But as the season moves into its final furlong, both clubs have serious ambitions of reaching the promised land.
The novel alludes to the hopes for redemption in the stories of the Jewish tradition: the journey into the promised land, the coming of the Messiah, the renewal of the covenant between God and his chosen people.
After 21 years in football's wilderness, a one-nil win against Bishops Stortford on Friday has them within touching distance of the Blue Square South title, and with it promotion to the Blue Square Premier, just one level below the promised land of the Football League.
By fostering a climate of determined optimism, both the American and Russian governments persuaded voters and sceptical legislators that the promised land of prosperity and reform was just round the corner.
In the original Jewish narrative, the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 meant redemption, an escape from the genocidal persecution of the Nazis and a return to the land promised by God (for the religious) or historical precedent (for the secular).
Every piece of bad news signals the apocalypse, every piece of good news heralds the arrival at the promised land.
The company promised a major revamp of the service would land in October yet, here we are with one day left in the month, and no iTunes overhaul in sight.
As to the controversy surrounding the environmental safety of hydraulic fracturing, "Promised Land" offers little credible, scientific evidence to illustrate the alleged dangers of hydraulic fracturing.
The increasing sophistication of filters that can send brand-love messages exactly to that special consumer-someone in the mood for a little emotional bonding promised a land of sales on the other side, with technology enabling advertisers access to ever-more sophisticated profiles built from searches and social pages, selling this to brands as a way in.
And that is supposed to lead us at last to the promised land of restored economic growth and prosperity.
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Still, the promised land of Eurobonds, and of the ECB lending to sovereigns, seems beyond the reach of today's politicians.
Or reduced to the core policy choices: does reaching the promised land of renewables require more basic research, or more tax incentives?
It would be sombre news indeed, not only for Mr Adams but for all those who have hoped and worked so long to lead Northern Ireland into the promised land of peace and compromise.
Besides large plots of land, the government promised them schools, credit and farm tools, but often failed to deliver.
For the Germans, Poles and Jews who made their fortunes here, Lodz was the promised land depicted in Andrzej Wajda's epic film of the same name.
The following spring, they set off on foot for the Red River Settlement around Lake Winnipeg in Canada where Scottish aristocrat, the Earl of Selkirk, had promised them land.
Hong Kong recently tightened its mortgage lending rules and promised to increase the supply of land after prices soared about 45% since the beginning of 2009.
For lots of people, particularly the growing number of working women, speeding up at work, which you might think would mean slowing down at home, enjoying that promised land of leisure, meant just the opposite: home got sped up, too.
And those who enter the NFL Promised Land stay only a few years on average without a real trade for the majority of their working lives.
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To get to the promised land there has been constant dilution of long suffering shareholders to keep this company afloat.
Mr Tsang promised only to continue trying to boost the supply of land and find potential new areas for land reclamation.
Eight kilometres west of town is Mount Nebo where, in the Old Testament, Moses saw the Promised Land from its peak.
Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson meanwhile promised in a statement that any of the state's coastline affected by the spill "will be cleaned up quickly and BP will be picking up the tab".
Perhaps the most protracted is in the southern province of Mindanao, where 137 families are fighting to receive 100 hectares of promised land.
But for some of the farmers (and all of their supporters) the fight is not just about any land, it is about the promised land.
Apartheid theologians argued that South Africa was the Boers' promised land, and that any roughness used to maintain control of it was therefore divinely sanctioned.
The promised land at day's end, where gelid martinis--conical pools of bliss--glow with platinum dew and sit atop their long pelican legs on the mahogany bar, sentries overlooking bowls of salty nuts.
Plains promised to end all of its operations in the county within 14 years and to donate thousands of acres of land to conservation.
The name is drawn from the biblical account of how Joshua's generation, which followed the one that fled Egypt with Moses, led the Israelites into the Promised Land.
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