The "International" Tournament
Martin Ford
Tournament Roundup
Thanks to all those who took part, the Internet Blues, the Rags and especially AEK
team for turning up at such short notice. The tournament took the form of a
round-robin competition with each team playing the others. Each match lasted 45
minutes (ko half-time or end change).
The City team was:
Martin, Sam, Gary, Ben, Matt, Benny, Scott, Craig, Rob(?), Colin and Andy.
Formation, well that was part of the problem, there wasn't really a set team.
The tournament opened with the Manchester derby; City fielded a bare 11 whereas
the Rags had actually managed to get together 12 players! I won't go into details (it's
too painful to recall), but suffice to say the Rags fairly dominated the game (if only
with finishing!) and ran away easy 5-2 winners (yes Blues hang our heads in shame!).
The second game saw the Rags play AEK. It looked like a typical Rags display
against European opposition when AEK took a 2 goal lead within the first ten
minutes. Within minutes of the second AEK goal the Rags had pulled one back and
then proceeded to take their chances and ended up winning 3-2. So they were winners!
The final game saw the Internet Blues play the AEK team, for the second place.
Things looked good when City scored within the first couple of minutes. However,
AEK equalised and from then on goal was matched by goal until the scores reached
3-3 (City getting the equaliser). As the Blues faded, AEK came on a little stronger and
scored two more goals to win the game, final score 5-3 for AEK.
So the final standings were:
Pos Team P W D L F A Pts
1 Rags 2 2 0 0 8 4 6
2 AEK 2 1 0 1 7 6 4
3 City 2 0 0 2 5 10 0
Maybe next time we'll get some revenge.
