British Universities & Colleges Sport

South Eastern Conference Cup 1st Round

Wednesday 6th November 2019

Kick Off 18.45 Actual 18.49

Middlesex University 5 Queen Mary University 2nds (Barts) 2, attendance 2

6’ 0-1

30’ 0-2

32’ 1-2

51’ 2-2

68’ 3-2

71’ 4-2 (pen)

76’ 5-2

@ St. James’ Catholic High School, 3G Pitch

Grahame Park Way

Colindale

London

NW9 5PE

No Admission or Programme.

It was only 50 miles from Cambridge, but the journey took just short of two hours to drive. The pitch here has only recently opened and although it only has spectator access along one side, it doesn’t feel like a normal caged pitch as there is plenty of room between the barrier and perimeter fence, but it probably couldn’t be used to stage ‘non league’ matches as the spare goals for 5-a-side football stay inside the barrier and are no more than a foot from the touch line, so it would fail on safety grounds.

Barts went 0-2 up, having dominated the opening half hour, with Middlesex struggling to contain them, but an absolute thunderbolt free kick from 30 yards pulled it back to 1-2 and the game completely changed. When Middlesex levelled it up at 2-2 early in the second half, there was only going to be one winner, and they added three more goals to ease to a comfortable 5-2 win, which certainly didn’t look likely following the opening stages of the match.