We played the Thornbury tournament this week-end, and although I don’t usually do match reports, I thought this one deserved it.  The day didn’t start too well with both Kit and Harry withdrawing due to illness, but after a couple of hasty (and illiterate) texts Dave managed to pull some family strings and Louis from the Falcons came along as a guest star.  (Just don’t ask about transfer fees!)

The tournament itself didn’t look like going too well either as we started a bit slowly, and basically didn’t do well enough to be in the top 2 in the group, and so we went into the plate competition.  However this was the point at which we finally decided to play, and after a 1-1 draw in the semi final we found ourselves in a best of 3 penalty shoot-out against the home team Thornbury Falcons A.  Louis, Alex and Tom all took great penalties and their last player just had to beat Cass in goal to send it into sudden death.  He hit it just to Cass’s right, but Cass showed great reactions to beat it out and put us in to the final.