British Universities & Colleges Sport

Northern Conference Cup 2nd Round

Wednesday 10th November 2021

Kick Off 13.00 Actual 13.34

Leeds Trinity University 3 University Hull 1 (AET), attendance 22

23’ 0-1

81’ 1-1

93’ 2-1

113’ 3-1

@ Leeds Trinity University, 3G Pitch

Brownberrie Lane

Horsforth

Leeds

LS18 5HD

No Admission or Programme.

I had done a game here before, when I saw Trinity & All Saints College (now named Leeds Trinity University) beat University Huddersfield 3-0 on 26th October 2005, a game which was played on the pitch inside the old cinder running track, which is still there.

I chose this match today for two reasons. Firstly, it was an early kick off and secondly, if the game finished promptly, there was a chance of making it to a second game, as University Derby were kicking off at 17.00. Any chance of doubling up soon disappeared and it looked like the game here might not take place, so Derby was looking like it might become the only game today……

Hull only arrived at 12.46, but that was good compared to the Referee. He turned up at 13.19 and following a lot of faffing about, plus a minutes silence for Armistice Day, meant we finally kicked off thirty four minutes late!

The game was Tier 2 versus Tier 3, but both were evenly matched. Hull went ahead midway through the first half, against the run of play, and decided to just sit back and hope their luck would hold out. It nearly did, but the inevitable late equaliser for the home side came nine minutes from time, but rather than push for a winner, they settled for extra time. As is so often the case, a goal arrived early, when Trinity went 2-1 up just three minutes into the first period of extra time and they finally killed the game off with a third goal midway through the second period.

Three minutes into stoppage time a bad challenge by a Hull defender led to a huge melee on the touch line, which also included another of the Trinity teams who were due to have kicked off at 16.00 following this game. It ended up with two red cards for Hull and one for Trinity. The match finally finished at 16.15 and had taken 2 hours 41 minutes to reach it’s conclusion. Just the second period of extra time lasted a ridiculous 29 minutes!

The photo below shows the pitch Trinity played on back in 2005, pretty much unchanged.