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Sunday 10th September
Football

Independent Schools' Football Association Senior Six-A-Side Football Tournament

 

Eight of the 1st XI travelled down to Chigwell in North London on Saturday to take part in the Independent Schools' Football Association Senior Six-A-Side Football Tournament at Forest School, Snaresbrook, London.

 

Even though we knew that we were drawn in the hardest group there, the lads were excited and ready to play competitive football again.  Our first match was to be against Bradfield; we didn’t work as a team and lost the match 3-0.  Our next match was against the holders, Forest School, and we were very anxious to see how we would play against them.  We kept the ball well and defended brilliantly with some great saves by our fill-in goal keeper Charlie Pierce.  We managed to catch them on the break and won the game 1-0 with a great goal from Jin. The final group match was to be our biggest test yet we played Bolton School who, as nine-time (and leading) Cup-winners, were one of the favourites to win the competition.  However, to our surprise, we were the team on top, and won the game 1-0 with a superb game from Alun Morris.  This was a great achievement for the team.

 

Winning 2 out of our 3 games meant that we qualified for the Plate and were to play Forest School B team.  We beat them 3-1 with goals from me (Eliot Dyke), James Wilcox-Jones and Jin.  We then drew Winchester who had kicked us out of the tournament last year and are the only school that is older than Oswestry, so we were very eager to win.  Frustratingly, with all the possession and chances we had, we lost the game 2-1 with a late goal from me but it was too late.

 

It was a great performance by the lads to reach the quarter-finals.  A special mention should go to George Read who travelled all the way down there to play only 12 minutes due to injury.

 

Thank you to Mr Jones and Mr Leonard for a great weekend and good luck for the rest of the season lads!

 

Elliot Dyke
Captain of Football