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If you would like to play for Old Meadonians next season please register your interest below:
AFC Annual Dinner and Presentation of Trophies
Friday 6th June at the Porter Tun, The Brewery, Chiswell Street, London EC1Y 4SD
£40 Tickets are being subsidised by the club, so £20 for Meads players
Contact Derek Barnett as soon as possible in order to book your place
U.C.L. Academicals 5 Old Meadonians 3
An anticlimactic and disappointing league ‘semi-finale’ for Old Meadonians’ retiring Management team, Paul Rumley and Rory Vermeulen, saw the reigning (and abdicating) A.F.C. champions given some of their own medicine as U.C.L. came back from three down to deservedly take the three points which were benevolently proffered by the visitors to the graduates idyllic eerie at Shenley on Saturday. Over the past three or four seasons it has been Meads who have customarily overcome an initial deficit to surprise U.C.L. and claim the spoils; now roles were neatly reversed as Meads went off the boil to allow the graduates some ‘tit for tat’ after dominating the first half hour and presaging another lesson in keeping a close eye on the scorebook.
After early skirmishing Meads began to play some exquisite football and opened the scoring on fifteen minutes when Leon Smith, receiving the ball thirty yards out, worked himself room to turn, swerved past two defenders and scored with a low shot from fifteen yards. Fresh from winning his award for first team player of the season, Laurie Pointer scored the next and his second in two games four minutes later, running onto Colin Hawkins’ cross and finishing off a brilliant four man move from just inside the area. When, within minutes, Hawkins tucked in a cross at the near post a landslide looked on the cards. However, it was not to be, as Meads, prematurely scenting blood, fell over themselves in their eagerness to get on the score sheet and then in an uncharacteristic but fatal fit of narcissism began to look in the mirror, relegating the scorebook even further down the pecking order.
With ten minutes to half time, slack marking allowed a U.C.L.striker to stroke the ball past Meads’ keeper Shannon Toyne from the edge of the area and almost immediately Toyne was forced to make an excellent save at the expense of a corner which was emphatically volleyed in at the far post for the hosts to enhance their chances of a second half putsch. Now the hosts, feeling it was payback time, turned the screw to score three and sew things up as the visitors prayed for the final whistle. Meads have one game left in which, negatively or positively they could still be ‘king makers’. If they beat Aloysians next Saturday league leaders Albanians are champions. If Aloysians win they will triumph.
Team: Toyne, Quinn, McCombe, Pointer, Eguae, Glover, Rhone, Gerrish, Jacobsson, (Granville), Hawkins, Smith.
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