British Universities & Colleges Sport
South Eastern 2B
Wednesday 8th December 2021
Kick Off 13.00 Actual 13.10
Canterbury Christ Church University 2 University College London 1, attendance 6
8’ 1-0
26’ 2-0
90’+ 5, 2-1
@ Herne Bay Sports Hub, 3G Pitch
Parkland Road
Herne Bay
CT6 5DN
No Admission or Programme.
This was the first time CCC had played a game here and it was scheduled before the heavy rain this week, so wasn’t switched due to weather related problems. The game kicked off ten minutes late, due to the Referee not arriving until 13.04. Despite being a third level game in the BUCS set up, CCC were a real rag bag outfit. In a lot of games at this level, you see players in the wrong colour shorts or socks, frequently both, but today, CCC out did them all, as all ten outfield players had different shirts, the majority without numbers! It was the kind of thing you see in P.E. lessons at primary school, where it is ‘reds’ versus ‘blues’ etc , and all the kids wear Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea tops and so on. Apparently, it is due to the players having to pay for their own shirts, but the cost of hiring this facility (they have their own sports ground at Stodmarsh, where I saw them lose 0-2 to Portsmouth University on 24th October 2012) would have gone a fair way towards buying a set of matching shirts.
Apart from the ‘Mickey Mouse’ look, CCC were actually a decent team. Their two goals were scored by Arsenal No.30 Nketiah, according to his shirt, whilst UCL scored their consolation goal far too late to impact on the outcome. The CCC ‘keeper managed to get himself sent off during a scuffle, as he tried to stop a UCL forward retrieving the ball to get the match restarted after the goal.
