Midfielder Nando Perna is a doubt for promotion-chasing Thame United as they prepare for the crucial Easter programme in Ryman League Division 1.

Thame are away to relegation battlers Leatherhead tomorrow before taking on Oxford City at Windmill Stadium on Monday and then visit promotion rivals Braintree Town on Wednesday.

But they may have to do without Perna, who was forced out of Tuesday's Oxon Senior Cup semi-final 1-0 win over North Leigh at half-time with a tendonitis problem.

Skipper Martin Brown, leading scorer Mark West and midfielder Justin Merritt return after being rested.

Manager Andy Sinnott said: "Leatherhead will be scrapping and making things difficult, while the form book goes out of the window for the City game."

City may be out of the promotion race, but with games at home to Bedford Town tomorrow, at Thame on Monday and at home to Braintree next Saturday they can have a big say on who goes up.

Manager Paul Lee is set to ring the changes after Tuesday's 4-0 thrashing at Uxbridge. "I am not prepared to put up with that end of season stuff," he said.

City play host to a sponsored wheelchair push before the game against Bedford to raise funds to send disabled fan Wayne Hall, whose brother died recently, to Lourdes in France and for the Douglas House Hospice.

Centre back Martin Shepherd misses Abingdon Town's trip to Dorking in Division 3 tomorrow with a one-match ban, but will be back for Monday's clash against bottom club Chalfont St Peter at Culham Road.

HOW THEY LINE-UP

Thame Utd (v Leatherhead, away, Sat; v Oxford City, home, Mon): from Moores, Smith, Brown, A Williams, Lee, Jones, Merritt, Perna, Potter, Louis, Swaysland, West, Mitchell, G Williams, Fontaine, Avery.

Oxford City (v Bedford Tn, home, Sat; v Thame Utd, away, Mon): from Foster, Dark, Peirson, Hayward, Thorp, Farley, Smith, Lewis, Wimble, Wise, Druce, Ferreira, Whitehead, Sweeney, Emsden, Waterhouse.

Abingdon Tn (v Dorking, away, Sat; v Chalfont St Peter, home, Mon): from McLaughlin, Thomas, Burden, Gill, Morgan, Gardner, Charles, Parkhurst, Dixon, Price, Brown, Hannah, Blencowe, Border, Oram, Beauchamp plus Shepherd (Mon).