14th September 2003 – Leighton Buzzard Bulldogs
travelled to Manningtree to play their first ever game
against Colchester’s Senior ex Div 1 team.
The game started positively with both teams evenly
matched. After 10mins of play L.B. Bulldogs got there
first goal scored by Nathan Ing followed shortly by a
second from Trevor Large. The Bulldogs held there
position well and continued [...]

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SUNDAY NOVEMBER 16TH 2003 – FARNHAM SPORTS CENTRE
First come first served – Farnham RHC invite teams
to enter the Annual Farnham Shield, now in its 27th year.
Minors players under the age of 13 on 01-09-03.
Entry fee £75, **** cheque with entry please!!***
Awards include the George Maddox Shield to the most promising player, Best goalkeeper Award, the [...]

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Spectrum have withdrawn with only 3 days before the start of the season which leaves us with a problem of replacing them.
Can you let me know if you are interested in entering a team, or have any players interested in playing for a ’scratch’ team.
Can you please put your replies to me (lonsdalepeter@hotmail.com)
The 1st tournament [...]

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Delayed – Monday 1st of September
England started well keeping the Spanish at bay, both teams sussing each other out as players not seen before were present in both teams. The starting five were Claire C(Capt.), Claire H, Finchy, Fi and Jo in goal.
Both teams played individual in a tight zone and the pace of the [...]

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Delayed – Tuesday 2nd of September
The match started as it meant to go on…..aggressively and with no love lost from the home crowd! The game was very evenly matched with chances for both sides. The French played a tight defence (Box/Diamond) but they pushed out on the sides leaving lots of space behind them. Claire [...]

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Delayed – Wednesday 3rd of September
As always, it was a tough game against the Germans, especially considering they had beaten Spain the day before. We all started strongly knowing we were very evenly matched. Both teams had plenty of shots with the Germans scoring first. We battled on putting in lots of shots, but the [...]

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Delayed – Thursday 4th of September 10.30am
This being the only morning match both teams started at a slower pace. Portugal had some new players that we hadnt seen before and were not as strong. After an even battle Portugal scored first. England changed their defense to box/diamond so as not to tire for the evening [...]

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Delayed – Thursday 4th of September 6pm
England started slowly finding it hard to get into the game. Fortunately Claire C managed to score a quick goal. We relaxed a little too much! And the Swiss scored a quick two goals in return. Claire C scored a spectacular goal, chipping up the ball behind the goal [...]

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Delayed – Friday 5th of September 7.30pm
England started the warm up extremely slowly and with rocks on our feet. As usual we got a right bollocking in the changing rooms……and went straight out and scored from a brilliant pass to the back post which Julie put in the back of the net. Our defense was [...]

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Delayed – Saturday 6th September
We were all pleased to finish in 5th place, the highest placing for England Ladies yet. The European Championships are extremely hard with all the top teams in the world competing. It was encouraging to see how close all our matches were. The gap between the Latin countries and the rest [...]

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