A hockey players top travel tips for South Korea

Danny McCree

Make sure to time your stopover in the middle of the flight so you can check the hockey results (also, if you win the match you can celebrate)

Pressing the buttons on the crossing does not make the lights change, it just turns on the sound and makes the Koreans laugh at you.

The food is great, but intestine sausage is not a good hangover food.

Win the league during your trip, this is also a good reason to celebrate.

If you celebrate too much and drink too much soju, just sleep for 14 hours then everything will be okay again.

If a restaurant advertises seagull meat, it is not a bird but actually a particular cut of beef. The waiter will be very confused when you show him a picture of a seagull.

Purchase champagne on your arrival back in Cambridge, home of the 2023/24 East men's league div 4NW champions!

 

For anyone wanting mundane things like details of how a game actually went, here is a brief summary from stand-in skipper Andy W, who was in St. Neots rather than Seoul at the time of the match...

First half: we struggled to get our rhythm on a slow pitch + a talented St Neots midfielder who forced some great saves from Matt on short corners, went in 0-0 at the break.

Second half: we found our rhythm, probably 10 shots on target but their keeper picked some incredible saves to deny James and Ben getting on the scoresheet multiple times each. Goal 1 was a short corner slapped to the backpost by Ben, deflected in by Jamie. Goal 2 was an unstoppable reverse from Vince that I cant remember the build up for, but earned him MoM by a margin. Others mentioned in despatches were James T for only being denied by the goalie and new-found CB Pash, solid at the back, particualrly a critical tackle when it was still 0-0 to spirit the ball away as forward was winding up to strike.

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Vincent Maffet
Player of the Match

Reverse goal

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Danny McCree
Lemon of the Match

Nor bringing champagne