It's win or bust time for Hotels and PHC this weekend.

Or in Hotels' case, as boss Robert Calderon puts it: win or die.

Defeat, or even a draw, could signal the end not just of First Division football for his side but of the side itself, he fears.

"We've reinstated the team once and I don't know if we could do it a second time,'' he said, referring to last year's promotion success in their first year back after going out of business in the early 1990s.

"I'm very reluctant to say it but I think it would very difficult to attract the really good players if we were to slip back,'' he added.

Both Hotels and PHC, occupying the bottom two places in the Coca Cola First Division on 15 and 14 points respectively, know that nothing less than victory will give them a chance of escaping the drop. If the clubs immediately above them, Devonshire Cougars amd Somerset, get a win and a draw respectively, even that will count for little.

So Calderon, a former national team player and now one of Clyde Best's right-hand men, knows that the 3-5-2 system favoured in their promotion year and derided at times this season for being over defensive, must go out the window.

"In fact we have been more attacking in the last four games,'' he said.

"We've come out with 4-4-2 and even played 4-3-3 against an admittedly weakened Boulevard team last week. We had enough chances to win the game, but ultimately it's about your finishing.'' Hotels must overcome Devonshire Colts at BAA Field in their final game and Calderon is hoping that the FA Cup finalists will show as much generosity as they extended to relegation rivals Devonshire Cougars when Colts' limp performance enabled Cougars to take the spoils last weekend.

But Calderon said: "I suspect that they will recognise that they are two weeks away from an FA Cup final and put out a decent team. You don't want to be losing too many in the lead-up to that. You can get into bad habits.'' PHC's position, meanwhile, is even more precarious. They must win at Southampton Oval against the unpredictable Southampton Rangers and hope that Cougars are beaten by Vasco, who will be presented with their championship trophy at the game at PHC Stadium. Their superior goal difference would do the rest.

Somerset, whose 1-0 victory over Vasco in midweek ended the champions' 23-match unbeaten run, need only draw with North Village at Bernard Park to be sure of First Division football next year.

But they will be without Rodre Wilson and Sean Simmons, both sent off by referee George O'Brien for using foul language in a volatile last seven minutes of that match.

In the day's other game, Dandy Town meet Boulevard at St John's Field in a match which will decide which of the teams finishes runners-up to Vasco.

Boulevard need just one point to achieve that.

BOTTOM FOUR P W D L F A Pts Somerset 17 5 3 9 14 24 18 Dev. Cougars 17 5 2 10 19 37 17 Hotels 17 3 6 8 13 23 15 PHC 17 3 5 9 22 33 14