Cup kings Albion Sports bid to clinch a place in their second major final when they tackle Oakenshaw in the Senior Cup tomorrow.

It should be an absorbing contest and could be the first of four between the teams in the closing weeks of a hectic season for Albion.

The sides still have to meet twice in the Bradford Sunday Alliance Premier Division and could meet in the Bradford & District Cup final. It is also a match which pits Albion against a side whose mantle they have taken as Bradford's most successful cup side.

Until Albion beat Grosvenor Sport 1-0 recently to reach the FA Sunday Cup final against Hull side Prestige Brighams on April 30, Oakenshaw had been the last Bradford club to make the last four of the national competition.

Both sides have had players cleared by the West Riding County FA to play in the tie.

They ruled sending off sufficient in the cases of Albion's Taj Singh and Richard Clarke as well as Oakenshaw's Mick Burke.

Clarke, scorer of the late winner in the FA Sunday Cup semi-final, produced another priceless goal on Wednesday to secure a 2-1 win after extra time over Stanley Road in the quarter-finals of the District Cup.

Victory tomorrow would extend Albion's five-month unbeaten run and add to their fixture backlog.

Manager Kulwinder Singh said: "It is something we are having to live with. It is great still being in four cups and in with a mathematical chance of the league title as well, but we have won nothing yet.

"It seems every game is a tough game right now. We are having to face each challenge as it presents itself."

The Bradford Sunday Alli-ance League are aware of the club's difficulties. They still have 13 league games to play as well as the possibility of seven more cup ties.

League fixture secretary Brian Goodall said: "We will look at each problem as it crops up. We realise their success in the District Cup this week means they are faced wth a dilemma because the semi-final comes on Wednesday, April 19, 24 hours after they are due to play Ventus and a day before they play Hudsons both in the league.

"We will let them re-arrange the Ventus fixture."

Goodall also revealed that the league will allow Albion to call off their league game with Stanley Road due to be played three days before the FA Sunday Cup final.

Goodall added: "We don't want to do anything which would harm their chances of winning any of the competitions, but we have to be fair to all parties."

Fairweather Green, who have an agonising couple of weeks to see if East Ward and Calverley Victoria can win their remaining matches to pip them for promotion in Division One, play holders Ventus in the second Alliance semi-final.

Ventus will be without Dale Hoyle whose wonder goal won the cup for them in last year's final against favourites East Bowling Unity.

Wayne Cotton, last week's goal hero in their defeat of Premier leaders East Bowling Unity, takes his Hudson side to Queensbury in a relegation battle.

Unity hope to bounce back in their league match with Bolton Woods who since qualifying for the County Cup semi-final have hit a lean patch.

In Division One the two sides who have to win their four remaining matches to clinch promotion are both at home to sides they have to play twice.

Calverley play Westwood who were in contention for most of the season but lost ground in the run-in.

East Ward, for whom Phil Clapham has been on the goal trail with a vengeance recently, play relegation-threatened West Bowling.

After a slip last week when they lost to Quarry Gap, Eccleshill United try again for the point they need to clinch the Division 1A championship at bottom club Baildon Trinity.

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