First up was ESGL. Unfortunately for them (but fortunately for the rest of us!) ESGL were only able to bring over a team of 4 from Paris and the 5 players of Oakenden took early advantage when 2 goals from Gaz gave them a 2-0 lead. We missed a good chance to go 3 up when a foul on Gaz was called only 15 metres out when we had an advantage as Gaz had ridden the tackle and was 1 on 1 with the keeper. Unfortunately we couldn’t make our extra man count any further and ESGL were able to get back into the game with 2 goals in the 2nd half to draw the game 2-2.  Overall, we had played ok and probably should have won the game. Next up was St Pierre and the eventual runners up certainly burst our bubble with a convincing 11-0 victory! Dublin were next to put us to the sword – this time by 8 goals to nil.  Our fourth game was against Sanvic, the winners of the previous tournament in Dublin. I am pleased to report that we scored the goal of the tournament. Unfortunately though it wasn’t in our opponents goal. Sanvic had cruised into a 3-0 lead. We had cleared further danger with Andy dribbling the ball out of defence towards the right hand wing, about 35 – 40 meters from our goal. Andy was being closed down by 2 Sanvic players, he looked up and seeing nothing was on hit a backhand shot. The trouble was that he hit the shot with such power that it flew the full 40 metres into the top left hand corner of our goal while still rising. I heard afterwards that a man had caught the ball while standing on the roof of York Minster! Anyway, the goal got its deserved ovation from spectators and players from both sides! This encouraged us enough to get a goal back, when Jaff planted a peach past the Sanvic keeper. Unfortunately, Sanvic again raised their game and ran out convincing 6-1 winners.  Last up was Johnstone. Martin scored a cracking goal in this one but unfortunately it was nowhere near enough to prevent Johnstone running out 8-1 winners. In a very exciting final Sanvic beat St Pierre 2-1 with a very late goal to take home the winners trophy, and thoroughly deserved it was too. All in all, this was a great event, thoroughly enjoyable but very hard work to both organise and play in.