Paget Lions are about to officially become the worst team in the history of Bermuda football.The First Division side are on the verge of conceding 100 goals in a season, something no other club has done, and are close to having a negative goal difference in triple figures as well.With five games to go before the end of a truly miserable season, Paget have conceded 98 goals at an average of 6.5 goals per game, scoring just 12 in reply.They face Robin Hood in their next league game, a team that have beaten them 9-0 once this season. It would seem that only a miracle could prevent them from conceding their 99th and 100th goals of the campaign on Sunday.Actually, they should have already passed the 100-goal mark, 9-0 down at half time in a game against Social Club earlier this season, the Lions refused to come out for the second half and the match was abandoned.Bermuda Football Association awarded Social Club a 3-0 victory as a result, which was something of a let-off for Paget.Not that they are alone in having a difficult year. Ireland Rangers, who Paget beat in their only league win of the season, aren’t too far behind. The Dockyard team have conceded 85 goals so far, and have a goal difference of minus 70.All of which however begs the question, why bother?“It’s been very, very trying,” said Mike Stovell, the Paget president. “I think of all the seasons that I have been involved in the club this has been the most trying.“What is really keeping us going is dedication to the club, to the community and we’ve got a youth programme in its second year that’s doing tremendous.“We’re just thinking about keeping things together so that in future we could have some youth that could progress up through the club.”Only six years ago Paget were in the Premier Division having been promoted as champions in a season where they also won the Shield competition.For Stovell, this season is nothing more than a painful transition period, which has been made even harder by outside forces which are beyond most people’s control.“If you go back to 2004-2005 when we won everything, and we were promoted, we won four or five games in the Premier (Division). It’s just a high and low that we’re going through, with other elements added to it, it makes it tough,” said Stovell.“We have players not able to travel, whether they are involved in the activity or whether they just chose not to go there for their own safety.“You don’t have to be involved in any of the Town and Country, or Country and Country, it’s just whether you are a family member, or associated (with someone who is).“We’re going to stick at it. We can’t give up. There have been many Sundays where we are like, ‘look, hey, are we going to continue?’. Some games we play short, some games we have 14 or 15 players, but it’s just the dedication of 10 and 11 (people) that’s keeping us going.”Naturally, as you might expect during such an unprecedented season, there have been discussions about throwing in the towel, but Stowell said the club never seriously considered such a move.“I know a lot of them, people who are not involved in a club and like to have their say, think we should, but no, we’ve never considered it,” said Stovell. “If you go back five or six years or so, BAA withdrew from the First Division until they had sufficient youngsters coming through their programme, but it hasn’t come to that point.“If we do pull out it’s going to be several years before we have anyone coming through. We’ve got Under-8s, Under-10s, Under-12s. We’re looking about another five or six years before they’ll be able to play.“I think what we are going to do is soldier on with what we have and try and do a massive campaign drive to get players to come in the off-season.”There is little to suggest that the remainder of the season won’t be as painful as everything that has gone before, but Stovell is determined to drag his side through. And the fact that the players turn up week in, week out, should be applauded, even if their football isn’t.“We will come through this, even if I have to pull guys out my age to play,” said Stovell. “I’ve played in a few games you know, and my last competitive match was 1996. If I can get out there to give them 10 or 20 minutes just to plug a hole, that’s what I’ll do.“It’s been trying, but from the bottom of my heart, and for the majority of them (the players), we’re going to stick with it.”