UEA dominate as the BUSA Christmas break kicks in

UEA Mens 1st team bounced back from last weeks loss to beat Staffordshire University. Arriving 20 minutes late because the bus driver was a cunt, the team wasn't sure if they had the right venue, the pitch was so shit. The ref was just getting into his car and when asked if they could still play he said yes but only 30 minutes each way. Staffordshire wanted to play too as they are already relegated so they kicked off half an hour late. Scott Holiday set up one of Nick Youngs two goals, and Dave Mahoney got himself his 2nd of the season. Staffordshire did manage to score, unmarked in the box their striker headed home. Final score 3-1 to UEA so unfortunately no clean sheet bonus. Nick Young picked up the Man of the Match award giving him 25 points for the day.

BUSA 2A MIDLANDS LEAGUE

TEAM	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
Loughborough University Men's 2nd	8	5	3	0	22	3	19	18
Oxford University Men's 1st	8	5	2	1	16	7	9	17
Oxford Brooks University Men's 1st	7	4	0	3	17	11	6	*15
University of East Anglia Men's 1st	7	3	1	3	8	13	-5	10
University of Nottingham Men's 2nd	8	1	2	5	8	17	-9	5
Staffordshire University Men's 2nd	6	0	0	6	5	25	-20	*-3

A star* indicates a walkover because a team didn't turn up, in which case they also get 3 points deducted.
The top two teams enter the cup which means UEA wil have to wait till next season to challenge for honurs, they will continue to be in this league.

UEA 2nd XI continued their winning form with a 6-0 thrashing of Leicester De Montford 2nds in a crunch 2nd place versus 3rd match. David Yeomans opened up the scoring in the 20th minute, a massive clearance from Matt Beasley was gambled upon by Yeomans who chested down beautifully and lobbed the keeper. 10 minutes later Chris Gunn earned a free kick out on the left and Jimmy Havers met his cross unmarked in the box with a thumping header to make it 2-0. At the break UEA noted the importance of getting the next goal as it was at their ground where Leicester were 2-0 up and UEA brought it back to 2-2. This was not the case however, only a minute after the restart Jimmy Havers made a crunching tackle and dinked the ball over the top to Yeomans who cooled put away his second passed the keeper.
Only two minute later Liam Martin won the ball and layed a sweet through ball to Nick Gaskell who knocked it passed the keeper 1 on 1 to make it 4-0. The fifth came from a Marcus Jones throw in, Gaskell was in acres of space as he met the throw in and lobbed the ball over the defender only for Yeomans to control nicely and put the ball into the top corner. That his hattrick earned him the star man award for the 2's. The day wasn't over yet though substitute Chris Macdonald tapped on from 8 yards from a nicely worked move ending a a typically sweet left footed cross from Chris Gunn, Macca's first of the season.
With Coventry University's result from yesterday still pending, either way it is looking likely that UEA need to beat Coventry at home in week 3 next semester in order to win the league, providing they can beat Bedford 4ths in their last game of the season.

BUSA 4D MIDLANDS LEAGUE

TEAM	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
University of East Anglia Men's 2nd	8	6	1	1	34	9	25	19
Coventry University Men's 2nd	7	6	0	1	22	9	13	18
DeMontford University Men's 2nd	8	4	1	3	14	17	-3	13
University of Bedforshire Men's 3rd	7	3	1	3	10	8	2	10
University of Bedforshire Men's 4th	8	2	1	5	11	21	-10	7
University college Northampton Men's 4th	8	0	0	8	17	34	-27	0

Top scoring players in Dream Team:

Name	Points
Nick Gaskell	154
Dave Yeomans	142
Tom Thornton	116
Sam Gilliland	110
Liam Martin	102
Jason Lincoln	91
James Havers	90
Dan Humphries	89
Marcus Jones	89
Chris Morris	76

Good luck this weekend everybody

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