British Universities & Colleges Sport

South Eastern Conference Cup 1st Round

Wednesday 6th November 2019

Kick Off 18.45 Actual 18.49

Middlesex University 5 Queen Mary University 2nds (Barts) 2, attendance 2

6’ 0-1

30’ 0-2

32’ 1-2

51’ 2-2

68’ 3-2

71’ 4-2 (pen)

76’ 5-2

@ St. James’ Catholic High School, 3G Pitch

Grahame Park Way

Colindale

London

NW9 5PE

No Admission or Programme.

It was only 50 miles from Cambridge, but the journey took just short of two hours to drive. The pitch here has only recently opened and although it only has spectator access along one side, it doesn’t feel like a normal caged pitch as there is plenty of room between the barrier and perimeter fence, but it probably couldn’t be used to stage ‘non league’ matches as the spare goals for 5-a-side football stay inside the barrier and are no more than a foot from the touch line, so it would fail on safety grounds.

Barts went 0-2 up, having dominated the opening half hour, with Middlesex struggling to contain them, but an absolute thunderbolt free kick from 30 yards pulled it back to 1-2 and the game completely changed. When Middlesex levelled it up at 2-2 early in the second half, there was only going to be one winner, and they added three more goals to ease to a comfortable 5-2 win, which certainly didn’t look likely following the opening stages of the match.

British Universities & Colleges Sport

Midlands 1A

Wednesday 6th November 2019

Kick Off 14.00 Actual 14.09

Cambridge University 2 University East Anglia 0, attendance 8

45’ 1-0

66’ 2-0 (pen)

@ Clare College Sports Ground

Bentley Road

Cambridge

CB2 8AW

No Admission or Programme.

Clare College Sports Ground is a multi sport complex with 2 tennis courts, a central cricket square and 4 football pitches around this. Today’s match was played on the pitch in the near left corner, (when looking from the clubhouse) running lengthways away from the tennis courts that are behind the end nearest the car park.

This was evenly contested throughout, although Cambridge always looked the better side. It was hard to see where a goal would come from, but we finally got a breakthrough right on halftime, when a long ball over the top saw the big No.9 outmuscle a defender and fire home a shot off the inside of the far post. The second half saw the game become stretched and Cambridge made sure of the points when they converted a penalty, that was awarded for a handball.