A crisp November Saturday saw the second FFScout take place at Parmiters School, Watford, with five teams of FFScout regulars and guest players competing and raising money for CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably).
In the group stages, MyPrettyPony’s TWFC side showed the best cohesion, perhaps unsurprisingly since most of them play together regularly in a midweek work team.
A tight opening game saw TWFC finally hit Hilton FC on the break to open the scoring before Hilton’s defender fired in a wonderful own goal from an acute angle to settle TWFC nerves.
A late third for TWFC was somewhat harsh on Hilton FC, who were more than a match for their opponents in every aspect except the score-line.
Meanwhile, on the other pitch, the two Scout heavy teams shared the spoils in a four-goal thriller.
ScoutB came back from the shock of conceding two early goals from Bhuna and BenS (both continuing their fine form in front of goal from our last tournament), to restrict ScoutA to just one point, ultimately to prove their only point of the group campaign.
Both Hilton FC and Flitwick Leisure struggled in front of goal, each hitting the target in just one of their four league fixtures, yet the latter went unbeaten and recorded just a solitary goal against to finish the league in second, behind a TWFC which recorded good wins against both the FFScout sides.
Following the mini-league competition and with some players having to depart early it was agreed that teams would be shaken up a little for a separate knock out challenge featuring just four six-a-side teams.
Despite their unbeaten league campaigns, both TWFC and Flitwick Leisure crashed out in the semi-finals, losing out to Scout A and Scout B respectively to set up an intra-Scout cup final.
In truth, though, the two Scout sides largely cancelled each other out in a final to forget with chances at a premium and Scout A going closest when a header from Paul came back off the bar.
Scout B then punished tired legs in defence as the excellent RMT Professor picked out CouldGetMessi and his low drive beat sweeper keeper, Matzi, to nestle into the bottom corner and secure the cup for ScoutB.
The football was enjoyable, the facility fantastic and the evening drinks well earned, but of course the main purpose of the day was to raise funds for CALM, who work to prevent male suicide in the UK.
We were delighted to raise over £350 on the day with a similar figure being donated online to the Just Giving page here.
At the time of writing, the total raised stands at over £650. Thank you to everyone who played or just contributed.
Results
League Tournament
Pitch 1 (League) | Pitch 2 (League) | ||
ScoutA 2 | 2 ScoutB | Hilton FC 0 | 3 TWFC |
ScoutA 1 | 4 Hilton FC | ScoutB 0 | 0 Flit Leisure |
ScoutA 1 | 2 Flit Leisure | ScoutB 1 | 5 TWFC |
ScoutA 1 | 4 TWFC | Hilton FC 0 | 0 Flit Leisure |
ScoutB 2 | 0 Hilton FC | TWFC 0 | 0 Flit Leisure |
| League Results | W | D | L | Pts | GD |
| TWFC | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | +10 |
| Flit Leisure | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | +1 |
| ScoutB | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -2 |
| Hilton FC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -2 |
| ScoutA | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | -7 |
Knockout Tournament
Semi-finals
ScoutA 2-1 TWFC SF2:
ScoutB 2-0 Flit Leisure
Wooden Spoon
TWFC 3-2 Flit Leisure
Final
ScoutA 0-1 ScoutB
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