Cambridge University F.A.

Cuppers Final

Saturday 29th May 2021

Kick Off 18.00 On Time !

Fitzwilliam College 2 Homerton College 1, attendance 375

70’ 0-1

71’ 1-1

76’ 2-1

@ Fitzwilliam College Playing Field

93 Oxford Road

Cambridge

CB4 3PH

No Admission or Programme *

I don’t think I’ve ever been to a final in any competition before where one team played in 4 different designs of shirt (two without numbers on the back) plus another three players wearing plain t-shirts of various shades of blue. It made the fact that there were at least five different colours of socks on display seem irrelevant. Homerton College looked an absolute disgrace and made the game have a ‘Mickey Mouse’ feel to it. At least Fitzwilliam College took pride and wore complete matching kit.

The game itself was of really poor quality and looked destined to be heading for a goalless draw as neither team looked capable of scoring. Then suddenly the game came to life in a mad seven minute spell. Homerton went ahead with a rising shot into the far corner of the net with twenty minutes left, but within a minute Fitzwilliam had a shot blocked before the follow up found it’s way through the crowded box to level things up again. Five minutes later an angled shot went in off the far post to put Fitzwilliam 2-1 up. It was a relief that Homerton couldn’t find an equaliser as anything more than ninety minutes would have been a real endurance test.

*Fitzwilliam had produced a 12 page programme that was basically just pen pictures of their squad. No copies were available at the match though, as they were done for pre-order only.