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I have had a lot of fun with this blog in it's short life, but I am afraid that things might be about to come to a conclusion.

The crux of it is that there are a lot of things in life that must be dealt with, I have not given my new wife all the attention I should have, and though she has been understanding I am not sure that this understanding will be, nor should be forever. I also work full time, and have been very lapse in recent months at getting to the Gym. After all of this there is blogging which I really enjoy, but I have two blogs, this one and Daniel1979. I started the politics blog first, and this blog was set up because I though that, and still believe that Blogs could be a big part of football, and I think there will be more and more blogs in the next few years in this genre.

However, the Football Banter blog has not taken off as well as I had hoped and if truth be told, when I have been short of time, it is the other blog that gets my attention - because that was why I got into this. I set up Football Banter to keep the two separate, as I wanted to approach both in different ways. It is hard to cover everything that comes up in football on my own and there is a lot more that could be covered here.

I did have some good plans to take this blog forwards, I am already set up on the cover-it-live technology and felt there could be a good audience in live-blogging some of the bigger games and some internationals.

I am thinking of winding up Football Banter at the end of the season. I am a little sad, but I think it is the right thing to do given the pressures on my time. However, here are the options.

1. I am prepared to carry on if there are some volunteers to help run the site. I suspect that if we had 3 - 6 bloggers all writing maybe twice a week each on their own teams and subjects we could get some interesting posts going and grow an audience. I would be happy to carry on as administrator, with occasional posting in this capacity. If you have a blog already you will know the likely impact of a couple of posts will not be great, if you are new to the idea it would probably involve, maybe, a couple of hours a week plus initial set up, (which is simple). You can tell me in the comments or email.

2. I take down this blog at the end of the year, and incorporate some elements, occasional football postings, (and perhaps the live blogging of live games?) over to Daniel1979.

As always, your feedback welcome and will make a difference, I will keep going with the blog, a few quiz questions and results here... There will be a lot to say on the relegation battle. Also, I had the FA Cup and European Finals in mind for the live-blogging - but if those few of you who are regulars do not feel like joining in then we will call it a non-starter and leave it at that.

If you have any brilliant ideas that I have not considered then let me also know.

Thanks for following and reading.
Daniel