British Universities & Colleges Sport

National Championship

Quarter Final

Wednesday 23rd February 2022

Kick Off 13.00 Actual 13.03

University Bath 1 University Loughborough 2, attendance 120

32’ 0-1

61’ 1-1 (pen)

87’ 1-2 (pen)

@ University of Bath Sports Training Village

St Johns Sports Pitches, Pitch 1

Norwood Avenue

Claverdon Down

Bath

BA2 7AY

No Admission or Programme.

This was the third time I had visited the Sports Training Village. The first time was for Bristol Rovers U18 0 Swindon Town U18 0, in a Football League Youth Alliance match, back on 12th February 2000, when they played on a pitch to the rear of the athletics track. The second visit was for a game on the athletics track pitch itself, on 30th April 2001, where Team Bath beat Larkhall Athletic 2-0 in a Western League Division 1 match. Today’s match was played on Pitch 1 of the St. Johns Sports Pitches, which is on the right hand side of Norwood Avenue when entering the complex off Claverdon Down Road and a good 400 yards before reaching the athletics track.

The match was between two very evenly matched teams and it became obvious from very early on it wasn’t going to be a goal fest. The pitch certainly didn’t help and was very bobbly, which made playing good football difficult for both sides. Loughborough went ahead just after the half hour mark, finishing from a tight angle, after rounding the ’keeper following a flick on from a long ball. Just after the hour mark, out of nothing, Bath drew level from the penalty spot, following a trip on a striker cutting into the box. There were a couple of half chances for each side, before Loughborough won it with a penalty of their own, with just three minutes left.