It was billed as the battle to see who held sway over football bragging rights in the Physics department. HEP vs. SPAT. There were many volunteers on both sides. The mouth watering clash was six weeks in the making and took place on Thursday last week - 04/10/07...or should have. Thanks to Murphy's law it did not. The SPAT footballing maestros couldn't put their money where their mouth was and pulled out at the worst possible time - the morning of the match. Apparently, a sweeping bout of freshers flu was to blame! Turning disappointment into action, HEP (Ajit, Aaron, Onuora, Tom) decided to go ahead and play. Fortunately, Deltadot (Wen, Mark, Gary, Dave, Reese) was at hand to oblige.
The match, which took place at Hyde Park, ended 7-5 in favour of Deltadot. It was evenly balanced for the first fifteen minutes as both sides probed for an opening. Deltadot finally made the extra-man count to get on the score sheet. The game was evenly poised at 2-1 in favour of Deltadot with both sides missing a few gilt-edged chances. At 7-4 they seemed to be running away with it but HEP pegged them back with uncompromising defence and a goal at the death.
Good job lads!
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2 comments:
Thanks for the report and photos, Onuora -- I was in Japan for a T2K meeting, so couldn't make it to the match, otherwise it would have been a 7 - 5 loss to Deltadot with 5 men on 5, rather than 4 on 5!
I assume we'll be having a proper match with Space and Atmospheric Physics sometime in the future, right? Or have they actually wimped out of this after seeing our formidable lineup?
Hi Yoshi,
Yeah I'm certain if you'd been there it would have been a different story! Hopefully the next game will not be too long in the making. I doubt it will be with Space and Atmospheric Physics though, they've been very quiet since the infamous no show.
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