Soccer is weird. At least, it's weird according to The Soccer Heel. How so, you ask? Well, you'll have to read what the Heel has to say to find out. He's holding nothing back. The game, it's fans and even players are in his cross-hairs today. Check it out!

Quality is rising to the top as we dive into Week 10 of the AP Power Rankings. We hold steady at Number One, but below that is shifting sand. 

Biggest Movers: California Victory, FC Arizona - 2 Spots
Biggest Losers: Riverside Coras - 3 Spots
New Comer: AFC Ann Arbor
Lost Spot: Moreno Valley

1. Strikers FC South Coast, UPSL - GD: +31 - Pts: 33 - GP: 12
2. FC Arizona, NPSL - GD: +24 - Pts: 24 - GP: 10
3. LA Wolves, UPSL - GD: +34 - Pts: 27 - GP: 10
4. California Victory,  UPSL - GD: +37 - Pts: 28 - GP: 10
5. Riverside Coras, NPSL - GD: +18 - Pts: 23 - GP: 10
6. La Maquina FC, UPSL - GD: +21 - Pts: 28 - GP:12 
7. CD Aguiluchos, NPSL - GD: +10 - Pts: 22 - GP: 8
8. Colorado Springs FC, UPSL - GD: +18 - Pts: 21 - GP: 9
9. Orange County FC, NPSL - GD: +16 - Pts: 20 - GP: 10
10. AFC Ann Arbor, NPSL - GD: +8 - Pts: 12 - GP: 4

Lots of changes in the Regional Power Rankings. A double check of the leagues that carry the USASA Elite designation showed that I was missing a couple, and as more teams become eligible, I'm going to have to adjust how teams get on to the list.

Basically, what I'll be doing moving forward is giving higher preference to teams from actual regional leagues, city leagues, less so. It will take some serious dominance from teams in city leagues to have more than one representative in the Top 10. This also allows me to include more teams from more leagues in the Power Rankings.

1. Outbreak SC, SCPL - GD: +26 - Pts: 36 - GP: 16
2. Phoenix Sport Club, USLPA - GD: +27 - Pts: 34 - GP: 14
3. United German Hungarians, USLPA - GD: +12 - Pts: 27 - GP: 14
4. NLS Graduates, MMSL - GD: +34 - Pts: 24 - GP: 8
5. El Farolito, SFSFL - GD: +23 - Pts: 22 - GP: 9
6. GPS Omens, BSSL - GD: +22 - Pts: 12 - GP: 4
7. Warehouse Gunners, BSSL - GD: +9 - Pts: 13 - GP: 5
8. Fado Irish Pub, WPL - GD: +20 - Pts: 15 - GP: 6
9. Buffalo United SS, BDSL - GD: +7 - Pts: 9 - GP: 3
10. Seattle Stars, EPL - GD: +2 - Pts: 10 - GP: 5

What do you think? Any ideas for improvement, things we missed or should change? Let us know in the comments below!

I’ve wanted to write this piece for a while now. It was going to be how the club I watch most these days either ended up winning the league that they were leading for a majority of the season, or how they were dramatically pipped at the post.

The season finished on Saturday 29th April, but the reason I haven’t written this before is not because I’ve been carefully honing this feature to ensure it is a thing of journalistic beauty (I think you’re probably well aware of that anyway). It is because over three weeks after the final games of the season no-one yet knows who will end up crowned as champions.

I’ve been taking my six year old along to see Shoreham for a couple of years now and this season – under new management – the Musselmen outplayed the majority of the clubs in the Southern Combination Football League Premier Division, sitting pretty at the top of the league for long periods of the campaign.

But, in a fashion that Spurs fans will be all too familiar with, performances dropped in the final weeks where they only won three out of the last six games. Considering they had only lost three games the entire season before then shows what a fall from grace this was.

One of those defeats came at the hands of Haywards Heath Town, Shoreham’s main rival for the title, with just five games remaining. Unfortunately Shoreham’s lack of form coincided with Haywards Heath upturn in fortune and Town ultimately won the league by four points, beating Horsham YMCA 7-1 away from home on the last day of the season to really ram home the point.

But that wasn’t the end of the story. First there was a rumour that a couple of the Haywards Heath side were actually ineligible under league rules to play for the club. When this was disproved it looked like Shoreham would indeed be playing at the same level (nine steps below the Premier League) for at least another season.

But then it turned out that another player was still under a ban from another county league when he played for Haywards Heath. The club have now been charged and are currently appealing that decision that could rob them of the title and promotion to the Ryman South division. If they are still found guilty of the charge there will be a points deduction that could hand Shoreham the title.

The SCFL are currently reviewing the appeal so no-one knows who has actually won the league – and the clubs don’t know whether to start preparing for another season at county league level or the more demanding Ryman South.

As much as I would love to see Shoreham promoted and look forward to the higher level of football on offer next season, the main concern right now is how long this decision is in coming. And for anyone used to the machinations of non-league football this uncertainty is unfortunately all too familiar.