Christmas Social 2007
Il Bacio Restaurant Sat Dec 8th

The very lovely Il Bacio Italian Restaurant on Church Street, Stoke Newington was the place to be today as the rain poured down outside.

It was a great way to spend the afternoon, tucked up inside with players and parents from the team. And just for once, it did not matter if no one wore their shin-pads!

The players table was overflowing with margherita pizzas, chocolate and strawberry ice cream, endless cokes and lemonades, the players busy swapping ‘Match Attax’ playing cards and debating football. Jaden, surely, must win the best dressed player award! To the oldies table meanwhile, was brought some gorgeous dishes of pasta and pizza and fine tasting vino rosso. It was really nice for us all to come together for this great social, to pour over our first few months as a team together, to talk football philosophies and listen to Anne-Marie’s and Robert’s “doing a runner from restaurants” stories!
We raised our glasses to the team and look forward to more social events in the new year.

Team : Jimmie, Anne-Marie, Jackie, Robert, Maureen, David, Carl, Sophie, Steve & the Under 9s.

Primrose Hill 5-0 Recreativo Juniors
Friday 7th Dec

Despite a well drilled pre-match warm up and an eagerness to go on and get something from this game, the Juniors looked a little out of sorts tonight. We found it hard to get out of our own half. After we conceded our first goal, heads fell, shoulders sloped, hope diminished. We never really troubled the Primrose keeper, only managing two shots on goal the whole game. All our players tried their best and that’s all we can ask for.
A look through the other scores, the other divisions and age groups of this league shows that there are many other teams struggling to make a real impact. Let’s remind ourselves, we are still a new team, a team of mixed ability, but also a team of players who show the determination to get back out there and give it their all. We’re not going to throw in the towel just yet and the next game can not come around fast enough.

Team (all played) : Daniel Garcias-Fernandez, Louis Dillion, Zeki Bolat, Lara Tollington, Harry Butcher, Storm Gregory-Hickling, Benji Barbour Ricketts, Jaye Paul, Ollie Goldblatt, George Wakefield, Jaden Stephenson.