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Sunday 20 June 2010

Our Football Season 2009-2010

The first game of our season was against Arno Vale and it was at home. The starting line-up was: Luke in goal; Steven and Sam in defense; in midfield Matt, Joe and Mitchell; with William in. The subs were Daniel and Shaquile. We played some good football. We went behind to an early goal but came back strongly to win 4-1.

Our second game was against Ernehale, which we won. The same seven players were used for that game. Then we had a five month break until February, our third game was against Parkdale at home, we won 2-0. In our fourth game we went to Parkdale and sadly lost, their goal was a lucky header from a corner. After a disappointing loss our fifth game we were hosting Ernehale and went behind 1-0 but then switched on to get three goals and win the match 3-1. After beating Ernehale we travelled to Good Shepherd and we battered them 8-0, Daniel got four, Luke got one, Joe got one, Mitch got one and so did Shaquile. Then Good Shepherd came to our place and we won 5-0. The last game of the season was at Arno Vale, we went there knowing that if we drew or won we’d go through to the knock-out stages of the league play-offs. Fortunately, we sneaked a 1-0 victory.

In the knock-out stages, we played Sir John Sherbrook at home in the last 16 and beat them 4-0 which put us through to the quarters. In the quarter- finals we played Parkdale (for the third time). We won 3-0 (revenge!). After beating Parkdale we made the trip to Burton Joyce, and quite comfortably beat them 3-0. So that meant that we went through to the final.

The final was at a neutral ground which was at (Stanhope) where we played Sacred Heart. After a hard fought match in which there were no goals in normal time, the game went in to overtime. We went behind to a goal in extra time but then Steven scored a dramatic last minute equaliser so had shared the trophy which Joe, the captain, lifted.