Mike Richardson (Officer for Refs & Officials) is concerned that Clubs have not confirmed with him which Refs they have booked for the opening Premier League matches and ND1 Tournament. All Clubs have been notified of their responsibility in this matter and given a list of accredited referees to select from.
The following are the games [...]

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Mike Richardson (Officer for Refs & Officials) is concerned that Clubs have not confirmed with him which Refs they have booked for the opening Premier League matches and ND1 Tournament.
All Clubs have been notified of their responsibility in this matter and given a list of accredited referees to select from.
The following are the games and [...]

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At the after-event party, Catalunya thanked the Organisation for “the best tournament they had never played in”. Make of that what you will but for England the match was more a World A training than a World B final.
3-0 at half time and 6-0 at the end of the match. 2 Catalunya goals came from [...]

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This was always going to be the big one, the home team in front of the home crowd.
Both teams started to feel their way into the match. England needed to assess how the refs would set the level and did not want to be sucked into Macau’s slow pace from which they can execute a [...]

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Simon Hosking scored the first and James Taylor added the second before 2 minutes had cleared. That set the seal on the 1st half that put England ahead 8-0, (Hosking 2, Taylor 3, Pearce 1, Austin 1, Waddingham 1.
The 2nd half began where the 1st left off with goals from Barker, Wheatley(2)and Taylor. This was [...]

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James Taylor scored in the 1st minute after which Australia were always chasing the game – but not by very much!
England wanted to stamp their authority on this match and were hungry for goals but Australia’s roughie-toughie tactics frustrated any idea of that. Australia equalised and Mark Waddingham restored the lead. Australia equalised and this [...]

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England took possession of the match from the start with the Austrian goalkeeper playing out of his skin behind a resolute defence.
After 7 minutes Mark Waddingham had the chance to use a penalty to break the deadlock but he failed in his attempt to dribble the keeper.
It was not until late in the 2nd half [...]

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This was the first match in which the Catalans broke into a sweat, their goalkeeper saw some action and they decided to give their 1st five a second period on the rink.
England had an excellent start for 6 minutes before the professionals wore us down and we gave too much respect in our penalty area. [...]

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The 5-0 half time scoreline indicated that, despite not finding any real shape, there are enough England players who can put the ball in the back of the net against a Japanese team that could do nothing but defend against us and with their goalkeeper doing an excellent job.
Things got better in the 2nd half [...]

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The season got underway at the Farnham Leisure Centre with four teams contesting this year’s championship.
Herne Bay won the opening game , 7-1, against home club Farnham. Having played together for some time, the Herne team work proved decisive. Farnham, on the other hand, are a team composed of players from three clubs, for whom [...]

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