An unusual match due to a number of reasons:

1. South only made eleven with Shyam bringing along his brother in law Shriram. So the team as it stood had three players who had hardly played before and Shyam bravely went in goal.

2. Both teams turned up with green shirts and bibs were hastily found and

3. The umpires started the match with CSHC not having eleven players on the field and especially no goal keeper. However, as they say in the Winslow Boy, "right was done".

Never before, did a match start with such chaos where the team barely knew one another's name and for the guys who played with us for the first time, they must have thought this is how it is done each week.

St Ives scored the first goal before Shyam came onto the pitch. St Ives continued to have the upper hand and scored again from another short corner and went 2-0 up.

South however started coming back into it and Rob Barton managed to put away a short corner of our own and made it 2-1. The remainder of the half was pretty even with Hodgy and Jelley working tirelessly to get our share of the midfield.

The team finally had a shout of names at half time. The highlight of the second half was when South had a short corner five minutes from the end, with high expectation shouts of "Make this count" and "Let's get something out of this game". The corner was pushed out (read flicked) in the air.... miles away from the receiver, this completely deceived the St Ives defence and not least South's attacking players and fell a safe distance away from the D. At the end of the match, this was explained away as a new short-corner routine that was still work-in-progress. The second half was an even affair, but neither side scored even though both sides had chances.