorganisations, the Southern League, where they finished bottom last season. It should mean plenty local derbies to look forward to against the likes of Leverstock Green and Tring Athletic.

On the bright side, the club will also get back into the FA Vase, a competition that they reached the final of at Villa Park in 2001, instead of the impossible to win FA Trophy. Training for the new season starts under the guidance of ex Watford striker Ian Richardson and Rob Butler, at the club on Tuesday 24th June but everyone will be reunited before then at a race night, being held on Friday 13th June. Berko are looking for new forwards in a bid to get back to winning ways for the new season and are already arranging pre-season friendlies.

The club will also have a wider choice of players, including those who work on Saturday mornings, as their new league will not have the ridiculous amount of travelling that they have experienced in recent seasons. The current Spartan South Midlands champions Beaconsfield SYCOB replace Berko in the Southern League and can look forward to trips as far as Truro in Cornwall, whislt Chesham United are allocated to a division that now stretches all the way from Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk across to Malvern in Worcestershire!

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