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Sixteen teams from Great Bear sites all over the UK came together last month for the annual Great Bear 5-a-side football competition.
Now in its third year, the event started off with three divisions of teams, to allow for the differing levels of competitive ability. An early highlight was Sandycroft beating Stoke 8-0, for whom it was an unwelcome introduction to the event although they did lose their goalkeeper with an injury so the scoreline was perhaps a little flattering.
Sandycroft, Kegworth and Tattenhall all emerged from the Group stages, although the lack of any transfer window resulted in some interesting ‘on loan’ signings of the Murdoch Boys, courteous of our very own finance director, who can be seen in action here;
(the picture isn’t blurred; he really is moving that quickly).
The potent strike power of having the directors up front was clearly the only reason that they were on the receiving end early on of some ‘reducer’ tackles of which Big Ron would be proud.
The starting line-up reduced to a knockout format for the top eight teams and then ended up with a final that pitched Oldham against Skelmersdale. Having won the competition for the past two years, Skelmersdale started firm favourites but Oldham – newcomers to the event – weren’t put off by this, having previously dispatched joint favourites Basildon D in the semi-finals. The Oldham team chose their moment to peak and at the end of full time in the final, the scores were level. So it went down to penalties and it was Skelmersdale that triumphed 3-1, in order to take the title for the third year in succession.
Congratulations to all those on the Skem team.
Great Bear’s Paul Goring and David Ashby have just returned from the French Alps, where – as part of the Team Giffers – they successfully competed and completed the 2010 Pass’portes Du Soleil mountain bike challenge. More in the news article here.
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