Belgium
Brabant Provincial 1 A.C.F.F.
Sunday 9th November 2025
Kick Off 15.00 Actual 15.03
F.C. Moreda Uccle 0 R. Racing Club Etterbeek 7, attendance 57
30’ 0-1
48’ 0-2
50’ 0-3
56’ 0-4
70’ 0-5 (pen)
73’ 0-6
84’ 0-7
@ Complexe Sportif André Deridder
Rue des Griottes 26
1180 Uccle
€8 Admission
No Programme.
It was an 04.30 alarm this morning, heading down to Dover to get the 08.15 P&O ferry across to Calais. We had been expecting the new finger print checks to now be underway at Border Control, but it is delayed still further, at least as far as car passengers go, so we could have had an extra half hour in bed….oh well. The boat left on schedule, leaving ample time to make the 130 mile drive to Uccle, just south west of Brussels.
The ground here is pretty basic. It’s a caged 3G pitch with spectator access along one side, with a pair of dugouts opposite. There’s a small bit of cover, consisting of three steps of concrete, with the back two rows having wooden planks for seating. The clubhouse is to the right as you enter the complex and actually did have bar snacks too, rather than just crisps that are more the norm. The changing rooms were in the basement of this building.
The match was 15th (out of 16) versus 3rd in the league table. It was a pretty uneventful first half, which Etterbeek dominated, but were caught offside at least half a dozen times, breaking down the majority of their chances. They’d had a ninth minute effort chalked off for offside, but did make the breakthrough on the half hour mark, when a diagonal free kick from the right was met with a stooping header at the near post. Within five minutes of the second half starting, they’d increased their lead to 0-3 and with the points safe, it was a case of just how many more they’d score. It turned out to be another four, one of which was a penalty. They also hit a post too, but they’d declared at 0-7, when the final goal of the game arrived with six minutes left, finishing a through ball with a dink over the ‘keeper from the edge of the box.
We had plenty of time to kill after the game, so went for a meal in Gistel on our way back to Calais. Our 22.25 ferry left four minutes early, arriving back in Dover around eleven o’clock, with a ten minute wait to then disembark. I was dropped off in Barming, to collect my car and was home for 00.30, exactly twenty hours after my alarm had gone off this morning.
