British Universities & Colleges Sport

South Eastern Conference Plate Semi Final

Wednesday 26th February 2020

Kick Off 14.00 Actual 14.02

Buckinghamshire New University 2 University Sussex 3rds 1, attendance 18

6’ 1-0

12’ 1-1

54’ 2-1

@ The Cressex Synthetic Sports Pitch Centre

Holmers Farm Way

High Wycombe

HP12 4QA

No Admission or Programme.

This was the first match that Buckinghamshire New University have played at this venue. It is typical of so many of these caged pitches, with multiple coloured line markings, no corner flags and a wire across the centre of the pitch (to curtain off the area into smaller sized pitches) which was hit on at least half a dozen times, resulting in a drop ball restart.

Buckinghamshire went in front early, but were soon pegged back. The game threatened to get out of hand a number of times and became very niggly. It wasn’t helped by the Referee spending most of the game in the centre circle, resulting in him being too far away from any incidents that were occurring. Not unexpectedly I suppose, as he didn’t even bother to change out of his tracksuit to do the game in the first place.

The second half never really got going, but it did produce what turned out to be the winning goal for Buckinghamshire. A corner on the right was floated into the six yard box, with the Sussex ‘keeper failing to make contact, and the ball was swept into the net from close range.