A bitterly cold Exeter University played host to this years football league tournament.  Exeter City football club were running the tournament to find a team to represent them at Wembley in the football league cup.

As you can imagine, with so much at stake, it is a very prestigious tournament with a very high calibre of competition.  Bishops Nympton and East Anstey sent players to represent our inaugural Exmoor Link Federation sports team.

We knew that rubbing shoulders with the big leagues would present us with an uphill struggle but the opportunity to perform in front of Exeter City youth scouts could not be missed.  Despite the cold our players dug deep and fought bravely against visibly superior competition.

We lost our opening matches 2 – 0 against Ottery St Mary and Lockwood.  A difficult 6 – 0 loss to group winners Alphington did not  deter the fighting spirit as we bounced back to a 0 – 0 draw against St Sidwells.  We ended the group, loosing 3 – 0 to Pinhoe, finishing 5th out of 6 teams in group C.

I am very proud of our players who fought hard in every game, knowing that we were the underdogs.  Excellent performances by all but I must mention George Snell who was superb in goal.  Well done to the whole team for a dogged performance.

Mr Scandrett