The evening got off to an interesting start when the new team strips were revealed and turned out to be black and white (causing a debate on whether to change the nickname of the team to ‘The Badgers’) rather than the black and red we had been expecting. However, it was nice to see the team so smartly attired (no official team photo yet as we need to get the whole team together).
It was thrown further into turmoil when we realised that we didn't have a goalkeeper, although Nick kindly offered to step into the breach and did a fantastic job in difficult circumstances.
Ditton Utd, who are currently the top team in the league, are the youngest team the Oakers have so far played and their youth certainly helped the side to run rings around the Oakers defence in a game which seemed to last twice as long as usual.
A lucky goal one minute and forty seconds into the match saw the start of a run of bad luck for the Oakers which ended with the opposing team managing to score five goals, the final goal being a last second penalty.
However, the youngsters didn't have it all their own way. Two excellent goals were scored by Steve ‘Twinkle Toes’ Peters (taking him to the top of the goal scorers leader board) and there was some nice play overall from the rest of the Oakers, although their substitutions could have been a little better. Nick played a blinding game in goal and made some beautiful saves.
Overall this was a good game for the Oakers, even though they lost and as Ditton Utd are the next team they play in the Cup in two weeks time they should be better prepared to face the youngsters.
Final score: 5-2 to Ditton Utd.
Next Game: Thursday 23rd October at 9.35pm against the Old Farts.
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