National Roller Hockey Association

Day 5
England 1 Switzerland 5
The Team, maintaining their diamond defence held the 1st half and had more chances than the opposition but the half-time score was 0 – 0.
A deflected goal in the 2nd minute gave the Swiss the opening and with another two following and England were now chasing the game. Coach Phil […]

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Day 4
England 1 Portugal 8
The quarter final programme had 1st in Group A meeting 4th in Group B so England faced Portugal.
England set out defend well but the 2 quick goals from their strong No 9 were a setback. The team though buckled down to work and Portugal playing all their set pieces […]

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Day 3 England 1 Germany 7
The team responded well to Coach, Phil McVey’s call to arms! A much improved attitude plus effort was demonstrated almost throughout the game. Liam Holland broke through the ‘no score’ barrier in the last 7 minutes and it was a shame they were not able to turn several further opportunities […]

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Day 2. France 6 - England 0
Coach Phil McVey gave this comment following the match, “After the good performance against Spain I was ecpecting a repeat against the French. Unfortunately the team under performed, we were not strong enough in the tackles or when in possession. The team realise this and are eager to […]

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A fuller report from the Management will be posted later.
Ist day of Competition –Spain 7 England 0
Coach, Phil McVey said after the match how satisfied he was with the team’s performance. Every player was involved in achieving the result which was an improvement on the 05 championships. In a full noisy rink there was […]

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Euro Games Day 7
Up bright and early for a bus at 7am. We play Andorra at 9 am. At just above 30C, the temperature is reasonable compared to what we have been experiencing.
The match got off to a bad start when we let Andorra take the lead because of some very sloppy play but […]

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Euro Games Day 5
After a 2 day break visiting the fashion houses in Milan, England is back in the hockey business.
We have given up understanding how the programme works but we play Germany at 3pm. A quick pizza round the corner and the bus is here on time at 1pm sharp for the trip […]

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European Championship Day 3
England had no match today and depending on the outcome (that was never in doubt) would have no match on Day 4 either. So we went along to watch at our own expense as no transfer service was planned for us on a day with no match.
We, and the other spectators […]

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England 0 France 5
The match started well with an even balance but after 13 minutes France went one up when a quick shot crossed the goal and pinged in off the post.
The French played their typical high-speed game with regular changes of players to maintain the energy. We rotated our players also but […]

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Spain 8 England 0
The England team arrived in Monza on Sunday 16 July. In the evening there was an Olympic-style opening ceremony with episodes from Italian history enacted on skates and excellent displays of free-skating, formation skating, speed and cycling!
Our team is Ian Morrison, Joe Wheatley, Brendan Barker, James Taylor, Karl Smith, Michael Ableson, […]

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