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1st XI vs LSE 1s- Home

  • Tom Bennett
  • Oct 19, 2016
  • 2 min read

The second game of the season between LSE 1’s and BL 1’s got off to a soggy start at the Olympic stadium. The need for water on a water based pitch had been overlooked. As the cascades of reclaimed H20 soaked the pitch, the BL squad hoped to deliver a standard of hockey that would provide coach Martin with a real birthday treat.

The game begun with promising and confident play amongst the BL defence, with Patel, Johnston and Mills soaking up a multitude of LSE attacks before sharply countering and providing a number of one on one chances in the LSE D. Unfortunately, Tom Samuel, Manville and Azam were all unable to convert, perhaps Manville’s footwear proved too distracting. His new “sponsored-by-proxy” fluorescent trainers are reportedly visible from the International Space station on a cloudless day and no doubt, their blinding glare contributed to BL’s poor conversion rate on the day. Later in the first half, the LSE attack grew stronger and more confident, weaving their way through the BL defense, despite some truly inspired attempts to disrupt play by throwing shin pads in their path and then heroically refusing to pick them up. Perhaps one of the silly freshers would benefit from some new socks, perhaps.

At some point in the first half, an LSE attacker absolutely “did” the entire midfield and then the defence and drove a ridiculous reverse shot into the roof. Annoying. At some stage LSE scored another goal but who knows what happened, I was looking for my shin pad…

BL continued to press and managed to secure a P flick which was neatly put past the keeper by Sheikh, he also contributed to the second BL goal just before half time with a delicious reverse shot to the bottom right post, before it was swiftly put away following a defender’s deflection by the BL striker (Dom?).

Half time score. 2-2. After a rousing team talk at half time, and false promises to stay in position, Patel lead his team back to try to secure BL’s first win of the season. Hedges, having already had a strong performance, tried his luck conversing with one of the officials, but was rejected, the umpire “playing hard to get”. Classic. Sheikh, in a bid to get the umpires attention began a rutting session with the LSE Left back. Unfortunately, the umpire was not impressed with Sheikhs final show of superior masculinity. Sheikh saw yellow and was sent to the seat of shame, perfectly positioned for discreet heckling on the side line, but still a safe distance to protect from ejected shin pads which now littered the right wing. Following this incident, BL became frustrated and began to let the basics slip, much to the dismay of the coach, whose voice was now barely audible.

LSE began their war of arrogant attrition which resulted in BL conceding two scrappy goals and with that the game was lost. The end result, LSE 4- 2 BL. Lessons to be learnt. Hedges was deservedly awarded MOM for his positive play and Bennett given DOD for no good reason at all (not bitter, promise) especially with Sheikh being awarded a yellow AND leaving his stick at the pitch, for the second time. It’s a ritual.

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