It’s time to start your yearly training routines, folks, with just over a month until the big day! 11.00am, Christmas Day.
Incredible attendance numbers over the last couple of years have not been matched by a large amount of goals. The bookies reckon this year will see a return to double figures in the goal-scoring department.
With that in mind we throw back to the biggest scoreline in the history books: a 15-13 scoreline back in 2022! Goalscorers that day were Jack Capel with an average 7; Ed Griffin with a whopping 6; 4 apiece to Ben Howes, George Howes and Rory Capel, with just the one to Sam Blood. Meanwhile Guy Howes got the best of both worlds, scoring for both teams with a screamer of an own goal! A sensational sliding finish and in off the post!
A few other highlights of the 2022 match included a suspected broken wrist for Sam Blood, which turned out to be just a sprain, whilst we also saw the oldest player to play in a match in Mike Capel, and the oldest kick of a ball from Jackie Edwards, aged 93! Man of the match that year was awarded to Ed Griffin, but the nomination for the most comedic performance went to Guy Howes, for not only scoring an epic own goal but also having multiple further attempts at own goals!
That’s it for today’s history lesson, folks. Let’s have similar antics this year!
Rory Capel
