FOREST Green can look forward to some divine intervention thanks to BBC Radio Gloucestershire Sunday breakfast presenter and Forest Green fan, the Rev Richard Atkins.

The vicar preaches his perspective on an exciting climax to the season.

IT pays to know your maths at this time of year.

What with goal difference; games and points ratio.

Week-after-week we work it all out; ten games to go so how many points will it take to get promoted or get in the play off’s?

Some years ago, at Tamworth, we were checking our abacus; fingers and computers to work out what we needed to stay up. Not for the first time either.

But this year is different, this year we need to know what’s going on the other end of the table.

If so and so wins or draws where does that leave us - League Two; the play-offs or another season in the Conference?

I’ll tell you what; I’d rather be at this end of the table than the other end.

Getting promotion is all about team work and I don’t just mean on the pitch, but off it as well.

It’s about the supporters about you and me.

I’ve been following Portsmouth for more than 50 years, good, bad and dreadful.

In fact the last few years have been better than some despite our descent to League Two.

I can remember going to Fratton Park near the end of the 1982/3 season when we were fighting for promotion from the old Third Division along with Newport County, Oxford United, Cardiff City and Huddersfield Town. It was very tight and very stressful.

Our opponents were relegation threatened Chesterfield, twenty thousand of us in Fratton Park that day and we won 4-0.

It more or less clinched promotion.

The team were great but the supporters were as good, as we made a noise loud enough to lift the roof off that old crumbling stadium.

A few weeks ago instead of sitting in the press box for Rovers home game v Southport, Mrs A and I stood on the open terrace.

What we both remarked on was the growing noise throughout the game from the East Stand; as loud as I’ve heard it for a long time.

It helped the team, spurred them on, let them know we’re behind them at the crucial time of the season.

It needs all of us to make a noise, encourage that extra bit of energy, one more run from Elliott down the wing, one more lung bursting run into the box from Nors, a final leap from the defenders to clear the ball at the end of the game.

By the end of May the dream could be realised, we could be in League two.

We will all have been part of that success, from the team on the pitch, the management team, Dale, the backroom staff and us, the supporters.

Imagine how it will feel in August when the first game in League Two could be - Portsmouth at home!

Here’s hoping!