Arthurian League

Premier Division

Saturday 1st February 2025

Kick Off 11.00 Actual 11.07

Old Cholmeleians 4 King’s College School Old Boys 2, attendance 6

35’ 0-1

37’ 1-1

39’ 2-1

44’ 3-1

57’ 4-1

67’ 4-2

@ Christ’s College Finchley, 3G Pitch

East End Road

Finchley

London

N2 0SE

No Admission or Programme.

Another week where numerous games fell victim to waterlogged pitches, despite a couple of dry days, but at least I got a ‘new’ ground visit out of it, with Old Cholmeleians switching their game from their own ground to the 3G pitch here at Christ’s College Finchley. It’s just a standard cage set up, with no designated spectator area, but there was no problem with watching from inside the fence. You could have watched from the raised grass banking behind the near goal if required, which as well as seeing the game, also gives a view of the Wembley Arch in the distance. Plenty of parking here too, even with the hoards of parents turning up to collect their kids from their training session on the pitch beforehand, which, as is normal, caused our game to kick off slightly later than scheduled.

This was 7th versus 4th in the league table and was certainly a slow burner. Nothing happened of note until KCS opened the scoring after thirty five minutes, with a finish from the edge of the box. It took just four minutes for Cholmeleians to turn it around though and just before halftime they made it 3-1, with a good finish into the top corner from the angle of the 18 yard box, lobbing the ‘keeper and going in off the far post and another edge of the box finish saw them go 4-1 up just before the hour mark. KCS did pull it back to 4-2 with just over twenty minutes left, with a 25 yarder that seemed to deceive the ‘keeper, but that was it as far as the goal scoring was concerned, although Cholmeleians did hit the bar in the last minute with a 30 yard lob.