Football! Bloody hell!

Almost the full house of 5 wins this week save for a narrow defeat for 1s in the AFA senior Cup against a strong Nottsborough team (the current cup holders)!

Indeed you can catch the game itself on our channel here

Result and stats from the weekends games below:

Results:

Old Thorns 1s 2-1 Nottsborough 1s
AFA Senior Cup
Goals: Tom Riley
Assists: Aniston Arulthas
MoM: John Harrison

Sinjuns Grammarians 1s 2-4 Old Thorns 2s
Senior 2 South
Goals: Ellis Farrar x 2, James Rodriguez, Matt Callanan
Assists: Corey Cleave x3, Paul Ball
MoM: Corey Cleave

Fulham Compton Old Boys 2s 0-3 Old Thorns 4s
South 2
Goals: Dave Webster x 2, Alex Stevens
Assists: Alex Stevens x 2, Chris Lang
MoM: Alex Clark

Old Thorns 5s 2-0 Royal Sun Alliance 1s
South 3
Goals: Daniel Nderitu, Kehinde Kolawole
Assists: Kehinde Kolawole, Michael Murphy
MoM: Nick Daley

Old Wokingians 8s 1-5 Old Thorns 6s
South 8
Goals: Ben Himpe, Alex Scott Ruddock, Will Rivington, Mark Cryer, Kazi Sampson
Assists: Morris Mac Donagh, Matt Thomas, Harry McAllister, James Channon, Kazi Sampson
MoM: Ade Lawal

Two wins (1s, 6s), one draw (5s) and two losses (3s, 4s) on Saturday.

Unfortunately the 2’s did not have a game scheduled and the Vets game was cancelled due to a lack of players. The next game for the Vets is scheduled for the 23rd of October.

Results below:

Rob Roy Reds  1-3 Old Thorns 1s   

Goals: Aaron Snelling, Adam Platten, Josh Sherriff-Jolly 

Assists: Josh Sherriff-Jolly, Adam Platten, Tom Riley

MoM: Aaron Snelling 

Senior 1 South

Wandsworth Borough 2s  3-1  Old Thorns 3s 

Goals: Ewan Porteous

Assists: Oliver Golzari 

Mom:  Ewan Porteous

Intermediate South

Old Thorns 4s  1-4 Shene Old Grammarians   

Goals: Matt Callanan

Assists: Ellis Farrar

MoM: Sam Laidler

South 2

Wandsworth Borough 3s  1-1 Old Thorns 5s  

Goals: Daniel Nderitu 

Assists: Richard Lundie

MoM:  Stuart Halliday

South 3

Old Thorns 6s 6-2 Dorkinians 7s 

Goals: Phil Eves, Kaz Sampson, Jerome Goncalves, Mike Day, Talha Ahmed x2

Assists: Phil Eves, Mike Day, Jerome Goncalves, Kaz Sampson, Talha Ahmed 

MoM: Will Rivington South 8

From a rain sodden weekend at home and away there was only the games with just the two wins, two losses and a draw.

Results below:

Results

Economicals 1s  3-2 Old Thorns 1s

Senior 1 South

Goals: OG, OG

Assists: Will Sewell x2

MoM: Adam Platten

Old Thorns 2s  –  No game

Old Thorns 3s  2-1 Reigatians 2s

Intermediate South

Goals: Ben Dockerill, Oliver Golzari

Assist: Hal Colmer, Ewan Porteous

MoM: Alex Clark

Old Parkonians 5s 3-0 Old Thorns 4s  
AFA Minor Cup

Goals: -.

Assists: –

MoM: Will French

Old Thorns 5s  1-3  St James Old Boys  

AFA Minor Cup

Goals: Richard lundie

Assists: Ewan Porteous

MoM: Simon Thomas

Old Whitgiftians 2s 4-6  Old Thorns 6s
South 8

Goals: Anthony Mitchell, Mike Day, Alex Scott Ruddock, OG, OG

Assists: Anthony Mitchell x 2, Justin Blair x2, Christian King, Harry Mc Allister, Mike Day

MoM: Anthony Mitchell

A mixed bag of results saw a clean sweep of wins at home for 1s, 2s and 6s while away from. Fortress REMPF the 5s picked up a drew and the 3s and 4s fell to narrow defeats.

Results and Stats below:

Old Thorns 1s 4-0 Fulham Compton Old Boys 1s
Senior 1 South
Goals: Jarvis Cheek, Adam Platten, Parimal Patel x2
Assists: Aaron Snelling, Adam Platten, Jarvis Cheek
MotM: Will Sewell

Old Thorns 2s 3-2 Polytechnic 3s
AFA Cup
Goals: – Tom Riley, Alex Robinson, Sam Laidler
Assists: – Nathan Davies, Mo Kennou, Ben Dockerill
MotM: Ben Dockerill

NUFC Oilers II 5-2 Old Thorns 3s
AFA Cup
Goals: Ewan Porteous, Mark Cryer
Assists: Hal Colmer, Richard Scott
MotM: Hal Colmer

Old Meadonians 3s 2-0 Old Thorns 4s
South 2
Goals: –
Assists: –
MotM: –

Sinjuns Grammarians 2s 3-3 Old Thorns 5s

Goals: Richard Lundie, James Channon, Michael Murphy
Assists: Martin Goodson, Brian Hughes, Jason Heath
MotM: Martin Goodson

Old Thorns 6s 4-2 Old Tiffinians 4s
South 8

Goals: Kaz Sampson x2, Matty Long, Ryan Sketchley
Assists: Morris Mac Donagh, Matty Long x2, Ryan Sketchley
MotM: Matt Thomas

We were up against it from the off. A hot day and starting the game with 9 men. Alex sets us up 4-3-1 with instructions to let the opposition defenders have the ball and have our midfield push theirs wide. A nice over-the-top through ball from Raj puts Mike  through the middle. He feigns to shoot to the keeper’s left and firmly side-foot it to the keeper’s right. 0-1.

The new keeper Gulled kept out a couple shots and decisively came out to claim through balls, keeping us comfortable. We had 9 men but were more threatening. Anthony picks up the ball on the right wing, beats his man and drives forward. As another defender comes in to close him down and with the goal keeper tightening the angle, Anthony beats the second defender for pace and slots past the keeper who had no time to react. 0-2

We keep up the pressure at the start of the first half, where Dean has a shot inside the area. The goalkeeper parries the shot but Dean is on his toes and sharp. He follows up the shot with intent and aggression to bully the ball into the net past the fumbling goalkeeper. 0-3

The opposition got two goals back. We get players joining us to make parity. Mike picks the ball up around 25 yards from goal on the left wing. There is time and space so he pushes the ball slightly to his right and takes a shot. It flies into the top-right corner, past the keeper who reacted too late. 2-4

The opposition got another goal back and renewed hope. The piled the pressure on for the final 10 minutes but we stayed strong and hung on for the win.

Match report by Michael Murphy

A full complement of 6 games saw a start proper to the 21/22 season proper with wins for the 3s, 4s and 6s, draw for the 5s and losses for 1s and 2s.

Results and stats below:

Old Thorns 1s -v- Honourable Artillery Company 2s
Senior 1 South
Goals: Josh Sherriff-Jolly x2
Assists: Parimal Patel, Aaron Snelling
MoTM: Parimal Patel

View Veo highlights of game here

Old Paulines 2s Old Thorns 2s
Senior 2 South
Goals: Deji Ogunyemi
Assists: Alex Robinson
MotM: Andrew Barclay

London Welsh 1s 0-6 Old Thorns 3s
Intermediate South
2-1 win
Goal: Alex Stevens, Alex Clark, Dean Grant, Mark Cryer, Ed Stocker, Demari Joseph-Lawrence,
Assists: Mark Cryer x2, Alex Stevens x2, Ed Stocker, Hal Colmer
MotM: Billy Dobinson

Old Thorns 4s 2-1 Old Wokingians 3s
South 2
2-1 win
Goal: Will French, Kehinde Kolawale
Assists: Dan Warne, Rob Pritchard Jones
MotM: Ellis Farrar

View Veo highlights of game here

Old Thorns 5s 1-1 Wandsworth Borough 3s
South 3
Goals: Eamonn Smith
Assists: James Channon
MotM: Eamonn Smirh

Old Meadonians 8s 3-4 Old Thorns 6s
South 8
Goals: Mike Murphy x 2, Dean Wright, Antony Mitchell
Assists: Raj Ramful, Demari Joseph-Lawrence, Talha Ahmed
MotM: Mike Murphy

The 1s, 2s and 3s kicked off their league campaign against RBS, Old St Mary’s and Tenisonians while the 4s and 5s played out friendlies against Fulham Compton Old Boys

Results below:

Royal Bank of Scotland 1s 2-4 Old Thorns 1s Senior 1 South

Goals: Jarvis Cheek x 3, Josh Sherriff-Jolly

Assists: Adam Platten x 2, Jarvis Cheek, Josh Sherriff-Jolly

MoM: Jarvis Cheek

Old Thorns 2s 9-1 Old St. Mary’s 1s

Senior 2 South

Goals: Devante Jones x3, Alex Robinson, Ben Dockerill x2, Ben Parnall, Deji Ogenyemi, Oliver Golzari

Assists: Paul Ball x2 , Alex Robinson x 2, Deji Ogenyemi, Sonny Kombo, Devante Jones, Henry Pepperell, Oliver Golzari

MoM: Alex Robinson

Old Tenisonians 2s 2-3 Old Thorns 3s Intermediate South

Goals: Andrew Dawson x 3

Assists: Richard Scott x2, Ed Stocker

MoM: Andrew Dawson

Old Thorns 4s 3-3 Fulham Compton OB 2s Goals: Christian King, Ellis Farrar, Kehinde Kolawole

Assists: Denver Lalonde, Kehinde Kolawole, Will French

MoM: Kehinde Kolawole

Watch the game here

Old Thorns 5s 0-7 Fulham Compton OB 3s Goals: –

Assists: –

MoM: Daniel Nderitu

Watch the highlights or (lowlights) here

Our final weekend of friendlies proper saw three home fixtures and one away fixture.

The 1s nabbed a 1-0 win against Suttonians while the 2s drew 0-0 against Reigatians. Elsewhere, the 4s lost 5-3 to Reigaitians 4s and the 6s drew 4-4 against Reigatians 5s in an entertaining fixtures. Roll on the 2021-22 season!

Our penultimate weekend of friendlies saw the 1s/2s beat Wandsworth Borough 5-4, Old Thorns 3s lose 1-3 to Westminster Casuals and finally the 4s and 5s played out an intra club game after a last minute drop out.

Our second bout of preseason fixtures saw a trio of home games this time with 1s facing Fulham Compton with 1’s winning 2-0 (highlights here) , 3s drawing 3-3 against West Fulham in a spectacular comeback and 5s also drawing 3-3 against Old Suttonians in a clichéd game of two halves!