(From The Soccer Dome Teams Point of view)
Our End of League tournament was another special fantastic night to remember going forward into the new season.
The night started off as a confidence boost for all teams as regular favourites and the all-time division 1 champions Paris Ganja Man, had to pull out – they were sorely missed, it literally wasn’t a tournament without them .
We, The Soccer Dome, were already putting our names on that trophy; they were in our division so it looked as though semi-finals were going to be all but a dream for us.
Group games kicked off at 8pm and finished around 9:30pm, The Fetts, our division 2 champions, topped their division. Hakuna Mo Salah managed to grab that second place spot after winning their must win game against, wait for it, The Fetts – Were thinking here at this point could Hakuna Mo Salah be the team to beat here. And our previous league games against them; we drew 1 and won 2. So in the back of our minds were thinking here “BECKYYYYYY Get the champagne on ice, The Dome are Champs”.
In our group Flins came out on top on goal difference, however we managed to go unbeaten may I add and manage to come out second – We got the semi-final spot guys , were going all the way here!
With us getting second place it meant we would play the Fetts in the semi-finals – we were ready for the challenge and pay back from our 3 league games against them. We were ready to show no mercy with our tactics. Our tactic being, park the bus 90% of the game and go for it in the last min hoping for a win, or go for pens and psyche them out.
However the dream ended after 8mins of this semi-final, after us going 1-0 up in the first min from a Luke Duncalf Spectacular, we didn’t listen to the tactics, we didn’t park the bus so The Fetts proved why they were division 2 champs coming away with a victory and grabbing that final spot. Mourinho would’ve been disappointed in us.
In the other semi-final saw Flins take on Hakuna Mo Salah, this game was strong and well matched from the start, it was end to end for the full 8mins, but Flins managed to just nick an extra goal over Hakuna to grab that last Final Spot.
So that meant 3rd v 4th place play off was us v Hakuna, all we know from this fixture is that Hakuna won about 5-0, neither team took this fixture serious and this was easily the best and funniest 8 min game, so much so the last kick of the game kev is though on goal in our half, all our team are in Hakunas half, and Andrew in goal comes flying out as a sweeper keeper taking kev with the ball, brilliant.
So the Final was between Flins and The Fetts, technically you would want to say Flins should possibly have the edge over Fetts, as Flins came 2nd in Div 1, and not forgetting they were the Scottish Prem Champions Kit… Celtic (wish it was Rangers). However plot twist, game changer; The Fetts were victorious again winning 3-0 over Flins. Is there anything The Fetts can’t do at the moment, back to back tournament champs, unbeaten Div 2 champs, we already can’t wait to see what next season holds for them with the big dogs, will we see a new champ or will Paris be victorious again?